Helping handmade, creative and craft business owners learn to handle their bookkeeping, one step at a time!
Helping handmade, creative and craft business owners learn to handle their bookkeeping, one step at a time!
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Congratulations, you’ve just become a business owner! So many things go on behind the scenes in your handmade or creative business. You’re now a bookkeeper, customer service rep, salesperson, graphic designer, website designer, customer support rep, and so much more!
Tracking sales at craft fairs can be totally overwhelming – especially if you’re trying to do EVERYTHING by yourself! Here’s a tip for something I do, that helps me when tracking sales at craft fairs and makes my bookkeeping easier!
What craft business owners need to know about sales tax. In a nutshell, Sales Tax nexus happens when your business has some sort of connection to another specific state(s). That connection can be either physical, economic, or both.
How to organize your bookkeeping paperwork. Organizing the bookkeeping paperwork for your handmade business starts January 1 and continues all year long ………..today I’m going to offer you some tips on getting things organized. Many blog posts I’ve read about getting your financial/bookkeeping paperwork organized – talk about getting things organized for year-end so you can put paperwork together for …
Now that you have your shiny new handmade checking account, are you wondering how to use it and what you need to keep track of? I’m not trying to be mean, but so many people these days have no idea how to use that paper register book that comes with a checking account. According to my granddaughters (ages 18 and …
How to find a bank for your handmade business will probably require you to do some research and it may cost some money up front. But honestly, that’s just part of being a business owner. Opening a business checking account makes your handmade business legitimate and keeps your personal money totally out of the picture. It also makes your bookkeeping …
Does my handmade business need a separate bank account? That’s a question I see a lot. My answer is YES! One of the first steps to a successful bookkeeping system is to set up a separate bank account just for your business “stuff”. Having a bank account for your handmade business makes it so much easier to keep track of …
Website problems can totally stress you out. One big issue is, where do you turn when you have problems with your site? When your website is the home of your online business there are a lot of parts and pieces that can require you to seek help: an update to either WordPress or a plug-in can break EVERYTHING a theme …
A list of 8 Free Bookkeeping & Accounting software programs that may be suitable for handmade or creative businesses. Choosing a bookkeeping program and developing a system for your handmade or creative business can be a daunting task. I talked a little about this a couple of weeks ago, in The Bookkeeping system for your handmade business – What do …