Best of Breed Online Solutions for
The Modern Practice
We’ve taken the time to understand the technology requirements of our accounting partners and cherry picked the best solutions possible. Our focus is on offering the highest quality products & services at commodity pricing.
We’ve teamed up with Microsoft (you’re no doubt already using their products), among others, to launch this initiative. This Best of Breed approach means you won’t need to buy and manage your own servers anymore.
Talk to your account manager or email partnerteam@xero.com to learn more.
Best of Breed Advantages
- Low monthly fees
- Real-time integration
- Online anywhere anytime
- Free automatic updates
- Free automatic backups
- No CAPEX $10,000+
- No Contracts
- No Office servers
- No Installations
- No Version conflicts
Compare these hosted prices to the $10,000-$100,000+ you're already paying for on-site solutions
Client Accounting, Final Accounts Production
Thousands of accountants around the world are now using Xero and the single ledger concept to transform their practices while making their small business customers more productive. Xero provides Partner Edition for accountants to manage their clients, practice and staff in one place. It also provides the ability to generate management reports and the final releases for end of year accounts are being tested currently.
Practice Management
WorkflowMax allows you and your staff to track time, manage jobs, expenses and invoicing. Using the advanced reporting, measure how productive your team is, whether you're on schedule and more importantly how much money you are making on each job.
The tax solution will be provided through online tax specialist LodgeIT, enabling seamless integration between the general ledger, tax management and Australian Tax Office. This next generation of online tax management will allow accountants to fully embrace the cloud.
Development schedules expect this to be available for beta late 2011. Watch this space!

Interactiveaccounting.com.au
Email, Office, File & Print, Document Management
Office 365 includes:
Microsoft Office - Your favourite Office tools on the desktop and on the Web now seamlessly connected and delivered with cloud services. Exchange Online - Cloud-based e-mail, calendar and contacts with the most current antivirus and anti-spam solutions. SharePoint Online (via the PracticePoint template) - Document management which includes SharePoint Workspaces, allowing you to work on your documents locally offline, then automatically syncronise with your SharePoint site when you connect back up. Lync Online - Communicate with staff and clients through cloud-based instant messaging, and online meeting experiences with screen sharing and voice and video conferencing.
These online services are designed to work with the Office products you know and love, meeting your needs for robust security, 24/7 reliability, and user productivity. They eliminate the time and effort you spend managing your e-mail and collaboration servers, while keeping you in control.
Migration and support Partner
Implementation, proactive monitoring and management of your IT for a fixed monthly price, no matter what. With your servers in the cloud, CodeBlue provides New Zealand wide coverage to assist you with everything you need to connect your staff and office envrionment to your cloud services.
PracticePoint document management
Building on the SharePoint online platform, Xero and the other vendors will work together to create an evolving set of standard templates for you to officially run the Modern Practice.
See an overview of PracticePoint here
Website, CRM, eMarketing
e360 removes the traditional roadblocks for doing business online, replacing them with a set of building blocks enabling you to add value in new and exciting ways not only in your accounting practice but in your clients' businesses too.
e360 is more than just a website, it is one of the most integrated and comprehensive online business tools available on the market today.
Right out of the box you can get website content management, email marketing, e-commerce, secure client login, event and seminar bookings, forms and survey builder - and it’s all easy enough to run yourself from one login and one low monthly fee.

EngineRoomCA.co.nz
Our commitment as a group of cloud vendors is to continually develop our software to make it more seamless. Already we are confident our Best of Breed approach will give you the best set of tools for running your practice.
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All prices listed are in New Zealand Dollars and exclude GST.