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Getting to Know the 2018 Intuit Small
Business App Showdown Finalists
AS YOUR CLIENTS' trusted advisor, you're expected to deliver seamless solutions
to their everyday needs, tapping into the best tools and technology to bring
their business and your firm long-term success and growth.
Third-party apps that integrate with QuickBooks Online (QBO) are among those powerful
solutions, and now is the time to implement them
into your practice.
While there are many apps to choose from in
the QuickBooks App Store, Intuit runs an annual
contest - the Small Business App Showdown - to
highlight some of the year's best and brightest. Eligible apps are listed in a contest at the QBConnect
Conference where accountants, small businesses
and app partners can go and vote for their favorite.
Those votes, along with specific contest criteria
from Intuit (such as their quality of integration,
level of innovation, market impact and number
of connections), determine the contest finalists,
who go on to pitch their app to a panel of judges
at QuickBooks Connect San Jose for the chance to
win a $100,000 grand prize.
Here are the 2018 App Showdown Finalists,
along with a description of each one. Be sure to
attend the upcoming 2019 Scaling New Heights,
June 16-19, in Salt Lake City, Utah, where you can
meet the people behind these powerful apps to
get some inspiration and insights to take back to
your practices.
G1VE - G1VE, also the 2018 App Showdown
grand prize winner, stands out by integrating into
QuickBooks Online for the purpose of enabling
small businesses to be social enterprises,
strengthen their brand and align with their
communities. Through the app, businesses give
a percentage of their monthly revenue - typically
one percent (thus the "1" in the G1VE name) - to
their favorite charities. G1VE calculates and
distributes the donations, provides reports, and
creates a customizable profile page to showcase
your giving. By integrating into QuickBooks,
everything is secure, centralized and seamless
- one less task for a small business to manage.
G1VE is developing G1VE 2.0, with new features for
businesses, nonprofits and accountants (including
some new donation tracking features and more

detailed reporting for accountants).
Chaser - Chasing down customers to get
invoices paid can be time-consuming and troublesome, even hurting the relationship at times.
Chaser automates it for you, without losing the
human touch. Chaser not only provides tools to
effectively automate chasing customers to pay
invoices, but also gives you insights to better
decide to which customers to grant credit.
chata.ai - With chata.ai, nothing gets between
you and the insights you need from your financial
data. This simple-to-use, conversational reporting and analytics tool does the "dirty work" for
your data by connecting directly with your QBO
account and allowing you to chat with your data,
getting you immediate answers to your business
questions. That means no more complex calculations or searching through spreadsheets.
Flowless - Flowless allows tech-savvy business owners to bring maximum efficiency to their
business through automation. From thank you
notes, to marketing campaigns, to product delivery, to bill payments, to so much more, you can
streamline any business workflow with no tech
staff or additional resources - easily configuring
automation of your recurring business actions and
tracking the results.
LeaseMate - LeaseMate ensures leases are
accounted for quickly and accurately, in an
extremely easy and efficient manner. The app will
walk you through a lease, step by step, providing
tips and dialogues along the way to complete lease
accounting in mere minutes. LeaseMate does the
math for you, makes sure you have everything at
your fingertips to know exactly what you're leasing
and gets you better deals on your lease.
Payments Powered by Bolt - Bolt powers
online payments for QuickBooks invoices by connecting QuickBooks to major payment gateways
around the world. Bolt records payments back into
QuickBooks for easy reconciliation, allows partial
payments and provides the ability to save cards for

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quicker processing in the future. The app enables
users to insert a payment link in their invoices or
emails, so that there's no need for another system.
PayPie - PayPie is an intuitive cash flow forecasting and risk assessment app that improves
finances by helping connect businesses with
the right investors and lenders. With PayPie,
accountants are empowered to demonstrate their
expertise through in-depth guidance delivered in
a visual, intuitive way. PayPie brings the ultimate
advisory resource for accountants to excel when
helping clients achieve better cash flow.

Small Business App Showdown -
to highlight some of the year's
best and brightest
Penny Inc - Penny makes lost receipts, a
laundry list of employee reimbursements and
hours of cumbersome manual data input a thing
of the past. The app enables small businesses to
automate securely, control and monitor business
expenses, all while integrating with QuickBooks. A
card can be granted, loaded and re-loaded through
the app securely and instantly.
SnapDsk - SnapDsk is a simple-to-use, easily
updated and versatile customer-rolodex web app
anyone can use. The app integrates seamlessly
with QBO data and allows for lightning fast
customer searching, SMS texting, and task and
job tracking from any device.
Want more info? See these 2018 App Showdown finalists in person at Scaling New Heights.
And keep in mind that the App Showdown is
happening again in 2019. If you know a great
new app currently in development, or if you're a
fan of a new small business app that has recently
been published to apps.com, learn more about
how that app can enter this year's contest at
www.smallbusinessappshowdown.com. ■

MAY 2019 ■

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