There are over 10,000 smartphone apps that could increase your productivity at work and make your life easier as a business owner.
Many of these apps cover communication, finance and accounting, time management, payments, job monitoring, and online organization among others. With thousands of great apps to choose from, here are 10 that guarantee your business success in 2020 and beyond:
Control
Many entrepreneurs have more than one online payment accounts for businesses. If you need to be in control of your business finances using PayPal and Stripe among other online accounts, then you need Control.
You can manage all your PayPal and Stripe and other accounts from one central dashboard, with or without the need to log in to each individual account.
Dashlane
Entrepreneurs usually have various emails for various purposes, with each of them requiring different sign-in passwords. The passwords must be complex and different from one another to really protect your online activities from hackers, and you need Dashlane to manage all the email and website passwords without the need to remember or cram them to memory.
Dropbox
If you have to manage many different documents at various times and need to access them from any location in the world, then you need to install Dropbox.
If you must manage many employees or coordinate business associates via numerous files and documents, then Dropbox would do the trick for you. It can be stored online in the cloud and it can sync with other users so that they can access it and modify it in any way for a team to remain coordinated.
Evernote
Evernote is the app to capture your thoughts and ideas before you forget them again. Instead of looking for papers or jotters to jot down your thoughts and ideas, you can capture them on Evernote and then save them online in the cloud for easy accessibility anywhere in the world via any devices.
MailChimp
This is the email manager you need if you send out large numbers of emails to large numbers of customers at the same time. With MailChimp, you can send up to 2,000 free emails to customers worldwide at the same time and also monitor their engagements with the emails – whether they clicked to open and read them and the actual numbers of people that did this.
PayPal
Is there a businessman in this time and age that doesn’t use PayPal? Well, maybe there are in countries where PayPal is not supported. With the app on your smartphone, you can manage several online payments in real-time and also process payments in different currencies to various customers or employees around the world.
Skype
An entrepreneur must manage his business effectively via instant communication to get things rolling. If you need a communication app for messaging, voice, and video calls, then you need to install Skype on your smartphone today. You can chat with anyone from anywhere in the world using this app, and you can also hold business conferences with several people at the same using voice or video call features.
Upwork
Do you need to hire someone to complete a task and pay him off after the job is done, then you need the Upwork app on your phone. Upwork is a huge marketplace where you can hire anyone from around the world and collaborate with them to complete a task and also pay them when all is done and ready – without the need to maintain a regular, office staff.
Quickbooks
If you need accounting software to help you manage your business finances, then you need Quickbooks. You can connect it to your credit cards and only payment processors as well as manage purchase receipts and invoices from the app. This is one phone app to have if your business involves a lot of related activities that must be coordinated perfectly to get things rolling.
HelloSign
There are times when you must sign a document on the go and digitally too, then you need the HelloSign app on your smartphone. With this app, you can sign important contracts, orders, and invoices electronically using your smartphone screen interface.
The person at the other end of the world will receive your signature immediately and get things rolling while you focus on other things, and you don’t even need a pen to sign the digital documents.