The pandemic caused by the coronavirus has allowed many of the companies that work in person, to check how it is possible continue to provide their services remotely, without the workers necessarily having to be in an office packing and heating the chair.
Obviously not all jobs are compatible with teleworking, however, according to various studies, 60% is, and making a small initial investment by the employer, in the long run it is very profitable, not only for saving on rents, but also in allowances, water, electricity ... In order to carry out this change, we need some tools.
To work remotely, we not only need a computer, a webcam to make video calls and an internet connection, but we also need tools that allow us to continue managing the company as if we were doing it in person.
Regardless of the sector to which any company is dedicated, applications are always needed to manage everything related to the company such as billing, accounting… Applications that also work remotely better than better.
Opt for apps from billing, accounting and labor in the cloud for SMEs is the best solution for any company that wants to implement remote work or wants to centralize all company management in the same place without depending on a specific computer equipment and that the person in charge of managing this data can access it from anywhere.
Manage the company in the cloud
Companies that do not experiments rare in the day to day (sporadically exporting abroad, importing materials or products, attending fairs abroad, entering into activities other than the main one ...) can save a lot of money every month if they choose this type of application.
The consultancies, they are not exactly cheap. Although some establish a monthly fee, others charge depending on the number of inquiries we make, the number of payrolls that have to be calculated, the invoices that have to be made, as well as the level of complexity of the accounting.
Any small or medium-sized company can Dispense with consulting by adopting applications in the cloud, applications that allow us to control billing, accounting and payroll from anywhere. The convenience of having that data always at hand, regardless of what time it is and where we are, is priceless.
How to manage a company from the cloud
All companies are based on three fundamental pillars: billing, accounting and payroll. To these, we have to add the customers, "that" that is so difficult to achieve but very difficult to lose. What do these types of applications offer us?
Billing applications
Manage the turnover and stock Through the cloud, it allows the employees in charge of selling or distributing the products, to know at all times, both the price of the products and the stock available in the warehouse, in case it is necessary to expand it with the usual supplier or look for new suppliers .
In addition, it allows us manage the status of the invoices we issue (one of the most important parts in the business world), manage material purchases, services provided (ideal for freelancers), manage service commissions, generate invoices directly from customer orders ...
Accounting apps
The accounting of a company is the most fundamental part, since it allows us to know at all times if a company is being profitable, It has started to go into the red and we have to start taking action or the best we can do is lower the blind.
An accounting management application in the cloud, should allow us manage the accounting of companies subject to Direct Estimation or Objective Estimation (modules) and that allow us to issue the official books to present in the corresponding registry or when requested by a bank in addition to allowing us to present the settlements of VAT, personal income tax ...
They must also offer complete reports from our customers and suppliers, know records of a recurring expense throughout the year ... practically the same that we can find in any accounting application that we may be using but with the versatility of being hosted in the cloud.
Payroll applications
Payroll can become a very complex world, which in many cases depends on a consultancy if we do not want to end up doing things wrong. If in a company every month, the amount of the payroll does not change, by not introducing allowances, expenses, extras and others, thanks to this type of applications in the cloud, we can get full control of staff cats, social security, personal income tax ...
Going to the cloud in the middle of 2020
It is never late if happiness is good. It is likely that you have been using specific applications for many years to be able to take control of your company, a track record that you are not willing to lose for switching to another much more comfortable system.
When choosing a cloud management application package, you have to take into account if it offers us a import service, that is, it allows us to port the data of the applications that we have used in recent years to the new platform, so that we can always have at hand the tax, labor and billing data of our company since we began to computerize it.