Software - small business

[Jediworrier]

Hi all,looking for some thing to make my life a bit less paper dependant (I'm bad with paperwork).

I'll try to describe what I'm looking for...

Column A- a calender with jobs that are booked in.
B- what I actually achieved that day, I do a lot of response/callout work (in block time 1/2 hr or so intervals)
C. job reference
D- any invioces linked to job.


That's just a rough idea but would like to be able to log work when I get home, link invioces to jobs and then click a magic button when the work is complete that links this all together and saves it totting up both the hours and material costs.

Any suggestions? Thanks.

[mattley]

Xero does exactly what you want and more, it's a total business solution

T&M here https://www.xero.com/uk/features-and-tools/account...

[Penelope Stopit]

Why do people constantly post links to commercial software when free software is the best?

Here is a good free software, if you Google Free Personal Organizer you will find more

I've used this https://rednotebook.sourceforge.io/

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Lots of screenshots http://www.day-organizer.com/day-organizer-en/?act...

http://www.day-organizer.com/day-organizer-en/

Edited by Penelope Stopit on Thursday 14th February 12:47

[Bikerjon]

Free software certainly has a place, but when we're talking about tools to run a business then it's kind of nice to have some accountability, support and help fund on-going development.

[deckster]

Penelope Stopit said:

Why do people constantly post links to commercial software when free software is the best?

I know it's a constant theme of yours, but why do you continue to post with apparent authority on topics on which you have sketchy knowledge at best?

It's possible that a free-to-use package may be best, depending on circumstance, requirements, degree of technical competence, willingness to pitch in and fix things when they go wrong - or, equally, overall it may overall be cheaper to pay for something up front. We don't know enough to say really, but as a general rule the less you pay for something the more knowledge you need to make it work (and to make it continue to work five years down the line). At the end of the day, it's highly unlikely to be cheaper if it doesn't actually do what the OP wants and consumes three days a month in maintaining it.