By acclux team June 10 , 2014
Working as a graphic designer and freelancer is a fun job to do; you are working with different customers and different projects; and you spent the most of the time in your studio having fun with your creativity. As it’s fun to meet new people with new projects all the time, it comes with more than one challenge, number one is the huge amount of projects’ milestones and deadlines. The other challenge that can be added is your accounting, which includes invoicing, payments and expenses.
Some graphic designers avoid dealing with the accounting side of their business because it is the complicated; but in fact your accounting can be as fun as your creative work if it’s done in the right way.
So how acclux accounting can help you to enjoy every minutes of your business.
Project and task management
The main challenge you will have as a graphic designer is the huge amount of projects’ milestones and deadlines you may have. acclux accounting is very handy when it comes to projects and task management, it’s not complicated and very easy to work with. You can simply create a project and define its main information like the customer name, project deadlines and estimate time and cost. You will always know your project progress and you can compare the estimate values with the actual ones. This can be simply achieved with the help of the project’s dashboard that gives a full view of your project progress. You will never lose the track of your project or left behind the deadlines.
For each project you can define all the tasks related to it and you can put them together in sections or milestones for easier tracking.
Recording Time Spent on tasks
If you are invoicing your customers by hourly bases, acclux accounting provides you with a creative app to track precisely the time you spent for each task, acclux timer is a free app for acclux accounting users, it’s available in iOS, android and windows phone devices. Once your task is completed, you will be able to invoice it to your customers.
Professional Invoicing
Creating professional invoices that are easy to track can be challenging for graphic designers, but with acclux accounting it will be so easy, so fun and so professional. You will be able to create your invoice so quickly and email it right away from acclux. Your email will include your own message, your contact information you want to show, PDF attachment. Also, your invoice will be included in your email for fast customer review. All these options made through a simple form that designed in a smart way to spare your time. Also, you can print your invoice or export it to PDF.
You can easily track your invoices and know how many invoices get paid and how many are overdue with the help of built-in interactive dashboards and reports.
Easy Payment
There’s no fun part other than receiving money from your customers, it’s the time when you know that your customers has accepted your work. acclux accounting provides you with more than options to get paid, the first option is getting paid online using acclux accounting invoicing portal and PayPal integration. Your customers will have a secure website to pay your invoices. The other option is that your customer can pay you through your smart phone using their credit or debit card. You can also pay your invoices manually using the acclux accounting payment form.
Manage Expenses
acclux accounting is a huge time saver when it comes to manage expenses, you can easily record your expenses if you are at work or even on the go. Also acclux accounting comes with various reports and analytics tools that help you to track your expenses and export it to beautifully designed sheets in excel or PDF format.
Also, you can add your expenses to a project so you will be able to track your project actual fees and eventually your project revenue.
Tax returns benefit
acclux accounting helps you to get ready at tax time and get the best benefit of your tax returns. acclux accounting provides you with all the documents you will need in your tax submission.
Easy generated financial documents
All the accounting documents you will need like profit and loss, trial balance, balance sheet will be automatically generated for you with one click. You will be able to export them in beautifully designed sheet to excel or PDF so you can send them to your accountant to check on them and let know how good you are doing this far.
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