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A Letter to Our Customers

Together, we are facing a truly unprecedented situation. The global Coronavirus pandemic is affecting all of our families, friends, our businesses, our communities, and our way of life. During this time, I wanted to reach out and update you on how we are approaching the situation at KloudConnectors.
First and foremost, our hearts go out to anyone who’s been impacted by the virus, either directly or indirectly. Our thoughts are especially with those who are sick, to whom we extend our heartfelt wishes for a full recovery. And we’re truly inspired by the selfless healthcare workers around the world who are on the front lines working tirelessly to care for people in need.
Second, at KloudConnectors, we are focused on the health and safety of our employees, families and communities.
All of our employees have been strongly encouraged & instructed to work from home with immediate effect. They have been equipped with all the tools/technologies to work effectively from home. We hope that we would continue to deliver the highest levels of performance, availability, and security.
We are also asking our teams to work with customers through digital channels only. Please be patient if there is any delay due to infrastructure issues or time zone issues.
Lastly, if you would like to reach out to us, email is the best medium. You can reach out to us via support@kloudconnectors.com for support issues or sales@kloudconnectors.com if you have any sales queries.

While we all navigate through uncharted territory, just wanted to re-iterate, KloudConnectors & our company was built to handle moments like this. Our relentless commitment to your success is stronger than ever. Our company is built on core values – customer first, Integrity and transparency, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Accountability and Community contribution and our values are unwavering and continue to guide everything we do.
As we go forward, we will be sure to keep you updated, and know that we always value your questions, ideas and feedback.

Sincerely,
Vinay Joshi
CEO, KloudConnectors

March 17, 2020

Top 6 CRM Apps

CRM Software helps companies to manage customer data and employee relationship. Small Business looking for CRM Apps to handle their increasing list of clients. As businesses grow to keep accurate records of customer you will need central customer relationship management software.

We have created lists of top 6 CRM apps and their features, to help small business.

Sr. No.	CRM Software	Free Users	Cloud-based	Free Storage	Free Contacts
1	Zoho CRM	10	Yes	1GB	Unlimited
2	Nimble CRM	1	No	2GB	–
3	Insightly	2	Yes	200Mb	2500
4	Salesforce CRM	1	Yes	2GB	–
5	Highrise	2	No	2GB	250
6	Sugar CRM	1	Yes	5GB	–

1) Zoho CRM :

Zoho CRM is a great option for a small startup business. It provides detailed reporting features. The free edition of Zoho CRM is for 10 users. It also comes with the mobile app. Their first step upgrade for 10,000 records is only $12/user/month. Zoho CRM is user-friendly, cost-effective, easy to use and data can easily be uploaded from Excel sheets. It gives you full customization and provides flexible functionality for small businesses.

You can extend the CRM functionality by integrating with popular application QuickBooks, Google Apps, Constant Contact; as well as cloud-based connectors like Kloud Connectors.

https://www.kloudconnectors.com/zohocrmconnectors

2) Nimble CRM:

If your business depends on social media marketing then this CRM is best for your business. Nimble is simple platform use for getting information from social media channels, i.e Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin. It automatically links features to business contacts. Nimble easily imports basic Contact information from Facebook, Linkedin, Google+, email, and phone. Integration is one of the things that makes Nimble more attractive.

Nimble helps you follow the leads with the highest chance of conversion. It ties together various departments with a single data source. CRM allows quick access to real-time sales. It creates reports instantly.

https://www.kloudconnectors.com/nimbleconnectors

3) Insightly CRM:

One of the best free CRM software provides end to end service. It’s designed for small business owners. Insightly free software up to 2 users, 2500 contacts and 200Mb free storage. But for advanced plan, you need to upgrade plan from $29/user/month.

