Denis Yanov
Has extensive freelancing experience in various parts of the world. Loves new software that helps you live easier and better. A traveler sick in the mountains and a novice adherent of healthy eating.
If you are just starting your small business as a freelancer, then the most important point there will be a budget for you.
There are a lot of things scattered across the Internet free services and applications that will help you get your business off the ground and work smarter.
A whole range of services is designed to simplify every aspect of your professional activity: from automating task management and financial monitoring to communicating with clients and promoting your services.
This article contains the most useful, important and free apps and services that a beginner (and not quite) freelancer will need.
Payment for services and invoicing
To receive payment for your services, you need to issue an invoice. To issue an invoice, you need to spend time and write down what hours were spent on what and how much money you need to pay for it. It is desirable that such accounts be as informative and transparent as possible. You don’t want the client to have questions or hair to stand on end when he sees what he needs to pay for and how much.
To automate and simplify the invoicing process, many services have been invented, most of which greatly simplify life, but require financial investments. And since you are a beginner freelancer who needs to start somewhere with a minimal budget, we recommend two free services.
A convenient application that helps you create and send professionally drawn up invoices in a couple of clicks. Allows you to monitor the status of your accounts and incoming money so that you can know when the next payment will arrive. Tracks not only your profit, but also your expenses in the form of convenient graphical reports.
Zoho has established itself as a major player in the productivity market with a huge range of tools for CRM, project management and collaboration. Easily integrates with the rest of Zoho's products, but also works great as a standalone product. Has a free plan for one user with a maximum of five clients. Ideal for a beginner freelancer who has not yet developed a large client base.
Time, task and project management
If you have many clients, then the number of projects will increase. It will be difficult for you to manage them alone. There are a lot of useful tools on the Internet that help you manage a huge number of projects and tasks. But you are still a beginner freelancer and cannot afford expensive solutions.
A simple time tracking service with a friendly interface. designed to make managing your tasks and client projects convenient. Despite the fact that the service is quite simple, you can manage your tasks and projects, create clients and assign them to one or another project, set budgets for the project, receive detailed reports on the time spent, as well as on the money earned that one or another other projects. In addition, the service integrates with popular project management systems (RedMine, Jira, Asana, Trello).
As you might have guessed, this service was created as an alternative and free version of the monstrous Basecamp. allows you to create an endless number of projects, add deadlines and intermediate deadlines when completing tasks, create project templates and invite clients. The task board allows you to get an overview of all projects or set up email notifications that will notify you when the next important task is due.
5. Asana
Asana More advanced solution than Freedcamp. Moreover, it is completely free for teams of up to 15 people. For beginning freelancers, this service will be a godsend. The free version will provide you with all the functionality. Immediately after registration, you can manage all your projects and interact with clients using the service’s friendly interface.
Data storage
Freelancers are characterized by mobility. They can work not only from their home PC or laptop. Therefore, it is important to know about services that allow you to store data in your cloud.
Best service for storing and transmitting documents. It allows you to store about two gigabytes of files in the cloud for free. But you can get another 16 gigabytes of free space if you invite your friends to register for the service. Dropbox keeps all your devices in sync, allowing you to access your files from both your laptop and smartphone. You won't have to send it to yourself anymore. emails with files.
A flexible platform that allows you to make it as simple and functional as you want. - the most convenient service when it comes to remembering everything important that could be useful to you in the future. Leave notes on your desktop or in mobile applications, forward your emails, or use a special Web Clipper that will help you save web pages, screenshots and anything else you find important while surfing the Internet.
Editing documents and pictures
If you are a beginner copywriter or web designer, then it is very important for you to have accessible tool to edit text or images.
The description of this tool can be contained in four words - free analogue Microsoft Office. And this is true, because the generous creators did not particularly bother with the uniqueness of the functionality and distinctive features his brainchild. They took the main ones Microsoft features Office and wrapped them in a free wrapper.
Google also has its own version of free office tools. In terms of functionality, you will not find any breakthroughs or innovations, because it differs from the same OpenOffice only in that the first is in the cloud. It is perfect for people who love versatility and accessibility. cloud services. Google Docs will be very useful if you work in a small team that is separated by huge distances, because several people can edit the same documents at the same time, regardless of their location.
