Planet SOHO review by Inspector Jones

We like Planet Soho - it’s a great way to get organised if you run a very small business. We recommend it if you run a small services-based business, take small orders, or run a home-based company.

Planet Soho is a simple system that helps you manage your clients, invoices and a basic storefront. Before you choose Planet Soho, here are the key things you need to know.

First, we think that Planet Soho is very reasonably priced. The service is $9.95/month (or $99.50 per year), for unlimited usage at the time of writing this review. For your money, you get a broad range of basic features.

Planet Soho lets you manage your clients and contacts in one place

Second, Planet Soho is designed to organise all of your business clients and contact information. It tracks your activity with each client so that you can access the information wherever you are.

Third, while Planet Soho does provide some marketing tools, we’ve found they are very bare bones. There is a Planet Soho directory which lists your company publicly, a storefront which lets you list your products forsale, and an email marketing tool to send a newsletter. These are all functional, but very basic. If you’re looking for a more comprehensive storefront, have a look at our buyers guide for online stores.

Planet Soho produces invoices for you

Third, Planet Soho has some neat tools for invoicing and billing. They provide templates for your invoices, let you produce recurring invoices, and support mobile devices. They also provide a way to manage estimates, and link these all back to your contact management.

Finally, there are a few basic addons included. Planet Soho comes with cloud storage for your documents, legal contracts and financial templates.

In summary, Planet Soho is a great, basic and inexpensive option for organising very small businesses. We found it easy to use and liked the broad range of features. It’s used by over 1,000,000 businesses worldwide.

If this is what your business needs, I recommend signing up for the Planet Soho 14-day free trial, to see if it works for you.