Slow and steady never wins the race when it comes to chasing late payments. It is nasty and time consuming especially for freelancers and small business owners. Here are some tips that might help you to avoid late payments and get paid on time.

1. Plug the gaps in customer data

Confirm your customer’s ‘current’ address – both Web and postal addresses. Find out the person who will actually be making the invoice payment and contact him/her. Ensure to use a good invoicing software to keep track of customer data like customer balance, pending invoices, email communication and much more.

2. Set clear expectations

Remember to mention your payment terms and late fees clearly on the estimate or on the invoice. Add a discount factor for the payment that has been made early. Let’s say, if the payment is due in 30 days, offer a discount of 2% for the full amount that is paid within 10 days.…

We’ve got some great news for kindle fire users. Zoho Invoice android app is now available in the Amazon App store for you to download for free.

Yes absolutely free!

Head straight to the booming app store and download the invoicing app to create gazillion invoices and estimates for up to 5 customers for no charge at all. Our android invoicing app is absolutely loved for its ease of use and efficiency by freelancers and small business owners alike.

There’s plenty of stuff you can do with your android app for invoicing like view or edit invoices, send estimates, track time for projects, email invoice PDF to customers and feel exuberant when you get paid on the spot!

As your business grows you can always subscribe to a plan with more customers. So the next time you get down to do your invoicing, send invoices right from your kindle fire.

As always we’d love to hear your experience with the app.…

1099 – Is it the year Crusaders struck or something else? It is January and in the United States this could mean only one thing – a form that IRS requires all businesses send to its independent contractors whose services were engaged last calendar year. Typically, these would be people who are paid on a per job basis like artists, web designers, legal consultant, videographers and others. 1099 comes with a dizzying array of variants and 1099-MISC being the most common. This post is all about 1099-MISC.

Is this meant for me?

Did you pay anyone more than $600 towards rent or other services provided? If the answer is yes, then you need to issue a 1099 for them. There are other reasons you might be required to send a 1099. Head over to IRS website and read the instructions carefully.

What is the Deadline for Filing?

As early as January 31st, 2013 you need to send your vendors a copy of the 1099-MISC.…

It’s amazing how a 140-character message can brighten up our days.

This thanksgiving we wanted to take a moment and thank all our wonderful customers who have appreciated us, prodded us, pushed us to perform great and stayed with us all this while.

A big thanks to each and every one of you.

Happy Thanksgiving!…