A bookkeeping side hustle offers incredible flexibility. It allows you to balance work with personal life. It also opens opportunities to work with a wide range of clients from different locations.

Intuit QuickBooks - QuickBooks is the most well known small business accounting and bookkeeping software, and it's well-deserved. All plans make it easy to track income and expenses, send invoices, and receive payments, and as you grow, you can upgrade your plan to track inventory, track time, and run your payroll.

Here's an easy way to think about it—bookkeepers lay the groundwork by recording financial transactions so that accountants can analyze financial statements and provide strategic recommendations.

Connect remotely to your client's computer to balance the books, just like if you worked on-site. Work through an online cloud-based bookkeeping software (such as QuickBooks Online or Xero) with your own secure login. Use the same desktop software you're used to, but accessed through a hosted virtual desktop.