Tools for side business
If I open my own business, what tools I should look at for admin and management tasks?
Inspired by the cost breakdown from Buttondown
Consolidated financial reporting
- Fathom: used by Buttondown
Accounting
- Wave
- currently available only for US and Canada
- Pricing is amazing. Free for unlimited use, fee for payments processing only
- FrappeBooks
- Free and Open Source
- desktop accounting software for freelancers and small businesses
ERP
- ERPNext
- open source ERP
- Pricing is at USD 10/month for Managed Hosting. Free for Open Source version
Animation software to make whiteboard videos/presentation for marketing/educational purpose
- Videoscribe: used by WhiteboardCrypto
- Scribely
- hovercraft: Github repo, tool to make presentation like Prezi
- Prezi
- Doodly
- Powtoon
HR hire employees for content marketing
- Breezy: used by Inkr to hire translator
Internal process
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retool
- Pricing starts at EUR 10 / month. Free plan.
internal
- Pricing starts at USD 25 / month. Free
Starter
plan.
budibase
- Pricing. Free for
Self-hosted
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- Github: https://github.com/Budibase/budibase
ToolJet
- Pricing starts at USD 5 / month. Free
Basic
plan. Free forSelf-hosted
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appsmith
- Pricing. Free for
Self-hosted
jet admin
- different pricing plan for internal tool or customer portal use case, starting from USD 30/month with basic Free tier and 14-day free trials
Frappe
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- open source web framework, written in Python and Javascript, which powers ERPNext
Anvil
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- Founded: 2015
- build web apps with Python
- Pricing starts at USD 15/month
Airplane
- Pricing starts at USD 10/month. Unlimited free to use with up to 5 users
Lowdefy
- open-source (Apache-2.0) low-code framework that lets you build web apps with YAML or JSON configuration files. It is great for building admin panels, BI dashboards, workflows, and CRUD apps
- Lowdefy apps are self-hosted
Team email app
- missive
- pricing starts at USD 13/month. Has Free tier
- front
- pricing starts at USD 38/month
- Spark for Teams
- pricing starts at USD 8/month. Has Free tier
Corporate bank and cards