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About Heather Smith

Heather Smith can help your business deliver powerful, engaging and educational content, through guest blog posts, educational instructions, video creation, podcasts, and social media blasts. She hosts the #1 independent Cloud Stories podcast Cloud Stories, authored Xero for Dummies, produces easy to follow videos on her YouTube channel and hosts the Cloud Accountants and Advisors Meetup and Xero Mastermind Facebook group. As a chartered accountant and chartered certified accountant and certified Xero & MYOB software advisor she has the knowledge, expertise and credibility to talk about your business solution to the accounting and bookkeeping community.

IQBOXY v Expensify v AppsForOps v Nexonia v Abukai v Webexpenses

Cloud expense reimbursement solutions that integrate with Xero ... minimise the friction around staff expense claims. When researching a solution the specific requirements I had included: Smart phone access; The direct supervisor needed be notified that the direct subordinate has prepared and submitted expense claims for approval; Restrict unnecessarily accessing to data of other staff; Expense claim [...]

2017-11-10T03:41:32+10:00September 14th, 2016|0 Comments

Deep diving into Xero’s business performance dashboard

One of those new features Xero has introduced is the Business Performance dashboard. It is a suite of standard and advanced ratios of your business. A first glance the dashboard gave me flashbacks at those ratios I had to learn for the many accounting exams I sat. What do they mean for you? In reality many [...]

2017-03-01T14:27:41+10:00September 14th, 2016|0 Comments

Data Dear alternatives when its no longer available outside QBO

Data Dear will soon no longer be available to users outside of QBO Late 2021 Data Dear was acquired by Intuit. I’ve spoken to the Intuit and the Data Dear team. The solution will be built into QBO, so it will no longer be available to external users. If you are on QBO I guess [...]

2022-06-07T16:33:24+10:00June 19th, 2016|0 Comments

Education businesses and Xero

There are currently four solutions listed on the Xero marketplace that connect with Xero. Here is some research I did on them. Yes the page has stretched a bit because I used a table - I hope you can read it ok. Arlo: https://www.arlo.co/features/training-and-event-management-software-for-xero JobReady: http://www.jobready.com.au/jobready-xero-integration/   aXcelerate: http://www.axcelerate.com.au/axcelerate-xero-integration/ Do you have successful case studies [...]

2023-02-24T19:51:03+10:00May 10th, 2016|0 Comments

Marketplace Platforms and Xero

  If you think of solutions like AirBNB, Uber, Etsy, Kickstarter, IndieGoGo, AirTasker, Fiverr, Lyft, TaskRabbit and Freelancer these businesses run on a MARKETPLACE PLATFORM.  The business that facilitates the marketplace platform OWNS the transaction, not the goods or services sold. So AirBNB does not own accommodation, Uber do not own cars, and Etsy does [...]

2021-01-19T11:36:45+10:00May 9th, 2016|0 Comments

How Accounting Apps can connect with the accounting and bookkeeping community

I’m immersed in the Accounting Apps world. I scan, read and analyse hundreds of Accounting App blog posts, and from that curate a bi-weekly Accounting Apps newsletter. I facilitate a MasterMind Accounting Apps forum. I host a podcast and meetup groups focused on Accounting Apps. I've written lots of cloud accounting books - that [...]

2024-05-17T10:25:03+10:00April 19th, 2016|0 Comments

What is a Xero Cloud Service Provider?

As a Xero Cloud Service Provider my objective is to implement an integrated online business platform for the client. An optimal rollout relieves administrative burden, enabling the business to access timely and accurate insights into their operations. As a Cloud Service Provider (CSP) I:- Whiteboard clients business processes. Identify stresses, bottlenecks, repetition and manual intervention. [...]

2017-03-01T14:27:44+10:00April 5th, 2016|0 Comments

Accounting Apps Podcast – Exploring Accounting Technology

I host the Accounting Apps podcast: an independent accounting and bookkeeping podcast showcasing in-depth interviews with cloud enthusiasts & appaholics from around the world.. The Accounting Apps podcast vision The vision for the podcast is to share stories of people and businesses operating in our connected Cloud community. • Developers • Cloud Integrators • [...]

2024-02-04T09:34:08+10:00February 22nd, 2016|0 Comments

YouTube and video creation

I always wanted to be the next David O.Selznick so I’ve combined my passion for the cinema with my passion for helping people in business and I’ve created numerous easy-to-follow educational videos which you can access on my YouTube channel. I invite you to click through and subscribe https://www.youtube.com/ANISEConsulting Here's links to a few examples [...]

2017-03-01T14:27:46+10:00February 22nd, 2016|0 Comments
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