If you’re running a holiday bake sale as a fundraiser, you may be tasked with two jobs: First, getting all those pies and cookies baked by volunteers. Second, getting paid for the pies—and possibly taking specific orders ahead of time so you don’t overdo the pumpkin pies and under-budget for the pecan pie! We’ve seen…
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Make School Pizza Day Orders Easier
Need to collect orders and take payments for a school pizza day? If you’re a teacher, you already have enough on your plate without worrying about how to get pizzas onto your student’s plates for the upcoming class pizza day. Taking orders for toppings, dealing with gluten allergies, and of course, keeping track of cash…
How Small Businesses and Side Hustlers Without Product Can Make More During the Holidays
If you’re a small business owner or side hustler who doesn’t have an obvious holiday-friendly product, you can still see an increase in sales in Q4. You just may need to tweak your marketing tactics and your offerings to develop more holiday-specific language or purchase options. Here, we’re looking at a few ways that small…
The Simple Way to Get Paid as a Maker
If you’re a potter, a craftsman, a wood carving aficionado, a knitter or a wreath maker, you may not be ready for a full-on Etsy or Shopify store, especially if your business is more of a side hustle and you hand-make your wares in small batches. But if you want to simplify taking orders and…
How to Create a Simple Registration + Check Out for Your Dance Club
Whether you’re hoping to host a weekly salsa night, hip hop classes, a school dance or a ballet workshop, it’s easy to set up a simple registration and checkout page in minutes—without setting up a new website in the process. Using the Payable add-on makes it easy to collect information in a Google Form, sort…
Set Up Your Fantasy Football League in Minutes
Football season is up and running, and whether you’re setting up a fantasy league heading to the Super Bowl or a fantasy league for D1 basketball, Payable and Google Forms can simplify game day so you can focus on the big draft, not the logistics of the League. Using the Payable add-on makes it easy…
How Coaches Can Invoice Clients and Get Paid with Payable Apps
Lots of coaches are using Payable with Google Forms so their clients can easily book and pay for coaching sessions. But did you know that you can also use Payable and Google Forms in order to send out invoices to those clients and skip their need to input? This can be a huge timesaver if…
How to Split a Bill Using the Payable App
We recently spotted a TikTok etiquette question around getting paid back after a pricey dinner out with friends. The problem, it seemed, was that when one person covered a check that couldn’t be split, most of her friends were quick to pay back the $250 they each owed—but one acquaintance seemed unbothered about settling up….
Non-profit, Charity or Fundraiser? Add a Donation Option to Your Checkout
If you’re fundraising, taking donations, selling something in order to raise money for a non-profit, or running a charity event, you may be missing out on potential donations by skipping one simple step: Adding an open-ended donation option to your Google Form. As you collect payments in the Form using the Payable Add-On, it’s easy…
It’s Time to Start Thinking About the Holidays (Seriously.)
We know, we know: It seems wild that it’s already time to think about the coming holiday season, especially when you’re a small seller, or you’re just starting out in business. But big businesses are thinking about holiday sales months in advance, and if you run a product-based business or side hustle—from foodstuffs that people…