Cash Management

[EricVorheese]

If you're business is at the point where cash is flying in different directions - campaigns, employees, equipment, rent etc - how do you keep track of your cash flow?

I came across pulseapp in dr ngo's ridiculously detailed mindmap. Any experiences with it? Any other suggestions/options?

 

[smaxor]

we use quickbooks, invoicing, etc

 

[bizzykehl]

quicken is a godsend. you can tag transactions like you tag wordpress posts. then can sort by tags, etc. and teach it to recognize certain transactions w/ certain businesses to always be under that tag. also auto-syncs with your bank account through the interweb. highly recommended

edited:

quicken = personal/business finance
quickbooks = invoices, assets, inventory, etc.

depends on what you're looking for

 

[EricVorheese]

Thanks guys. Will look into those. +rep'ed

Any experiences with mint.com?

 

[jinmin]

I came across a tool while reading a home business magazine. Their URL is start-run-grow.com (not affiliate URL). I just find that it's useful as everything is in a box.

 

[Versus]

I use cashflow manager (.com?)

I think they are an Australian-only based product though. It's incredibly simple (and they've recently changed their website to a clickbank style sales page, lol fail lol)

However, it's awesome to use, and does everything in terms of book keeping and organisation. So if we get audited, we just click a few buttons and it provides us with all the necessary paperwork.

 

[LotsOfZeros]

Thanks guys. Will look into those. +rep'ed

Any experiences with mint.com?

Mint is really just a budgeting tool for personal finance.

 

[andyt]

I use quickbooks online and it auto-downloads all my credit card and banking charges and tries to categorize them for me. It works well once you have everything setup, but it only downloads transactions from 90 days back.

 

[conv3rsion]

mint is very cool, though not for this purpose

 

[KC-Coop]

I use Quickbooks online as well - the only thing I have issues with is having to manually add all of the Paypal transactions because it doesn't interface with Paypal automatically like it does bank accounts.

 

[bigwavesurfer]

pulseapp is a great simple app...love it. also use quickbooks too but for other stuff. my version of quickbooks doesnt give me the option to show statements of cashflow.

 

[ducks]

I really like pulseapp too. It's very simple, but it gives you a clear picture of what your cash flow is like.

 

[JoshTodd]

QuickBooks Online has worked very well for me. Especially if you add in the Payroll package to pay employees. It takes care of all of your tax forms for federal and state. Very nice.

 

[johnmatrix]

GNUCash is decent, open source ftw