Category Archives: Help

Get Ready for Year-End Bonuses!

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One of the most common methods of showing appreciation to staff is by issuing year-end bonuses. Your employees work very hard, and as a business owner, you want to reward their efforts.  While paying a bonus to your employees may sound simple, both federal and state agencies have rules regarding the taxability of these types […]

Xero the Hero: Customize Your Dashboard

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We love how Xero lets you customize so many things. Did you know that you can edit your dashboard in Xero? We think customizing your dashboard is a great feature! Today we will show you the steps to customize your dashboard. 1. Navigate to your Xero Dashboard. If you login to your Xero account directly, […]

Xero the Hero: Transfer Bank Rules

We have all been eagerly awaiting bank transfer rules. We are so excited to find out that this Xero update has been released! What exactly are bank transfer rules and why are we so excited about them?  What are Transfer Rules? Bank transfer rules are basically bank rules for bank transfers and credit card payments. […]

Automation in Xero Part III: Repeating Journal Entries

Beyond Balanced Books

Welcome to Part Three of our series on automation within Xero. We are focusing on ways you can use Xero to automate and streamline your bookkeeping. We have already discussed how you can use Repeating Invoices & Default Settings. Now we will touch on how you can setup Repeating Journal Entries. Manual Journals are used by […]

Xero the Hero: Billable Expenses

Beyond Balanced Books

Have you heard of the billable expenses feature in Xero? It is a handy feature that can be especially good for construction contractors.  What are Billable Expenses? Billable expenses work by being able to assign a certain expense to a customer when you are entering a bill or spend money transaction. You can opt to […]

Starting a New Business – Using the Cloud

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Have you been thinking of starting a new business? Now’s a great time to do it! Here’s a quick guide on how you can use the cloud to help. Why Use the Cloud The cloud provides many benefits to you when you are starting a new business because you can have all your documents and […]

Xero the Hero: Running Balances for Account Transactions

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Xero is always coming out with new features! A recently released feature got us pretty excited. There is now a running balance column on the bank account transactions page.  What is the Running Balance? The running balance on the Account Transactions tab includes all reconciled transactions and unreconciled spend money and receive money transactions that have […]