Working from home is distracting enough without children but when you’re a work-at-home parent, distraction is taken to a whole new level. There are a million and one things to do when looking after babies or toddlers, and work needs to be fitted around these activities.
When time is at a premium, it’s vital to place your focus on the most important tasks and find ways to speed up processes. Doing so will allow you to increase your workflow and improve your cash flow, while not impinging on caring for your children. For work-at-home parents, tools and software can be extremely beneficial when it comes to getting client work done on time and finding more moments in which to rest. Turbo Inventory has a number of features which benefit working parents who are based at home.
With Turbo Inventory, you can:
- Quickly create and email invoices
Creating invoices is very easy with Turbo Inventory. We have a variety of templates ready for you to quickly personalize with your brand identity. These can then be used over and over again with many of your important details automatically saved for each new invoice.
- Convert quotes into invoices instantly
You can also create quotes just as easily. Once these have been agreed by the client or customer, you can then convert the quote into an invoice, within seconds. This will then be ready to send to the client as a pre-formatted sales invoice. No longer will you need to create separate documents for quotes and invoices.
- Make payment easier for clients
When you make payment as easy as possible for your clients, you also benefit. You’ll receive less questions about confusing payment methods. With Turbo Inventory’s invoices, your client simply clicks a button within the invoice itself and payment is quickly made. This alone will improve your cash flow as clients will be more likely to pay immediately rather than delay until another time.
- Invoice Payment Auto-Reminder Emails
Some clients and customers however, will delay regardless of how well you set up an invoice and payment procedures. One of the most distracting and worrying aspects of running your own business is getting paid on time. The last thing you want to be doing as a busy parent is following up with late paying clients.
With Turbo Inventory, this is taken care of. Once the invoice due date has passed, we’ll send out automatic late payment reminders until your client pays or you need to take more definitive action.
- Automatically create an item and product library
When it comes to invoicing clients and customers, one of the most draining activities is writing countless service and product titles and descriptions. It’s important when sending an invoice, the recipient fully understands what they are paying for. This is why clear itemized billing is so vital.
Yet instead of writing the same types of descriptions over and over again, you can simply pluck written descriptions and products from a library you build over time. After a few invoices, you’re invoicing procedures speed up dramatically.
- Work two businesses or more? Use multiple company support
Maybe you are a freelancer but you also run your own product business as well. You might even have a third income stream completely unrelated to the other two. If you work two businesses or more than you can set up different identities for each one under just one single account. You save yourself time and hassle, and can view your data all from one place.
- Set up recurring invoicing
If you provide services which are reoccurring – such as virtual assisting or social media – then you’ll likely be billing a client every week or month. Instead of writing a whole new invoice each time, you can simply create recurring invoices and automatically bill clients for the ongoing services you provide. This gives you a hands-off approach and means you could potentially go months and years without needing to adjust anything.
Benefits of Turbo Inventory for busy work-at-home parents
Turbo Inventory is ideal for work-at-home professionals and allows you to speed up many of your billing processes that otherwise may have eaten into your precious family time. Nowadays, with digital technology advancing at a rapid pace, there’s every reason to take full advantage of the benefits cloud-based invoicing software.