Insightly Benefits:

It integrates easily.
It’s easy to use.
You can easily go social.
You can get training.

https://www.kloudconnectors.com/insightlyconnectors

4) Salesforce CRM:

Salesforce is all-in-one cloud-based CRM Software. This software is associated with larger businesses. Salesforce CRM Platform is easy to use and includes key features like contact, sales, workflow management, lead generation and much more. Paid Plan for the salesforce is starting at $25 per month per user. It will accelerate productivity. You can get more leads.

https://www.kloudconnectors.com/salesforceconnectors

5) Highrise CRM:

Highrise focus on helping you manage three key areas of business: Communication, task, and contacts. You can create a task and set reminders, and keep track of emails. It also tracks your leads and deals. The Highrise account is safe, secure and password protected. It offers 30 days free trial plans on all accounts. There three main plans basic, Plus, Premium and solo plan.

https://www.kloudconnectors.com/highriseconnectors

6) Sugar CRM:

The Best CRM Software list is not complete without SugarCRM. Because it is one of the most experienced Software. This CRM is friendly to all sized businesses. This is an open sourced system for the developers. So you can add functionality according to your business needs. SugarCRM comes with three paid plans starting at $40/user/month. It gives unlimited online support.

https://www.kloudconnectors.com/sugarcrmconnectors

February 19, 2018

Things you must know if you use WooCommerce Plugin
WooCommerce Overview

WooCommerce is a great plugin for running a web store on WordPress, however, it is not just a web store, it is quite a versatile plugin that can be used for a variety of other purposes. You can select any WordPress theme for your e-commerce store and work with WooCommerce Plugin to bring your online store into existence.

WooCommerce is one of the most simple, popular & yet powerful eCommerce system. The credit goes to its versatile payment system and host of compatible plugins. Many ideas that you think are impossible with other eCommerce platforms, you can do it smoothly with WooCommerce.

Let’s understand a bit more about WooCommerce.
- WooCommerce Plugin Helps You With Social Media & SEO
There are several good third-party plugins that help you with SEO of your site. You can effectively manage, analyze and tweak all your SEO efforts to get better results. You could also use dedicated WooCommerce plugins like Yoast WooCommerce SEO which help you on social networking sites like Pinterest, Twitter, and Facebook and help you with the backend too.
- Auctions
This plugin allows you to run one or more auctions for your products, including bid history and countdown timer. After a winning bid is decided, the bidder can pay for their article right away, of course, all managed by WooCommerce. There’s even a ‘My Auctions’ section so bidders can keep track.
- Pre-update extension version checks
Before minor and major updates, It will check these versions and display either an inline warning or modal window warning (for major updates) to advise the user.

With this feature, a user will easily know the status of your current theme with the new versions of WooCommerce.
- WooCommerce Provides You With Great Analytics
WooCommerce has its own inbuilt analytics. It provides you with neat data and pie graphs. You can get data on daily sales, individual customer statistics, average order totals and more. It is easy for you to know how your website is performing on day to day basis.

You can, however, integrate other analytical solutions to your WooCommerce site. You can add Google analytics. You can get more from it if you add WooCommerce Google Analytics Pro extension. You can use other tools like Kissmetrics, Mixpanel, and Hotjar too.
- WooCommerce API
Woocommerce comes with a very extensive APIs. Any experienced WordPress developer can use the WooCommerce hooks and actions to create plugins, extensions, and themes. WooCommerce is in itself a mini-economy enabling developer to an work solely on developing Woo based products.
- It plays well with other systems through KloudConnectors
- KloudConnectors is a cloud integration platform. It integrates various saas applications. WooCommerce plugin connects seamlessly with Zoho CRM, Zoho Inventory & Zoho Books through KloudConnectors. You can find more information about these connectors here.
- Out of the Box Functionality
You can begin selling immediately without making any major changes to WooCommerce settings. The plugins works as expected with minimal setup and minimal changes to the default settings. This makes it easy to test WooCommerce with your web theme.

