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May 3, 2024
Xero raises prices and simplifies plans, forcing upgrades
Xero has raised its prices in Australia for the second time in 12 months by an average of 13 percent across almost all its plans. It has renamed the cheapest three plans and replaced the Premium plans with more expensive Ultimate plans.
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October 13, 2023
Large Language Models and Accounting Software – Where Does It Go From Here?
Everyone is talking about the potential of generative AI. So what impact will it have on accounting software? Xero’s former head of AI and Data shared her thoughts.
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March 28, 2023
Xero Finally Integrates with Karbon: Interview with Karbon’s APAC MD
Xero Practice Manager finally integrates with the Karbon practice management tool
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September 15, 2022
Xero’s Three Waves Point to Platform Play: Xerocon 2022
Xero starts to build out a platform that will host data from multiple sources beyond transactions, within the one interface.
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September 13, 2022
Everything that was announced at Xerocon 2022 – London, NOLA, Sydney
A roundup of all the product news for Xero, Xero Practice Manager and other apps at Xerocon 2022
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September 9, 2022
Xerocon 2022: Understanding Xero’s Product Strategy – An Interview
What is Xero's product strategy for 2022 and beyond? An interview with Anna Curzon and Mark Rees, CPO and CTO, Xero.
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June 5, 2013
Yodlee Opens Up on Bank Feeds: Interview
Digital First interviewed Yodlee exec Joe Polverari about the accuracy and security of bank feeds supplied by Yodlee, and its plans in Australia.
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February 4, 2016
Why Xero Wants Your Tax Work – And How It’s Going to Get It
Xero is promising a heavily integrated, redesigned portal for Xero partners to manage their clients.
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March 10, 2014
Xero vs QuickBooks Online – What do the Numbers Say?
Rival accounting software companies Xero vs Quickbooks Online releasing of financial statements recently and the numbers make interesting reading.
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April 5, 2014
Xero vs MYOB AccountRight Live Comparison – A Second Opinion
With recent upgrades to MYOB’s core accounting product AccountRight Live, is MYOB finally starting to catch up?
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September 20, 2017
Xero Undercuts the Practice Management Suite with Xero HQ
The release of Xero HQ’s API for third-party apps is sure to cause problems for Australian software companies selling practice management software.
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April 1, 2016
5 Time-Saving Xero Tips With Gmail, Google Sheets, Google Docs, Google Apps, etc
As Xero has developed it has added more connections to one of the biggest cloud companies of them all, Google.
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September 20, 2017
Xero Tax Adds CCH Master Tax Guide with iKnow Deal
Xero Tax will for the first time link to CCH iKnow, the online version of CCH’s Master Tax Guide.
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September 12, 2012
Xero slashes discount for second companies to 15 percent
Cloud accounting vendor Xero has announced it would cut the discount given to users who bought a second business subscription
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February 5, 2013
Xero Report Packs Bring Free Financial Reporting to Australian Partners
Cloud accounting company Xero's report packs were launched yesterday as a free upgrade for Australian accountants and bookkeepers.
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January 23, 2015
Xero Quotes – How it Works, What it Lacks, and How to Print a Quote
The first version of the long-awaited Quotes function is fairly basic, although Xero promises the first update will arrive before June.
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September 23, 2016
Xero’s No-Code Accounting – What is It and How to Prepare For It
Xero recently introduced the accounting profession to the concept of no-code accounting, and expanded its mission to include the automation of bookkeeping.
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July 14, 2016
Microsoft Power BI And Xero – How It Works, What It Does
Last week Xero added its first enterprise-grade app, the business intelligence tool Microsoft Power BI.
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October 14, 2020
Xero HQ’s Future As a CRM for Practices: A Chat with Xero’s Heads of Product
The company announced at this year’s virtual get-together, Xero On Air, that it was finally fixing this integration problem by creating a master record in Xero HQ.
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September 13, 2019
Xero CEO on Global Expansion and Xero’s Future as a Data Platform (Xerocon 2019)
After a year in the big chair, Xero CEO Steve Vamos showed at Xerocon how he has been busy making his mark.
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July 13, 2018
Testing the Limits of Xero for Businesses With Higher Transaction Volumes
There are questions about how well Xero performs under "higher loads". Our first concern was for medium-sized wholesalers.
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December 3, 2012
Xero adds timesheets to employee portal
Xero has added timesheets to its employee portal to eliminate re-keying of written timesheets.
