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Comment on Overpayments and prepayments by Nigel

Nigel — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:24:14 +0000

Just sending a statement to a customer who has paid my last invoice twice, and now has received a new invoice from me. She wants me to clarify what is due – which is what I think a statement should do – but it doesn’t.

I entered the second payment received as a prepayment to use in future. It appears on the statement as both a positive and a negative – so has no effect on the balance due. This means the balance due is wrong, and I can’t send the statement to my customer. Lucky I checked…

Comment on Set & forget credit control – Debtor Daddy by Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:28:27 +0000

@Ronan, I did email you and am still awaiting a reply. Apart from that I have reviewed my comments and yes that was what happened. I’l be interested to hear from you. I have time now I have finished dealing with the customers who are furious that they received chase emails which I didn’t want to go to them.

Comment on We’re growing by Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:23:52 +0000

@JC Fully aware of what a CRM is. We use Salesforce. If you read it properly, instead of what you want to read to support your agenda, nothing I put in my list was anything to do with a CRM.

Comment on Developer Workshop Wrapup by Robbie Dellow

Robbie Dellow — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:48:24 +0000

Thanks Ronan, and yes, I understood my questions regarding security were not exactly pertinent to the topic at hand. Whilst I acknowledge topic around my questions is at the reference points you give, the actual answers are not. imho. Will look forward to a reply to what I see as the ‘archilles heal’ of all cloud computing solutions.

Comment on Raising the status of bookkeepers by angela knight

angela knight — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:31:26 +0000

Gayle….most people in business do not actually need a member ICANZ….a SME accountant (such as me) also a member of TINZ (tax agent institute) and qualified chartered accountant in the UK – unwilling to sit more exams to convert to ICANZ! your organisation sounds awesome!

Comment on Xerocon Live Blog by Gillian Rossouw

Gillian Rossouw — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:30:10 +0000

The anticipation was immense & a feeling of knowing what beautiful treats were about to be revealed #Xero continued throughout the day, continued giving more wow’s as they unveiled updates at Xerocon 2012. I salute #Xero & all the Add On Solution providers.

Comment on More capital, SPP and WorkflowMax by Rod Drury

Rod Drury — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:09:19 +0000

@braden we demo’d working remittance advices. Have to get a few things tweaked and into testing with some related work. On their way.

Comment on More capital, SPP and WorkflowMax by Andrew Haynes

Andrew Haynes — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:45:57 +0000

@Paul thanks for the suggestion! I’d love to move to NZ but doubt I could make it in time for the SPP hehe

Comment on Xerocon Live Blog by Gayle Buchanan

Gayle Buchanan — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:17:55 +0000

thank you so much organisers conference rocked – well, well done xero

Comment on More capital, SPP and WorkflowMax by Braden

Braden — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:33:09 +0000

@Rod, Thank you for the reply on remittance advices. Not quite sure I understood your comments and also Craig Walkers presentation post on the Xerocon Live Blog.

When you say ” included remittance advices alongside online invoicing”, are you saying only remittance advices for online invoices through the Xero-to-Xero user features ?

Or remittance advices for all invoice payments irrespective of input ?

Comment on Discounts (0:56) by Stav

Stav — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:26:08 +0000

Tried doing as they said, by adding a new expense acc, wont let me save the discount! or am i doing it wrong.

Comment on Hello America! by Doug Meredith

Doug Meredith — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:00:00 +0000

We are currently evaluating Xero as a replacement for Simply Accounting, and the ability to print cheques is very important to us. I won’t go so far as to say that lack of that ability is a deal breaker, but it’s no small issue either. We are in Canada and the cheques are 8.5 * 11 paper and three parts. Part 1 is the cheque, part 2 is details that get sent with the cheque, and part 3 is for our records.

Any information on when this feature will be available would be very welcome.

Comment on Xero now supports over 5000 bank feeds by Thijs

Thijs — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:36:59 +0000

Has Xero already added Dutch banks? Banks from The Netherlands like the big Rabobank. When will this become available?

