SohoOS – All Tools For Managing A Small Business (And.. For Free)

Umut M. — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 07:37:41 +0000

Whether you are a freelancer or a small/big team, using tools to keep biz-related data under control is usually a good idea for everyone.

SohoOS is an all-in-one application that comes with lots of features for managing a business online.

It is free-to-use and consists of tools like project, document, customers and contact management, communication, invoicing, and more.

Once registered, a friendly dashboard that displays the latest activities, quick links, notes and activities welcomes you (this page can easily become the start page for many users).

Contacts

The first thing would be adding your contacts: contacts, vendors, clients and leads as many other components of the app work integrated with them. They can be imported from the contacts in your e-mail service or from a .CSV file.

For the leads, besides adding them manually, they can be collected with a "contact form widget (named LeadsWidget)" that can be embedded into any web page.

Projects

Any number of projects can be created, tasks and milestones with deadlines can be defined and each of them can be assigned to users.

Users can also attach documents for the project and a progress chart helps viewing if things are performing all ok.

Invoicing & Sales Tools

SohoOS has the features for creating invoices (with a custom look), charging your clients and tracking the process.

Once an invoice is generated, optionally, the payment can be collected by the platform as well via PayPal or credit card (and no merchant account is needed).

Also, you can define the products/services of the business and create/send quotes, sales and purchase orders accordingly.

Documents

For a multi-user environment, managing documents can be hard as they should be reachable by everyone or only some users but should be kept in the same place for an easier access, back up, etc.

The documents module accomplishes all these with ease. Add as much documents as you want to the system, assign them to users or groups and even decide whether they should be available internally or externally.

Communication

This is a premium feature of SohoOS but pretty impressive.

Using the platform, you can make calls, send SMSs, emails and even faxes for a good price by just purchasing credits.

Also, a built-in email client keeps you focused by displaying any incoming e-mails from a given account.

Other Features

Besides these core features, SohoOS offers more like offering ways for improving the visibility of a business by letting them create a landing-page and collect leads or with the "Freelance Area" where businesses can post and get projects.

All sound good? Then you can give this complete and free business management tool a try.

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Paymo: Full-Featured Time Tracking & Invoicing (20 Lifetime Invoice Accounts Giveaway)

Umut M. — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:01:28 +0000

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Paymo, a multilanguage & web-based time-tracking / invoicing application is giving away "20 Lifetime Invoice Accounts" (normally $9.99/month) to WebResourcesDepot users. Before any more details on that:

What is Paymo?

Paymo is a very functional application for anyone (whether you're a "one-man-army" or a "team that works on same/different projects") for tracking the time that is worked on projects>tasks, analyze that time & bill your clients accordingly.

How does it work?

Users:

First thing to do is creating users (the application is totally free for up to 3 users). Considering every user may have different conditions, it is possible to set variables like workday length, timezone, week start day, etc for every user.

Clients:

It is necessary to define clients (this can be yourself for your own projects) in order to create the projects. This info is also used in the invoices.

Projects > Tasks:

That's the heart of the application, yet very simple to define & use.

Projects can be created by defining the details like: the client, budget hours, price per hour & users that will work in the project. After that, tasks can be created which are the main things that the application tracks the time of.

Tracking the time:

Time can be tracked in 3 ways:

web-based pop-up
desktop client/widget (Windows, Mac & Linux supported)
mobile time tracking using Paymo2Go

By simply start-stopping the tracker, the time worked on the selected tasks are added automatically. The tracker can also work offline if Google Gears is installed.

It is always possible to manually add/edit/delete the time worked on.

Invoicing:

The invoices can be created instantly by using the time that is worked on a project & that projects's hourly rate.

It is also possible to manually add entries that doesn't exist in the timesheets which makes Paymo an independent billing app. as well.

In order to keep record of the invoices, every payment made can be added to the system & the balances of every invoice can be seen with a click.

Reporting & analysis:

The application has a powerful reporting module that makes it possible to generate ready-to-use or custom reports. The data can also be exported as PDF or CSV files for future analysis.

API

For anyone willing to integrate Paymo into any other application, that's pretty easy with a complete API that supports almost every feature of the application.

Conclusion

The best thing about Paymo is the simplicity it offers. On every step, it takes no more than a few seconds to complete a task (add an entry, get a report, etc.).

Another one is the application supporting multi-platform (Win, Mac, Linux) & multilanguage that makes it suitable for teams that are distributed around the world.

Also, it has a free version that works up to 3 users & 3 invoices/month which can be ideal for many freelancers or small businesses.

Have any questions to Paymo?

Besides reaching them using the standard ways, the friendly team at Paymo is ready to answer your questions via their Twitter account:@paymo.

How to win the "Lifetime Invoice Accounts"?

Paymo is ~~giving away 20 "Lifetime Invoice Accounts"~~ which enables you to generate unlimited invoices & normally worth $9.99/month.

***UPDATE – 1*** (October 8th)
As the 20 lifetime accounts have just been requested, Paymo is giving away an extra 50 "3-months-free Invoice Accounts".

***UPDATE – 2*** (October 9th)
Paymo mentioned that the upgrades to the accounts will be activated today .

***UPDATE – 3*** (October 9th)
There are still 20 "3-free-month invoice accounts" that are not requested yet. Just comment with your subdomains to get them.

***UPDATE – 4*** (October 23th)
The giveaway is officially over with all the accounts being requested.

In order to win these upgrades:

Sign-up for a free account
Mention your subdomains as a comment to this post besides any other comment you may have (comment format such as "subdomain=xyz.paymo.biz" will make things much easier)
And, first 20 commenters with their subdomains mentioned get the lifetime account upgrades and the next 50 commenters with their subdomains mentioned get the 3-month account upgrades

Good luck to everyone.

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