On Friday 31st January, I attended Brisbane MYOB Incite 2020. The first stop of MYOB’s national roadshow and first time we’d hear from the MYOB’s new CEO, Greg Ellis. I have included a snippet of Mr Ellis’s talk in the accompanying video and shall focus my commentary to the apps marketplace. With a [...]
What's the most dangerous thing you've ever done? It's an interesting question. One thing pops to mind but I have a little caveat with this one at the end because I'm honestly not sure if it happened to me or my brother. It's this weird childhood memory thing where it's blurred together. I think [...]
Here's my email to people who hold their Xero subscription with me, about Hubdoc + the Xero subscription price increase – you’re welcome to use it. Hi Tl;dr- You’re receiving this email because you hold your Xero subscription with me. From 18 March 2020 Xero business subscriptions are increasing by $2 per month and [...]
Interview with Ben Thompson CEO Employment Hero Heather Smith: Thank you so much for joining us, Ben, on the Cloud Stories Podcast. Can I start by asking you, who is a historical figure you'd like to have coffee with? Ben Thompson: Well, I'm about two-thirds of the way through a biography on James Cook. [...]
Inspired by my talk with Heide Robson on her podcast Tax Talks (episode 168), I’m publishing a series of articles about Accounting Apps. You can listen to the original recording here. No one is a dummy. Everyone is intelligent. Everyone has the skills and expertise in their own particular area. And what we're trying to do [...]
Inspired by my talk with Heide Robson on her podcast Tax Talks (episode 167), I’m publishing a series of articles about Accounting Apps. You can listen to the original recording here. What are Accounting App? When I talk about apps, I use the term accounting apps. These are applications that connect to online accounting solutions. If [...]
Custom integration is when you have to write specific software to get two apps talking to each other, or when you somehow fill the gap between two apps with code you wrote yourself or somebody wrote for you. And what’s interesting is I'm speaking to a lot of accounting practices, and many of them, many [...]
Do we need integration specialists to help us to plug all the apps together, or will apps become better at connecting together without detailed knowledge? It’s probably a hybrid of both. One of the benefits of using a cloud integrator is they've experienced in connecting maybe one two or three apps together. They know the [...]
One of the ways people use, to categorise apps is to refer to them as horizontal or vertical. Saying an app is horizontal means we believe it works across most industries. A solution like Receipt Bank, a supplier bills and expense scanning solution, which extracts the information pushes it into your online accounting solution. That typically [...]
When we're talking about subscription-based services, how long is the data accessible? Once the data pushes into Xero or Receipt Bank, it stays there. You can, even once you cancel your subscription, you have a read-only access of any data that was pushed into Receipt Bank. You can still access it in Receipt Bank [...]
