Summer Business Bookkeeping
More and more people are taking on the challenge of running side and seasonal businesses. Seasonal businesses offer supplemental income, as well as a short-term financial cushion for those who are in between jobs or concerned about job security. Summer can offer some great opportunities to make extra money, especially for those who live near areas popular with beach or summer tourism.
Checkeeper has helped thousands of small business owners and professionals manage and issue payments for many things summer businesses are likely to need: supplies, inventory, short-term leases for vehicles or equipment, rental space, refunds to customers, reimbursements, paychecks, and other important payments that can be paid by check.
Adopt the right online tools
Online tools that can assist seasonal and summer businesses are available to help busy entrepreneurs save time and streamline multiple bookkeeping and administrative tasks at once. Software and services that are cloud-based can assist with accounting and payroll, as well as issuing and recording payments issued. It is not always economical for seasonal and side businesses to invest in IT hires or expensive equipment and downloads. Online check printing and mailing is one of those services that can be handled with affordable software that aids financial management and offers custom business checks printed and mailed on demand.
Checkeeper can assist summer businesses because online check printing:
· Helps reinforce the brand
Adding a custom, color logo to checks shows that they are professional, not personal, and it creates a brand reinforcement opportunity. The Checkeeper template editor can help turn standard checks into professional-quality business checks that work in coordination with other marketing materials.
· Offers a variable and unlimited number of checks
Checkeeper does not put limits on monthly usage, so summer business owners can be assured they will never incur overage charges during their busy seasons. Print a few checks when business is slow, and then print many when the summer is in swing and you have many more suppliers, insurers, equipment and spaces leases, and employees to pay. One subscription covers unlimited usage.
· Provides remote access
A lot of summer businesses offer outdoor services and activities, requiring owners to spend much of the working day at a beach, pool, golf course, park, boardwalk, camp, or in clients’ homes and yards. Checkeeper is ideal for busy professionals who move around during the day or don’t have a single back-office space to work out of. Checkeeper accounts are free to create, free to try, and they go where you do: accounts are remote, mobile, and cloud-based so that they can travel light. Check mailing services make it easy to issue fast payments without requiring printing and mailing supplies.
· Reduces paper waste with online storage
Despite all the online payment options available, there are times when a paper check is the most secure, expedient, or practical way to issue a payment. Checkeeper offers an online check registry so that check payments and reports are available from users’ devices, and transactions do not need to be written down in paper registries. Checkeeper also offers direct bill-to-check conversion features (with compatible software services) so that unpaid invoices can be turned directly into check payments with nothing extra to print out. Payments due to the same vendor are automatically consolidated into a single check with attached invoice table so that the least amount of paper waste is generated.
· Keeps overhead low
Summer business owners often have to invest heavily in the equipment and supplies needed to run their companies; most don’t want to add to the costs with pricey equipment and services that are not essential. Online check printing works with the items most people already have, including a mobile device, a standard office printer, and paper. Don’t have regular access to a printer, or don’t want to store paper and envelopes in an already-limited space? Checkeeper will print and mail checks for you so that no additional items or supplies are necessary.
· Pays part-time, seasonal employees
Many companies use Checkeeper to handle payroll for them. Checkeeper can work as a stand-alone service to print paychecks (with pay stubs) for all employees on site, or it can be used as an add-on to payroll services, like Gusto or Square, to add a custom paycheck option for only those employees paid by paper check. Checkeeper can also print and mail checks to freelance or part-year workers, as well, mailing them directly to their homes or offices according to the priority delivery speed of choice.