It’s time to admit it: You hate tracking your small business finances. There, you said it. Breathe. You hate keeping receipts. You hate going through your monthly expenses and identifying them one by one. You hate matching your invoices against your revenue reports. You hate the nail-biting moment of calculating your profit and loss, wondering…
Woo-Hoo! Xero Hits 1 Million Subscribers!
You know that feeling when your sports team takes the championship. When your local school district receives a national recognition. When your neighbor’s high schooler gets accepted to a prestigious university. It’s that feeling of sharing in somebody else’s win. That’s how we felt last week when we heard that Xero had reached 1 million subscribers….
Amazon Sellers — You Need This Tool!
If you haven’t discovered the joys of A2X yet…well, today might as well be Christmas for you. This nifty online tool integrates your Amazon financial data into your Xero chart of accounts. Just like magic. No more individual transaction entries. No more untangling the mess of seller fees. Just your two biggest sources of financial data, playing nice together…
Setting Up Your Online Store – A Xero Guide
Happy Monday, Profit Planners! Last month, our accounting software crush Xero reached out to Marilyn for a little help with creating a step-by-step guide for new online retailers. As always, our fearless leader delivered the goods–a simple checklist for getting the bases covered, along with a 3-step process for deciding which format works best for you. (If you’ve ever wondered…
Big News from Marilyn (and a secret discount code, too!)
An exciting update from The Bottom Line founder and head money mover, Marilyn Parham, CPA. Humble and modest is good most of the time. But sometimes, guys, you just gotta brag. It’s easy for me to brag on my team because…well, if you’ve worked with them, it’s obvious why: they’re the greatest! So when The Bottom…
Get Some Sweet Summer Lovin’ (from Xero)
I confess that I’ve always had a thing for chaotic, disheveled, temperamental types. Not just in romantic partners, but in the way that I organize my business. Maybe it’s the sense of adventure that comes with never knowing where you’ll end up at the end of the day. Or maybe it’s the rebellious thrill of breaking the rules…
Xero + Shopify – A Marriage Made in Cloud Accounting Heaven
Our favorite cloud-based accounting system just got awesomer. We didn’t think Ben & Jerry’s could get any better. Then they put a cookie core in it and blew our minds. That’s about how we felt when we heard that Xero, our favorite cloud-based accounting system, was combining forces with e-commerce engine Shopify. In case you haven’t…
Point of Sales Systems for Online Businesses
Unity, harmony, and teamwork are important. In the movie, Drumline, Devon, a young black drummer from Harlem, learns how important it is when he is given a band scholarship to a southern college in Georgia. The band’s motto was, “One band, one sound.” One of the pivotal lines in the movie is when Devon’s drum…
Why We, at The Bottom Line®, are 100% Xero
Clients often call us up and ask for help with their software. They are having difficulty with Quickbooks, or they can’t get GoDaddy Bookkeeping to compute their expenses properly, or they may want to know how to configure a certain formula in FreshBooks. If the question they ask is an accounting issue, we should be…
Accounting Systems for Amazon Sellers
Most people think of Amazon as an online retailer, but an ever increasing aspect of their business is as an online platform for other business owners. If you own a business, Amazon wants to help you. The expertise they have developed in order fulfillment, secure payment processing, and website design. This is something you can…