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April 29, 2015
Xero Adds Employee Limits to Top Pricing Plan
From July 1 Xero will charge A$2 a month for every employee over 100 on the Premium 100 plan up to a maximum of 200 staff.
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September 22, 2017
Will Xero Projects replace Workflow Max or Xero Practice Manager?
One of the big announcements at Xerocon was Xero Projects, a lightweight project costing tool.
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December 8, 2015
How to use Xero’s new global search to maximise your productivity
The team at HPC was ecstatic this past week when Xero released their new "global" search feature. I was also pretty excited myself to give it a try:
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January 27, 2015
Unleashed vs Dear Comparison: Inventory for Xero, QuickBooks
I road-tested two of the add-on inventory products that could be integrated into both Xero and QuickBooks Online – Dear and Unleashed.
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September 25, 2017
6 Things You Should Know about Xero Projects
The introduction of Xero Projects came with great excitement as job costing was one of the most awaited features in Xero.
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April 23, 2014
MYOB Essentials Accounting vs Xero Review – Which is Best for Micro-Business?
At the entry level, Xero is an appealing and easy to use program. Its main problem is the severe restrictions that are placed on the number of transactions
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January 10, 2020
How Xero NAB Payments Could Fix a Billion-Dollar Problem
Xero NAB Payments, released in the last month of 2019, is a sleeper. But it could have a profound impact on the scourge of invoice fraud.
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March 29, 2013
How Xero Added 120,000 Customers in Three Years
In three years Xero grew from 12,000 to 135,000 customers, 65,000 in New Zealand alone. How did it increase by elevenfold? Xero's ex-head of sales reveals.
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November 11, 2016
Hitting the limits of Xero? Don’t Give Up Just Yet
In many cases, creative thinking and rearranging your systems’ architecture are all that’s needed to stick with your cloud accounting system of choice.
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July 6, 2018
Hey Mid-Market, Xero and Intuit are coming!
In Australia, MYOB has decided not to add the government-mandated Single Touch Payroll service to MYOB Premier
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September 20, 2019
Full Product Wrap for Xerocon Brisbane 2019 – The Real Xero Stands Up
Xero is evolving from a single ledger in the cloud to a platform rich with data
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April 7, 2017
How to Bust Fraudulent Activity in Xero
How to bust fraudulent activity in Xero
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April 24, 2014
Who Should Own your Accounting File? Xero’s Position Hard to Defend
This is surely setting up Xero for many fights to come. Eventually Xero will have to change its terms and conditions so that business owners retain control.
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December 11, 2015
8 Productivity Hacks For Xero Users
Whether you’re an advisor or a small business, there are ways you can use Xero to get more done.
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January 20, 2015
3 Easy Ways to Get Expense Data Into Xero
There are a few ways to achieve data entry of expenses with supporting documentation that are easily viewable in Xero.
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October 14, 2020
Will Waddle Wind Up Wedged into Xero? A Chat with Xero’s Steve Vamos
One of Xero’s biggest moves this year was its acquisition of invoice-funding service Waddle.
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May 26, 2024
From pizza to POS, Wabi's spicy proposition for restaurants
Two pizza makers have launched Wabi, a consolidated POS, rostering and online booking app for hospitality.
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May 3, 2024
Xero raises prices and simplifies plans, forcing upgrades
Xero has raised its prices in Australia for the second time in 12 months by an average of 13 percent across almost all its plans. It has renamed the cheapest three plans and replaced the Premium plans with more expensive Ultimate plans.
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March 12, 2024
Intuit builds "done-for-you" tax model based on AI
How will tax change with generative AI? Intuit has added an AI assistant to its tax software, TurboTax. Head of TurboTax James Belsky explains what comes next.
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December 5, 2023
Got a quick question? Ask the CPA in your pocket
ChatCPA.io knows all the accounting rules and answers your questions on WhatsApp or SMS. With over 5,000 users, many subscribers are accountants themselves.
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November 14, 2023
How Accountants will Use AI assistants for Tax Advice
Cloud tax program that works with Xero, QuickBooks and MYOB, recently demo’ed Tax Genii at the recent QuickBooks conference in Sydney.
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November 9, 2023
How Oracle NetSuite is Using Generative AI to Accelerate Finance
Oracle NetSuite has added the ability to automatically generate text and summarise financial data in its cloud ERP using generative AI.
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