Essential Tips on De-risking Your Brewery For Future Uncertainties Working with breweries all around Australia before and after COVID-19, we have first hand knowledge of the pitfalls of having all of your eggs in one basket. From dealing with the major supermarkets to independent bottle sh...
Reviewing your supply chain risk has become one of the most important tasks to tackle in recent times due to the pandemic. Supply chain disturbances have been a common occurrence lately due to the shutdown of borders and lockdowns. This has left many businesses vulnerable and has caused a ...
Reconciling your customers invoices is an important step in your accounting process. Not paying proper attention to this can not only cost your business revenue but also affect the relationship of those you do business with. Shockingly, a large number of small businesses and SMEs skip this...
Building business relationships is a skill that successful business people need to have. The e-commerce revolution over the last 10 years has altered the way B2C relationships are built, with drip campaigns, EDM and SMS blasts replacing human interaction. B2B is different. The relationship...
Startrups Roundtable Podcast- How PencilPay Can Benefit Your Business Our CEO, Tim Demetriou, was featured on the Startup’s Roundtable Podcast. In this episode, Tony Hackett and Tim chat about the last 12 months at PencilPay and share what challenges and successes we have faced. T...
So you’ve been testing, trialling, making and selling your beer for years, sometimes decades. With countless hours in loud, cold rooms surrounded by steel vats, sometimes you might wonder “what’s it’s all for?†This article is intended to help you think about the pro’s and conâ...
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) will be rolling out Director Identification Numbers (DINs) in 2021. The introduction of DINs is to help address illegal phoenix activity and help protect businesses from being affected by the damage it causes.  The Australian Business Registry Servic...
Running a business means constantly shifting focus – you’re so busy in the day-to-day, that it can be hard to keep track of all the moving parts. Pencil, on the other hand, is in a unique position. We have a birds eye view of the businesses we work with, which gives us special insight ...
If your overdue invoices are building up, no doubt you have looked at ways of automating the process using some type of reminder process. This most likely has been out of your accounting software; however, you may not have turned them on as they don’t provide the right solution for you a...
