Resources
Here are a few products that can help with your accounting, bookkeeping, and other business needs.
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Accounting Tools
Business Tools
Website & Social Media Tools
Sources For Info
Accounting Tools
Accounting & Bookkeeping
Quickbooks
This is the software we use for our own books and for all of our clients as well. Quickbooks Online is an excellent service to keep all your financials up-to-date. You can track all of your accounts, monitor cashflow, manage customer and vendor details and of course sync with the mobile app.
Freshbooks
Bookkeeping software for the true DIY Bookkeepers out there. Nothing wrong with it at all. Many entreprenuers like Freshbooks and that is why we’ve included here.
Xero
Like the tools above Xero can handle bookkeeping, invoicing, inventory, clients, reporting, and much more.
Payroll
Quickbooks
Clearly we’re a fan of Quickbooks here. Quickbooks can handle the payroll for you or they allow for a cheaper DIY option.
ADP
You’ve probably heard of them and know that they do payroll. ADP can be a one stop shop for many of your business needs. With over 60 years of experience they must be doing something right.
Gusto
Everything from payroll to HR to employee benefits. Gusto can handle it. They have pricing tiers to match your company needs and can even handle 401(k)s.
Your Best Accounting Resource
Queen City Accounting Solutions
We want to be your resource. Each business has unique accounting needs. That is why we don’t have cookie cutter services to offer. We can, however, put together an a la carte package of services designed just for your company. Feel free to contact us and see if we can help.
Want to do your own books? Just need a little help to get started? No problem! We can get you set up so that you can do your own bookkeeping in-house. Use our contact page and let us help.
Business Tools
Project Management
Project management tools will help you to stay on top of the many things you need to do for your business.
Wrike
Simple to use task management software for team and project management. Provides for time and budget tracking.
Evernote
Not technically a project management app. But, extremely helpful for organizing information and tasks. You can capture info by typing, talking, handwriting, and taking pictures. Easily integrates with many other programs.
Clients / Prospects
Most small businesses need to maintain relationships with clients or customers to be success.
17 Hats
17 Hats will help you service your clients and prospects well by offering many services to make the process easiler.
Administrative
Easliy keep track of business essentials.
Calendly
Make it easy for people to schedule appointments with you and your business through your website.
Mile IQ
If your business requires you to drive anywhere and you don’t feel like paying unnecessary taxes, then Mile IQ is for you. Don’t miss a single mile for tax deduction.
Zapier
Easiest way to integrate different programs to save you time. There are many programs/services out there that can help your business. Zapier allows for them to talk to each other and save you many, many hours by automating internal processes.
Website & Social Media Tools
Website Development
In today’s business world, you need your own website.
BlueHost
A place to host your website. I love BlueHost because their good pricing, quality service, and easiest setup to get your website up. But, most of all they have EXCELLENT customer service. I’ve used them for over 3 years now (since August of 2015). They have provided prompt and courteous solutions to any issue that came up, which there hasn’t been many.
Divi
Divi is a theme that allows for the point and click style of building a website. It is very powerful without needing to type code. Their website (Elegant Themes) has a treasure trove of free layouts you can use to start and then customize as you wish. Superior customer service here too. In addition to just building the site, Divi comes with tools for collecting email address so that you can build your list, sharing on social media, and much more.
Yoast
You probably know how important it is for people to be able to find you on the internet. If not, then let me tell you “It’s Very Important For People To Be Able To Find You On The Internet.” Yoast will help increase your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and make it easier for people find your website when they search for related material.
Wordfence
Cyber security is essential to every business with an online presence. Wordfence has all kinds of ways to keep your site safe. There more robust security programs out there that cost a ton more. Wordfence is a perfect place to start, though.
Social Media
No matter the size of your business a social media presence is beneficial.
CrowdFire
One great way to build your online presence is to connect people and businesses through social media. Crowdfire makes it easy to find the right people to connect with, share your own material, share other helpful sources of info, and much more.
Social Jukebox
You definitely don’t want to sit at the computer all day to posting to social media. But, the more regularly material posts from your account, the more attention, reach, and engagement you will get. Social Jukebox allows you to load posts into a jukebox and tell it how often to share them. It allows for mulitple schedules so material is shared exactly how you want.
Coschedule
Want more social media power? Coschedule is the way to go. You have a visual calendar so that you know and see when everything is coming out.