Most likely, not all freelancers have access to professional graphics processing tools, which have a lot of advantages, but also have one disadvantage - the price. All serious graphic editors cost a lot of money. This fact becomes deadly for a novice web designer. But Adobe, which is famous for its reference graphic editors, decided to release a free and lightweight version of the Photoshop editor. has only basic functionality and is unlikely to allow you to create masterpieces, but for simple graphic projects this tool is a real find.
CRM
You found yourself a client, then another and another. So you have a decent base of clients with whom you simultaneously correspond. To always be aware of what stage of communication you are at and what promising points you can discuss with past clients, you need to have a special tool called CRM.
Most CRMs are either cumbersome or too expensive for individual use. The service is free of these shortcomings. Firstly, it is very flexible and integrates with other tools such as Evernote and Google. Secondly, with the free version, you can have more than 2,500 contacts. This will last you a long time.
Capsule is a very nice CRM that provides full review all your contacts. It also allows you to effectively build your communication process with clients by creating tasks, notifications and reports. A fairly convenient system that allows you to adapt the work of any business. Provides a free plan for 250 contacts.
A very useful tool if you can't live without Gmail. Built right into your Gmail account, so you can keep track of your communications with multiple clients without having to switch platforms. On this moment The service is completely free for individual use.
Promoting your business on social networks
Finding clients and working on your image is also quite an expensive pleasure. Therefore, it is very important to use social networks not only for entertainment, but also to establish yourself as a professional, without which not a single project can be completed.
This is a huge board that collects activity data from all your in social networks. Plan the posting of important posts, follow trends and hot topics in a convenient interface. Tag potential clients and start communicating with them. The free version will allow you to connect five social network accounts.
This service can be called a lightweight version of Hootsuite. In terms of functionality, it is slightly similar to the latter and also has an auto-posting scheduler. is built into your browser and downloads messages along with popular content from many social networks. Using this service, you can choose everything that is currently trending, prepare your posts on popular topics and plan their placement. The free option allows you to connect one of your profiles for each social network.
Smartphones are an integral part of our lives: in the morning we turn off the alarm clock on the screen, during the day we check email and social media feeds, and before going to bed we pick it up to read a couple of pages. e-book. Since gadgets accompany us all day, maybe we should use them to maximum benefit, including for the development of a project, work, or business. We turned to copywriter Anna Privalova, who writes for the field of marketing and PR. Anna conducts extensive research before each article and approached our request thoroughly.
Agree, Cell phones and tablets are already becoming an extension of ourselves. At least in instant messengers and social networks, many of us are online for hours and always in touch: in the morning, at night, at lunch, whenever. For entrepreneurs and freelancers, mobile activity is a way of life. But besides endless communication, the smartphone promotes productivity thanks to many useful applications from the AppStore or Google Play, which replace not only a notebook, but also other devices.
When talking about the productivity of an entrepreneur, we must not forget about sports, travel, self-development and other joys. After interviewing about fifty entrepreneurs and freelancers, I compiled a whole list of mobile applications for helping in business, interacting with the team, storing useful information and creating life balance. Let's look at the apps by category in detail.
Time planning
There are a lot of planning applications; they all help you manage your time wisely and control the completion of tasks. Most applications are built on the principles of GTD (getting things done) by David Allen.
Among the popular Task Managers, the following are interesting:
Wunderlist
Classic handy planner, where you can manage several projects, set tasks and subtasks. Here it’s easy to create lists and checklists (for example, what to read and watch in the near future) and cross off completed tasks. There is a system for reminding and rescheduling tasks using an alarm clock. The only negative that I would like to draw your attention to is the lack of synchronization with other calendars, such as Google Calendar or Outlook.
In addition, this mobile application can be used to solve collaborative problems with colleagues, share, discuss and comment.
There are versions for iOS, Android and synchronization with desktop. The main functions of the application are available in the free version. The $4.99 paid package includes unlimited projects and recordings, advanced team collaboration features, and mood-setting wallpapers. Simple, clear and useful application for freelancers and entrepreneurs.
