Strategy, Legal & Operations
Small talk with Peter Jones: How you can increase business productivity

- How to overcome business challenges
- How saving time can help your business
- How to free up time to make smarter business decisions
- How to motivate and empower your employees
- How to elevate your business performance
Three ways to increase business productivity
1. Say goodbye to manual data entry
Your business can lose a lot of time due to manual data entry. However, by automating your manual data entry tasks, you’ll be free from such toils and will have control over your processes. From bank statements and employee expenses to sales invoices, using automation to deal with data entry will save your staff time. It also puts paid to inputting inaccurate data, which will slow your business down and could open you up to critical issues further down the line.2. Use smart bank feeds
Step away from spending hours on entering receipt data into your software. Instead of that laborious process, use smart bank feeds and rules so you never have to enter a payment or receipt again. With automation, your bank transactions will securely flow into your accounts. All you need to do is confirm what you want to be posted. This will not only save you time, but having accurate data to hand will lead to accurate reporting.3. Automate your payment processes
Do this and you’ll provide peace of mind for your customers. By allowing them to pay you online, over the phone or face to face in a secure manner will offer confidence. And using software means figures can be worked out automatically. By freeing up time spent on dealing with your payment processes, your team will have more time to spend on those value-add tasks that can result in increased business productivity. This includes finding new customers and satisfying your existing ones.Final thoughts on how to increase business productivity
Increasing business productivity can be challenging but there are ways to tackle the blockers holding your company back. Turning to software and automation can make life much easier for you and your business. And by using good accounting software, for example, you’ll be able to automate numerous process (such as invoicing and bank reconciliation) – and this will free up time, which can be used for tasks that add value and help to elevate the performance of your business.Perform at your best
Discover how to improve productivity, make smarter decisions and empower your people so you can elevate the performance of your small business.
