Smartlife

Product/Service Name

WorkingPoint

Brief Description

There are a lot of administrative tasks that go along with running a small business. Finding an integrated solution that handles everything from inventory management to tax reporting is tough. Harder yet is finding such a tool specifically meant for small businesses, but WorkingPoint fills that niche. You can keep track of every part of your business’ finances with one online tool that you can access no matter where you are.

Target audience: Small businesses who need to get a handle on their finances.

The Inspiration

We are committed to providing you with a single point of access for everything you need to make your business work successfully. We think that juggling multiple software packages to manage your business is expensive, time consuming, and simply a hassle. ~ WorkingPoint’s mission

Taking your finances to the web can make them easier to manage: not only can you access information from wherever you happen to be, but you can gain access to many features not even available in desktop software. Many online tools offer you ways to integrate all of your financial information, even pulling it in from other financial-related websites such as your institutional bank and investment broker. So we’ve compiled a list of over 100 sites where you can manage your finances online. Who knows, one of these sites might just…

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