If you have a business, you probably know you need to track your income and expenses. But what is the best way to do that? Many small businesses begin the easy way - spreadsheets. But if you’re busy, you will very quickly find that spreadsheets are a tedious way to record everything. Even if you’re an expert at building formulas and creating macros, you’re still doing a lot of manual work. Do you have time for that? No, you don’t. Can you afford to pay someone to do that? Maybe, but your money is better spent on Small Business Accounting Software.

It’s so exciting! You make a sale and you have dollar signs in your eyes. But sometimes those dollars never actually make it to your bank account. You have Bad Debt, and that can be as ominous as it sounds. How do you deal with it?

What if there were an App that connects to QBO and facilitates better cash flow, lower DSO, create fewer Bad Debts and saves you a ton of time? Would you be excited and eager to learn about it? That App does exist; it’s InvoiceSherpa. The following video shows you how QBO and InvoiceSherpa work together to improve each other and accomplish those crucial cash flow objectives.

Problem – Poor cash flow can kill a business. Learn more about it and how to manage it, and you increase your chances of survival.

Eighty per cent of all small businesses fail in the first year. Think about that statistic for a minute. If one hundred people start a small business on New Year’s Day, only twenty of them will be celebrating on the next New Year’s Eve. The other eighty will be trying to figure out what happened.

Roll Up Your Sleeves!

What’s the origin of this idiom? We know it means to get ready for hard work, but why? Maybe this is the reason:

My long-time accounting mentor, called Mr. Mac by friends and family, was born in 1910. By the time I was learning accounting procedures from him, he had already retired from one career and embarked on a new one to “keep busy.” Mr. Mac kept busy into his nineties.

There is much to gain from the wisdom of experience, but my favorite times with Mr. Mac were when he was talking about his early accounting jobs in the [...]

If you’re an entrepreneur, managing a healthy cash flow is vital for the survival of your small business. It's essentially the main artery of your company. This is why it’s important to adopt several proactive strategies and anticipate any future peaks or valleys.

Congrats! Your app’s integration with QuickBooks Online finally launched on the QuickBooks App Store.  While you should definitely take a moment to celebrate this accomplishment, there is still work to be done.

Looking for an easier way to manage accounts receivables? Then you need to check out InvoiceSherpa.com. This app first hit my radar a few years ago, when I met the founder, Shaun Clark, at the California Accounting Show. Hands down, I think InvoiceSherpa.com is the easiest way to manage accounts receivables, and I’ll give you 4 examples.

Today we're going to expand on a subject that is close to our hearts here at InvoiceSherpa, getting your invoices paid faster.  As a hard working person you deserve to get paid and your customers actually do really want to pay you. But regardless of whether your challenge is getting paid faster or at all, we're here to drop some tips on how to make this a bit easier.

We're on a mission to get you paid faster in QuickBooks and as a result we can't help ourselves when we come across more great ways to do this. So today lets talk about a technique that can be a huge time saver and a great way to drive not only faster payment from your customer, but a lot more love when it comes to customer service.

Now that the new QuickBooks Harmony is online and rolling out lets talk about you can use its new features to get you paid faster. First up sending customers the invoice via e-mail.