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Tools and technology to manage your freelance accounting
- Xolo – easy invoicing and invoice payments tracker (international)
- Yuki – accounting solution for freelancers in Belgium
- Exact – accounting solution for SMEs in the Nederlands
- Quaderno – if you are growing business and require more sophisticated solution to run your finances
- Winbooks – accounting solution for freelancers in Belgium
- Fiscozen – accounting solution for freelancers in Italy
Tools for freelancers collaboration, planning and tasks management
- Slack for collaboration and network (Join Freelance Business Slack )
- Dropbox for saving documents
- Acuity for scheduling
- Calendly for scheduling
- Notion for grouping information together and also for sharing and working together on certain files, it also has more options in case Evernote is too limited
- Clickup for storing tasks, docs, chat, goals, and more.
- Lastpass for keeping and share passwords
- Oncehub for appointments scheduling,
- TurboScan app for documents and receipts scanning (find it on Google play or Apple store)
- Zapier for connecting tools to each other, so you can automate processes
- Typerform for forms
- Evernote for storing all kinds of information
- Feedly – to keep your newsletters and research information organised
- Todoist
Freelance marketing, sales, funnel management, social media and marketing automation
- Hootsuite for social media management
- Falcon.io social media management
- Later for social media content scheduling
- Planoly for social media content scheduling
- Recurpost for social media planning
- Hootsuite for social media planning
- Mailchimp for marketing automation
- ActivCampaign for marketing automation
- ConvertKit for sending newsletters
- Kajabi for marketing automation, for e-commerce
- LaPosta for marketing automation
- Funnelytics for tracking and funnel optimising
- Clickfunnels for funnels building
- TeamLeader for CRM
- LinkedIn for your connections and finding clients
- Seo Tester for your SEO performance
- SEO Ubersuggest by Neil Patel
- Ingramer – Instagram hashtag generator
- Clicktotweet – to populate preset tweets
- Hotjar – web analytics tools that also help you analyse traffic data
For creative work
- Canva for graphical design
- Miro for visual collaboration
- Wix for website and blog
- WordPress for website and blog
- Adobe suite for graphics and photography
- Audio Hijack for recording audio
- Da Vinci Resolve for video editing
- Dreamstime for images
- Django – an all-in-one, modern WordPress platform for entrepreneurs, freelancers and hobbyists with additional web services to make your freelance business run smoother
- Mindmaster for brainstorming
- Grammarly – AI powered grammar checker (english)
- Elementor – WordPress website builder
For freelance insurance
- Unum
- Dinghy (UK)
- Arag (Group operates in 19 countries, including the United States, Canada and Australia.)
- Vanbreda (Belgium, the Netherlands)
- Safetywing – travel/nomand insurance
To follow online courses or to create your own trainings
- Teachable for online courses, client portals, recordings
- Zoom for online meetings
- Thinkific for producing courses
- Skillshare
- Coursera
- LinkedIn Learning
- Loom – to record your screen
For freelance project management
For freelance time tracking
For freelance zen
- Calm
- Mediation Moments
- Headspace
- Sleepiest (was also rated as the most creative website by Tilda.cc)
- Youper
- Balance
- Let’s meditate
You should also check these freelance resources
Freelance podcasts
Our favorite podcasts and channels on business and freelancing, suggested by our community
Contract essentials
Short but helpful guides for freelancers to deal with freelance agreements
Legal help for freelancers in Belgium
Resources that can help you to resolve legal matter without spending too much money on it.
Five essential insurances for freelancers
List of insurances every freelancer need to have to be protected.