Any.do
Another simple planner with a light, user-friendly design. All tasks are formed into a single list and configured according to a schedule. Among Any.do's unique features is task delegation. Emails with tasks for colleagues or assistants are sent directly from the program interface. Bright buttons help control time and clearly manage tasks. There is no synchronization with calendars, but you can create several lists.
The application is universal: there is a version for both iOS and Android.
Marketing analyst Mikhail Pinyaev:
I mostly choose simple and understandable applications without unnecessary details. I work a lot with Excel, so I was looking for a planner that was also concise and clear. In Any.do, all key tasks are in sight, distributed over time, and I see my priorities at every moment in time.
Proud
This application differs from a regular scheduler in a number of additional features. It is designed for people with a high workload and high levels of stress, that is, for entrepreneurs and freelancers.
The application is easy to use, visual and multifunctional. One of the disadvantages is that it does not synchronize with storage services and calendars. The application is only available to owners of iOS devices.
Proud has a convenient timer for focusing on tasks, as well as an analytics widget where you can evaluate your productivity over a specific period of time. Another feature of the application is the “superpower” button: when you click on it, breathing exercises for relaxation open. An easy and unobtrusive interface allows you to keep all tasks at hand and clearly divide them into completed, current and planned.
And one more point that I can’t help but tell you about. When we fail to complete a task on time, usually all our future plans collapse like a house of cards when the wind blows. Proud has a Give me more time function, which extends the time to solve the current task and smoothly shifts all subsequent ones.
Nozbe
The application allows you to organize and synchronize all tasks for the day, week, month and set priorities. Suitable for both personal and team planning based on GTD principles. A chat function is provided. In addition, unlike many others, the application integrates with Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive and Google Calendar. All information, meetings and tasks are accumulated in one application.
This application a year ago was available only to iOS users and cost about $7 per month with an English-language interface. Now this simple and visual planner has free version with access to five projects, a paid version for $8-10 per month, and even a team version for an unlimited number of users.
Workflowy
The first impression of the service is twofold - it's just a white sheet of paper on which you can write down all your tasks. But the main advantage of the service is that it allows you to distribute tasks into groups and create a large number of subtask branches so as not to leave anything out of sight. The application is available for iOS and Android, and in the paid version it synchronizes with Dropbox.
Egor Karpov, founder of the marketing agency AppDiamond:
For the last three years I have not spent a day without a task manager. There are too many tasks to keep everything in your head. Tried quite a lot existing applications, ranging from simple ones like Wunderlist, Todoist to corporate ones like Basecamp and Jira. I settled on Workflowy. It is quite easy to use, and the branch system allows you to schedule long-term tasks and projects. When working with the application, I use the GTD system, sorting tasks by hashtags.
Taking this opportunity, I asked Egor, who knows everything and even more about mobile applications, what productivity applications he sees in the future. He noted two aspects:
- the user’s understanding of the difference between work and productivity, since they are far from the same thing;
- the presence of a certain ideology in the task manager, for example the GTD productivity system.
“Productivity is the achievement of results in a specific time. For example, a person who works two hours a day can be many times more productive than someone who works 16 hours. To assess your productivity, just set specific goals for the week. At best, 20% of the tasks will be completed. The problem with modern task managers is that they do not allow you to track how productive the user really is. This is exactly where a systematic approach, implemented according to the principle of getting things done, helps.”
Focus on tasks
One of the key problems that every second freelancer and many entrepreneurs struggle with is constantly switching from task to task, or worse, hanging out on social networks instead of completing planned tasks. Mobile application developers have come up with original solutions to focus on tasks. According to the survey, the leaders among entrepreneurs and marketers are:
Clear Focus
Application - visualization of the famous Pomodoro principle: you work with a timer for 25 minutes, then rest for 5 minutes, and so on for several cycles. The Clear Focus app on your phone turns on a red screen that you can't exit for a period of time. specified period. If you can work with a regular timer, then you won’t be distracted by your phone either.
Forest
Often, notifications from social networks, new emails and messenger signals distract us from important tasks, and we spend hours on the phone instead of working. To combat this phenomenon, the Forest program was created. The point is that you set yourself a time to work, and while you are busy and do not touch your phone, a tree grows in the application. Should you distract yourself with incoming message or go to social networks - the tree dies. Emotionally, visually and disciplines.
