Xero
Caught up with Rod Drury a few days ago to discuss everything from fibre and peering to blogging.
Rod was kind enough to give me a quick demo of Xero, which is his latest venture – an online accounting package for small and medium businesses.
Now accounting is one area I do know more than a bit about. I spent around six years doing the monthly and annual accounts for Red Cross and then an advertising agency – all the way to audit. I’ve been Treasurer of a few organisations and as a board director I take a great interest in the accounts of those organisations I am on the board of. Plus I have my own small business which I do the accounts for (but am learning to delegate some of that!)
Now let me tell you I was very impressed with Xero. Even though the product wasn’t fully finished, even what they had to date looked great. I’m now onboard as a beta user.
I think accountants are going to love clients who use Xero. For rather than have to go through hoards of printouts and books, they’ll be able to access their clients’ accounts directly, look for errors, run journals, as and when they can.
As someone who travels a lot I like the concept of being able to access my accounts from anywhere I have Internet.
But the nicest thing about it is just how easy it makes things. Data from one bank is already transferring directly into the accounts of Xero users, and the others are not far behind. Interfaces with the IRD save double handling. It has nice reporting and lots of graphs for those who like them. Also all in user friendly language.
I had a list of a dozen or so features I wanted, and for everyone one of them it had the feature or Rod could give a date when that feature would be implemented.
I think there will be a lot of excited people when it becomes publicly available.
March 22nd, 2007 at 2:14 pm
heh, I’m just buzzing out about Xero too…
March 22nd, 2007 at 4:05 pm
Shameless plug!
March 22nd, 2007 at 4:05 pm
Competition is great!
Banklink already has a similar (free?) product for businesses which allows the client to produce invoices and code their bank statements as they go to the accountant for tax return preparation, eliminating double handling. Works very effectively…
March 22nd, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Tell us how many shares you got in that one…
March 22nd, 2007 at 9:41 pm
I have no shares of financial interest in Xero and resent any implication that I do. The only perk I get from Xero is to have coffee every so often with their lovely Marketing Manager
I am meticulous in being open about any interests I have, far more than any other blogger I daresay.
March 25th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Any other blogger?
I resent that remark
I think you meant “many other bloggers”
April 27th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
dgvf yrex ienysq xswgfev gmxsdqj paconwbzt rqlzjm
April 27th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
gpeu qgcld yixg qjbna gyrnbskx nlvgirpeu nshxqkd http://www.qixkwo.hxpwim.com
May 8th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
Nice site. Thanks:-)
http://ihoinre.tripod.com notebook
May 14th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Very good site. Thank you!
http://sghwacif.tripod.com/ software
May 14th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Very good site. Thank you!
http://sghwacif.tripod.com/ software
May 14th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
Cool site. Thanks:-)
http://ihoinre.tripod.com electronics goods
May 31st, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Cool site. Thanks.
http://hometown.aol.com/ninuvingor/ software
June 4th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
Very good site. Thanks:-)
http://www.volny.cz/heskey777/xanax/ snort xanax
June 5th, 2007 at 3:20 am
Cool site. Thanks.
http://www.volny.cz/heskey777/soma/ soma bicycles
June 8th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Cool site. Thank you.
http://sites.blockstar.com/micks/tramadol.html about tramadol
June 10th, 2007 at 7:43 am
Very good site. Thank you!!!
http://sites.blockstar.com/micks/meridia.html meridia 10
June 13th, 2007 at 12:37 am
Very good site. Thanks.
http://rlink.org/5378 health insurance quotes
June 13th, 2007 at 12:37 am
Very good site. Thanks.
http://rlink.org/5378 health insurance quotes
June 27th, 2007 at 1:36 am
Nice site. Thanks:-)
http://www.datingfunda.com/userspic/admin/functions/levitra.htm levitra 10mg
June 28th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Nice site. Thank you!!!
http://www.forumsdot.com/teamer/functions/ringtone5.htm madonna ringtone
June 30th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
Good site. Thank you.
http://www.horos.ru/forum/templates/subSilver/images/lang_english/functions/credit_cards2.htm 0 apr credit card
June 30th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
Good site. Thank you:-)
http://www.horos.ru/forum/templates/subSilver/images/lang_english/functions/hydrocodone_vicodine.htm hydrocodone cough syrup
June 30th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
Good site. Thank you:-)
http://www.horos.ru/forum/templates/subSilver/images/lang_english/functions/hydrocodone_vicodine.htm hydrocodone cough syrup
June 30th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
Good site. Thank you:-)
http://www.horos.ru/forum/templates/subSilver/images/lang_english/functions/hydrocodone_vicodine.htm hydrocodone cough syrup
July 2nd, 2007 at 4:18 am
Very good site. Thanks!
http://www.ultraslan.org/ultraslanforum/images/functions/hydrocodone.htm hydrocodone alcohol
July 3rd, 2007 at 12:48 am
Very good site. Thank you.
http://www.ultraslan.org/ultraslanforum/images/functions/tramadol.htm online ultram
July 4th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Very good site. Thank you.
http://www.positivos.com/tmp/functions/ringtone6.htm jennifer lopez ringtone
July 5th, 2007 at 5:20 am
Good site. Thank you.
http://www.angel-owners.de/functions/insurance1.htm insurance agency
July 5th, 2007 at 11:20 am
Nice site. Thank you.
http://www.angel-owners.de/functions/loan2.htm loan schedule
July 5th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
Nice site. Thank you.
http://www.angel-owners.de/functions/ultram.htm snorting ultram
July 6th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Good site. Thank you!
http://www.computermail.nl/forum/templates/subSilver/images/lang_english/functions/insurance2.htm grange insurance
July 6th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
Nice site. Thank you:-)
http://www.computermail.nl/forum/templates/subSilver/images/lang_english/functions/ringtone2.htm real tones
July 6th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Nice site. Thank you:-)
http://www.computermail.nl/forum/templates/subSilver/images/lang_english/functions/ringtone2.htm real tones
July 7th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
Cool site. Thanks!
http://boarder-forum.powder4you.com/functions/credit_cards4.htm free credit cards
July 9th, 2007 at 5:36 am
Very good site. Thanks:-)
http://warofemperium.com/functions/credit_cards3.htm reward credit cards
July 9th, 2007 at 5:37 am
Very good site. Thanks:-)
http://warofemperium.com/functions/credit_cards3.htm reward credit cards
July 9th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
Good site. Thank you.
http://foros.latingames.com/templates/subSilver/images/lang_english/functions/ringtone5.htm pink floyd ringtone