In my general daily research, I discovered what appears to be great tool designed specifically for the Australian tradesperson – Payperwork. In simple person terms, it acts like a MYOB but for tradespeople. Designed to manage the quote, job costing, invoicing, receipting and most importantly tax. This is what the website says:

With debits, credits, ledgers and balance sheets there’s no denying that business management and accounting is complicated but where PayPerWork differs is that it handles all complex operations totally in the background while you do the simple operations in the foreground. PayPerWork allows you choose the options that you need to use from the many that are available and lets you enter information in the order you want to work. There are no complicated end of month routines and no “no going back” scenarios.

It also comes with a backup function that requires you to plug-in a USB stick or an external hard drive to perform a backup of the database. If you are currently using Payperwork and want to securely back-up your data using a more simple and automated method, simply install Carbonite. Once installed, use Windows Explorer to visit C:\PPW, then  select the data base folder, right click on it and select Backup with Carbonite.

Now you can rest assured that your Payperwork data is always secure and always backed up.