Important Notes
Authors of Internet projects and freelancers associated with online creativity, the same designers and copywriters, draw ideas from the Internet, so it is important to save all notes and interesting links in your swap file (a file for useful thoughts and ideas). But the computer is not always at hand and storing links offline is not always convenient. For these purposes, today a whole arsenal of mobile applications has been created with continuous access to saved links and the ability to synchronize information by tags.
The application saves an interesting link with one click, and the page is completely copied, and access to it will be even where there is no Internet connection. Hashtags make it easy and quick to find materials on the desired topic.
Evernote
Only the lazy haven’t written about this application, but if we talk about the productivity of an entrepreneur, it’s practically impossible to do without it. In addition to its scheduler functions, it is an ideal Notebook , where you can enter your ideas, both in printed and voice form, dividing the information into thematic notebooks.
In addition, Evernote has all the functions of a full-fledged storage, and you can store PDF files, photos and archives there. Despite the convenient lists, it is not particularly convenient to use as a planner, but if you need a tool for storing and quickly recording information, it is difficult to find analogues. I'm pleased with the Evernote Clipper feature - additional functionality for storing screenshots interesting pages. The paid version offers ample opportunities for exchanging information with the team.
A definite plus is synchronization with the desktop version, but since last year free account can only work on two devices simultaneously.
Google Drive
Of course, Google apps remain unrivaled: it is a true mobile office where you can maintain spreadsheets, write texts and share data while working together. Google Calendar helps you record all important events and set reminders, as well as separate personal and work time using a color scheme. Google Drive stores everything perfectly necessary files: documents, presentations, photos, videos and other data formats. And most importantly, all applications synchronize perfectly with the desktop and work even where there is no network.
Google Docs makes freelancers more mobile. For example, in order to quickly make edits to the text, you don’t even need to have a laptop at hand. Just open the application and resume work from anywhere in the world with Internet access. In collaboration mode, all issues are resolved online, one user sees the edits of others at the same time. mobile version It is somewhat inferior in terms of convenience to the desktop one: the “advise” function works with limitations - working with text in edit mode. But the comments completely compensate for this nuance.
Teamwork
Bitrix24
Without exaggeration, almost every entrepreneur has heard about the Bitrix24 CRM system - this application was named by 9 out of 10 business owners who took part in the mini-survey. And this is not surprising: the service allows small businesses with a team of up to 12 people to work with their client base for free, conduct transactions, monitor the completion of tasks and exchange information. A convenient and visual application is equipped with all the main functions: it takes into account user tasks, shows the stages of their implementation with a timer. The application has a convenient calendar synchronized with Google, a voice call function, a general chat and a personal messenger for communicating with employees.
Trello
Trello task boards, created according to the Japanese kanban model, help, using visual cards, to break down a project into tasks and subtasks, distribute them among employees and monitor implementation. Cards have many possibilities; you can use them to vote, discuss topics, upload pictures, and make color marks. All tasks are divided into planned, current and completed, so the project manager always clearly sees how the work is progressing, at what stage it is worth speeding up or changing something. You can invite different contributors to each task board and monitor all comments in real time. The application, for example, allows you to maintain a content plan for publications or select candidates for a specific position.
Trello is an application for project work carried out by a small team, it helps you to always be in touch and control the implementation of each task using color schemes.
Self-development
As a rule, the growth of a business, especially a small one, is directly proportional to the acquisition of new knowledge and its implementation in the practice of the entire team. Mobile devices help you use your time productively and, for example, study on the road or in line.
Soundcloud and Podcast
One of the increasingly popular formats for obtaining useful information is podcasts - thematic interviews or programs that can be listened to at any convenient time. For example, for Internet marketing and entrepreneurship - this is SMM without cats and Websarafan podcasts. Podcasts can be saved to online playlists or to the devices themselves.
Listen to podcasts from your mobile device Apps like Soundcloud on Android and Podcast on iOS allow this.
FBreader
Reading books from your phone has already become the norm, and you can not only read books, but also listen to them. And you don’t have to buy audiobooks for this. The FBreader app has an audio version that can play the text of the book. The robot with a computer voice is still imperfect, sometimes it puts the emphasis on words incorrectly, but the main thing is that you spend your time usefully, receiving new information. Separately, I would like to note the reader itself; it is designed in the format of a living book: while reading, you do not scroll the text, but smoothly turn the page. The eyes don't get tired and it's a pleasure to read.
