“I just recently learned about xero myself from a neighbour who was using QuickBooks but switch to it because it was easier to use because it doesn’t have the ai feature, so I’m also tempted to learn on that platform as well.”
“QBO or Xero can be the accounting ledger while the property tool remains the lease and tenant source, as long as the two are reconciled monthly. A platform change only helps if you can name the missing report or control it’s supposed to fix.”
“You can also take pictures and email them directly to your Xero account. They appear in "draft bills". You should have a dedicated email address shown in your bills section.”
“There are also tons of cheaper options compared to Xero that your product is competing with. By offer a cheaper option with no additional value-add imo will not bring you far.”
“This is a problem I'm seeing in general terms with Xero anyway. There is a lack of audit and access trails. We have tax information sitting in their new partner hub - there is no visible audit trail in there.”
“if you're already on xero, an amex feed plus a receipt-matching tool (hubdoc, dext, or ramp if you can switch cards) usually beats a full concur replacement.”
“Fixing the score gets the invoice delivered, it doesn't tell you whether the client actually opened it before the due date passed. That's the harder half, tying delivery and open status to the payment record, which is the kind of gap we use SIGNLD to close between what got sent and what got paid”
“Normally I would ask Xero support about this but the last several emails ive sent to them were never responded to, and they dont have a phone number.”
“The bank and Xero systems likely give out some failure messages, but they probably are not available to you. Try to message them to see if you get some help on the matter and see what is the issue, you may need to ask your client to send the message to the bank too.”
“Xero is a surprisingly good system of record since most firms are legally required to store bills and invoices. That said, it is indeed a pain to query specific information through the UI.”
“Xero search doesn’t look inside attachments, so there is no query that gets you from a SKU to the purchase order it is sitting on. The team scrolled the list and opened POs one at a time.”
“They have jacked up the price so much and enshitifed the product so badly that word of mouth recommendation has dried up. Now having to significantly increase marketing spend.”
“Accounting software provider Xero has been forced to apologise following backlash over an influencer ad promoting its Claude integration as a way to replace human accountants.”
“This is one of the features I’ve always loved about FreeAgent that Xero has never come close to. Its dashboard tax timeline widget puts all the key dates for the business front and centre.”
“Xero-style generate / send / reconcile is a different (heavier) product. We’re intentionally staying small: less setup, less friction, get the first payment moving.”
“Maybe if you had some integration with Xero or other accounting software to generate, send, and monitor for that invoice being paid it would be more interesting.”
“Standard Xero package is around £40pm exc VAT now, this is unbelievably cheap for all those services and presumably your SATR too even if everything in the business is streamlined, clean and limited time is spent for vat and bookkeeping etc if on flat rate scheme etc”
“Xero introduced a £7 subscription recently though and I’m really tempted to port to it, a lot of my spend can be auto categorised and journals would allow me to ditch excel pots.”
“I was in a firm like that about 6 years ago, since moved to a much better equipped digital firm, using the full Xero/XPM suite and are much better integrated with many app partners that link with it.”
“I’ll need to be careful with “reconciliation” because the actual job was removing the manual re-entry of completed WooCommerce sales into Xero rather than bank reconciliation, but your point about using the exact language the problem is described in makes a lot of sense.”
“xero released an cli for AI agents to use as well - it's actually pretty impressive using the two together. I just dumped all my invoices & receipts in a folder and it did all the entry & reconciling”