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The bank reconciliation mistake that's costing your business time
Reconciling once a month at the last minute = hours of frustration.
Here's what I do for clients instead:
✓ Weekly mini-reconciliations in QBO
✓ Flag discrepancies the moment they appear
✓ Month-end close becomes a 20-minute task, not a 3-hour nightmare
Small habit. Big difference.
Bookkeeper looking for overflow work, or business owner tired of the chaos? Let's connect.
#QuickBooks #BankReconciliation #Bookkeeping #QBOProAdvisor #SmallBusiness
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I created KORA, a multilingual booking and appointment management platform designed for small appointment-based businesses.
I created KORA to solve a simple but common problem: small business owners who manage their businesses themselves often spend too much time answering booking requests, checking availability, confirming appointments, handling cancellations and following up with customers. When a customer cancels, an appointment slot can also remain empty, resulting in a lost opportunity.
KORA turns this manual process into a simple self-service booking experience. Customers can browse services, see available time slots, choose a date and time, provide their information and receive an instant booking confirmation without having to contact the business owner.
On the owner's side, KORA provides a complete workspace to manage the calendar, appointments, customers, services, waitlist and automated workflows.
The main feature I wanted to demonstrate is cancellation recovery. When an appointment is cancelled, KORA releases the available slot, checks the waitlist and identifies a compatible customer. The workflow then demonstrates the progression from Matched → Notified → Claimed → Recovered, with the calendar updated after the slot is recovered.
I also built the experience in English and French, with responsive interfaces designed for both desktop and mobile.
Why I created it: I wanted to demonstrate how a small business owner could spend less time managing administrative tasks and more time serving customers, while also reducing the opportunities lost through cancellations.
KORA was built as a fictional business scenario specifically for this challenge.
Less admin. More booked appointments.
💡 Your best seller might be quietly losing you money. Here's how to find out.
I've managed Amazon stores for over three years. The pattern is always the same: sellers focus on revenue, but ignore the reports where money quietly leaks. And the leak is often biggest on their top product.
Why? Because high volume amplifies small errors. A wrong dimension that costs $5 per unit on a slow mover costs $500 on a fast one. Same error. Ten times the damage.
Here's the 5-point audit I run for every client, every month:
Reimbursement Report – claim every missing credit.
Stranded Inventory – fix or remove unsellable stock.
FBA Fee Preview – correct dimension errors immediately.
Return Reasons by SKU – fix what's broken.
Inventory Age Report – cut slow movers before they cost more.
Time required: 30 minutes. Tools: just Seller Central.
This routine has recovered anywhere from $200 to $2,000 in a single sitting. No new products. No extra ads. Just plugging leaks that were already there.
The sellers who build this habit stop bleeding money and start compounding their margins. The ones who skip it stay busy and wonder where their profit went.
Which of these five reports will you check this week? And which one have you been avoiding? Let's talk. 👇
#AmazonFBA #ProfitRecovery #FBAAudit #EcommerceTips #AmazonSeller #BusinessHealth
The problem is that small appointment businesses — salons, barbers, clinics, studios — lose money to phone tag, double bookings, no-shows, and requests that arrive after the door is shut. The owner becomes the booking office, and that's hours and revenue they can't afford.
What Tendly does. Every business gets its own booking storefront, open around the clock. A customer picks a service, sees only the times that are genuinely free, and confirms in under a minute — no account, no password, no phone call.
Why it matters to the bottom line. The owner stops being the bottleneck. Scheduling rules, reminders, and confirmations run on their own, so the front desk disappears without anyone being hired to replace it.
How money is protected. A deposit holds the slot before it's confirmed, so a booking is real. If payment doesn't arrive, the hold releases and the time becomes sellable again — nothing sits dead on the calendar. Reminders go out the day before, which is the single most effective way to cut no-shows.
How trust is protected. Payments are checked independently before a booking is confirmed, customer details stay private, and each business's information is fully separated from every other. Nothing is confirmed on a promise; it's confirmed on a verified payment.
How it grows. Staff get their own calendars, owners see everything from one screen, and plans scale from a solo studio to a multi-person practice without changing tools.
The positioning. Tendly is built for the owner who books with their own hands — warm, simple, and mobile-first — not for enterprise chains with administrators.
One last thing: the work dedicated to the children of Palestine.