Managing a business is not easy. Organising tasks, meetings, accounts, working hours, and cash flow are all important and require investing a lot of time and money. Luckily, technology lets us manage all sorts of processes through apps we can use on our computer or phone. Planning a business trip? In this article we’ll tell you how you can make your work life easier, take note of these business travel apps and use them on your next trip to the Costa del Sol.
- TripIt: popular app for managing your travel itinerary. Resend your confirmation emails for flights, hotel reservations, car hire, and more. The app creates a comprehensive itinerary for you and it also gives you flight updates, airport maps and other very useful features.
- Google maps: one of the most downloaded apps ever. For work trips it can be very useful as it gives you clear instructions, live traffic updates and public transport options for lots of cities. You can also save important locations and explore nearby places of interest.
- Evernote: excellent for schedule planning. This tool lets you make notes and synchronises them with all your devices no matter what operating system each device uses. Reminders will always reach you regardless of which device you’re working on at the time.
- Nozbe: highly recommended for planning and organising group projects. Inspired by the GTD (Get Things Done) methodology, it approaches organisation through to-do lists, so that all pending tasks are organised and displayed neatly rather than floating around in your head.
- XE Currency: converts foreign currencies and tracks exchange rates in real time. It’s great for calculating costs and budgets in different currencies while on international trips.
- Contamoney: offers both a personal and business user experience for work trips. Gives you the chance to manage bills and clients, as well as deliveries and orders. It also has a series of tutorials on the website to guide you through the process step by step so you can make the most of the tool’s features.
- Trello: this free online tool is good for organising work and planning tasks and targets you need to meet. It’s visual and flexible so you can use it for personal work use in GTD style as well as for team projects in order to manage tasks assigned to team members, checking the overall progress of the project with a more general overview.
- Dropbox: known in the digital world as the must-have app. You can upload files onto the cloud and directly share them instantly. With a separate plan designed for companies, the free version gives you up to 2 GB of storage. Also, you can use whatever device you have in your hand and the app is very user-friendly.
- Expensify: an easy and fast pre-accounting app to manage your day-to-day expenses. Business trips tend to be expensive, with this app you are able to keep track of all of your receipts, time spent and distance travelled, it also provides you with a report of your total expenses at the end of your trip.
- Google Translate: another indispensable app from Google. Incredibly useful when travelling to countries where your knowledge of the local language is limited or non-existent. This app translates text, voice, images, even real conversations as they happen into many different languages. The tool works smoothly on mobile devices as on the website.
Using apps for your business trip in the Costa del Sol is a smart and beneficial choice so you take advantage of the limited time you have. These apps offer a wide range of functions and features designed to make your trip easier and more efficient, helping you move around with confidence and making the most of your stay in the Costa del Sol. Increase your productivity, optimise resources and focus on business objectives while you enjoy a smooth and efficient experience while on your business trip in this beautiful destination.
