Web service "Big Bird": trade accounting for small businesses
Productivity Web Services / / December 23, 2019
Web service "big Bird"Is designed to make life easier for entrepreneurs and small organizations. It realized the whole range of functions for easy accounting and rich interface, reminiscent of desktop programs. Particularly pleased with the free tariff, with which you can work indefinitely.
Office gradually moves "in the cloud", where there is security, and mobility, and savings. Accounting in trade is no exception: the cloud services of this kind are multiplying at a tremendous speed.
Web service "Big Bird" - a relatively new cloud service, which is sharpened by keeping management accounting. The developers emphasize his philosophy in this regard: the service is not suitable for bookkeeping, and hundreds of other programs can be found for this, the same 1C, for example. Service "Big Bird" was created for managers, not accountants.
Another feature that is sure to please the business - in the service adds only what you need to account for in the trade, and no-nonsense functionality is not here. You can keep shopping and inventory control, to carry out sales and cash transactions, that is, everything that the entrepreneur does every day.
Minimalism in terms of "features" - it is an opportunity to focus on specific tasks that are important to the business, and not to hang on the study of hundreds of functions that are never needed. In general, like all those who love the simplicity and brevity. In addition, to explore all possibilities and start working too much easier.
interface helps
One of the main chips "Big Bird" - "intense" or Rich-interface. If you hide the browser toolbar, then no one can immediately guess that before you website. The system is more like a desktop program like "1C: Enterprise".
For people who are, for example, Google Docs, this is unlikely to be a big revelation, but in general it looks quite fresh from the competition, offering a classic web interface.
you can do View demo application site "Big Bird" and appreciate its interface, especially since it does not have to register or leave your email.
All actions in the program are available through the main menu. Each task opens in a new window, which is displayed on the top bar - it looks similar to "Start" button and taskbar in Windows.
The windows can minimize, maximize, resize, arranged side by side. To access the report or magazine in a single click, you can drag an appropriate icon from the menu to the Quick Launch toolbar, which is located between the "Menu" button and the titles of the open windows.
Admission «Drag-and-Drop» there and in other places, for example, in the handbook "Goods and Services" line items, you can select, drag and drop groups in a tree and throw it to another folder.
With a little work in the program, understand the principle of control, and then you already know how it is done, even if you see the function for the first time. All forms and elements are specially made in one way, so that users imbued with common logic and not in pain with training and updates.
That is capable of "Big Bird"
Cloud service assistance with the purchase and sale of goods, maintain stock inventory, monitor the movement of money from current accounts and cashier, generate reports on the current operations (for example, how many goods are now in storage) and in the form of intelligence (eg, sales or cash flows of income and expenses for the last month).
Detail all the features of the application listed on the site system.
More in the "Big Bird" has a special Seller interface. It's practically a standalone application that helps you quickly and accurately execute the sale at retail outlets trade. Manage it simply nowhere: goods and punch the check.
You can use a bar code scanner, choose products from the catalog and search for details and purchase to pay in cash or through the bank terminal. When the shift is closed automatically printed summary reports on revenue and sales.
Another useful feature - automatically saves the history of recent changes. For example, if you edit the invoice, and then decided to go back to the version that you had 15 minutes ago, you can do this in the section "The recent form." State open forms are also saved. So, if you suddenly switch off the light in the office, not terrible - you will always be able to start working from the same place where they were before.
It should be said about the rights of distribution - in the system you can set permissions for each employee, for example, to allow the manager to work with all documents, reports and directories, but deny access to system settings, and employee sales area generally leave only access to the interface Seller.
As for integration with other systems in real time, "Big Bird" allows you to import and the main export directories can upload the data in 1C: Accounting 3.0 and receive statements from client-bank.
In general, the "Big Bird" successfully suitable for both wholesale trade and procurement firms, and for a small retail store and be able to master it completely, all employees, and in the short time.
Rare bird flies to the middle of the Dnieper
Now let's talk about what the "Big Bird" can not do it. And she does not know how, first of all, to maintain accounting records, count taxes and take regulatory reporting. As mentioned above, the program for this is simply not designed.
To resolve this issue is possible by downloading the data into 1C: Accounting. And then on it will work accountant who for this and pay.
More does not support integration with online shopping, and it looks like an unfortunate omission, especially in light of the rapid development of the Internet business in our country.
Of commercial equipment is only supported barcode scanner, the ability to work with a receipt printer promise to add in the near future.
I must say that the online application as a whole generally give priority to cross-platform and mobility, so support equipment, for which the necessary system drivers, lags behind.
Hummingbirds or Albatross?
Tariff plans from the "Big Bird" only two: A free "Hummingbird" and paid "Albatross".
"Hummingbird" does not cut down and not time limited in functionality (ie, is not a "trial", namely, a free plan for small firms). At this rate, you can work in single user mode, create one firm, a warehouse, a hundred partners and thousands of products, but is not limited to the number of input documents.
This rate is quite suitable to a very small business, but on the other hand, it will be very helpful - on account of every penny, and saving wildlife.
For those who do things are going uphill, it is proposed tariff "Albatross". All too easy with him: fixed fee and no restrictions. The monthly cost of the plan "Albatross" is dependent on the length of subscription and payment for the year ahead will cost only 590 rubles. A nice bonus: no charge for each additional user.
Start the New Year
In conclusion, we recommend the "Big Bird" budding entrepreneurs and all those who still keeps a record on a piece of paper or in Excel. Translate account "in the cloud" with the new year - a decision mature and relevant. Make all the remains and begin trading account from scratch, but not in the desktop program, and in the modern cloud services, which, in addition, provides all the "buns" for free.
At the same time, the project continues to evolve (without complicating the management and work in it). The last major update was published in this month, so that by transferring the account in the "cloud", you can always count on the new "chips" from developers.
Web services for management accounting "Big Bird"