The Best Small Business Software of 2020

Small businesses need robust processes and enterprise software to operate correctly, but smaller resources than large businesses software also need to be cost-effective. Below are some of the best software for small businesses on a budget.

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Wave accounting

Financial software is often made with large businesses in mind and can become complicated with many features and expensive. Wave was created to be a cheap and free alternative that covers the primary day-to-day accounting needed for small businesses. The software can be accessed online or through a mobile app, and allows you to track incomings and outgoings, send professional looking invoices, and track taxes and receipts for free. You can connect your bank accounts to the app and add in tax information, so you can see your daily and monthly operations and ensure that cash flow is maintained. The paid version offers additional features, such as payroll and bank payments. For more tax-specific software, check out this blog https://taxfyle.com/blog/best-tax-software.

Wix

All small businesses need a website to make sure they can give customers information about what they do, contact information, and sell products and services. Web design and development is an industry of its own, and building websites isn’t cheap if you outsource it. Wix offers a solution that allows you to create a website yourself with a massive number of templates and a drag and drop page builder, so that instructing a web agency isn’t needed. There are features like an e-Commerce manager, which will allow you to sell goods through your website and take payments. There’s a free version with limited functionality, but the paid version comes with all features and is still cost-effective.

Mailchimp

Most businesses will be able to use email marketing, which allows you to build a database of people interested in you and send them information directly into their inbox. Mailchimp is one of the best and most affordable email marketing tools, with free and paid plans depending on what you need. You can use templates to quickly build professional-looking emails, build lead capture forms to add to your website, and a mobile app where you can track your emails’ performance.

Trello

If you’re struggling to keep up with your to-do list and find that it’s quickly filling your notepads, then Trello may be the software for you. Trello uses a Kanban system of organizing cards, with headers that represent each stage of a process. You can then add jobs as cards, add additional information about the task to it, and then drag the card through each column of the process as it progresses. The powerful part of Trello is that additional people can be added to the board, and tasks can be assigned to them, meaning that everyone in the business has a view of what jobs need to be done, their status, and who’s responsible. Trello is free to use, and a paid version allows for additional ‘power-ups’ to be added to your board, such as integration with Goole Drive or timesheet software. 

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