Financial Management for Freelancers

More and more professionals are embarking on freelance work, whereby they can share their experience, expertise, and specialized knowledge in niche fields. Freelance work holds a lot of benefits, including flexible working hours and greater control over projects, but it also requires a lot of dedication and energy in finding work and acquiring clients. It also requires financial discipline and management skills, which have to be acquired quickly or the bookkeeping will fall into neglect. Some key financial management tasks for freelancers include analyzing income from multiple sources, tracking project-specific expenses, creating budgets, tracking billable hours, generating invoices, paying bills, reconciling accounts, and running reports for analysis.

Online check printing and mailing for freelance professionals

Checkeeper offers online check printing and mailing services used by freelance professionals in many different fields. Checkeeper is specifically helpful for freelance work environments because:

Checkeeper travels with you

Many freelance professionals have to take their work to various locations to meet with clients and/or provide their services; that means that traveling tools are a must. Checkeeper is online, cloud-based, and mobile-ready, so it goes where you do. All you need is a connected device to access check printing and mailing services from wherever you live, work, or travel.

Checkeeper records your transactions for you

Entering and updating data manually takes time and requires regular discipline. While setting aside time specifically for bookkeeping is advisable, busy freelancers don’t always have spare time on a regular basis to devote to issuing payments and updating records. Checkeeper accounts come with an online, cloud-based check registry that records and stores payment data for you, and it can retrieve a specific payment or series of payments in only a few clicks. Checkeeper replaces outdated paper registries and ledgers—and the data entry errors associated with them—with a more modern, streamlined system that makes expense tracking and bank reconciliation simpler, more accurate, and more efficient than before.

Checkeeper integrates with QuickBooks Online and other accounting software

Many software products and services are available to people who work on their own so that many administrative and financial tasks can be automated and more efficient. Checkeeper integrates with many accounting software services that are popular with freelancers to offer a custom check option to other payment methods. Link Checkeeper to a compatible service, such as FreshBooks, Xero, or QuickBooks Online, to get custom checks issued and check data recorded and categorized automatically for more streamlined and more efficient bill-paying and record-keeping. Link Checkeeper to an Odoo or Xero account to have unpaid invoices imported into Checkeeper in order to generate a payment check automatically. All check fields are filled in for you, saving time, and invoices payable to the same vendor can be consolidated into a single check with an attached invoice table that breaks down the total.

Checkeeper checks can help brand your business

Only customized business checks that users can create and print on demand can be designed and redesigned as often as needed to create a desired look with newly-updated information. Checkeeper offers users the ability to turn their checks into communication and marketing tools, as well as transactional ones. Upload a color business logo into the account to print onto your business checks in order to reinforce your brand with each person you pay. When you change your logo, its colors, or other information about your business, you can always go into the Checkeeper account and update the images and information accordingly so that no check is printed and wasted. Need to add custom check elements to aid your own bookkeeping or speed up processing? Checkeeper can do that too. Add custom fields into the account, drag and drop them into the desired place on your check layout, and a space to fill in the information will be offered on subsequent checks created. If you no longer need the custom field, or don’t want to have it on certain checks, you can simply deactivate it. Custom checks can be designed, edited, and updated to be unique and memorable and always accurate.