There is minimal work to do to get WooCommerce working with any theme. You simply need to

a) Declare WooCommerce support in your functions.php file

b) Add a WooCommerce.php file in your theme. This file can simply be a copy of page.php with this code replacing the WordPress loop:

For more about theme, integration see https://docs.woothemes.com/document/third-party-custom-theme-compatibility/
February 17, 2018
10 Things Entrepreneurs Must Do Before 2018

I just realized that we are already in the third week of December. The new year is just a few days away. OMG! In next few days, all of us would have a lot of downtime and hence we can spend some time to do business planning for the next year. The following article discusses 10 things you must do before 2018.

1) Take a break: You have worked pretty hard for the entire year. As we all know, owning a small business is not easy. This is the time when you should take a break, visit new places and rejuvenate yourself. Remember, you don’t want to approach New Year with fatigue and being tired. Spend time with your family and the loved ones. You need their support in the new year. This is a well-deserved break.

2) Review Company Spending/Expenses: It is a good idea to look at the company’s spending pattern in the financial year. Is there any way that we can optimize our expenses? Can we have a look at some of the supplier/vendor contracts & see if they really delivered value? Every business can save money if they control their unwanted spends. In some countries, we have many consultants who look after compliance issues. After few years of associations, they become reckless in their charges and try to extract more than agreed. So this is the time when you can look at optimizing your spend. Remember money saved is money earned.

3) Review and set sales goals: Review your financials and find out which services did well, which campaigns were more successful and why. The insights will give you better ideas on which services to focus on, in the New Year. One can also see emerging trends and offer new services/products in the New Year. You can decide on monthly, quarterly and annual sales target for the year during this period.

4) Get all your employees on board: It is always said that any company is as good as their employees. Building a business is a teamwork. Get your team onboard for achieving targets for the next year. Plan an outing and share your vision for the company. Get them motivated, you alone cannot achieve the goals.

5) Take a look at your sales systems: Have a critical look at your existing sales systems. A good cloud-based system can help you achieve your goals much faster than a normal excel sheet that many of us use. Take a look at some of the cloud-based Customer Relationship Management Systems. They are very light on the pocket and offer great ROI. Have a look at your lead generation process as well. Introduce email marketing in your sales process. Equip your sales team with the right tools.

6) Update your pricing, sales collaterals & website: One bad news…Your expenses are going to increase in the next year. How do you take care of these expenses? Have a look at the pricing of your products/services. When was the last time that you updated your prices? Take a rational approach by looking at your customer segment and decide on the price increase. Also, have a look at sales collaterals and keep them current. The website is your first impression of the client. The nicely done responsive website says a lot of about the company. Get it mobile friendly if not already done.

7) Add new sales channels: As a business owner, one should always try to increase the sales funnel. Can we add new sales channel? Can we look at partnering with few companies/individuals ? Can we expand geographically? Can we go overseas? Think and add atleast one new sales channel in the new year.

8) Marketing calendar / Social media: Make a plan for social media. Decide on the platform, which you want to be on. Post consistently and keep your posts relevant, interesting. Make sure that you have calendar for these posts.

9) Work with your accountant: Make sure that you meet your accountant and try to get his insights from your data. You can also plan your corporate and individual taxes with him.

10) Appreciation for the team & customers: Appreciate and thank your team and customers. These are the people who are making your vision transform into a reality. Let them know how much you appreciate their contribution. Saying a simple thank you would make them feel good.

December 19, 2017
Christmas Decoration Ideas for Office With Images

Christmas is a festival celebrated all over the world on 25^th December. We decorate Office, Homes, and Churches for Christmas. We spend our lot of time in the office. So we have to put some effort to decorate the workplace. This is a great way to spread festive lighting; cheer and mood bring the organization together. We have shared some Christmas Decoration Ideas for the Office. Check this out.

1) Snowfall:

It looks as if there was a heavy snowstorm in this office.

2) Build Christmas tree:

You can build your own Christmas tree using Books, Book Shelves.

3) Balloons, Jingle Bells, and Sticks:

This Christmas decorates the entire floor with Jingle Bells and Balloons.

4) Door Decoration:

The door of the porch is made to appear to be a snowman. You can even decorate the porch with balloons.

