Comments on: iPhone people have all the fun

By: Gordon Anslow

Gordon Anslow — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 10:32:08 +0000

In my plumbing business i would like to be able to create an invoice at the end of each get a payment from my client issue a receipt then be able to syn all the information into my office PC for accounting, tax and financial information. When can i expect to be able to do this. Currently i am running a MYOB accounting package.

By: Ben Goudie-Park

Ben Goudie-Park — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:44:07 +0000

Hi All, GeoOP (www.geoop.com) has just been an approved partner with Xero. For the iPhone you can download the iPhone app, create jobs, add photos, signatures and yes, invoices! This can be then pushed in to Xero with a few clicks of the mouse.

We have a mobile version which will be getting the invoice version in a few weeks for all other smart phones. We are hoping to release a full Android version later this year.

By: James

James — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:09:44 +0000

Another hand up for Android. In the meantime, any reason why personal accounts can’t be accessed through the mobile site? It seems to only display the business account…

By: Brad Down

Brad Down — Tue, 25 May 2010 11:02:11 +0000

I have been looking for a really simple personal finance and budgeting package. Xero looks the business but would be great to have live feeds like ANZ Money Manager. It would be also great to get alerts when you are exceeding your budget goals.

An iPhone version would also be awesome. What is the most frustrating thing about tracking your personal finances is all the little things you pay for with cash. Coffees, lunches, beers etc. It would be great to have an app that you could input these as you spend the money and the cash amounts attributed to the relevant cash withdrawal from your bank account by date.

This way you could categorise your cash expenses on the fly and build a lot more accurate picture.

Keep up the good work, Xero is the business.

By: Brad Foster

Brad Foster — Sat, 08 May 2010 15:54:41 +0000

I would like to create invoices, accept credit cards, and email invoices/receipts like quickbooks online lets you do

By: Anne Thomson

Anne Thomson — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:16:03 +0000

I would like to create an invoice, accept card or cash payment and issue a receipt plus connect to simple accounts package by laptop + gizmo that can print invoices
Can you do this please with xero + iphone? Anne

By: Rod Drury

Rod Drury — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:48:41 +0000

Keep an eye out for some great partners who are working on this problem right now. Cheers Rod

By: Anne Thomson

Anne Thomson — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:36:26 +0000

I would like to create an invoice, accept card or cash payment and issue a receipt connect to simple accounts package by laptop + gizmo that can print invoices
Can you do this please with xero + iphone? Anne

By: Alan Jones

Alan Jones — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:17:07 +0000

I’d love this to migrate to a proper iPhone app so it can store data locally and doesn’t have to find a web connection and I don’t have to key in my secure-but-lengthy alphanum password.

I’ll also chime in for the need for fast expense input with the ability to snap a photo of a receipt so there’s fewer folders of receipts collecting dust in corners. I use XpenseTrkr for that at the moment and it doesn’t integrate with Xero but taking photos of receipts is really useful.

A proper iPhone app could also make use of iPhone notifications to let you know of other users’ activity, accounts hitting pre-set balances, etc.

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By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:34:18 +0000

Just putting in my vote for a native iPhone app.

I currently use Freshbooks with with the iPhone app “Minibooks” and it works great. My favorite iPhone productivity app bar none. Prefer to put together an invoice with it on my iPhone, I do it in my coffee break because it’s fun! Love it! And it syncs to Xero which is great, although another subscription needed to Fresbooks, just for this iPhone app convenience.

The mobile version of Xero doesn’t quote cut it at the moment, a dedicated app with expense logging in particular would be awesome. Marcus, they so need your help. Please see Minibooks for inspiration.

By: Philip Fierlinger

Philip Fierlinger — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:50:44 +0000

@GM – http://m.xero.com works the same on Android as it does on iPhone. Have you tried it out?

Or were you asking about a native app? As it stands, we don’t offer a native app for any mobile platform.

By: GM

GM — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:12:34 +0000

android support?? timeframe??

By: Catherine Walker

Catherine Walker — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:00:23 +0000

Hi Albert – no not yet, just email any existing awaiting payment invoices. Good to know what you’d be interested in as we work on the priorities for the next round of development on this.

Thanks,
Catherine

By: Albert

Albert — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:30:20 +0000

Create invoices ?

By: Marcus

Marcus — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:32:32 +0000

No problem. We would want to talk to someone more than just the API people (no offense) in order to do something like this properly. Business Development Manager?

By: Catherine Walker

Catherine Walker — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:30:08 +0000

Hey Marcus – would be best if you contacted network@xero.com & our API Product Manager will be in touch. Thanks!

By: Marcus

Marcus — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:17:02 +0000

Hi Rod, I have a NZ based iPhone and Android dev company – I’d be keen to partner with Xero to see what sort of mobile app ideas we could develop with your API – how am I best to get in touch with you to see how this could work?

By: Rod Drury

Rod Drury — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:06:41 +0000

Fair call. Our expense claims features are due for some love and attention which we’ll get to in a program of work scheduled for next year.

Expenses is a great scenario for a mobile app. We’re not planning to invest our valuable dev resources into a mobile app right now so if any iPhone or BlackBerry developers want to do it please let us know and we’ll work with you on getting the API features you need.

Or if anyone wants to join our team and write mobile apps we’d be happy to have a chat. We’re still looking for senior dev’s across the board for a number of exciting projects: careers@xero.com

Rod

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:41:43 +0000

Currently looking at moving all our accounts over to Xero, and the the one feature I feel is missing to make this perfect is recording expenses on the go on via the Phone mobile site or app. Recording expenses each quarter is the bain of any small business and on the go inputs would make this software essential. Is this in the pipeline guys? If so we’ll be switching for sure.

By: Clarence PC

Clarence PC — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:19:17 +0000

I couldn’t agree more with those who suggest that a full integration with xero for iPhone and windows mobile would be invaluable to my operations. I am just now migrating to xero as it is far superior to QB 2009-10. Keep up the great work and you will certainly keep my business, especially with the personal edition and the plan to integrate that with business functions. Love it! FYI – I am based in the US. You should really do some advertising here because I think you would gain considerable marketshare.

By: Omar Kassim

Omar Kassim — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:16:15 +0000

I would love a full featured Xero iPhone App. While the current web interface is very nice, it would be great to be able to use the entire system directly from your phone including reporting!

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:24:15 +0000

Question 1 to Xero: Is there a fully fledged iPhone app in the pipeline?

Question 2 to iPhone Xero-ers (XeroX?): Is there much interest out there for a full app?

General Comment: If one has to use an accounting system Xero guarantees a smile… QB & MYOB have missed the boat

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:43:15 +0000

If Xero could come up with a fully integrated Iphone app then I am sold, and I am sure a great many others would be also.

Being able to enter a multi line invoice, and receive payments on the go is essential though. At the moment one of the competitors seem to be offering this on their Iphone app, however Xero is far more appealing overall. Were these additional features added I’m sure the legions of users would grow.

I would like to be able to enter/pay accounts payable invoices, and other day-to-day duties while on the go also.

I concur with the above comments regarding being able to enter little and often, as this offers tremendous convenience and flexibility to other small business users.

Is there any news on when we can expect future Iphone updates, and what we can expect with them? I’m sure there are many other potential users who would like to know if and (roughly) when these features will be integrated, before going ahead and switching to Xero.

By: Ferris Wren

Ferris Wren — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:05:25 +0000

Andrew,

Auto-code the downloaded transactions for sure, but if I use cash for cab fare, I’ve got to enter the transaction, no?