{"id":200926,"date":"2017-09-27T08:09:44","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T06:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=200926"},"modified":"2017-09-27T08:09:44","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T06:09:44","slug":"4-tips-for-a-smarter-small-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/200926\/4-tips-for-a-smarter-small-business\/","title":{"rendered":"4 tips for a smarter small business"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just because your business is starting out small does not mean it can\u2019t use sophisticated techniques and methods to accelerate growth and reduce admin.<\/p>\n

Smarter Stock management<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The very start of stock ordering is getting up to date supplier item and price lists. Leading suppliers these days all have webservices that can automatically update the info on your system. If your system provider has the required connectors.<\/p>\n

Smart It<\/b><\/a> has inbuilt connections to Esquire, Mustek, Frontosa, Pinnacle, Rectron, Tarsus, Amrod and Kevro with more on the way.<\/p>\n

Having multiple suppliers for your items allow you to compare suppliers and put you in a better bargaining position and give you an edge over the competition.<\/p>\n

Smart It\u2019s purchase planning allows you to compare and automatically pick the cheapest supplier per item.<\/p>\n

As your stock holding increases in complexity and quantity you will have a need to track your stock on a fine-grained level.<\/p>\n

Having separate warehouses to hold stock for sale, production, returns and order packing greatly eases control.<\/p>\n

Another option with certain items is lot tracking that enables you to track specific batches of items for quality control and expiration purposes.<\/p>\n

Smarter Order Management<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Keeping track of quotes and sales orders is always a pain. Especially if most of the orders have to be filled from suppliers and long lead times from international sources.<\/p>\n

Having a system that can allocate ordered and on hand stock allows better customer feedback and a better idea of what to order.<\/p>\n

Orders from your web shop should automatically flow into your brick-and-mortar accounting system to have a unified view.<\/p>\n

Orders can also be packed and stock moved to a packed warehouse area prior to invoicing for security and quality control.<\/p>\n

Smarter Bank Recon<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Tired of long bank recon and typing in bank statements by hand? Import you bank statements electronically and reconcile your bank account in record time.<\/p>\n

Simply download your bank statement in OFX format from any of the major banks. Then match bank statement entries to existing GL entries or create new entries.<\/p>\n

The program will remember previous matches and fill them in automatically next time.<\/p>\n

Reconciling your bank account will never have been quicker or easier.<\/p>\n

Smarter Online Store<\/strong><\/h3>\n

There are better options to keep your online shop up to date than infrequent manual updates or imports.<\/p>\n

Instead have near real-time stock levels on your website and always up-to-date info and pricing.<\/p>\n

Smart It has the ability to interface with PrestaShop, a leading e-commerce platform used by over 200 000 online stores.<\/p>\n

Stop paying per item; Export thousands of items without any additional fees. Add full description, category, combinations\u00a0(size\/colour\/etc), features and multiple pictures in Smart IT locally and sync to web at the click of a button or on schedule.<\/p>\n

This allows you to have one source of data for your products thus saving huge amounts of work and time.<\/p>\n

Smart It Accounting Software<\/strong><\/h3>\n

If you are looking for ready-made solutions to the above and so much more contact Smart It today!<\/p>\n

Smart It bring enterprise-level features within easy reach of the small\/medium business.<\/p>\n

For more information, visit the Smart It Accounting Software<\/a><\/strong> website.<\/p>\n

Photo by Luca Bravo on Unsplash<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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