5) Silver Wonderland:

In terms of Christmas, it’s the small things that can make human beings green. So how about affixing Christmas associated objects like a snowflake cap, Santa or Santa mask in the office.

6) Deer Cups:

The cool deer cups may be added this Christmas at Office. The Christmas coffee could taste better for sure.

7) Christmas Gifts:

Christmas Gifts can be the part of the celebration. Flaunt the same on your table and let other people have a look at it.

8) Santa’s Office:

Name your office as Santa’s office this Christmas and take all by using Marvel. Upload a number of the Christmas figures to beautify the texture.

These Christmas decoration ideas for Office are not limited to the office alone. They may be appropriate decorations for the home, church, shops and branch stores too. If your goal is to attract and entertain customers, you’re on the right track. Consider the massive Christmas items with lighting.

One I want to try to be the White Christmas Decoration or winter land Christmas with heaps of snow around. It makes the environment cooler. Irrespective of how you want to do it, do it with creativity and style. Merry Christmas !

December 18, 2017
Integrate Zoho CRM With Top ECommerce Platforms

Zoho CRM is an award-winning web-based CRM designed to attract, retain, and satisfy customers to grow your business. Zoho CRM can automate daily business activities, track sales, and engage customers in different platforms. Likewise, its mobile platform lets you take CRM on location so you can get updates fast and real-time, and close more deals even when on the go. More than 8 million users work online with Zoho, and several of these individuals utilize eCommerce systems. Zoho customers are extremely happy using Zoho systems to improve their productivity and customer satisfaction. But most of them can gain a lot if they implement eCommerce systems with CRM systems properly.

Zoho CRM is just one of the many services Zoho offers. By using Zoho CRM, you also have access to the entire Zoho suite of productivity tools. Zoho’s business solutions include project management app called Zoho Projects, email marketing solution called Zoho Campaigns, accounting software called Zoho Books, collaboration tool called Meeting, and many more.

The biggest advantage of this is that Zoho CRM integrates seamlessly with other Zoho products, so you can automatically sync CRM-related data between solutions and efficiently manage your business from a single platform. Zoho CRM is also integrated with popular eCommerce platforms seamlessly through KloudConnectors.

These days, 61% of people prefer to shop online rather than going to stores. Currently, there are wide range of platforms for independent businesses to sell their products online.Most e-commerce platforms today offer a variety of features that’ll help you optimize your e-commerce store.

Here is a list of the top ECommerce Online Platforms which you can integrate with Zoho CRM.

1) WooCommerce

WooCommerce is the best free eCommerce plugin built for WordPress. Every day, thousands of aspiring business owners using WordPress & WooCommerce to fulfill their dream & reach a new height.

Once you have WooCommerce working with your website, an extra range of WooCommerce extensions are available to you. These extensions are like plugins for WooCommerce. They let your online store do more things. They can also let your store work with other programs, like your accounting program and your email marketing program.

Kloud Connectors provides an integration with Zoho CRM which helps WooCommerce user to sync their data like sales orders, products & contacts into Zoho CRM.Using KlouConnnectors you can choose to sync Woocommerce orders based on their status to Zoho CRM.

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2) Magento

It is used by massive retailers like Samsung and Nespresso, as well as countless small e-commerce operators, so it’s a serious contender for any business thinking of making a move into online retail. It is e-commerce platform, and currently the most popular such solution in existence. It’s estimated that Magento is used on 20 percent of all e-commerce sites online.

Magento offers different types of solutions to fit your business. For many small businesses, Magento Open Source is a great way to get started. This free version of Magento is fully supported by a community of Magento users who can help you modify the software for your business. You can also host this open-source software on your own server, giving you more choices to fit your web-hosting budget and control your back-end processes.

If you are looking for an integration between Magento to Zoho CRM then KloudConnectors is the best solution for you. You can sync unlimited Magento sales orders related customer, products to Zoho CRM. You can track your sales with Sales forecast and Actual sales in the same system with tight Integration between 2 Clouds.

