Automating Tools Help Free Up Time and Alleviate Stress

Many small business owners become susceptible to stress and fatigue when they take on all aspects of the business by themselves. Overburdening one person with all the business demands can eventually lead to burnout. Financial management—specifically bookkeeping and tax preparation—are commonly cited as the biggest time and energy drains for small business owners who then have to divert their attention away from profitable business tasks to focus on routine financial and administrative management.

Online, automating services have come along to assist with many common administrative, clerical, and financial tasks, and they can save business owners a ton of time and energy. They can often be adopted affordably or tried for free, and the time needed to learn and navigate them is far less than it used to be with complex software downloads that needed to be purchased, maintained, and fixed.

Automating tools for small business may be used to assist with:

·       Scheduling appointments

·       Sending invoices

·       Scanning and storing receipts

·       Facilitating customer support

·       Sending email marketing material

·       Running payroll

·       Issuing payments to vendors

·       Running financial reports

Checkeeper offers online check options for more streamlined, time-effective bookkeeping

While many digital payment options are available to business owners, many come with transaction fees and surcharges that can add up over time and nullify the affordability and convenience. Checkeeper offers online check printing and mailing for those times a paper check is needed, without hidden fees. Checkeeper is mobile, cloud-based, and integratable with accounting software; it also offers automated recording and storing of payment data so that busy professionals can spend less time issuing payments and balancing the books.

Free up time with automation options offered by online check printing and mailing

Use Checkeeper to automate some payment and financial management tasks so that they require less time and fewer resources. Use Checkeeper to:

Run payroll

Checkeeper is used by businesses as a stand-alone system for issuing payroll checks and pay stubs to employees, and it is also used in conjunction with compatible payroll software services, such as Gusto, Square, and Patriot Payroll. Checkeeper can print paychecks for those employees who receive paper checks and then sync the data automatically with the compatible payroll software. Checkeeper has also been used by many companies as a temporary fix when the usual payroll provider suffered a breach, outage, or product discontinuation. Employers who need a batch of paychecks printed appreciate the convenience of Checkeeper print-and-mail services for payroll. Order your entire batch of checks to be printed at the Checkeeper fulfillment center and then sent back to your office via Next-Day Air for prompt onsite disbursement.

Issue payments to vendors

Whether you have a few checks each month, or many, Checkeeper offers unlimited check printing for all your payments due to suppliers, creditors, freelancers, clients, employees, and affiliates. Use Checkeeper as a stand-alone service, or link it to a compatible software service to streamline the payment process. Connect Checkeeper to your Odoo or Xero accounts to have the information from unpaid invoices imported directly into Checkeeper to have a check automatically created with all fields populated for you. (Video tutorials for many features can be found here.) Payments due to the same vendor will be automatically consolidated into a single check for payment, and an invoice table can be attached at the bottom to break down the total. This saves everyone time, improves accuracy, cuts down on paper waste, and makes the bill-paying process faster with automation.

Send rebates and refunds to customers

Companies that have a high volume of payments to go out—for customer rebates, refunds, settlement payouts, or other mass payment types—benefit from Checkeeper printing and mailing outsourcing options that take on all the work at once. A call or email to Checkeeper can get you a custom quote for a one-time or high-volume check order. All checks can be printed promptly at the Checkeeper fulfillment site and in the mail according to the delivery method of choice. Checkeeper can get high-volume orders out much faster than most offices, and with no supplies needed on the user’s end except for an uploaded file containing payee names, addresses, and amounts. The rest is done for you.

Have all data recorded for you automatically

Save the time it takes to manually record each payment transaction by using Checkeeper’s automated check registry that does all the recording for you. Payment details of each check are automatically recorded for you and accessible at any time in a searchable registry that can locate a check according to any check element: payee, date, amount, check number, and even the memo. If you’ve added a custom field to your checks, like an invoice number or customer ID, Checkeeper can use it as a search term, as well. Locate a specific payment, download monthly and quarterly reports of issued payments, or run a full report history that lists every check ever issued through your Checkeeper account—all with just a few clicks and no manual data entry required.