Comment on Xerocon Live Blog by Guy Pearson

Guy Pearson — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:14:28 +0000

Copy of my presentation for anyone that’s interested: http://t.co/euO4PkLG

Comment on More capital, SPP and WorkflowMax by Rod Drury

Rod Drury — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:42:12 +0000

@Bradan, you’ve made your point I think.

Remittance advices demonstrated today at #xerocon

We’ve gone better than a static pdf and included remittance advices alongside online invoicing. It won’t be the next version but we are well progressed.

Comment on Developer Workshop Wrapup by Ronan Quirke

Ronan Quirke — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:15:36 +0000

Hi Robbie

Your questions are not really related to the API developer workshop and have generally been covered in the blog (http://blog.xero.com/2010/09/xero-operations/), our documentation (http://help.xero.com) and our security page which it sounds like you have already reviewed, but certainly great questions – I will see what extra info we can provide you.

Comment on More capital, SPP and WorkflowMax by Paul Williams (GM Finance - Xero)

Paul Williams (GM Finance - Xero) — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:09:51 +0000

@Andrew – unfortunately offshore Securities regulations preclude us from offering the SPP outside of NZ. Perhaps you should consider a move to NZ to enjoy our wonderful country and get to participate in the Xero SPP as well!

Comment on Xerocon Live Blog by Courtney Lambert

Courtney Lambert — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:55:28 +0000

Hi Wayne,
Yes sure. I’ll get some for you later in the day.

Comment on Xerocon Live Blog by Wayne Robinson

Wayne Robinson — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:50:25 +0000

Is there any possibilities of any more details on online invoices/statements. Maybe some screenshots?

Comment on The final stages : Paycycle HTML by Susan

Susan — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:27:55 +0000

As I only have a few employes (3) I could not justify the cost for the stand alone payroll product. You say no price change but does that mean that once integrated I will have payroll without paying any more is there only no change for those subscribed to the other product.

Also will it be able to handle contractors?

Comment on Xerocon Live Blog by Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:18:22 +0000

Reorder line items in an invoice, remittance advice and mention of a quote component …. all fantastic enhancements, congrats !!!

Comment on More capital, SPP and WorkflowMax by Andrew Haynes

Andrew Haynes — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:04:31 +0000

@Rod Disappointed that I won’t be able to participate in the SPP as a small foreign shareholder. What’s up with that!? NZ listing rules? I get diluted with no chance to play.

Trading at at >25c premium to the issue price too. *sad face*

Comment on Developer update — receipts and expense claims by Bridget

Bridget — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:33:59 +0000

We are currrently struggling with emailing invoices and statements. The process is a pain as we have a spreadsheet of who receives by email and who by post. We then have to select from the list of about 200 – 400 invoices the ones to send by email. It would be sooooooo much better if you could select an option of “clients who receive invoices/statements by emails” and vice versa. Please develop this, it would make my EOM 1/4 of the time

Comment on More capital, SPP and WorkflowMax by Braden

Braden — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:07:30 +0000

@David…well said … 170 staff and growing and no one can figure the code for a remittance advice…

Comment on We’re growing by JC

JC — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:41:00 +0000

Everybody’s world view is different. @Braden, a bunch of colleagues at my firm are eagerly awaiting bankfeeds in Xero personal as it is a both a great companion product to xero as well as a stand alone product. We want to use it personally and will recommend to out individual and business clients (but importing a CSV is just one step to hard at the moment).

And i definitely agree with @Chris, many/(most?) small businesses mix private and business expenses. Remembering that Xero’s small plan includes 5 A/R invoices a month with 1 employee…. This does hint at one of the target markets.

@Jeff – it sounds like Xero doesn’t meet your needs. OK, perhaps check back in another little while, and continue with the software that works for you. Xero doesn’t market itself as a complete CRM solution – i’m pretty sure that the homepage says “Beautiful accounting software”

>”I think it is very straightforward for pure accounting, which is where the fans appear to be.”

Yes, because that’s what it is…. Though I did stumble across this on their homepage http://www.xero.com/advisors/solutions/crm/