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3) Shopify

Shopify was founded in 2006 by Tobias Lütke (CEO of the Year in Canada), Scott Lake and Daniel Weinand. Since the launch, the platform has quickly grown from a small player to one of ) leading E-Commerce solutions. The company is currently powering more than 220,000 + online retailers.

The reason we like Shopify so much is that it’s not like WordPress or Magento, (which are great as well,) but you need some sort of development knowledge to keep your site running smoothly. On the other hand, it’s not like some of the more simplified solutions like WIX and Weebly, where you’re going to have a tough time scaling up.

Basically, Shopify makes it easy for people who know nothing about programming, coding and web development to startup and run their own online store. They do this so entrepreneurs can focus on the building the aspects of their business they excel at without having to worry too much about the technical stuff. With KloudConnectors you can sync in orders , order related products and customers from Shopify to Zoho CRM.

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4) BigCommerce :

BigCommerce is a go-to platform for all things in eCommerce. BigCommerce is easy to set up and gets your store up and running as soon as possible. It also has substantial customization options for those looking to dig deeper. Its interface is easy to navigate, and it includes the best SEO configurations of all the major platforms.

This also has necessary eCommerce features like gift cards, reviews & ratings, as well as basic marketing tools to give your store a unique look and feel.

With KloudConnectors you can make customer information directly and automatically available to your Sales team through Zoho CRM, making their tasks easier. Get your popular Products autoMagically from your BigCommerce to Zoho CRM, to ensure your sales team is on the same page with the rest. Schedule the Set up once and Enjoy the benefits every single day.Sync Unlimited Orders, Contacts, and Products.

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5) Prestashop

Prestashop is very popular due to it’s ease of usage. Starting with basic features, you can add popovers for customers to see your product options and browse through them quickly.

It is easy to both install and customize the software, and everything is very intuitive. How much work you’ll put into creating a store using PrestaShop is up to you: you can either download a fully-hosted or self-hosted version so you can determine your own level of technical control (both are free).

Another great feature of the platform is that you can run multiple stores at ones by only using one account to manage them. You can also buy additional themes and templates along with customer support services to help you get the largest conversion rates possible.

Using KloudConnectors you can Sync Orders (+related Products, Customers) from your Prestashop into Zoho CRM autoMagically. Using KloudConnectors, Set up once and Enjoy the benefits every single day. It can sync all your Products in Zoho CRM. It can sync all your Contacts in Zoho CRM. It can sync all your Orders along with the related Contacts and Products in Zoho CRM.

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6) X-Cart

Open source eCommerce platforms like X-Cart is mainly using for flexibility and SEO friendly nature. It comes with several SEO compatible inbuild features which are one of the key requirement for any webshop owners as having traffic means everything for online business. X-Cart is based on PHP Smarty templates and hence it is quite flexible in terms of customization and implementation.

X-Cart is based in Russia, and is better known as a faster solution to grow with for small and medium-sized businesses.X-Cart gives wide opportunities for your business allowing you to sell any type of products (digital or physical goods, services or rentals) through various channels (eBay, Amazon, Facebook). It’s mobile ready and SEO-friendly and offers a robust bi-directional integration with WordPress.

Through KloudConnectors you can sync all your Sales Orders along with the related customers and products to Zoho CRM. Sync Orders (+related Products, Customers) from your XCart into Zoho CRM autoMagically.

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December 18, 2017
Top 7 Online E-Commerce platforms
Thinking of joining eCommerce bandwagon?

In last few years, Online e-commerce platforms have really delivered on its potential. These days there are lots of e-commerce stores across the globe. There are generic stores which sell items in almost all the categories. E.g. Amazon, eBay, Flipkart. Some of them are extremely industry vertical centric and they offer products in only certain categories. BigCommrce, WooCommerce, Magento, Shopify, Prestashop, and Zoey these are some popular CMS Platform.

These days, no one buys anything unless he does his research on internet and checks out prices & reviews of the products. Every year more and more people use internet for buying their stuff.

