The last few years have been tough on small businesses, and with inflation still soaring, many are throwing in the towel—or are trying to decrease costs as much as possible in their businesses. If you’re trying to cut costs or save on subscriptions for your side hustle or small ecommerce business, or just trying to…
6 Free Templates for Teachers to Use in Google Forms
We’ve seen hundreds of schools adopt the Payable add-on to make everything from prom tickets to senior parking passes to pizza day orders to field trip permission forms—and get paid at the same time. Not only does Payable make it easy to collect information from students and parents in a Google Form, it allows you…
Payable Wins Square Hackathon with New Payable Kiosk
If you’re looking for a simple way to take payments in real life without expensive subscriptions, Payable Kiosk for Square may be what you’ve been waiting for. The Payable programming team just took the Overall Win in Square’s latest Developer Hackathon with the design for a kiosk- or QR-code based payment system that allows users…
How One Virtual Assistant Uses Payable in Her Business
How does a virtual assistant leverage Google Forms in order to get paid—and to help her clients make more money? The UK-based virtual assistant company Time Well Spent has been talking about the ways that the Payable add-on can be used by virtual assistants and other side hustlers to both streamline their own billing and…
Get Coaching Clients Signed Up—and Paying!
With so many coaches and trainers primarily using social media and email newsletters as their primary form of communication rather than creating a full website, it can be hard to actually book clients and start getting paid. New coaches are often cobbling together the business side of things as they write training plans and do…
A Quick Way to Boost Product Sales in Google Forms
Trying to do a team order of sweatshirts for your soccer club? Or maybe you’re trying to sell different styles of ceramic mugs that you make by hand. Did you know that in a Google Form, you can easily add images within questions to make product selection a snap? You can do that while also…
Hosting a Fundraiser? 4 Easy Ways to Boost Your Donations
We’ve talked many times on this blog about how to easily set up a fundraiser—whether it’s a virtual donation platform you’re creating or an IRL event—to raise money quickly using Google Forms and the Payable Add-On. And as real life events become more common again, you may assume that selling tickets is the only way…
Host Your Memorial Day Barbecue—Without Losing Money!
If you’ve been tasked with hosting a Memorial Day Barbecue this season, you might be feeling a little stressed. How many burgers should you buy? Hot dogs? Beers? Margaritas? The list goes on and on. And while friends and family might be willing to Venmo you a few bucks for the spread, wouldn’t it be…
Starting a Summer Tutoring Business? Make Sign-Ups Simple!
If you’re a teacher looking to make some extra cash by tutoring over the summer, you may be struggling to figure out how to sign students up to participate in your virtual or IRL program. You need a simple way to collect information about the student and their individual needs, and a way to take…
The Fastest Way to Start an Online Fundraiser
Fundraising is hard enough as it is. But setting up a new website or going through a lengthy account creation process when you urgently need to start collecting donations can make it even harder. If you need a simple online fundraiser quickly, that’s where Payable comes in. Whether you’re a school PTA trying to raise…