Look, I’m going to be straight with you: I’ve been running my service business for over a decade now, and if there’s one thing that used to keep me up at night, it was my accounting mess. You know that feeling when tax season approaches and you’re scrambling through shoe boxes of receipts and random…
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Have you ever found yourself at 11 PM, frantically trying to reconcile your Excel spreadsheets before a tax deadline? Oh my goodness, I certainly have. Three years ago, I was hunched over my laptop, desperately searching for a ₹5,000 discrepancy in my quarterly financial statements. The culprit? A simple formula error in cell G245 of…
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After a decade running ProfitBooks, I’ve learned one thing about email marketing: newsletter software choices can make or break your customer relationships. Did you know newsletters generate $42 for every $1 spent? That’s right, but only when you’re using the right tools. I’ve personally tested dozens of newsletter platforms while growing our accounting software from…
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Let me share something that might surprise you. Despite running ProfitBooks for over 12 years, I’ve probably spent more time testing landing page builders than most digital marketing experts. Why? Because when you’re bootstrapping a SaaS business like I did, every conversion counts. Back in 2013, I lost nearly $5,000 on Google Ads because my…
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When the ProfitBooks team reached out to interview me about my dropshipping journey, I laughed and said, “You sure you have enough recording time? This story has more twists than my attempts at assembling IKEA furniture!” I’m Sarah Chen from Melbourne, Australia. Five years ago, I was sitting in my tiny apartment, staring at my…
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Running an online clothing business in India presents unique challenges and opportunities, especially during seasonal sales. According to IBEF, India’s e-commerce market is projected to reach $200 billion by 2026. Seasonal events like Diwali, Durga Puja, and wedding seasons drive significant consumer spending. In fact, a RedSeer report highlights that festive sales alone contributed to…
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In our free invoicing software guide, where we listed those software, that are not only feature-packed, but also free to use. Though we mentioned the pricing plans for each software, we made sure that every tool in the list at least has a free version. As our software’s friendly users in Australia are ever-growing, we…
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I’ll never forget the night I sat on my office floor at 2 AM, surrounded by scattered invoices, frantically trying to match bank statements with our GST returns. It was March 2018, and I’d just made what I thought was a “smart” decision to handle ProfitBooks initial GST compliance manually. Haven’t we all been there?…
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In our previous guide explaining how to accept cross-border payments in India, we briefly touched upon the topic of the best payment gateways in India that let you transact in any currency. Just like ProfitBooks lets you raise multi-currency invoices ; ) Today we’ve come up with a list of the best five international payment…
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