Are you starting an online business? So, you have purchased a new computer and you wonder what Software you should install on it to help you improve your Business productivity. However, small businesses don’t have to worry about the cost of software license nowadays since many cheaper options are available. The following is a list of the 9 best business software in 2019.

1. Intuit QuickBooks

Intuit QuickBooks is a small business accounting software that you can use to manage all accounting aspects of your business such as track income/expenses, balance sheet, and cash flow statement, create invoices and send payment receipts. There is a customizable invoice template that allows you to put your own business logo. You can link the software to your bank account and make payment to bills. You can customize the permission levels when assigning multiple users to the account. You can also import data from other applications like PayPal, American Express, and Square.

2. Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office is an all-in-one software suite that includes word, excel and PowerPoint. Microsoft Word is used mainly for word processing but it also includes a lot of decorative designs and layout features. You can browse the customization options in the carousel menu on top. Whenever you select a customization option, a menu will display with all the related styles. Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program used for recording data and creating tables. The spreadsheet also has a lot of automatic calculation functions that can assist you in data recording. PowerPoint comes with a lot of templates for you to make slides for your business presentations.

3. Live Chat

Live-Chat is a help desk app that you can install on your website to allow you to chat with your customers. Once you’ve installed it, a chat window will pop up every-time a visitor land on the page. You can track all the user behaviors in real time with the analytics tool. The report will also show information like duration of each chat session, the number of visitors queuing up, and how fast your team responds. Agents not only can communicate with customers but they can also communicate with one another with the live chat tool. The app supports more than 30 languages.

4. Dropbox

Dropbox is a cloud storage service that allows you to access your files from any place. It is ideal for people who use products like Apple iPad and don’t have enough space on their device to do their work, for example, if you are an artist and you use iPad to draw your art, you can have your art saved on Dropbox and transferred to somewhere else from there. Dropbox has limited storage that starts from 2 GB. If you want more storage, you will have to pay for a fee to use it every month. You have the option to share the files you have uploaded with others. There is also an option to set the expiry date of the sharing link.

5. Movavi PDF Editor

Movavi PDF Editor is an economical tool for making all types of basic edits on a PDF document. It offers basic functions like copy, paste, Rotate, append file, and a blank page. You can copy and paste any element on the page and transfer them from page to page. In the Edit Object mode, you can select every element on the page and use the available tools to edit them. The elements include images, paragraphs, and forms.

If you want to copy some text in a paragraph, click on it once to select it and then press the copy button. It is also easy to learn how to rotate a PDF. If you see an on-page element that can be selected (blue border around it), click on it and press the rotate button. You can keep pressing the rotate button to rotate it until you have achieved the right orientation. It will rotate the element by 90 degrees each time the rotate button is pressed.

6. Odoo

Odoo is a business application suite that includes every function your online business needs such as e-commerce, CRM, project management, and POS solutions. The software helps you to save time by automating a lot of processes. It offers 1,000 modules including 30 main modules. There are also over 16,000 plugins that you can add. You can make changes to the modules by altering the codes since it is an open source program. Odoo is available as a cloud or on-premise application. It can be integrated with shipping systems like FedEx, Amazon and UPS.

7. G Suite

G Suite is a suite of the apps that you can find on your Google account including Gmail, Calendar, Google Hangouts, Google+ and Google Drive. The difference is that it offers access to management controls and you can brand the apps with your own company logo. You decide which app to grant access to users. It supports importing data from many sources. To use G Suite, you must first have a business domain. Your email address will be based on your business domain. It offers access to website building applications like Word-press and Weebly. The website building application on G Suite supports using the drag and drop approach to build your site.

8. Evernote

Evernote is a note-taking an app that lets you clip short paragraphs from websites and stores them as notes on cloud storage. Because the notes are stored on the cloud, you don’t have to worry about accidentally deleting them on your computer hard drive. You can access your notes offline on a desktop. There is a fee if you want to access them offline on your smartphone. Notes can be organized by sorting, crosslinking, and inserted into checklists/tables. You can search for text within the notes or images that you have clipped. It can also search text on any PDF or annotations on a PDF stored on the cloud.

9. Office 365

Office 365 includes all the Microsoft Software plus hosted email, and other solutions like SharePoint Online. Once you have signed up with Office 365, they will assign you a subdomain on microsoft.com. You can use your own domain by setting it in the administrative portal. With Office 365, you manage your emails on the Outlook Web Access (OWA). It shows the most important emails on the main screen while all other emails go to the regular inbox. You can automatically cc to an individual by using @ in the email. You can create, manage and share your files with Microsoft SharePoint.

Author Bio:

Zirkon Kalti is a freelance writer that specializes in general articles that cover all kinds of niches. He has more than 9 years’ experience working as an article writer.

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