A PayPoint PayZone counter agency cash commission routine keeps two kinds of money apart at a busy counter. Agency payments taken for other firms pass through the shop, but they are not the shop’s money, and the small commission earned for handling them is a separate line of income. When the two pots are kept…
An interim till count mid day check problems routine catches a problem while the morning staff are still in the building and the day can still be put right. A till counted only at closing hides its mistakes until everyone has gone home, when a shortfall is just a number on a sheet. A quiet…
A staff rotation cash handling tills counts banking rota treats the timetable itself as a control. When the same person always serves the same till, counts the same drawer and banks the same takings, nobody notices the slow drift until a problem is already large. Rotating the people through the roles means every pattern gets…
A staff expense claims process receipts promptly routine pays people back without fuss, and it starts with one form and one deadline. When a member of staff spends their own money on the business, the wait for repayment should be short and the paperwork should be simple. A claim that drifts for weeks sours goodwill,…
A suspense account clear down monthly unknown items routine answers one plain question: what sits in your suspense account, and when will it leave? A suspense account holds money that has arrived without a clear home, and every item in it is a small mystery waiting for a name. Left alone, those mysteries pile up…
Money arrives, the bank balance rises, and yet the books still show the customer as owing the full amount. The gap is unallocated cash: a payment that landed without being matched to its invoice. A cash allocation match payment invoice unapplied routine closes that gap the day the money arrives, matching every receipt to its…
When a team member is expecting a baby, the business faces a happy event and a planning problem at the same time: a skilled person will be away for months, their work will still need doing. A maternity leave cover costing handover small business plan treats the absence like a project, with the cover costed…
Most small firms now run on email: orders arrive there, invoices go out from there, and customers expect a reply within the hour. When that inbox is taken over, the business does not just lose a password, it loses its voice. A cyber insurance small business email hijack cover routine gives that risk a budget…
A customer who trips over a cable, a shelf that falls onto a visitor’s bag, a ladder that marks a client’s wall: small accidents are part of trading with the public, and the question is never whether they can happen but whether the business is ready when one does. A public liability insurance small business…
A van that leaves the yard has already spent money before a single tool is lifted. Fuel, wear on the vehicle, the driver’s time on the road and the slot in the diary all belong to the visit, and a call out fee pricing van visit trade routine treats them as part of the price…
A day rate is not an hourly rate multiplied by eight. It is a whole year squeezed into a single day: the income you need, the costs you carry, the tax you will owe, and the days you will not work, all divided by the days you can actually sell. A day rate pricing cover…
Most lost income is not a lost client or a bad month. It is hours that were worked, never written down, and never invoiced. An unbilled time hours worked never invoiced recover routine compares timesheets against invoices every Friday, lists the small five-minute jobs alongside the big ones, and invoices anything over a week old…
A photographer’s work is paid for in stages, and each stage has its own moment to collect. A cash collection photographer session deposits print orders routine takes a session deposit to secure the date, charges print and album orders before they go to the lab, and releases no gallery or file until the balance clears….
Pest control is a trade that gets paid at the door it has just treated, and that makes the job sheet the till. A cash collection pest control call out fees completion routine receipts the call-out fee before the work starts, schedules treatment-plan instalments like a debtor list, and records cash taken on completion against…
A launderette takes money in two very different ways: coins dropping into machines all day, and service washes paid for at the counter. A cash collection launderette coin machines service wash routine keeps both kinds of money visible, so the weekly empty is a count you can check instead of a bag of coins you…