It makes sense in looking at this promising business opportunity. But usually, most of them don’t know where to start. Following article introduces few of the popular eCommerce systems.

You have two options for making e-Commerce Website
1. Hosted eCommerce:
This platform is not based on open source. E-Commerce website is based on Software as service (SaaS). Eg Shopify, WooCommerce etc
1. Self Hosted:
This platform is based on open source.

Here are top 7 E-Commerce platforms for your online store

BigCommerce:

BigCommerce is not self Hosted. It is cloud-based, user-friendly software. So you will not need design knowledge for building website. It handles everything from integration, payments, products, shipping, checkout, and coupons etc. BigCommerce is one of the leading hosted eCommerce platforms. Lately, they are in a lot of discussions because of their pricing policy. We hope true sense will prevail.

BigCommerce is integrated with Zoho Inventory, Zoho Books, Zoho CRM, QuickBooks Online through KloudConnectors

WooCommerce:

WooCommerce is a wordpress plug-in used to develop an e-commerce website on wordpress platform. This is user-friendly and cost-effective software. Easy to setup and integrate with emailing platform such as MailChimp. WooCommerce has excellent support from plug-in developers and one would find 1000s of plug-ins. WooCommerce is integrated with Zoho Inventory, Zoho Books, Zoho CRM, QuickBooks Online through KloudConnectors

Magento:

Magento is the most popular and one of the best e-commerce CMS used today. It is open source and comes with the free community edition. It has a large number of extensions and plug-ins available. This is more SEO friendly than other platforms. Magento is easy to use and manage. Magento is integrated with QuickBooks Online, Zoho Inventory, Zoho Books, Zoho CRM, Xero through KloudConnectors.

Shopify:

Shopify is the best e-commerce platform for small and medium-size businesses. This platform is flexible and easy to use. Near about 1500 add-ons or third party apps are available to extend the functionality. It has 24*7 customer support.

Shopify is integrated with Zoho CRM, Xero, QuickBooks Online through KloudConnectors.

PrestaShop:

PrestaShop is open source e-commerce CMS Platform for managing your online store. It’s easy to install and can be customized with little development experience.

PrestaShop comes with 275 features including SEO, product management, reporting, marketing, and checkouts etc.

You can integrate PrestaShop with Zoho CRM, Zoho Books, Zoho Inventory, XERO through KloudConnectors

X-Cart:

X-Cart is one of the most exciting open source eCommerce platform. It developed using PHP. So it is developer friendly. It boasts 55 highly converting eCommerce themes and 5 free color ideas. It also has intuitive drag and drop interface to the design. One can also have multiple storefronts. X-cart is marketing and SEO friendly and has 24/7 support. If you are looking for an eCommerce system with great features, X-Cart is a system that you should go for.

Integrate X-Cart with XERO, Zoho CRM, Zoho Books, Zoho Inventory, QuickBooks Online through KloudConnectors.

Zoey:

Zoey is a fork of Magento. It has all the great feature of Magento + Hosted storefront + Awesome service. Unlike Magento this commercial offering with lots of new additions to Magento platform. They also have great partner network who can help you with the store design & implementation. If you love Magento but don’t have time and expertise to work with Magento, this is the eCommerce system for you. Zoey is integrated with Zoho Inventory, Xero, Zoho CRM, Zoho Books, QuickBooks Online through KloudConnectors.
December 1, 2017
Top 10 Free Graphics Design Tools for Social Media

Graphics in your social media posts strongly affect individuals. They might be the absolute most vital natural SEO methodology available to you! Visual tools enable you to make delightful pictures that market your services and products. You may feel that best Graphics Design tools are out of your Budget. You are wrong! We share Top 10 Free Graphics Design Tools for Social Media you can use this for creating images to digitally market your business.

Top 10 Free Graphics Design Tools for Social Media

Social Media Posts with Good Pictures has Higher Engagement and Click through Rates. People remember 80% of what they saw and 20% what they have read. Content with relevant images gives 95% more views than content without images.

