Xero has been working to solve paying GST registered contractors from within Xero Payroll ie the need to create a manual journal every pay run in order to balance GST lines.  

Fergus - Cloud-based job management software specially built for tradies.

From site visits through to scheduling, quoting, invoicing and much more - Fergus manages all your tasks in one place and gives you the insight you need to grow.

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As your business grows and you add people, how do you keep everyone focused and heading in the right direction?

Xero's Trent Innes shares 'Five Lessons Learned'.

There’s a long list of unpleasant things most business owners would rather do than bank reconciliation. Traditionally, it’s mindless and time-consuming.

However, the bank reconciliation functionality within Xero feels more like a video game than work.

Whether you’re a small business, or an accountant working with one, it’s important to know which jobs deliver the best return on investment, and which ones need to be reined in.

Cue projects in Xero: a simple way to capture, track and report on the time and money spent on each job so you can proactively invoice, make informed decisions and manage your business more efficiently.

More than a third of businesses are concerned about cash flow. One in three small/medium business (SME) owners spend their evenings doing business administration and nearly 30 per cent of SME owners want to spend less time at work, according to Xero.

Keeping your business secure in today’s online world can be tricky, but two-step authentication makes it harder for others to access your Xero account, so your data is protected.

Ever wondered how you might customise your invoices in Xero to suit your particular business needs?

Then we can answer that with two words “branding theme”.

For those who have not had a go at entering Fixed Assets in Xero, this is how you can do it.

Are overdue invoices keeping you up at night?

Check out Xero's four useful tips to help manage late payments.

Here at Alliotts it’s been a good few weeks of everyone working diligently to ensure our clients are all geared up for financial year end. Therefore it might be apt to say this month’s article is a little light given the seriousness of this time of year.

Now you can set up a prompt in Xero software to automatically send out Invoice reminders to your customers.

No chasing up payments, sending another invoice paper copy or having an awkward phone conversation.

Xero is taking one step more to make filing returns a breeze- with new E-Sign feature. We outline how.

This week Xero released their latest integration with Apple, the ability to pay Xero invoices with Apple Pay. Mobile payments are the way of the future. It’s predicted that by the end of this year, mobile payment transactions in the US will grow 210%.

Technology has the power to make our lives easier, and small businesses have the flexibility and the creativity to take advantage of this power. By staying lean and agile, a small business can adapt quickly in a moment and use new technology to power into emerging markets.

We all know that cash flow is king. But just how much sway does it have? Well, you might want to ask the nine out of 10 small businesses that have failed because of cash flow problems.

According to Dun & Bradstreet 90% of small businesses close their doors because of poor cash flow management.

Xero is bringing some exciting changes to New Zealand payroll to make it easier for you to process leave.

With eGST submit your return straight from Xero, making your life easier and reducing the risk of incorrectly copying numbers from Xero to the old GST forms

The cloud is here to stay. If you want to get ahead, embrace the technology so that you have real-time data to make real-time decisions that will give your business the edge.

As a business owner, it is important to analyse the components of your business’s revenue.

You’ll want to know which products or services are cash cows to keep and which ones are dogs to remove.  Alliotts' new recruit Justin Wong outlines how Xero can help you to do that effectively.