Xero Blog

In the past month, we’ve released a number of features to help you manage the latest changes to COVID-19 grants, tax and payroll. We’ve also released the next evolution of our short-term cash flow and business snapshot tools, to help you plan for the future with confidence.

We’ve made a number of updates to Xero HQ over the past 12 months. It’s all part of our next generation practice vision to make Xero HQ a purpose-built Client Relationship Management (CRM) system for your accounting or bookkeeping practice. 

At Xero, we believe every small business should have access to trusted, insightful data that helps them understand where they are now, and where they might be in the future. That’s why I’m thrilled to announce that we’ve developed a powerful new tool called Xero Analytics Plus, which is available from today.

This month, we’ve released a number of updates across the Xero platform to help you maintain compliance across payroll, tax, employee time tracking and more. I’m particularly excited to share that we’re now the first accounting provider in South Africa to provide an end-to-end tax solution that connects to the South African Revenue Service (SARS) in real-time.

While payroll is the foundation of employee management, there’s a lot more to managing people than paying them correctly. Using the right tools can help you automate these tasks, so you have more time to focus on your people and less time worrying about processes and paperwork.

We’ve already seen the transformational role that digitisation can have on businesses. One area it can make a real difference is tax. Expanding the taxpayer base is a vital step in the long-term development of our economy, and tech has a key role to play. 

This month, many of our new features are focused on the payments and invoicing experience in Xero. These include the arrival of a highly requested feature in Hubdoc, as well as the ability to print a packing slip from an invoice and get paid in multiple currencies.

Our latest product releases allow you to send and receive e-invoices in Xero, view all your bank rules in the one place, and more. If you’re a Xero partner, don’t forget to register for our upcoming quarterly product update, where our education team will walk you through a demo of all the latest releases, so you can maintain your advisor certification.

If you run your own business, or you’re a contractor or accountant in the UK, then you’ll probably know about off-payroll working, also known as IR35. The IR35 legislation has been in place since 2000 and already impacts the public sector, but new changes are coming into effect on 6 April 2021 that could impact you.