The application is available for both Android and iOS.
Health and Energy
Things go well not when you work hard, but when there is a balance in life between work, personal life and, of course, health. Sports, such as running, help replenish energy reserves.
For most entrepreneurs, running has become an incentive for self-development and a way to replenish energy. By participating in running marathons, entrepreneurs and freelancers gain useful contacts, clients and partners.
Runkeeper
When you start running, it is important to take into account the distance, time, calories burned, and other indicators. When preparing for marathons, your total mileage is also important. The Runkeeper app is a whole system for running, it has built-in GPS that finds you and creates an interactive map of your run.
The application stores all the results of training, races and marathons you took part in, as well as the most popular routes. The results can be shared on social networks directly from the interface. The user profile is also filled out there, thanks to which you can find friends by location or friends from Facebook and Twitter and join groups. The application is available from any smartphone.
Wheel of Life
This Russian application appeared relatively recently, but is already actively used by freelancers and entrepreneurs who want to live consciously and achieve balance in all areas of life, from business and personal life to health and finding friends. In the application, you can set specific measurable goals and analyze the results. The interface clearly shows your point “A” - where you are now on a ten-point scale, and point “B” - the result you are trying to achieve. Completing all aspects of the wheel will show you where your current gaps are and what you need to work on to achieve your goals. This approach allows you to analyze your life in the moment, motivates and gives an incentive for development, which is important for freelancers and entrepreneurs in order to stay on course.
I downloaded the “Wheel of Life” application - it helps you balance different aspects of your life: business, family, friends, self-development. I just started using it, I described all the aspects, without completing tasks in each area yet. But a vision has already emerged of what to do next and what tasks to set for ourselves.
Finance
Entrepreneurs and freelancers are different in that they cannot live “paycheck to paycheck” and must clearly control their finances, which most often come from different sources. How can this be done better if not through a mobile device that you always have with you? After reviewing dozens of applications, I settled on three that seemed the most thoughtful, understandable and interesting.
Moneygraph+
Windows application for both desktop and mobile devices on this operating system. The creators position Moneygraph+ as financial accounting application created specifically for entrepreneurs and freelancers having different sources and amounts of income every month.
In the application, you can create several accounts at once, make transfers between them, create your own categories of expenses and income, save reports and conduct detailed analysis thanks to convenient charts.
Monefy
A simple visual application for keeping track of personal finances, where you can enter expenses and income, and evaluate budget items every month on a chart with icons. The application has a free version, it is limited in the number of categories; you cannot create new ones. Paid version synchronizes with other devices, has a report export function and an unlimited number of categories.
Money Manager
In addition to general accounting of income and expenses, Money Manager helps to sort them into categories and keep statistics. The main difference between the application and others is asset management. For example, you can attach a bank card to the application and set up monthly autopayments or automatic payment credit cards. The application provides a calendar, calculator and content search. The application is paid, there are both mobile and desktop versions.
Accountants, as a rule, do not use such applications, but for entrepreneurs whose business is related to finance exclusively in matters of making a profit, accounting for expenses and income will never hurt. For some, a table in Excel is enough, others want clarity and interactivity, and then mobile applications come to the rescue.
Mobile gadgets help us increase productivity, keep track of our life statistics, from health to wallet status, provide access to any information, keep all the necessary data at hand and control the work of the team from anywhere in the world. In fact, there are many more applications for increasing productivity; every day the tops of the AppStore and Google Play are replenished with hundreds of new solutions. But even the above list is already enough to be a productive and conscious person and achieve your goals in all areas of life, the main thing is to choose what will be useful and convenient for you.
Anna Privalova,
Good health, dear reader of the “site” magazine! In this article we will talk about programs for freelancers that will help in organizing work, using time correctly and increasing efficiency.
Freelancer programs
To organize their work, many freelancers use various programs.
The most popular of them:
Time management
Timing
The Time Master online organizer allows you to keep track of your working time. This will allow you to analyze where your time is spent, to understand how much time is spent on work, rest, and other household chores.
