The foreign currency feature of Xero is here and it looks like it has been worth the wait. The online platform is ideallty suited to adding such functionality and this will rally cause the installed competitors some discomfirt I suspect…Well done xero team!

I find the big failing in our experience for multi-currency accounting is when unexpected things happen and you need to deal with them across currencies. For example, we might invoice a client in USD, and then they pay us in HKD. The wire just turns up in the wrong currency, and it is a nightmare. In Quickbooks, I am totally stuck trying to figure out how to use the HKD payment to clear out a payable (invoice) that was originally in another currency.

Could Xero handle this?