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Running a business? Here's how to cut the admin clutter
The priority for any business owner is to drive growth, and administrative duties can sometimes overwhelm and distract from what matters in your day-to-day. To ease the burden, here are some apps that help to automate some essential time-consuming tasks so you can focus on growing your company.
One of the bugbears of running a fast growing SME is the administrative duties that come with growth. From contracts all the way to payslips, the burden of paperwork can take way time from more important tasks.
One of the ways to help make the process less painful is by using apps that automate some of these processes for you.
Simplifying payroll process
For payslips, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) introduced new rules in April 2016 stating that employers should provide itemised payslips with key employment terms.
While these may be beneficial to employees, it does mean extra work for employers. One of the apps that you can use to automate this administrative task is the Essentials Payslips app.
The app provides the required components in a payslip that comply with the latest MOM guidelines such as overtime rate and pay, together with additional items such as bonuses. The payslip records are also stored online allowing it to be accessed easily be it in office or at home.
Spend more time making sales and less time with paperwork
As a business, chasing leads and making sales should be taking up most of your time. In reality, many SMEs that deal with sales often spend too much time creating quotations and invoices. Much time is usually devoted to chase prospective clients to approve quotations and invoices. This takes away time from more productive tasks.
myBusiness Essentials Invoice moves this entire process onto a digital platform. This makes it easier to manage, track and report the process.
The app also allows businesses to set up customisable e-mail reminders and so automates the follow-up process. This means you can spend more time chasing down leads for sales.
All-in-one sweet spot
Data is perhaps one of the most valuable resources for an SME. In the digital age, cyber attacks are much more frequent than you would think. As such, it is important that data is always backed up so that you don't incur much losses in the event of such an attack.
It can be a complicated process to manually backup your workstations and servers to hard drives or tapes. Business Backup Suite makes it easy for anyone, even those who do not have much technical knowledge, to automate this process. The software automatically backs up your data to a cloud. And in the event of an attack or incident that compromises your data, Business Backup Suite restores all your data with practically zero lead time. This minimises losses that you might face.
Use these apps to automate your time-consuming tasks:
- Essentials Payslips frees you from laborious tracking and issuing of payslips that comply with MOM guidelines.
- Essentials Invoice greatly automates much of the quotation and invoice process by sending follow-up emails to prospective customers or clients.
- Back up and restore your data easily with Business Backup Suite.