10. Pictographr

This tool is developed by HootSuite. It is a web-based graphic design tool. Features include the ability to search images from online graphics libraries, drag and drop elements to layout designs on a canvas and create colorful charts and graphs.

9. Pictaculous

Pictaculous is a color service providing by MailChimp. It Generates Color Palette for uploaded Images. For those Images with no background comes back with the functional design.

8. Smush

While Blog Posting you will need an Image. You can optimize your image using this tool. This one gives the certain Image file size.

7. MadewithOver

Over is photo editing app for Smartphone available for Android and iPhone. It allows you to customize fonts, colors, and text. For Instagram Marketer this tool is handy.

6. Easly

Easly simple web tool anyone can create and share visuals posters and Infographic. Design experience no needed for this tool.

5. Skitch

Skitch is a product developed by Evernote. It is designed for Android, Mac, iPad, and Desktop. Annotate Images with Shapes, Arrow, and texts.

4. Pixlr

Pixlr is an Online Photo editor tool to have full control over effects, layer, and Images. It is a cloud-based set of images tool also has image sharing service. It can be used on the tablet, Desktop, Mobiles.

3. BeFunky

BeFunky is a free photo collage maker that’s not only easy to use but is full of awesome layouts and features.You can create collages in fullscreen mode and make edits using BeFunky’s online photo editor, all without having to log in to a user account.

2. Canva

It is used by non-designers as well as professional. The tool can be used for design and print media. It has drag and drop interface and provides access to million graphics, fonts, and photographs. This is one of our most favorite app.

1. Piktochart

It is Web-based infographic Application tool which allows the user to create infographics easily using themed templates. The current version of Piktochart includes an HTML publisher that can be viewed online. This Application provides tools to add interactive charts, maps, hyperlinks, and videos. This is one of the popular app.

November 30, 2017
6 Creative Ideas for Your Office Thanksgiving Celebration 2017 !

Every year Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. In the USA, this day is considered as one of the major event for family gatherings. It is also celebrated at office as well as home with family and friends. The traditional dishes like Roasted turkeys, Cranberry sauce, Corns, Potatoes and Pumpkin pie are included in the Thanksgiving meal.

People celebrate this day with a great enthusiasm with their family and friends and sometimes give gifts like flowers, jewellery, baked cookies, chocolates etc to their near and dear ones.

It’s easy to celebrate Thanksgiving at home with family with hot food, but how do we celebrate Thanksgiving at work or office? With just a few creative ideas and some time to plan, it can be a lot more fun than you might think.

1) Play a Game or contest

Try organizing a fun team activity or contest. Example, a contest may be like Pie Eating Contest, the employee who eats the most pies is the winner and you can give him a prize.

You can also play a game like a table tennis in your office and have a contest among your employees.

2) Turkey and Treats

This is a great way to share some fellowship and get some new recipe ideas of potluck. Some companies may host a Thanksgiving lunch for employees with the staples like turkey, stuffing and cranberry sauce. In addition to a potluck, you could host a bake-off where employees submit, anonymously, their best baked good for others to enjoy. Who doesn’t love a good competition, especially one involving sweets?

3) What are You Thankful for?

A large whiteboard is placed in a prominent place in the office with markers and employees are encouraged to share what they are thankful for, inside or outside of the office. This might be a nice way for employees to express their gratitude.

4) Handwritten Notes of Thanks

Set up a system at your workplace so everyone gets at least one note from someone else in the office. Obviously, this is an idea for a smaller staff, but a well-crafted card with a sentence or two stating what you appreciate about someone can go a long way and is really in tune with the spirit of the holiday.

5) Plan an Office Party

An office Thanksgiving party is a wonderful idea and something that your employees will appreciate.Settling on a place to eat might not be the easiest, but once you do you’ll be in for a good meal with great company and conversations that (hopefully) aren’t related to work for once.
Just call the restaurant before going to have a blast in the party.

