Xero Blog

We’re excited to let you know that Amaka (one of our trusted app partners) has built a new Square + Xero integration that offers a number of new features. These include the ability to easily reconcile Square sales in Xero, capture point-of-sale transactions, and accept Square payments on Xero invoices*.

At Xero, we know you need detailed, accurate and easy-to-understand reports to help your business or practice thrive. That’s why we’re continuing to enhance our new reports, with features that give you a trusted and insightful view of your business performance.

Today, we’re pleased to share a new milestone on our journey to improve the contacts experience in Xero for our small business customers and their advisors. It’s a refreshed design that will make it easier to create and manage customer and supplier contact information from the list view page.

In the past month, we’ve released a number of new features to help you get paid faster, including enhancements to your e-invoicing experience. Let’s take a look. New features Reconcile fees to get more out of bank reconciliation – Global Being able to reconcile fees as part of your bank reconciliation process is now a reality.

Accountants and bookkeepers in the UK are playing a vital role in rebuilding our economy. So at Xero, we want to make their lives easier.  When we launched Xero Tax in the UK almost a year and a half ago, we made a commitment that personal tax would come next.

Are you a data scientist who lives for the lunchtime surf? A woodland wanderer looking to do great product design while living deep among the trees? An engineer who’s passionate about being home for dinner with the kids?

At Xero, we’re committed to making our products more inclusive for small businesses and advisors around the world. A key part of this process is upgrading the design of features like bank reconciliation, to make them more accessible and remove technical restraints, so we can deliver features in the future that will help your business or practice thrive.

According to figures from the UK government, 39% of businesses have experienced a cyber security breach in the last year. The effects of a cyber attack can be devastating, posing not only a risk to your business, but also to your brand – and it’s set to grow as we operate in an increasingly online world. 

Around 15 years ago, I sat down at my dining room table in Wellington and began writing the first lines of code for a start-up that would ultimately become Xero. In recognition of that anniversary, I’ve been reflecting on those early days, and how a simple idea to transform bank reconciliation changed the game for accounting and helped build the global small business platform you see today.