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How to calculate your income at month end ?


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Hi

 

I have been using WHMCS for over a year now

and indeed its a neat way to do and manage some aspects of your business !

 

i am selling VPS accounts to my clients

unfortunatley my datacentre decided to charge me at 14~15 of every month for my servers which i host those VPS on

 

anyways..

As you know some customers pay for 3,6 and 12 months in advance

what is the best way to actualy know how much income you made say between 14-Mar-2012 and 14-Apr-2012 ?

 

of course am not taling about new orders only, am talking about all paid invoices including customer who have renewed their service for that month

 

also as i have just brought up the point that some customer pay for up to 12 months in advance, so their invoice will have the paid amoint for the entire year ! this makes things even harder to actually take that in account for that month (i hope you got my point!)

 

What neat and simple well organized way to actually calculate your income on monthly basis ? without errors, and without missing anything

 

Ill appreciate help and thoughts in this area because it is just driving me insane to tell the truth :)

 

thank you,,,

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What neat and simple well organized way to actually calculate your income on monthly basis ? without errors, and without missing anything

An accounting package like Quickbooks :)

 

Or some custom reports which take the payments, reference that back to invoice (be it fully or partly paid) to get the invoice items, look them up in the domains / hosting tables, retrieve the period, divide the amount paid by the number of months that applies to, and project it forward from that...

 

so client pays 120 in January for a year, you calculate BSPL based on 10/month for 12 months, but cash-flow as 120 in that month

 

It all depends on working out exactly what you want to achieve from the data ...

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An accounting package like Quickbooks :)

 

Or some custom reports which take the payments, reference that back to invoice (be it fully or partly paid) to get the invoice items, look them up in the domains / hosting tables, retrieve the period, divide the amount paid by the number of months that applies to, and project it forward from that...

 

so client pays 120 in January for a year, you calculate BSPL based on 10/month for 12 months, but cash-flow as 120 in that month

 

It all depends on working out exactly what you want to achieve from the data ...

 

I shouldnt pay extra for that, WHMCS should do it all !

 

Gota keep the books man, I dont use whmcs for accurate accounting.

 

great thinking

but how do i actually work between the both :S (your books and WHMCS!)

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I will toss this out there

 

I use http://outright.com/ it is like Mint.com for business. Its completely free, you can add accountants etc. It will also help you with taxes and all that jazz.

 

It will sync automatically PayPal, bank, credit card etc etc. It also back syncs everything initially.

 

Once you spend a little time re labeling things that don't come out right you can pretty much have a extremely good over view of everything.

 

Since it syncs everything I dont have to keep the books of what goes in and out of my online asset pool IE PayPal.

 

I do actually pay my expenses by hand and input them, however it will do it for you.

 

One of the things I really like about using it with PayPal is that it syncs and categorizes the fees for you.

 

They also have a no questions asked delete feature in case you want to remove your financial data.

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thanks a lot sounds good will give this integration a shot probably !

 

Been using it for a while here, only had a few minor issues where transactions didnt get pushed over to QB. Theres an interface to manually push transactions if this happens, and the developer (Keith) is quite responsive to support requests if you have any problems.

 

Plus, you get a 30 day free trial right off the bat to test it out. :)

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