Xero Business Software - Alpha Business Services -Accountants and Business advisors

About Xero

Xero is a feature rich cloud accounting package which allows small and medium sized businesses to automate many tasks saving time on book-keeping and allowing business owners to concentrate on working on their business.Xeros secure software allows you to work from anywhere, even from your mobile with the Xero app. It allows you to share with emplyees and collaborate with your advisor. You can build a customsed business solution to fit your needs by simply adding from the extensive range of apps available.

Xero features

Invoicing

Create and send personalised professional invoices: By customising your invoice, add a brand logo, include payment terms and you are ready to go
Create invoices quickly online : Reduce repetitive manual data entry by using preset inventory items, replicating invoices, and setting up repeating invoices.
Bulk send invoices : Send all your invoices out at the same time or email multiple invoices including overdue ones to a single customer at the same time
Invoice on your mobile : You can send invoices whenever it suits you. Create and send invoices straight from your phone when you have complted a job.
Set up repeating invoices : Xero will automatically create, save and email recurring invoices for you..takes the work out of remembering to invoice regular customers.
Take the work out of chasing payments: Xero can send automated payment reminders, all you have to do is decide when and how often the reminders are sent.
Get paid instantly : Add a ‘Pay now’ option to your online invoice and allow your customer to pay you instantly straight from the invoice with a debit or credit card or from their Paypal or Stripe account.

Bank

Get daily bank feeds : Bank transactions can be automatically uploaded into Xero each day (or as often as it suits you)
Multiple banks and accounts : you can set up feeds from multiple banks and any number of accounts.
Reconcile bank transactions : Xero will suggest what each transaction was for which you can accept or tell it the corrected transaction.
Know you Cash position : By downloading the bank transactions daily you will have an up to date snapshot of your business finances.
Xero Dashboard : See a complete up to date picture of your cashflow and business finances on the Xero Dashboard.

Purchases and Expenses

Record and store purchases and expenses online : Using receipt bank or hubdoc you can record your purchases automatically and pass through to Xero.
View the documents alongside transaction : Xero will display a copy of the invoice alongside the transaction allowing you to access the purchase from anywhere.
See what accounts are due for payment : Purchase overview within Xero enables you to view and monitor outstanding purchase accounts, manage cashflow and allow you to see what is due for payment allow you to build good relationships with suppliers.
Schedule Payments : Reduce admin time by paying supplier accounts, when due, in one simple transaction.
Recharge expenses : Assign purchase expenses direct to customers when received ensuring that you don’t miss out on recovering expenses.
Repeat Purchases : if not using invoice extraction software you can reduce time taken to process repeat purchases by setting up transactions that recur for as long as you choose. Alos can replicate the last received purchase from a supplier by reviewing and adding or amending details as required.

As a Xero partner we can help you to set up Xero and apps such as receipt bank and integrate into your workflows.

We can provide a full outsourced book keeping or finance department using xero or train you to use the software

If you wish to change from your current accounting software to Xero we can assist you with that (Up to 2 years data is free or more data for small additional charge)

Also see Xero ‘How to’ videos for starting up using xero.