{"id":685,"date":"2022-02-22T05:44:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T05:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agilisbooks.com.au\/?p=685"},"modified":"2022-02-23T23:25:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T23:25:00","slug":"how-automation-can-ease-your-business-workload-save-you-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agilisbooks.com.au\/?p=685","title":{"rendered":"How Automation Can Ease Your Business Workload &#038; Save You Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #99cc00;\">Are you drowning in business admin? <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #99cc00;\">Automation is the answer! Agilis Books can help you identify automation opportunities and choose the best apps and software to drive an efficient business.\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-686 \" src=\"https:\/\/agilisbooks.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/feb-books-blog-image.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1058\" height=\"705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agilisbooks.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/feb-books-blog-image.png 1058w, https:\/\/agilisbooks.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/feb-books-blog-image-980x653.png 980w, https:\/\/agilisbooks.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/feb-books-blog-image-480x320.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1058px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Small and medium-sized businesses are spending on average 120 hours a year on admin tasks, according to recent research.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If your people are spending 120 hours wading through tedious and unproductive admin, that\u2019s bad for the business and for your overall efficiency. Fortunately, technology and software automation can go a long way towards automating the low-level admin tasks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>Better productivity through automation<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Automation is an important way to ease your business workload, with a host of different business apps and cloud solutions offering ways to automate your admin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With \u2018smart business tools\u2019 increasing in number and choice, software is utilizing automation algorithms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and cognitive solutions to help remove the mundane admin tasks from your workflows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Core processes that will benefit from automation include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><b>Automated Bookkeeping\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just take a photo of your receipts, expenses and invoices and \u2018optical character recognition\u2019 (OCR) technology will digitize the output and pull it through into your accounts software. No data entry, no human error and no lost receipts! We can do the rest to ensure your records are accurate.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><b>Automated Credit Control\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chasing up debts and late-paying customers takes time. Automated credit control apps track your debtor numbers and automatically sends out customized chaser emails as soon as an invoice is late. This reduces your credit control time, speeds up cash collection and cuts your aged debtor figure.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><b>Automated Payment Collection<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The easier it is to pay you, the faster your customers will pay. Automated card payments and cloud-based Direct Debit solutions allow you to automatically take payment from a customer as soon as an invoice is due. Some solutions will even automate the invoice matching and bank reconciliation process.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><b>Automated Reporting and Forecasting\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The better your reporting and business intelligence, the easier it is to make informed decisions about your company strategy. Accounting platforms and fintech tools now offer automatic, real-time reporting and forecasting, giving you access to the important numbers and metrics, fast.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><b>Automated Digital Marketing\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Digital marketing is key to raising your brand\u2019s profile. Marketing platforms offer important time-saving ways to schedule and post social media content, or email automation that sends a pre-programmed cadence of emails to specific target audiences within your wider customer base.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>Talk to us Agilis Books about embracing the power of automation<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If your admin is starting to hold you back,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/agilisbooks.com.au\/contact\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> contact Agilis Books today<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to talk about how automation can pick up some of the heavy lifting as well as giving you the metrics you need for decision making.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We can review your business processes and identify the automation opportunities, helping you choose the best apps to drive your business efficiently.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At Agilis Books, we specialize in finding the most appropriate Accounting Software for your business and personal financial needs, using only leading software solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>This blog was originally published by BOMA, but has had edits made by Agilis Books for the benefit of our readers.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you drowning in business admin? 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