
How to keep up with cash flow as your business grows
Effective cash flow is essential to the running of any company. Discover what you can do to stay on top of it for your fast-growing business.
Sage Accounting for photographers, film producers and other creatives helps you easily manage your finances from anywhere. It gives you clear visibility of money going in out and a quick way create and send invoices automatically. Use Sage Accounting to:
Sage Accounting is an affordable, easy-to-use choice for most creative businesses. It enables recording income and expenses and syncs transactions with your business bank account. You can also snap and capture receipts with your phone. Sage Accounting also simplifies generating and emailing invoices to customers or clients. You can take out a free 30 day trial and see it's suitable for your business.
Creative professionals will benefit from accounting software if they want to spend less time on tasks like invoicing. It will also reduce admin and offer an accurate view of a business's performance. This type of software will also help creative professionals comply with HRMC tax guidelines and collaborate with an accountant.
There are plenty of ways you can save time with Sage Accounting. Here are some examples:
Automate manual tasks
By automating tasks, you can cut down the amount of time you spend on manual data entry to save money and focus on the areas of the business that need the most attention.
AutoEntry
Spend less time on admin and more time on your creative work with a paperless way to manage receipts. Simply snap, scan or email a photo of your receipts, bank transactions, invoices or other documents for your Sage accounts using AutoEntry. Then categorise, publish and share them with your accountant through Sage Accounting. AutoEntry captures tax summaries and full line item details including description, quantity and unit price so it’s an easy way to log the information you need, when you need it.
Other ways to save time:
Get added functionality with our partner apps which integrate directly with Sage Accounting, bringing you more tools that help you get the job done.
Remove the need for data entry
AutoEntry is an intelligent, cloud-based solution which eliminates bookkeeping data entry, so users never again have to type up invoices or receipts.
Make it easier to get paid
No more chasing late payments – give your customers simple and easy ways to pay you directly from the invoices you send with our useful “Pay Now” buttons.
3 – way modelling and forecasting
Castaway is a reporting and business modelling solution that allows you to budget, forecast, analyse KPIs, model scenarios and manage consolidations.
“Sage helps us with our payroll, and we get lots of updates from HMRC, so it keeps us on track for what we have to do as part of our business.”
Jane & Amy,
Poulsom Middlehurst
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