The recent re-launch of the Access product page on Office.com includes templates to help you run your small business - and articles with videos to help get you started.

In earlier posts we've highlighted the Goods template and the previously-released Contacts template. This post showcases the Services template. If you provide services, you probably use quotes to establish an agreement to provide service and invoices to get paid once the service is provided. That's what the Services template is all about - turning quotes into paid invoices. Here's a video to give you an idea of what it can do for you:

Download the template, enter your services, products, prices, any existing quotes and invoices you want to include, and some information about your business, and you're ready to go! The Services template makes it easy to create quotes using up-to-date pricing about available services and products, and then use the quotes to create invoices. Want to cut a deal for a good customer? You can customize the prices on any quote. Something took longer or used more materials than you expected? Your invoices can accommodate differences between what you quote and what you end up providing.

Need to familiarize yourself with how Access works? Check out the new basics page. Want more information about the Services template? See the article Turn quotes into paid invoices by using the Service web database template.

Are you already using this template? Have a question or a suggestion for us? We'd love to hear from you - leave us a comment!

--Steven Thomas