Financial Tools Small Businesses Will Love

Small-business owners often have to don a variety of hats. However, the more you focus on nitty-gritty details like contracts, budgeting and project management, the less you get to develop and market your products. Take back some of your time by using these software tools that make the financial side of running a company easier:

Wave: Free

Between filing taxes and paying employees, you have to ensure the books are totally accurate. Fortunately, with Wave's free software, business users can create and send invoices, scan receipts, manage accounts and produce reports with ease. It can even help you with your taxes! Leave the financial details to the experts with Wave.

Price
Wave is free to use, but you can upgrade your account with Premium Tools as you need them. Most tools are $19 a month each, while credit card payments are charged 2.9 percent + 30 cents per transaction. As your company's accounting needs grow, you can update your Wave subscription.

Mint: Free

Need to know where your company's money goes so you can better plan how to spend it? This app, owned by Intuit (the company behind Quicken), helps individuals and business owners create budgets and keep track of cash flow, thanks to unusual charge alerts, free credit reporting, and money and budgeting tips. You can access Mint on any device, whether it's a tablet, laptop, phone or desktop. The service is also customizable, allowing you to create your own spending categories and set savings goals.

With an easy-to-use layout and intuitive user interface, Mint helps make money management simpler. The app can even help you find ways to save.

Price
Mint is totally free to use, but promotions offered through its website by third parties do cost money.

inDinero

inDinero users don't need to be financial experts. The company's intuitive dashboard design helps you ditch the tedious tasks of invoicing, sending financial statements to clients and vendors, producing expense reports and paying bills. Plus, with inDinero, you'll have access to a team of customer-service experts who will help you trial the tool and transition into using it.

inDinero's clear graphs and grids make understanding your company's finances in real time simple. This tool encompasses all of your business's financial needs so you don't have to mix and match services – with just one subscription, you can rest easy.

Stop worrying about tax season or budgets – let these tools make managing company finances easier.

Price
inDinero subscriptions range from $400 a month (if you choose annual billing) on up. It will design a program for your business, so what you pay all depends on what services you want and how big your company is.

Quickbooks

Quickbooks is one of the most popular pieces of accounting software for small businesses thanks to its many features. The program allows you to handle all of your accounting tasks – including bill and employee payments, expense tracking and invoicing – in one spot. You can even connect the tool to your business's bank accounts to further simplify money management. This means you don't have to manually keep track of charges, saving you time. What's more, because Quickbooks tracks all of your spending information, including filing receipt images, you'll know where to look come tax time. 

This tool also connects with card reader Square, automatically updating your account with transaction details. Stay organized and on top of your accounting with Quickbooks.

Price
Quickbooks starts at $10 per month for small businesses and increases in price with more features and employees. 

With financial tools at your disposal, you have one less hat to wear. Instead, step into your entrepreneur role a little more often.