448: Invoicing Construction Clients The Fast And Easy Way

<h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style= "color: #0000ff;"><strong>This Podcast Is Episode Number 448, And It's About Invoicing Construction Clients The Fast And Easy Way</strong></span></h1> <p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Creating invoices and receipts is vital to successfully running a business. You need receipts to track your purchases and expenses. Your clients need invoices for their tax purposes and to manage their finances. Paper receipts and invoices have been around a long time, so many people are used to them and may even resist moving away from them. </span></p> <p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Thanks to technology, paper receipts and invoices are becoming more a thing of the past. There are environmental reasons for the move. Paper invoices require millions of trees and billions of gallons of water to produce, and they emit carbon dioxide (CO2), so going paperless can be a good thing for the environment.</span></p> <p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces="true">The Old Way Contractors Invoiced </span></strong><span data-preserver-spaces= "true">the jobs was sometimes just as much or more work than doing the job itself.</span></p> <div><span data-preserver-spaces="true">In the past, you needed to make notes, collect customer information, go to your office, open QuickBooks or whatever construction accounting software you were using, wait for everything to load up, and then try to find the paperwork, open the invoice screen, and fill it out and if you were lucky, you could email it from QuickBooks to your customer. Then you waited for the check in the mail to arrive to get paid.</span></div> <p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Our contractor clients, or perhaps some of you are already implementing this, now have two choices depending on what you are most comfortable with, QuickBooks Desktop Version In The Cloud or Xero Accounting Online. You can directly invoice your clients on Jobsite with your smartphone linked to your Quickbooks or Xero account.</span></p> <p><span data-preserver-spac