I have a lot of mates who are self employed guys involved in physical types of work that often involve travel to various places around the country to scope and carry out the work. From tree surgery, to auto retrofitting, to contract labouring, plumbing, electrical, painting, onsite building work. You name it, there are no limits.
Those of you reading this and indeed the people working in these industries themselves might think there is no place for cloud software solutions in those sort of rugged, outdoor types of jobs. "I don't need that mate... just get in and do the job innit?"!
Well yes... and no... You can do the business side of things more efficiently by using technology to automate some of the more laboriious processes, saving time with matters like quoting and invoicing and the dreaded accounting.
By using our cloud apps specifically designed for mobile use, people in these types of jobs can go on site and do the following right from their mobile device:
- Create and send professional looking quotes with your business name and logo, to the client, onsite
- Create and send invoices to the client for payment
- Get paid online
- Log payments in cash/cheque
- Log onsite expenses
You can also of course send emails to team mates and even sketches of work that needs to be done, for example, if you send out workers to assess a job, they can easily sketch it and send back the details to be checked:
This can all be done with Zoho Invoice, which is online invoice management software designed to automate the whole process of quoting, invoicing and getting paid, making it easier for your customers to pay, and ultimately speeding up the payment and accounting processes.
The basic concept is: by doing the quote or invoice in the field, using your mobile device, the data is automatically updated there and then and you do not need to do any number crunching back at home. Customer accounts are updated. Income is logged. Reports can be run on monthly revenue. Job done.
Zoho Invoice works on a basic license platform based on numbers of clients.
It has a free version if you are just starting off, that allows up to 5 customers and 1 admin user.
The Standard version is designed for people who have a small but growing customer base of up to 500 customers and a small team of of up to 3 people working for them, who alsoneed to create quotes/invoices for work done and is priced at about 10 GBPGBP per month.
The Professional license allows unlimited customers and unlimited users and is priced at 20 GBP per month and is more suited to larger businesses.
There are discounts for 12 month purchases and the mobile app for all users in your business, all licenses is FREE.
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