Running design projects is complicated enough without the added pressure of managing all the bookkeeping and numbers along the way. Make things a little easier by keeping a few handy interior design tools by your side. Simplified accounting means fewer headaches and better control over your business. Here are a few picks for you to consider that we hope will help in the day-to-day management of your projects.
1. Tapeulator
Forgot your tapemeasure? Not too fond of doing measurement calculations? Tapeulator is one tool that you may decide you’d really like to keep in your interior design tool kit. It’s a handy app that lets you take measurements and do quick calculations on a visual tape measure on your phone. Rotate your phone for a larger to-scale view. Add, subtract, multiply, and divide multiple measurements. Mix decimals and fractions too. Tapeulator keeps track of your recent measurement calculations automatically. Save yourself some time on the calculations and reduce ordering errors resulting in accounting complications and lost profits.
2. XE Currency
XE Currency is a nice, easy app with great reviews that converts every world currency within the free edition. It’s a handy interior design tool if you import goods from other countries or if you have international clients. The app can help you estimate selling prices for your clients or build in foreign exchangerates.Foreign exchange is always a tricky thing–give this app a try and see if it can help!
3. Stripe
As a hot payment gateway for collecting credit card payments online from your clients, Stripe’s popularity is well deserved. It offers what must be the fastest and simplest customer experience ever. If you’re looking to deliver awesome customer service, choose a business software for interior designers that has integrated with Stripe to collect payments online. Best of all, the service is free–you pay by transaction only.
4. DesignDocs
DesignDocs is an all-in-one software tool for interior designers that has accounting integrated. No need for QuickBooks or any other generic accounting software anymore! DesignDocs simplifies accounting for interior designers by having bookkeeping functions, like receiving money from clients and making payments to suppliers, happen organically throughout projects. With DesignDocs, you can easily recover incidental costs from clients and collect payments from clients via credit card to simplify the process. Produce project-level reports with a click of a button. Understand where you stand at all times and reduce duplicate entries when project management and accounting are together in a single system.
5. DesignDocs Mobile
Record your time, expenses, and mileage through the DesignDocs mobile site, and the entries are automatically available to be invoiced whenever you’re ready. If you find tracking time and expenses are difficult to keep up with, use your software’s mobile tool to make it nice and easy to keep up to date on the necessary entry of these items. It’s so much easier to enter these things as you go instead of letting them pile up, which slows down the accounting process and complicates matters for invoicing and record keeping.
