You work as a freelancer and in between all your assignments you also have to keep up with your administration. Since you are not an accountant, you usually see this as a necessary evil. However, nowadays there are many useful online accounting programs that allow you to do your own accounting fairly easily. That is why in this blog we look at the benefits of online accounting for freelancers!
Freelancer is Flexible Flexibility is an important concept for many freelancers. You work on different assignments and often at different locations. With online accounting, an internet connection is enough to update your administration, anywhere in the world. This way, as a freelancer, you can log in anytime and anywhere, so you are optimally flexible.
Data always safe! As a freelancer, how do you know that your accounting data is safe? With many cloud solutions you have no certainty about this and you literally have to rely on it blindly. Fortunately, there is the ZekerOnLine Quality Mark for online accounting programs. This quality mark was developed in collaboration with the Tax Authorities and states that products with the quality mark are safe and reliable. Programs with a quality mark are extensively tested annually to the strictest safety standards. So always choose a solution with a quality mark.
Smart accounting The time of accounting with Excel and the binder with invoices that is brought to the accountant once a quarter is over. Today's freelancer forwards emails with incoming invoices directly to accounting and takes photos of receipts and invoices with a special mobile app. Sales invoices and quotes are also sent to clients at the touch of a button and if payments are not received on time, a reminder is immediately sent. The bank's electronic statements are neatly loaded into the program and then processed with a few clicks. At the end of the quarter, you can send the VAT return to the Tax Authorities with one push of a button and you're done!
In short, even without in-depth accounting knowledge and with the help of a number of smart innovations, every freelancer can keep his own administration online.
Costs Where you used to buy software on CD or DVD in a box, you now pay monthly for a license with many cloud solutions. The big advantage of this is that you automatically use the most recent version of the program and you therefore never have to update manually again. Moreover, you do not have to install on special servers and matters such as backups are often arranged immediately.
Perhaps because you do your own bookkeeping yourself, you can also save enormously on administration costs with a bookkeeper or accountant.
Which package should I choose? A very interesting online accounting program for self-employed people and freelancers is InformerOnline. InformerOnline has the ZekerOnLine Quality Mark and is packed with useful features. This way you can easily send sales invoices in your own corporate identity and maintain optimal insight into your debtors with SnellerBetaald™. With Foto&Go™ in the smartphone app you can send photos of receipts and invoices directly to your accounting department and with the CashFlowCheck™ you can quickly see whether you will soon have payment problems. Finally, with the new BankRobot™ from Informer you can even process your electronic bank statements largely automatically and send your VAT return directly to the Tax Authorities from InformerOnline. All in all, this program is user-friendly and complete and, compared to other programs, also very interesting in terms of price. The most comprehensive package is €20 per month, but there are also a number of packages with slightly fewer options especially for self-employed people, for example only an invoicing package.
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