Payment software
If your startup business is online, you will need this solution. Stripe helps internet businesses to accept payments online. Their developer-friendly APIs allows businesses to build better products for their online users. Over 100,000 businesses use Stripe to craft easy payment flows and securely store customer payment information. For subscription-based businesses, it takes care of discounts, cancellations, subscription changes, and more.
Square is a tool for small businesses to accept chip cards and NFC payments and also send money instantly anywhere. It’s free payment solutions is easy to setup and use. It has great features with advanced mobile processing solution and the best part is – no monthly fee. Square’s Inventory has CSV spreadsheets which allow easy addition of inventory, export the inventory stock and receives stock alerts.
Design
Startups invest more time on creating content for their brand, what better than to use the following tools for creating beautiful images and videos, quick and free.
Canva allows businesses to create eye-catchy images without any experience of graphic design. Its simple features like drag-and-drop, design creation, high definition images which can be printed, downloaded or shared on internet. Its library includes over 1 million photographs, illustrations and imagery. You can easily crop, add texts to images, or even use multiple templates available in the website.
Visually is a marketplace that brings together skilled professionals to create powerful content together. Buyers and sellers can easily interact, distribute, like, comment and share. Over 1100 leading brands already use this platform and has a community of over 35,000 designers. It has partnerships with leading brands to avail high-degree of creativity.
Infogram, a Riga based company, allows businesses to create effective and beautiful visuals. It’s a data visualization platform with 35+ interactive charts – bubble charts, tree maps and pie charts and infographics which can be made quick and easy to share. Create and edit built-in charts, or upload files from your computer. One nice feature is it allows to embed videos from YouTube and Vimeo in y our designs.