Types of Apps that Will Improve Your Business

Mobile Applications can drastically improve your business. The right application can help your business manage day to day tasks, organize your team, and run more smoothly overall. Mobile apps have changed the face of business. More often than not as well as using different apps in their day-to-day activities, businesses also have dedicated apps for their employees and customers to interact with.

Get to know more about the apps you need in your business.

• Slack

Cost: Free

Whether you are using your computer or mobile device, your employees can shoot messages back and forth to each other quickly. You can create group messages, break off into one-on-one meetings, create meetings, and establish various communication channels.  This means you no longer need to hold unnecessary meetings. Slack is one of the most popular communication apps on the market. 

The base model of slack is free to use, although they do offer premium subscriptions which vary depending on which package you require. The ‘Pro’ version starts at $6.67 a month while ‘Business+’ will set you back $12.50 a month.

• Quickbooks

Cost: Starts at $10.50 a month.

Quickbooks is a finance app designed to connect to your business bank account, PayPal, and thousand more business finance streams. Quickbooks is able to upload real-time data, allowing you to keep track of your company’s finances. The app allows you to take photos of receipts to store and sort your expenses all in one place. The app is also able to track your profits and loses for the financial year.

Quickbooks saves you time, you no longer need to upload data manually. The app tracks everything for you automatically, syncing with all popular payment platforms and storing all your transactions in one place.

• Asana

Cost: Free

Asana is a project management app that puts your project work at your employees’ fingertips.  The app allows you to create ‘boards’ where team members are able to see the progress made on the project and the next steps, while ensuring employees can quickly take action and stay on track. Asana also uses timelines to make sure your deadlines are hit. The timeline allows you to create a plan that shows how pieces of your project fit together and helps you keep on track in the face of changes.

Asana also allows you to view universal reporting on your team and projects. Get easy to read graphs that summarise your projects and their progress.

• Campaign Monitor

Cost: Starts at $9 a month

Campaign monitor is an email marketing app that helps you build a subscriber list. It lets you create stunning email templates for your campaigns, while also allowing you to automate your business’s marketing messages. The drag and drop interface makes it easy for you to create a beautiful email marketing campaign, without needing years of experience.  Campaign monitor also allows you to integrate the app with other business software you may use.

Campaign monitor will also provide you with analytics on how your email campaign is performing overall, comparing your engagement, giving you insights on geography, and many more.       

• Homebase

Cost: Free

Homebase is a free employee scheduling software that helps you optimise your schedule and ensure your team is in sync. You can instantly share your new schedules with your team, alerting them to any changes made in their shifts- it will also confirm with you that they have seen the most recent schedule. It also allows employees to clock in and out from any device they have the app downloaded on, it tracks hours, breaks, overtime, and paid time off.  The app will also notify you if an employee has not clocked in for their shift.

The app also provides you with automated online timesheets. It automatically calculates total hours worked and any overtime.

• HootSuite

Cost: Free

Hootsuite allows you to have an organised social media strategy, placing all your social channels in one easy to use app. Hootsuite is the most popular social media management app available. The app allows you to set up scheduled automatic posting. Meaning you could upload a month worth of social media posts in one day, and they would all post themselves on the days you have scheduled them for. This can save your business a lot of time and gets rid of the unnecessary back and forth between your different social media channels.

If you are looking for an application to change the way your business runs campaigns and interacts with customers online Hootsuite may be the choice for you.

• Canva

Costs: $17.99 monthly for Pro

Canva gives you the tools you need to harness your creative power and make your own business graphics. Create social media posts, banners, blog post graphics, thankyou cards, invitations, posters, flyers, business cards, logos, and any marketing material you could ever need. Canva seeks to make complex aspects of business simple and programmatic, leading to an effective solution to any issue.

• Trello

Cost: Free           

Much like Asana Trello is used to manage your team and projects.  Trello is a card-based system that lets you easily assign, create, monitor, update, and complete different tasks. Trello can connect with other important business apps like Slack, allowing employees to communicate to each other about their assigned projects, and easily get in contact with you if they have issues. Trello is able to be used as a web or mobile app.

While Trello subscription starts at $0 a month, if you are looking to use it for your business it will cost you $12.50 monthly.

• Basecamp

Cost: Free or Unlimited for $99 a month.

Basecamp breaks up your work into separate projects, with each project containing everything related to it, the team involved, every discussion, and every file. Basecamp provides you with 6 separate sections to stay on top of your projects- these are the message board, To-dos, schedule, documents and files, group chat, automatic check-ins.

Basecamp also ensures you and your employees maintain a work-life balance, only giving you notifications between the hours and days you specify.

• Custom Business Apps

Cost: Dependent on requirement

By far having your on specialised business app is the best way to ensure that your app will improve your business. A good developer is able to assess your business needs and make recommendations on specs that your business app would require. By personalising your own app for your business, you are able to have everything that is specific to your business in one place. The options for developing your own app are (almost) limitless.

No business is the same as another, so why would you use the same apps they do?

Finding the right software developer means that your business will be improved by your application. If you want to create your own business app, The Mobile Apps man has years of experience, we are ready to tackle your software development job.