A journal in accounting is the book where business transaction entries are first made as they occur. With latest developments in e-commerce, online journal diary has emerged to tap the new businesses based on the internet. There are several advantages of online journals which are discussed below.
All activities happening on the web-based business are tracked in the journals be it a transaction or just an account update. The journal is updated each time a client login to their account. Online entries are updated automatically after creation of new transaction, modification of a transaction or a delete is made either by the client or third party. Errors which are common in the manual journals do not happen in the web-based entries because they are updated by machine as they happen in real time
Another advantage is that the online journals come with an automatic billing capability when charges from customers are due. They will create invoices and send to them. This reduces your workload of going through all the records of customers and debtors and manually creating and sending billings which is very cumbersome work
Automatic emailing to group of clients can be enabled. After they are enabled, the group of clients you have created and the memorized reports you create will be run and send on the time schedules you set. In offline journal entries this is a feature you will not enjoy. You will have to send the schedules yourself which sometimes can be delayed by unforeseen natural happens such as emergencies you have to attend to or the normal human nature of error to send them.
It is always good to know where you clients are coming from. The web-based journals can do this for you by recording the location of the client who is buying from you. This can be a way of knowing where to focus marketing campaigns for your products and which products to be specific depending on the number of transactions of a particular product by clients from that location.
With most offline journals you are only able to record one accounts receivable entry and accounts payable entry. This is not the case with journals based online because they will allow for multiple accounts payable and receivable lines. When consolidating accounts payable at the end of a reporting period it is very easy to do that on multiple lines. This is the same for accounts receivable.
The bank transactions are updated immediately as they occur in web-based journals. Unless on very rare occasions when there is technical error on your site, all the bank transactions are entered corrected without any error. With this happening in real time, possibility of hackers getting in your site and destroying all your data is not high because even if they deface your site, all the transactions up to the time they hacked were recorded and back up created
The list of advantages of online journal entries does not end there. Due to automation of these entry recordings, operational costs of running the business will be lowered. You only need one administrator to be managing the journal.
All activities happening on the web-based business are tracked in the journals be it a transaction or just an account update. The journal is updated each time a client login to their account. Online entries are updated automatically after creation of new transaction, modification of a transaction or a delete is made either by the client or third party. Errors which are common in the manual journals do not happen in the web-based entries because they are updated by machine as they happen in real time
Another advantage is that the online journals come with an automatic billing capability when charges from customers are due. They will create invoices and send to them. This reduces your workload of going through all the records of customers and debtors and manually creating and sending billings which is very cumbersome work
Automatic emailing to group of clients can be enabled. After they are enabled, the group of clients you have created and the memorized reports you create will be run and send on the time schedules you set. In offline journal entries this is a feature you will not enjoy. You will have to send the schedules yourself which sometimes can be delayed by unforeseen natural happens such as emergencies you have to attend to or the normal human nature of error to send them.
It is always good to know where you clients are coming from. The web-based journals can do this for you by recording the location of the client who is buying from you. This can be a way of knowing where to focus marketing campaigns for your products and which products to be specific depending on the number of transactions of a particular product by clients from that location.
With most offline journals you are only able to record one accounts receivable entry and accounts payable entry. This is not the case with journals based online because they will allow for multiple accounts payable and receivable lines. When consolidating accounts payable at the end of a reporting period it is very easy to do that on multiple lines. This is the same for accounts receivable.
The bank transactions are updated immediately as they occur in web-based journals. Unless on very rare occasions when there is technical error on your site, all the bank transactions are entered corrected without any error. With this happening in real time, possibility of hackers getting in your site and destroying all your data is not high because even if they deface your site, all the transactions up to the time they hacked were recorded and back up created
The list of advantages of online journal entries does not end there. Due to automation of these entry recordings, operational costs of running the business will be lowered. You only need one administrator to be managing the journal.
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