Popular Accounting Software Xero Celebrates 10 Years
We have been recommending Xero to our clients for a while now and know firsthand the benefits that it can offer businesses of all sizes. In March of this year, Xero broke through the one million customer mark, and it comes just as the company are about to celebrate their tenth birthday. Xero is the most popular form of accounting software in Australia and with good reason. Xero gives you a portable office. As Xero can be accessed through the cloud, it means you can use it anywhere at any time from multiple devices. You can access your accounts from your desktop computer in your office, on your laptop at home or even on your smartphone while sitting at your favourite coffee shop. The flexibility it creates is one of its best assets and allows you to stay up to date with your current finances at all times. In reality, you can do your work from any remote location. Just imagine the possibilities! Xero will support your growth. Xero is beneficial for startups with big plans. And it can work with medium sized businesses who still have yet to reach their full potential. You can use whatever aspects of the systems...
Read MoreThe Benefits Of Cloud Computing And Cloud Accounting
Building upon a firm foundation of cloud computing, Xero and other providers have now developed services that allow small and medium sized businesses to take advantage of the speed, security, portability and cost savings that were once only available to larger groups. Here is a list of benefits that cloud computing and cloud accounting can provide you. 1. A Reduction in Cost. Keeping up with your books in the cloud allows you to save money in several ways. First, you no longer have to buy an expensive program and annual license fees for each copy of accounting software that you would have used. Cloud accounting allows you to pay a small monthly fee to access and store your information online. You also no longer have the expense of having to upgrade your computer hardware in order to run the program, as most cloud accounting platforms will run in your browser window on a wide variety of platforms: from traditional desktops and laptops to tablets and smartphones. There is also additional savings from lower IT expenses, as you do not have to pay a specialist to download, upgrade and troubleshoot your accounting software. 2. Ease of Use. Cloud accounting services are simple for both...
Read MoreHow Xero Helped Me Get My Life Back
When was the last time you were able to enjoy your day off? Or even take one? How many days in the past month have you spent pouring over your books, trying to make sense of your financials? How much time have you wasted digging through receipts and trying to chase down your information from various clients, vendors, banks or credit card companies? Are you still using an accounting system that relies on saving documents to a hard drive rather than the cloud? Does your system make it difficult to import and update records or run reports? Are you tired of losing data and sales to slow processing speeds? Is your software compatible with multiple brands and tools? Are you still relying on old fashioned spread sheets, or worse – do you just cram your bills and receipts into drawers or shoe boxes and try to pretend they don’t exist? If any of these statements sound like they apply to your life and your business, it’s no wonder that you feel tired, frustrated, exhausted and perhaps tempted to pull your hair out! Who has time to keep up with their finances when they have personal commitments, demands from clients...
Read MoreShould your SME be using Xero Accounting software?
Deciding on whether to change the accounting software for your small business can be a difficult decision. As you know, we use and recommend Xero but perhaps you don’t really know why. In this post we will give you an overview of the advantages and disadvantages of this top selling program to help you make a more informed choice based on what’s best for your specific situation. Advantages of Xero Intuitive dashboard. The dashboard where you will control your Xero software is laid out in an intuitive manner; this means that there is a short learning curve to master this software, even if you have not used it previously. Easy Importation and compatible with earlier forms of most other major accounting software. One of the main reasons why users choose to stick with an accounting software brand that they don’t enjoy using is that they worry about having trouble importing their sales and other figures that they tracked with another brand of software. Xero is specifically designed to make it easy to import your old bookkeeping records, even if you used another accounting software program. It’s all in the Cloud. Xero operates entirely in the cloud. This means that...
Read More5 Simple And Quick Shortcuts In Xero To Make Your Life Easier
Xero is known for its ease of use and fast processing times, two benefits which make keeping up with the books less difficult for most small business owners. Despite these features, it’s likely that there are times that you long for a simpler way to complete some common tasks. The following five Xero shortcuts make using your accounting system even easier! 1. Dates and More Dates! Whether you are adding a date to manual transactions, entering your payables or creating invoices, there are a lot of dates to keep up with. Xero knows how frustrating this task can be, and so provides a host of date shortcuts that let you quickly enter a specific date without having to type out the full 10 digits. For example, if you don’t want to have to enter the 10 digit number for a specific date, just hit the tab key or enter the letter t in the date field to populate it with today’s date. Entering the “tom” in the same field will automatically populate it with tomorrow’s date, and “+[number]” will enter the date that is [number] from today’s date. Read Xero’s helpful guide on Date Entry Shortcuts to learn more...
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