Most often, small business owners have to be a jack of all trades due to limited staff and more pressure. At times, handling everything perfectly seems to be impossible, and if you’re doing all the things manually, the situation becomes tough to deal with. This may affect their core business activities ultimately, and result in a lower ROI.
What can a small business owner do to avoid such situations? Utilise mobile apps! This is the best way to use your smartphone for our small business.
In the present mobile era, there are numerous mobile apps that are developed to reduce the pain of small business owners by managing their various business-related tasks.
If you’re a small business owner who is doing many tasks single-handedly, here are five unique applications that can help you in increasing productivity and efficiency of your small businesses:
- Dropbox for Business
With Dropbox for Business, small business owners can store and share all their business related files in a secure environment. It also enables them syncing and collaborating with their employees from anywhere.
Key Features:
- Downloadable from Google Play and iTunes
- Support for Android, iOS, Windows, Linux and Mac users
- Create and share folders on the go
- Works well with all the apps you’re using already
- Free app with in-app purchase options
- Square Register
Square Register lets you save your precious time enabling you to track sales and inventory, view business analytics and manage your teams from your own point of sale.
Key Features:
- Downloadable from Google Play and iTunes
- Gets easily connected to your kitchen ticket printer, barcode scanner, receipt printer, and cash drawer
- Real-time inventory tracking
- Accepts all major credit cards, cash, and gift cards
- Send receipts via email or text message instantly
- Free mobile app
- BHIM (Bharat Interface for Money)
It’s a UPI (the Unified Payments Interface) based digital payment app from National Payments Corporation of India. Small business owners can use this e-wallet app for making payments to vendors or receiving payments from customers. For using this app they have to sign up for UPI-based payments with their bank account.
Main Features:
- Downloadable from GooglePlay
- No need to store money on BHIM like other e-wallet apps, as this UPI-based app directly connects to users’ bank account for making or receiving payments or online transfer
- Supports Aadhaar-based payments
- Enables instant transactions of up to INR 10,000 per transaction. The maximum transaction limit is up to INR 20,000 in 24 hours.
- Free mobile app
- Expensify
Expensify lets you report business related expenses using your smartphone or web. You can capture, scan and save your bills or receipts, track time/mileage for business-related travel to easily generate quick expense reports with this unique app.
Key Features:
- Downloadable from GooglePlay and iTunes
- Lets you take and upload pictures of your receipts instantly
- Has SmartScan Technology that can read your receipt and create expense reports instantly
- Enables editing of the expenses
- Import or export with Excel, Dropbox, Evernote, Oracle and many other options
- Free mobile app
- Google Analytics
With Google Analytics, you can get real-time information about how many people visit your website and when to know how it’s performing.
Key Features:
- Downloadable from GooglePlay and iTunes
- Gives accurate information on how many people are coming to your website from your social networks, search engines, and other referral websites
- Gives you crucial information of pages that visitors are browsing, location data, and time they are spending on each page
- Free mobile app
As per the technoloy experts from Biz2Credit India, Google Analytics provides a great user experience and results to small businesses in the country.
Apart from the apps mentioned above, there are some other apps too such as Waze, WhatsApp, Skype, and Paytm. Installing these useful apps to your smartphone can not just save your valuable time and efforts, but can relieve you from a lot of managerial stress.