6) Meet & Spend time with not so fortunate people

One of the best things to do on any such day is meet and help underprivileged people. Try to help homeless people by helping them. Visit orphanage and sponsor meal or go to old age home and help them. After all they also need some love and fun in their lives.

November 21, 2017
Top 7 Cloud Based Accounting Softwares for Small Businesses
Accounting Software is needed for every small business because it gives the clear picture of company’s financial health. There are lots of accounting softwares available in the market and it is difficult to choose which one suits your Business. That’s why it is important to make sure one is very clear on the expectations from the accounting software.

What is an Accounting Software?
Accounting Software is package of computer application that maintains company’s financial data creates financial reports of the company automatically. It records all the financial transactions happening in the company. It offers accounting, inventory management, accounts receivable, general ledger, billing accounts payable and a variety of other standard things. This software is made for business owners, accounting teams, managers, and HR. It handles Accounting Activities and is helpful in making your office paperless.

As we all know, it’s very difficult to maintain each and every record manually as it is time consuming as well as unmanageable. Accounting software also gives the accurate reports depicting the financial health of the organization. We usually recommend our customers to go for online accounting system( cloud based) than the desktop based. This article gives information about Top 7 Cloud-Based accounting softwares.

Top 7 Best Accounting Software for Business Processing
Top 7 Software that offers accounting features including Inventory Management, Invoice, Orders, Sales, and Purchase etc. We have listed some Accounting software with features:

1. Zoho Books:
- Integration with Payment Gateways, Zoho Apps
- Automatic banking feeds
- Workflows
- Multi-currency support
- Availability of APIs – can be easily integrated
- Offers a client portal
- Built-in Integrations with most of the Zoho APPs and very deep integration with Zoho Inventory
- The price point is very attractive
- Integrations through KloudConnectors: KloudConnectors available for Magento, WooCommerce, Bigcommerce, Prestashop, Zoey, XCart.
- You can start a free trial of this software here
2. Xero:
- Unlimited free email support
- Automatic Banking feeds
- It also does Payroll for few countries
- Multi-currency support
- Excellent community support and backed by chartered accountants / CPAs across the globe
- Excellent APIs – Integrates with many other software
- Integrations through KloudConnectors: KloudConnectors available for Constant Contact, Zoho CRM, Magento, Shopify, XCart, Prestashop, Zoey.
3. Kashflow:
- Integrates with Payroll, Dropbox, Google Contacts and more
- PayPal integration
- UK-focused, UK-hosted and UK-supported accounting software
- Has APIs so can be easily integrated
- Integrations through KloudConnectors: KloudConnectors available for MailChimp
4. FreshBooks:
- Probably one of the best invoicing software which transformed itself to Accounting software
- FreshBooks integrates with the following business systems and applications: Shopify, Zendesk, Google Apps, MailChimp.
- Customizable invoices
- Expense and Time Tracking
- Average API – API is a bit complicated compared to others.
- Integrations through KloudConnectors: KloudConnectors available for Zoho CRM, Insightly.
5. Freeagent:
- APIs – Developers can use the API to create their own integrations and apps.
- Multi-Currency: Exchange rates are updated once per day.
- Focused mainly on the UK but has good adoption in the US as well
- Payroll (UK Only): FreeAgent supports running a monthly payroll.
- Integrations through KloudConnectors: KloudConnectors available for Zoho CRM, Insightly, Highrise.
6. QuickBooks Online:
- By far the most improved software from the early days. Has excellent feature sets and leader in this segment
- APIs – Excellent APIs
- Supports multiple Departments and locations.
- Bundles inventory
- Integrations through KloudConnectors: KloudConnectors available for Zoho CRM, Bigcommerce, Shopify, Magento, Zoey, XCart, WooCommerce
7. Kashoo:
- It can capture and track Expenses, create and send invoices, accept payments
- Dashboard, reports
- Bank Feeds
- Good Customer Service
- Integrations through KloudConnectors: KloudConnectors available for MailChimp
November 21, 2017