{"id":5602,"date":"2013-12-23T01:59:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T07:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/?p=5602"},"modified":"2014-08-27T07:51:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T12:51:37","slug":"3-places-to-get-free-business-forms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2013\/12\/3-places-to-get-free-business-forms.html","title":{"rendered":"3 places to get free business forms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5603\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nobmouse\/4052848608\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5603\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5603\" alt=\"Contracts. CC by NobMouse\" src=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Contracts.-CC-by-NobMouse.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Contracts.-CC-by-NobMouse.jpg 500w, https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Contracts.-CC-by-NobMouse-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Contracts.-CC-by-NobMouse-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5603\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Forms, contracts, checklists &#8212; every business needs them. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nobmouse\/4052848608\/\"><em>Photo (CC) by NobMouse.<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>A friend who is buying a business is needing a number of spreadsheets, contracts and legal forms. That got me looking for reputable and reasonable places to find sample business forms online today.<\/p>\n<p>For US-based businesses, I found these three:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizfilings.com\/toolkit\/tools-forms.aspx\">BizFilings.com Business Owner&#8217;s Toolkit<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lots of checklists useful for going into business, a nondisclosure agreement and a large selection of employee\/HR related forms. Financial templates are useful, but ignore the US tax forms. Go straight to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/Forms-&amp;-Pubs\">IRS forms section<\/a> to get the current ones.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/small-business\/business-forms\">Bloomberg BusinessWeek Toolkit<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A good selection of sample forms, spreadsheets and contracts covering many different industries and needs.\u00a0The documents here are provided by DocStoc so the full versions are offered for sale. However, plain text previews are available and may help answer basic questions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.score.org\/resources\/tab-a\">SCORE<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Tools and Templates includes lots of business-plan related forms and articles mixed together. You can sort them by business stage (startup, growing, exiting). They also have a section\u00a0En Espa\u00f1ol, however it seems to be all 60 second guides, without the forms and other goodies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>UK and Australia friends, do you have any favorite sources for business forms online?<br \/>\n<em>New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/guided-tour.html\">Guided Tour<\/a>. Like what you see? <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/get-updates.html\">Get our updates<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend who is buying a business is needing a number of spreadsheets, contracts and legal forms. That got me looking for reputable and reasonable places to find sample business forms online today. For US-based businesses, I found these three: 1.\u00a0BizFilings.com Business Owner&#8217;s Toolkit\u00a0 Lots of checklists useful for going into business, a nondisclosure agreement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,27],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Contracts.-CC-by-NobMouse.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5605,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602\/revisions\/5605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}