Every small business runs on spreadsheets at first. These ten templates save you the setup time — steal them, adapt them, and keep moving. When a sheet starts to buckle under the load, that's the moment to graduate to Notion + Data Jumbo.
The ten
- Mini CRM — HubSpot. Contacts, pipeline, follow-ups, no install.
- Project management — Smartsheet. Gantt-style timelines without the enterprise fuss.
- Employee shift schedule — free public Google Docs template. Weekly rota in one tab.
- Annual calendar — public Google Docs template. Year-at-a-glance planning.
- Task list — Vertex. Simple to-do with owners and due dates.
- Small business sales tracking — HubSpot. Revenue by rep and product.
- Product roadmap — Prod Camp. Now / next / later in a sheet.
- Business budget — Smartsheet. Monthly income, expenses, cashflow.
- Simple inventory — Sheetgo. Stock levels without a warehouse system.
- Invoice template — WAVE. Clean, printable, sends as a PDF.
When to graduate
Sheets are perfect — right up until they aren't. You've outgrown a sheet the moment you need three people editing it at once, a chart that actually tells a story, or a reporting layer that doesn't require a weekly hand-edit. That's where Notion + Data Jumbo comes in.