Your guide to invoicing

If you’re in the service industry and provide your time, skills, and materials to clients, then it’s likely that sooner or later, you’ll be asked for a quote. Quotes or estimates may also be used if you sell products, such as shipping supplies, to customers....

If your business is like most, you spend a lot of your time creating and sending out invoices to your clients. Of course, this is the basic operation which gets you paid, keeping your business successful and your cashflow high. Unfortunately, invoicing can be...

Throughout your business life, you’ll likely have trouble with unpaid invoices and bad debts. In certain circumstances, you’ll need to have these bad debts written off for tax purposes. So, when can you write off a bad debt? Typically, a larger business gets...

A price quote is a way of pre-informing a customer or client what they should expect to pay for your goods or services. If a customer wants to buy several products from your business or engage your services, you can quote them on what it will cost beforehand, so...

You’ve done the work, provided the services and earned your money. But are you making invoicing mistakes? If you don’t know how to avoid invoice mistakes, you’re probably wondering, “where’s my cash?” Because your client still has kept it tucked away in their...

Being owed an outstanding debt is a common problem for any small business. When you’re owed cash from reluctant clients, you need to be smart about how to collect debt. But how does a small business learn how to collect a debt from a payer? What should you have...