Using the resulting list, you can decide how to increase your work efficiency.
Keeping a diary is not difficult.
You need to write down the start and end times of work, and in the comments describe everything you did during this period of time.
Keeping a diary is automated and takes about a minute. This is more convenient and faster than drawing up on a paper notepad or in Excel.
Entries in the diary can be linked to the list of tasks in the organizer, which allows you to see how much time is spent on completing the issues specified in the list.
The timing service works via the Internet, and this makes it possible to carry out timing from any place where the Internet is connected in any locality.
This good way to raise the level of self-organization and increase work productivity.
Todoist– task management software. A convenient service that reminds you of what needs to be done in the near future and sends notifications by email. With its help, you won’t be able to forget about upcoming tasks; you just need to add all the tasks you have set for yourself to the list.
Finance
Electronic accountant Elba - suitable for legal entities and individual entrepreneurs using a simplified tax system, patent system or UTII. He helps run the business; calculate taxes, monitor deadlines for submitting reports to the tax authorities; prepare invoices and invoices; calculate taxes on salaries and transfer contributions to extra-budgetary funds; monitor the receipt and expenditure of funds from bank accounts.
And for this you don’t need to know accounting, the program will do everything for you.
Excel
This program is known to many and is invariably popular with users.
For normal financial accounting, you need to know income and expenses. To do this, keep a list of receipts by date, from whom the funds were received and in what amounts and what they were spent on.
As of the 1st day of the month, withdraw the balance according to bank cards and take bank statements.
Projector CRM– management system for clients, projects, finances, sales. Suitable for those who work in a team. With its help, tasks are issued to performers, and their implementation is monitored; allows you to manage projects and break them down into stages; track sales, monitor the range of goods and services; control payments; prepare a sales report.
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Remote work will become much easier and more comfortable if you use the right applications, writes Inc.
Below is a list of 32 applications that will help organize the work of any group at any geographical distance from each other.
1.Workfrom: Helps you find a private or public place to work, meet, or just have lunch in many major cities around the world.
2. Slack: Allows you to avoid clutter of e-mails and documentation in projects that employees are forced to use different platforms. Integrates with social networks.
3. Trello: Project management based on a card system and project boards.
4. Dropbox: Access, share and backup large files.
5. Evernote: Reliable and very popular app simulating a virtual office.
6. Meldium: PManagement of passwords within the team. Allows you not to share passwords when accessing information.
7.Hackpad: Collaborative documents that you can use in real time.
8.Draft: An application for collaborative writing, editing and studying documents.
9. Sunrise: Calendar and planner integrated with Facebook and Evernote.
10. Skitch: An app for Evernote that lets you annotate documents and images by adding arrows, text, and other information to screenshots and images.
11. Zapier: Automation of all processes from Slack bots to Twitter.
12. iDoneThis: Prompt each member of your team via email to jot down things to do for the day, then compile into a digest and send out to everyone on the team.
13. Asana: Promotes collaboration and productivity with tools for organizing tasks, assigning responsibilities, and maintaining goals.
14.GoToMeeting: Easy connection to video conferencing.
15.iMeet: Combines video and audio calls with documents.
16.yaM: Stands for the "next meeting." Makes it easy to plan, schedule, and take notes for virtual and in-person meetings.
17.Box: Friendly file sharing service.
18. Momentum: A personal dashboard that displays everything you need to get motivated, stay on track, and achieve your goals.
19. Yugma: Web conferencing with shared desktops and files.
20.Pocket: Helps keep you focused by allowing you to save articles that you can read offline when you have free time.
21. Focus@Will: Stream background music to help you focus using the laws and principles of neuroscience.
22. Boomerang: Sending scheduled emails and reminders.
23. Buffer: Social media management that supports various schedules. Allows you to optimize work through pre-planning.
24. Hootsuite: Panel with bookmarks of popular social networks. An assistant for making appointments for people located in different time zones.
32. Wunderlist: Excellent planner and task list maker.
Now your team can be located on any continent, working in offices, hotel rooms or apartments and complete any project.
