Bookkeeping for Small Businesses | Do It Yourself (DIY)
Trending financial technology has shifted the paradigm of maintaining books and records of businesses from always by a professional bookkeeper/accountant to by anybody with very minimal to no knowledge of basic bookkeeping. Cloud-accounting software such as quickbooks, sageone, waveapps, freshbooks, xero have shifted the concept of bookkeeping from desktop to cloud-based software.
Small business owners who have no knowledge of bookkeeping may want to get trained on how to set up the chart of accounts, bank accounts, etc. initially from online tutorials or from a training provider.
While quickbooks, sageone, freshbooks and xero charges for subscription, waveapps is completely free for use. Small business owners who want to do DIY bookkeeping may wish to use this free waveapps having following features. All these software have more or less similar features.
- No training required; fast setup and easy actions
- Unlimited bank and credit card connections
- Unlimited income and expense tracking
- Unlimited guest collaborators: invite your accountant or business partner
- Includes unlimited customizable invoicing and receipt scanning, too
- Fully customizable expense/income categories (chart of accounts)
- Customizable sales taxes
- Accountant approved: real double-entry software
- Journal transactions
- Run multiple businesses in one account
- At-a-glance dashboards, including cash balances and invoice status
- Automatically generated accounting reports: P&L, sales tax report and more
- Accept payments in a foreign currency
- Automatic exchange rate calculations
- Easy account reconciliation
- Secure connections, with 256-bit encryption
- Software in the cloud, so you can work anywhere, anytime
- Automatic data backup
- Bill and invoice reminders
- Connect Wave with PayPal, Shoeboxed and Etsy
- Free online support, direct from Wave headquarters
- Seamless, instant updates with your payroll and credit card payment data, too
- Includes free personal finance tools
- Use any kind of computer: Mac- and PC-friendly and more!
Sources: waveapps.com | quickbooks.intuit.ca | sageone.com | freshbooks.com | xero.com/ca
Note: We do not advertise or are not acting on behalf of and an advocate for above-mentioned software providers. This is based on our review and use of software because of flexibility and ease of use.
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