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Enhancing Competitiveness of Microentreprises in Rural Areas
Unit 2: Signposting ICT software
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Unit 2: Signposting ICT software Accounting Software for Rural Businesses
 •Sum-It: A complete range of integrated software to handle virtually all farm and other rural business needs.
•Farmplan meets the needs of farm and rural business - specifically tailored for the agriculture sector. Includes accounting packages to help manage business finances, payroll software, sales orders/invoices, and property rentals.
•Xero: Connects your accounts with your accountant, bookkeeper, bank and farming consultant. It provides online, “cloud based” accounting, livestock reporting and budgeting. Free trial available.
Accounting Software for Micro-enterprises
•Zoho: Suite of software available including Accounts,CRM, HR etc. Free trial available
•Tuple: offers accounting (general ledger, accounts receivable and payable, bank reconciliation and financial reporting) as well as sales, CRM, inventory and distribution, and other business management functions.
•Wave: Free Accounting Software
Rural business Management software
•Agrivi farm This management software lets you plan, monitor and analyze all activities on your farms easily. Tillage, planting, spraying, fertilization, irrigation, harvesting and all other activities are managed with a few clicks.
•Excel spreadsheets Provides many templates for aspects of rural business. For example Teagasc in Ireland have templates available at https://www.teagasc.ie/rural-economy/farm-management/financial-analysis/
Rural business Transaction & Planning software
•AGPLAN: Business Planning software designed to provide customized assistance to different types of businesses. Allows you to share and interact with business advisors consultants etc. See https://agplan.umn.edu/
•EasyFarm: Uses a single-entry input approach to record transactions in real-time! You can purchase items like seed, feed, or chemicals, record and put them on inventory in one entry. See http://www.easyfarm.com/shop/
Small business software
Here is a list of small business software at https://www.inc.com/sujan-patel/the-top-small-business-software-programs-for-2015.html Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
•Helprace: Customer Service Software – Helprace tightly integrates multiple tools together for great customer service: Tickets, Email Management, Customer Community, Feedback, Docs & Knowledge Base. Free trial available.
•SugarCRM has a free, unsupported version of a comprehensive CRM product that includes sales force automation, marketing campaigns and customer support.
Project Management software
•Asana: Free Project Management Software
•Evernote: Free Note Taking, Organizing and Archiving App
•Appointlet: Online Appointment Scheduling with free trial available.
•Doodle: Doodle is an Internet calendar tool for time management, and coordinating meetings
Project Management software
•Google keep is a note-taking service developed by Google. Allows you to synchronise across devices
•Skype is an instant messaging app that provides online text message and video chat services, UberConference: Free Conference Calls, and Hellofax.com: free to send faxes, to receive faxes you need a paid account
•Mindmapping.com provides information on creating mind maps, software and the theory behind mind mapping.
Travel Planning software
•Google flights is an online flight booking search service which facilitates the purchase of airline tickets through third party suppliers (See http://www.refinery29.com/how-to-use-google-flights)
•Booking.com is a travel fare aggregator website and travel metasearch engine for lodging reservations, flights, car rental.
Resource Management software
Human Resources management •Zenefits: Employee Management software with free demo available.
Enterprise Resources Planning •Odoo: A full suite of applications, including sales management, accounting, finance, recruitment, purchase management and manufacturing resource management.
Document Management software
•Apache Open Office & NeoOffice: OpenOffice (PC) and NeoOffice (MAC) are leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sloEMUt7n5Q
•Google Docs: Free Document Management and File Storage
Best Free Business Software Tools
4 minute video on a range of small business Best Free Business Software Tools https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fSTqJxHM-U
Marketing Online software
•HootSuite: Free Social Media Management
•Canva: Free Graphic Design Images
•GIMP: Free Image Editing
•Trustpilot: Free Tool for Getting Online Reviews
•Google Trends: Free Search Engine Analysis
•SEOProfiler: Free SEO Software
•Google Analytics: Free Website Analytics and See Getting Started Google Analytics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC3ONXJn9FQ
•Survey Monkey: Free Survey Tool
Marketing Online software
•JotForm: Free Online Forms
•Freelogoservices.com: High-quality free logos, free or buy
•WordPress: Free Content Management System
•Wix.com A cloud-based web platform.
•Weebly: Good for creating a basic website.
•MailChimp: A marketing automation platform and email marketing service.
E-Commerce software
•OpenCart: Turnkey shopping cart for small and medium-sized retailers.
•PrestaShop: Easy-to-use platform offering product displays, translations, marketing, localization and taxes, and product export to eBay. Start Your
Free Online Store Email Management software
•Mozilla Thunderbird and Outlook.com: Free, email, news, RSS feed, and chat client available for various platforms.
•Gmail: Free, advertising-supported email service developed by Google
General Management software
•Vistaprint: Low cost Business Card printing/stationery
•HYFY: Free Screen Recorder Software
•Hunter: Free Email Address Finder –
•Square: Free Credit Card Reader For Your Smartphone
•CoverWallet: Free Platform For Finding Best Insurance
Cloud Storage Management software
•Dropbox and GoogleDrive File hosting service that offers cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud, and client software.
•WeTransfer: Cloud-based computer file transfer service |
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Objectives/goalsIn this unit, we will look at some ICT software specific to rural business as enabling tools empowering rural development and other microenterprise interests.
Course on Signposting ICT software
