5 Little-Known iPhone and iPad Apps for Startups
Being a small business owner can be trying. Times are tight, the economy is dreary, and you have to make every dollar stretch. To add to the general mayhem you have all the day to day tasks of accounting, management, sales tracking and administrative needs on your shoulders. Find this daunting? Well I’ve got 5 iOS apps to make you more efficient.
Invoice2Go: This app lets you create invoices and estimates on your iPad and even your iPhone. You can make one complete list of all billable items and store them cohesively. Perhaps you might prefer the Receipts2go plugin to bill for items that are specific only to certain jobs or accounts. To top it all off your completed invoices can be printed right from the app or emailed if you are so inclined.
You can get three free invoices and after that its about 25.00 bucks a year for a 100 invoices. By the way, you can even see your financials at a glance with this app.
Docusign Ink: No more printing and scanning with this app. Sign all sorts of documents electronically and save time you can use your phone or devices camera to take a picture of relevant documents or upload from a cloud drive- cool right? Docusign Ink even converts documents easily so you drag and drop your signature. Simply save and send to complete the process.
Client forgot to sign? No problem, simply have them sign vial email. The catch is simple: unlimited documents can be signed for free. However there is a limit of five additional signatories. After that they will ask you to purchase a plan starting at 15.00 bucks a month.
FYI- Doucsign Ink is also available on Android.
Bento 4 for iPad: A recently redesigned personal database app that helps you present and organize data. What makes Bento 4 stand out from the crowd is that it allows you to combine tables and text fields with images by simply drag and dropping utilizing one of the 40 free templates. Highly useful in multistep projects or sales meetings, Bento is quite versatile. With a price tag of 9.99 your wallet doesn’t get beat up either.
Concur: An organizational tool/app for frequent travelers. Manage your itinerary, book hotel rooms, check airline reservations. Concur is also great for tracking your expenses on the go. Input information by hand, or use e-receipts. You can also scan receipts. Trips over? Concur will combine all the info into one cohesive expense report. While the app is free on iPad and iPhone you will need to link it to a desktop Concur account. This however is 8.00 bucks per person, per month. A little more than some want to spend but a great report, and it’s a tax deduction I’d bet (See your CPA for that info though). Concur is also available on Android for my so inclined cohorts.
Delivery Status Touch: Move a lot of merchandise? Delivery Status Touch can help keep track of them. 4.99, gets you an app that works directly with all of the major delivery companies/services and automatically gets information from Amazon, Apple and Google Checkout. As soon as a package is added it will appear on the the home screen. After that point you can track the progress of each and every package you have; coming or going.
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