Does anybody have experience in Xero AND Kashflow?

Does anybody have experience in Xero AND Kashflow?

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Afternoon all,

We have built a very successful financial outsourcing firm using Xero alone - only 10 months ago, had no Xero clients and now we have gained around 30 of them, bringing in around £120k fees.  All sounds good - and I love Xero, we're accredited etc.... (and there's a but)

BUT - I am very conscious that we could be "that" firm that just recommends one cloud based software!  We have used QBs online for one client and managed to survive a year without going mad - then transferred them onto Xero so that one's sacked off.

What I'd like to do is to be able to offer one of three (thinking Kashflow, Xero and A-N-other) to clients, with a bit more of the attitude that one size doesn't necessarily fit all.

So - does anyone have good experience of Xero and Kashflow?  If so, are you able to offer clients a distinct reason as to why that software and not the other?

Would be very interested to hear from anyone!

Thanks

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By Rob Connell
29th Oct 2013 13:29

Choices... plus make sure they all work with the same add-ons

We work with Xero, Kashflow, Sage One and Freeagent. So in addition to Xero and Kashflow for microbusiness clients Sage One and Freeagent both have considerable market presence. To be unbiased Intuit's new Quickbooks Online offering Harmony looks nice from the preview demo and at the other end of the scale in terms of size but again with a very nice User Interface is Clearbooks who look like they will succeed with their latest 'cloud funding' too. We have also been approached from accountants asking Smeebi to work as an add on with Thomas Reuters Digita and further afield for MYOB.

In addition if you consider all of these as small business offerings or add-ons and you'd probably want to make sure they all work across the accounting software choices you offer. Smeebi and others like Spotlight and Fathom can add some extra value to in reporting to compliment Xero (plus Smeebi works with Kashflow your other consideration), whilst you could also find many other popular add-ons like Receipt Bank, Capsule, Float etc. Like Smeebi I think everyone has a free trial and better prices for accountants.

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By chatman
29th Oct 2013 13:35

No Bank Feeds
I only use Kashflow for one client now as I don't like it, but as for specific reasons, I can only think of is the absence of bank feeds.

For your third choice, Clearbooks is good, and very cheap.

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By Rob Connell
29th Oct 2013 13:36

API's aren't equal...

Also consider the API offered by each, for example we can use tracking codes from Xero (restricted to two categories but they are free text so can be anything i.e. location and cost centre, or business unit and product etc. with many entries under each catagory) and from Kashflow we can get project codes, customer, supplier and product dimension for true business analytics.

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By Red Leader
29th Oct 2013 15:56

Free Agent

I think the consensus may be to use Free Agent instead of Kashflow for the one man businesses. This is just based on my impression of posts on here over the last few months.

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By BigBadWolf
29th Oct 2013 17:01

Not Kashflow

Having used kashflow - its reporting was awful compared to Xero, and as Red leader suggests - FreeAgent is far better for smaller clients

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By coraliescott
30th Oct 2013 04:35

Saasu.com

Hi there! Love your thinking. There's some great products out there at the moment, and you'll gain trust by being able to recommend the best product for a client's specific needs (it's not one-size-fits-all, for sure).

Might be worth checking us out if you're looking for some other options (I'm partner manager here) www.saasu.com —Recently opened London office & has Sydney office. Soon to launch properly in UK.

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By User deleted
29th Oct 2013 23:08

Tips for new practice
Hi, I don't expect you to give away all your secrets but could you offer any advice on attracting online-bookkeeping clients to my new practice?

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By chatman
29th Oct 2013 23:12

Advertising in this thread
Coralie - I believe you have already been told it is considered bad form to recommend your employer's products without disclosing that you are the marketing manager.

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By Paul Scholes
30th Oct 2013 00:54

How many more times coralie?

Give it a rest or start giving some details of Saasu in the UK, you are digging a hole here.

https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/anyanswers/question/cloud-accounting-sof...

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By timmne
31st Oct 2013 12:47

Thanks....

....everyone for your input.  (I didn't get any notification of replies so sorry about the delay!)

It's certainly interesting to see that people use more than one bit of software although I've got to say I didn't realise Kashflow didn't do bank feeds.  This is a massive time saver for us, meaning we need fewer junior staff to get the basics done.  I'm not sure I can go back to the olden days of punching in numbers - seems a waste of time nowadays!

I think I'll have a look at Clearbooks - it's something I'd like to invest in if it looks decent, although (and there aren't too many at the minute) I am conscious that the cloud accounting market can't keep taking massive successes of finance systems so maybe I'll hold off on putting too much in.

Thanks again

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