Everyone knows that cash flow is the most common killer for small business. Then why has it taken so long for cloud accounting apps to add this critical function? The short answer is that cash flow is hard to do well, which is good news for cashflow app Float and other dedicated cash flow management […]
In software, some updates are bigger than others. Xero Bill Payments, released in the last month of 2019, is a sleeper. But it could have a profound impact on a billion-dollar problem facing businesses around the world; invoice fraud. Xero Bill Payments works as follows: When paying bills in Xero, you no longer need to […]
We are huge fans of online inventory apps such as Unleashed Software, Trade Gecko, Cin7 and Dear Inventory. They have many features that you would find in an ERP that costs tens of thousands of dollars a year. Manufacturers, distributors and wholesalers can track complex inventory in multiple warehouses, support sales agents on the road, […]
Sales is a numbers game, and the more motivated your sales team the higher the numbers they will hit. But if your sales team don’t know the number of sales they have made, total revenue and how it compares to target, they are going to struggle with motivation and timing. How disappointing for your top salesperson […]
Commissions are a tried and tested way to motivate sales teams. They are most effective when a salesperson can see how much they are going to pocket at the end of the month or quarter. The challenge is that knowing what to pay each salesperson. This can require a little maths, which is difficult to do […]
See also: Is This The Future of Sage? An Intro to Intacct Sage Intacct made some pretty major promises on stage at its annual conference in Las Vegas this month to get the crowd ready and amped for what’s coming in the next 12 months. One of the biggest calls was the idea of automating timesheets. […]
See also: Highlights from Sage Intacct’s Roadmap: Intacct Advantage 2019 If you’re a Sage customer, partner or employee you better get used to the name “Intacct”. You’re going to hear it a lot over the next couple of years. Sage Intacct is an enterprise finance platform in the cloud ERP category, stronger in services-based industries rather […]
Sage Live (renamed Sage Business Cloud Accounting) was officially dropped from the Sage lineup in Australia 12 months ago in the face of furious competition and a too-distant roadmap. A new-look Sage is now swinging its weight behind solutions for mid-market with the localisation of Sage Intacct, an ERP acquired in 2017. However, the shakeup […]
Xerocon Brisbane 2019 felt like a watershed in a couple of ways. The first in maturity – Xero looks and sounds much more like a global software company developing operations in multiple geographies, rather than an Australasian success story punching above its weight. Second, in the way Xero talked about its software and the focus […]
After a year in the big chair, Xero CEO Steve Vamos showed at Xerocon how he has been busy making his mark. An introduction – Vamos is a veteran technology executive who has worked with some of the biggest names in tech such as former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Apple’s Steve Jobs, when Vamos was […]
Last week at its partner conference, MYOB taught accounting software incumbents around the world an important lesson. You don’t have to be first to market with an idea, you just have to price it right. MYOB dropped a lot of product compared to its releases over the past 24 months, with a slew of mobile […]
