
Cloud-based accounting technologies have given today’s accountants the freedom to work on the go, so here we take a look at 3 accounting apps designed to make your life easier.
These Android cloud accounting software apps allow accountants to track expenses, access bank account information and send invoices much more easily and quickly from their device.
Let’s check out the 3 strongest contenders in the cloud accounting app space:
1. FreshBooks
It will set you back: Free app, $9.99 a month for subscribers.
FreshBooks is a great app for the app-inexperienced. It is wonderfully easy to understand and navigate even for those who’ve never utilised accounting apps before.
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Simple to understand dashboard
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Gorgeous visualisations and graphics which really make the app a pleasure to use
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Polished & professional invoices
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Credit card payment, support set-up available
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You’ll be immediately alerted when a client has opened and viewed your invoice
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This app can import your clients over to the invoice straight from your mobile’s address book
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Take photographs of expense receipts to send them for storage into the cloud
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Also comes with time-tracking & functionality
“One customer told me that FreshBooks had changed his behaviour, enabling him to invoice more often and get paid faster. This has become a core value property for FreshBooks today, and we’ve helped millions of people to get paid faster,” said FreshBook CEO Mike McDerment.
2. Nutcache
It will set you back: Free app. Monthly subscription beginning at $14.
This one is ideal for invoicing and time management.
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You can produce an infinite number of invoices, adding your business logo and sending them off to your clients in bulk
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The Time Logger app comes with an interface which possesses great usability and offers you the choice of 8 languages
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The Time Logger app also allows for easy-breezy time tracking
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You can connect time to your app jobs and projects
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Time entries can be annotated
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Enables easy access to all businesses you possess access rights to
“Best I’ve found! I’m using the online desktop version of Nutcache and added this time logger. I am constantly amazed with its features, reliability and ease of use. It’s best feature is that you get multi users for free, no one else does that,” relayed Nutcache subscriber Stephen Hampton.
3. Sage One
Sage One is all about sticking the monotonous, compliance aspects of business on auto-pilot to give you back time.
It will set you back: Free app. A subscription starts from $9 a month.
Sage One is an intelligent and simple to use app with an intuitive user-face. It adds helpful new features on a regular basis.
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Using the free Sage One version you can send out up-to 5 invoices per month and record payments to figure out which clients still owe you
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Record and easily categorise expenses
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Easily store the products and/or services your business mostly invoices for
“I’d recommend Sage One to businesses like mine because it allows you to be paperless and to be anywhere. It’s a subscription, so you pay monthly and that makes it easier for cash flow, but it aslo means you’ve always got the latest edition. If anything changes or legislation changes, it updates itself,” advised Liam Watson, founder of the UK’s 100% natural flavoured milk range, Natty.
11 Other Major Accounting Apps To Check Out
Other heavy-weight accounting app contenders include (in no particular order):
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MYOB
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Xero
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Reckon One
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Quicken/QuickBooks
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Cashflow Manager
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Nominal
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Saas
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Zoho Books
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FreeAgent
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Quickbooks Online
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FinancialForce Accounting
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