Like Google, Yahoo started as an internet search company before spreading its wings into software.
Yahoo Merchant Starter provides small operators with eCommerce tools for their website, including shopping carts. The system is easy to use for customers and effective for business because it gathers and reports valuable customer information. It’s easy to install, set up and use.
Yahoo also allows businesses to customize the look of the software, with design templates, the ability to use Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe GoLive or any HTML editing tool, allowing eCommerce tools to fit the look of individual business websites.
Freshbooks is an online invoicing service made specifically for freelancers, small businesses and professionals. The products allow users to easily time track, expense track and monitor online payment collection.
Freshbooks boasts that its ease of use as well as the professional look of the documents it produces means any business “should look like a Fortune 500 company based on the image sent by invoices, bills or other accounting communications, no matter what size the company is”.
Avira is a producer of antivirus software. Functions include email scanning, spam protection and web guards, which block access to malicious sites. Flinders Pacific’s Lewis says the trick to this kind of software is the price.
“Some of the software out there is too expensive for small businesses. Other software is free but when your businesses grows you grow out of your software and your systems are left vulnerable,” he says.
Avira begins as a free service but is able to grow with your business. When more users are added the price goes up but it’s directly related to the number of users, which places a control measure on expenses.
Saasu provides a similar service to MYOB but does it all on a cloud.
It has the tools for basic accounting and invoicing as well as being able to produce various reporting and budgeting tools, point of sale capabilities and multi-business capabilities.
It allows for multiple businesses or groups to operate in one system while limiting the amount of information individuals or business sections can see.
The main advantage of Saasu is that it’s available online. The program can connect with bank feeds, meaning transactions are automatically recorded, reducing time spent completing data entry.
Working on a computing cloud means information can be gathered and entered from anywhere with an internet connection, which is perfect for small businesses operators who are always on the move.
Digital Rescue Premium is one of the best data retrieval programs, providing three main functions to its users.
It recovers lost files, recovers lost emails and can permanently delete confidential documents, which has become more popular with the rise in identity theft.
Each function is easy to understand because it has its own unique interface.
Despite the complexity and speed of the program’s capabilities it’s extremely easy to use.