There are several reasons why many freelancers choose to work with web applications instead of traditional software. Web applications have a number of advantages over traditional software that is downloaded and installed on a computer. First, many of them are completely free to use. Secondly, there is no need to install and update these applications on your computer. The third and main advantage is that web applications can be accessed from any PC or mobile device connected to the Internet. And fourthly, you don't need to save the data on your PC, you can simply create backup copy, and everything will be stored on the server.
For most freelancers, managing all their activities and work expenses is a challenging task. So, we will list the 13 most the best tools and web applications to help you monitor your work.
Are common
You can create invoices according to your time, edit them visually, and send them by e-mail with customizable message templates. You can keep unpaid projects and invoices at the top of your work, as well as graphical tracking of working hours. Integration with PayPal will allow you to receive your invoices faster and automatically track payments. You can send invoices in 49 currencies and 17 languages.
Google Calendar is a free, all-in-one tool for tracking time, appointments, and organizing your freelance tasks. It can serve as a calendar or to-do list. In addition, Google Calendar data is easy to export to many task management projects and thus you can always have an eye on your schedule.
Invoice Machine aims to generate simple yet professional invoices with the ability to set categories such as taxes, shipping, currency, language, discounts, notes and more. On dashboard, you can easily find which invoices have been paid or are due, and you can even filter them by status, period, or customer. Invoices can be sent directly to clients or attached as PDF to email.
Finance and Accounting
Less accounting is an application that provides simple accounting for small businesses and freelancers. With this application, you can create invoices, send and track invoices, record and track expenses, allow access to your account to export data, automatically import bank transactions daily, and process sales tax. The app's price ranges from free to $24 per month, depending on your needs. You can start with a 30-day free trial trial version before making a decision on the package.
Another app from the developers of Mint Bills, QuickBooks, TurboTax and Quicken that will help you spend smarter and save more. You can easily pull out all your accounts, control cards and investments. And all this in one place. The application will allow you to track your expenses, plan a budget, and receive bill reminders.
Projects and task management
This application can be very useful for those who face difficulties in keeping track of completed tasks and projects. The idea behind Projecturf is to help users manage their projects efficiently. It is built with many features such as drag and drop task management, time and budget tracking timer, Gantt chart, layout extension, customizable templates and much more.
This is project planning and management software. ZohoProjects provides a dashboard that allows users to track and analyze the progress of a project. You can also sync your ZohoProjects account with Dropbox so you can access your files from anywhere in the world. The application supports 16 languages.
File management and cloud storage
This application can be used for everything from simple plans to complex business processes. You can create, share and collaborate with teams around the world. Zoho Docs helps you analyze complex data, create spreadsheets, collect ideas, and make informed decisions. You can also publish files to websites and broadcast remotely from Zoho Docs. The application allows you to store all your files in one place and sync them across multiple devices.
Dropbox is cloud storage with file synchronization that you can edit from anywhere. With Dropbox, you can upload photos and videos and share them freely with family and friends. It is one of the most loved document management tools due to its file editing capabilities and tight integration with the operating system.
Google drive gives you the ability to store files up to 15 GB, so you can save photos, stories, drawings, drawings, recordings, videos, etc. You can scan your documents through your smartphone, and Google Drive will instantly convert it to PDF format. You can also chat and interact with other users to view and share files.
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
SugarCRM comes in two versions – hosted and downloaded. The hosted version is a little more expensive, although it offers more functionality. With the downloadable version, you can do your own hosting and save a few bucks. SugarCRM includes features such as marketing campaigns, customer support, collaboration, mobile CRM, social CRM, sales automation and reporting.
With Nimble you can store all your business information and contact details in one convenient location. There is a free tariff plan for those who just want to try the app, and the regular plan, which costs $15 per month. The app is accessible through social media, and after signing up for a plan, the user is connected to their social media accounts and can send messages directly to their customers. All messages are posted in the Signals, Messages and Activities categories. The signals tab shows special dates, opportunities, etc. The activities tab is a task manager, while the messages tab stores emails and social media messages.
Documents and editing
Photoshop Express is a free online web application and editor for designers who simply want to edit any graphics as quickly as possible, with basic features such as cropping, contrast and brightness, red-eye removal, rotation, tone, etc. d.
These are few examples of free web applications and tools that are available on the internet. Some of them are familiar to you, and some you have simply forgotten about.
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