Getting paid (and getting paid on time!) is one of the biggest hurdles of small business owners. As we well know, invoices often stay unpaid beyond the due date. Third-party payment processing apps charge stingy fees and setting up customer credit card processing can be...
If you accept customer payments, you’re probably prepared to deal with invoicing via credit and debit cards, as well as new digital payment methods like PayPal, Apple and Google Pay. Sometimes, you might even agree to take a good old-fashioned check. Now, what about money...
There’s a lot of business terminology and processes to learn as a new small business owner. Whether you have opened your physical doors or are working as a digital freelancer, you are running a business. You have to understand profit and loss calculation and reporting....
Isn’t it a great feeling to see that you’ve just made a new sale? But as you’ve perhaps noticed it takes time to see those money being deposited into your bank account. This delay has something to do with how most product businesses operate. In particular...
Unless you are living on a desert island or without Internet, you have heard of PayPal. It has become, in fact, the most well-known online payment processor out there. And according to its own data, it now has 87 million+ accounts, housed in 190 markets,...
Stuck with creating that first invoice for your business? Love freebies? Congrats! You are at the right place because we have both of these things here – free, awesome and professional invoice templates to pick and put to action. Why Use a Basic Invoice Template The first point...
Let’s face it: some payments will arrive late. And they can cause massive havoc with your cash flow management – never a good thing. In fact, the statistics on late payments are staggering. In the UK, small business owners admitted to the following: [edgtf_unordered_list style="circle" animate="no" font_weight=""] 51% say...
You’ve done the work. Your client is happy. And now comes the most thrilling part – getting paid. Oh, wait. There’s another far less-fascinating step that you need to make before you see those numbers in your bank account. You need to make an invoice. An invoice is...