{"id":846,"date":"2011-03-15T18:19:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T18:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morephotos.net\/photoblog\/?p=249"},"modified":"2011-03-15T18:19:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T18:19:42","slug":"how-to-accept-checks-written-to-your-photography-business-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/how-to-accept-checks-written-to-your-photography-business-name\/","title":{"rendered":"How to accept checks written to your photography business name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OMG, they made a check out to my BUSINESS NAME!\u00a0 My bank won&#8217;t cash it.\u00a0 What should I do?<\/p>\n<p>Relax, this is a good problem, people should use your business name.\u00a0 There are just two fairly easy steps, and that money is yours!<\/p>\n<p>1. File a DBA (Doing Business As) with your Department of Registrar-Recorder\/County Clerk.\u00a0 For me, it is where I pay my utility bill and city taxes.\u00a0 There is a basic form to fill out and the cost will be around $20.\u00a0 They will mail your DBA certificate to your adress.<\/p>\n<p>2. Bring the DBA certificate to your bank to add the business name to the account.<\/p>\n<p>3. Post all of your events online, do lots of business, deposit lots of checks, and don&#8217;t forget to reserve money for taxes!\u00a0 In fact, it will be vital to speak to a tax professional as you start collecting money!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you received a check written to your business name, don&#8217;t panic, just do these 3 simple steps!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}