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Xero

Overview

What is Xero?

Xero is an online accounting software product for small businesses and personal finance. Its features beyond general ledger and double-bookkeeping include quotable invoicing, bank reconciliation, purchase order and expense management, and tax management. Third party apps can extend its features…

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Recent Reviews

Xero to Hero

8 out of 10
March 18, 2024
Incentivized
My business uses Xero as a gauge for all financial optics. It helps manage monies in and out, account visibility and solves invoicing …
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Xero the Hero

10 out of 10
March 04, 2024
Incentivized
I use Xero for invoicing, reconciling our monthly revenue and spending, and providing our accountants with the information they need for …
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Xero or Zero

1 out of 10
March 01, 2024
I use it as an accounting program. <br>The program constantly loses the ability to connect to my bank. When reported this problem takes …
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Xero

4 out of 10
February 02, 2024
It is an accounting system we use for billing, paying bills, and producing financial reports. It also has payroll capabilities, but I am …
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Efficient User

8 out of 10
January 11, 2024
Incentivized
Xero caters excellently to businesses of various sizes, offering a remarkably clean interface that's incredibly user-friendly, even for …
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Bank reconciliation (188)
    9.1
    91%
  • Accounts receivable (181)
    9.0
    90%
  • Standard reports (183)
    8.3
    83%
  • Dashboards (180)
    8.0
    80%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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Video Reviews

1 video

"Straight-Forward" Accounting. How Xero Helped a Business Owner Manage Expenses
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Pricing

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Early

$13

Cloud
per month

Growing

$37

Cloud
per month

Established

$70

Cloud
per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.xero.com/us/pricing-plans/

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $13 per month
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Features

Payroll Management

Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.

7.8
Avg 7.5

Customization

This addresses a company’s ability to configure the software to fit its specific use case and workflow.

7.5
Avg 7.1

Security

This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.

8
Avg 8.0

Reporting & Analytics

Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.

8.1
Avg 7.6

General Ledger and Configurable Accounting

Financial management solution, including capabilities for general ledger and configurable accounting

7.4
Avg 7.4

Inventory Management

The ability to track and manage the flow of goods or materials into and out of an inventory.

6.5
Avg 7.0

Order Management

The ability to process orders, and track them from quote to cash.

6.8
Avg 7.4
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Product Details

What is Xero?

Xero is an online accounting software platform for small businesses and their advisors, as well as for personal finance. Xero competes most often with QuickBooks Online. Its features, beyond the ubiquitous general ledger and double-entry bookkeeping support, include invoicing with quotes, bank reconciliation, purchase order and expense management, tax management, and it is mobile-accessible. Xero integrates with over 800 third-party applications, covering everything from inventory and logistics to cash flow, project management, customer relationship management, and e-commerce.

The product is sold by subscription (a distribution model commonly known as software as a service or SaaS) requiring the payment of a monthly fee. This charge is proportionate to the number (and type) of company entities managed by the subscriber. The lowest tiered pricing option is the $9 per month Starter pack, which supports unlimited users but a limited number of transactions. The $30 Standard pack breaks open usage limits and adds e-filing and payroll options. The $70 Premium package doubles the number of supported employees on payroll from 5 to 10, and supports multiple currencies.

Xero Features

General Ledger and Configurable Accounting Features

  • Supported: Accounts payable
  • Supported: Accounts receivable
  • Supported: Cash management
  • Supported: Bank reconciliation
  • Supported: Expense management
  • Supported: Time tracking
  • Supported: Fixed asset management
  • Supported: Multi-currency support
  • Supported: Multi-division support
  • Supported: Regulations compliance
  • Supported: Electronic tax filing
  • Supported: Self-service portal
  • Supported: Global Financial Support
  • Supported: Primary and Secondary Ledgers

Inventory Management Features

  • Supported: Inventory tracking

Reporting & Analytics Features

  • Supported: Dashboards
  • Supported: Standard reports
  • Supported: Custom reports

Customization Features

  • Supported: Plug-ins

Security Features

  • Supported: Role-based user permissions
  • Supported: Multi-factor authentication

Xero Screenshots

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Xero Video

Xero is accounting software for small businesses and their advisors. It reveals a business's cashflow in real-time with online accounting, invoicing, payroll, billing & banking.

Xero Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Xero is an online accounting software product for small businesses and personal finance. Its features beyond general ledger and double-bookkeeping include quotable invoicing, bank reconciliation, purchase order and expense management, and tax management. Third party apps can extend its features further.

Xero starts at $13.

Priority AccountEdge, QuickBooks Online, and Sage 50cloud Accounting are common alternatives for Xero.

Reviewers rate Journals and Reconciliations highest, with a score of 9.2.

The most common users of Xero are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • during Covid it was essential we had a web based software. It worked wonders.
  • We can centralise everything in Xero (like Invoices attached to transactions) which makes it quite simple to track everything when needed
Mitesh Chavda | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It makes it easy to budget for our projects.
  • Helps monitor our expenditure to avoid spending beyond the available budget.
  • Allows us to understand our financial health which is important in running our business within the optimum financial limits.
Melissa Lenos | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • We have saved 1 hour per month on reporting on one of our not-for-profits, which is 12 hours a year at minimum from an investment of 30 minutes on initial setup.
  • On cleanup files, we are able to save at minimum half the time we would spend and be able to get them cleaned up and moved to a monthly file quicker
  • Using cash coding on one client as an example it would take us a week to do their bookkeeping last year it took me 8 hours from start to finish.
March 01, 2024

Xero or Zero

Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Absolutely no ROI
  • My excel program I put together gives me more information about my business than Xero
  • Spend more time on Xero, than expected. Don't believe the "it will save you time" sales line.
February 06, 2024

Xero

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Allowed accurate record keeping
  • Able to share finances directly with financial advisors
  • Creates an easy-to-access archive of all income and expenses
February 02, 2024

Xero

Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • It has helped streamline our billing process
  • Bank Recons take about twice as much time
  • Custom reporting saves time creating financial reports to present to boards, banks, & executive teams
Darrell Bruxvoort | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Compared to QuickBooks, it can consolidate entries quickly to create compound entries to speed work up.
  • It is well written to open the box and get going with the low level of accounting intelligence.
  • Xero is eager to help their customers succeed and does not underfund this area of support within their company.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Cafeful attention to the P&L has resulted in improved margins across all my skus thanks to Xero
  • Input errors into xero by bookkeepers has caused incorrect payments which took time and money to resolve
  • Payroll administration has significantly reduced as xero makes this process easy
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Saved many hours through automatic invoices and followups
  • Saved many hours by allowing transactions to start via bank feeds (ie I don't have to input a transaction and mark it against what is in the bank/cc account; rather, the transaction in the account is where you input the transaction into the books.
  • Has the scalability my business requires, and not much more.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Our firm requires less than 30 minutes a month to reconcile 4 bak accounts
  • We typically have monthly expenses that are direct billed to end customers, this is "no touch" managed properly within the account ledger. Previous system required manual intervention
  • Works in multiple currency easily
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It takes us less than an hour a month to manage our accounts, making it well worth the money
  • Our account canb access our accounts and prepoare our year end with minimal involvment from us.
  • At a glance we can see how our business us doing at any given time
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