Comments on: Xero vs MYOB – A comparison

By: Gareth (Unleashed Software)

Gareth (Unleashed Software) — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 08:52:45 +0000

Today Xero announced inventory. that plugs the gap nicely for small businesses starting up and needing to buy and sell stock. And then for businesses needing better inventory control functionality with stock tracking, purchasing, stock take functionality and 100's of other features to manage stock then unleashed software (also in the cloud) provide a good solution that integrates directly into Xero.

By: Accountant Christchurch

Accountant Christchurch — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:51:21 +0000

Thank your for the information. As an accountant, I always value people who add value to the information available to educate consumers especially with this accounting system. I particularly liked your advice on Xero.

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By: Grant Ovenden

Grant Ovenden — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:35:13 +0000

We love XERO, we struggled for months with MYOB as a new business and then moved to XERO relatively easily and now just totally love the product.
Can’t stop telling other people how great/easy/friendly/fast/efficient XERO is.
It’s almost viral.
Cannot see MYOB lasting much further past 31.12.2010 personally…

By: Heather Douglas

Heather Douglas — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:52:01 +0000

Hi there

Just thought I’d share my own personal views here, having used several other accounting packages and having switched to Xero. Yes, there are things it is missing, but even in the short time we have been using it several new features have been added and more have been promised.

Cost is higher if you look just at purchase price but we have found both our admin costs and accountant costs to be lower, largely due to the real-time importing of bank statements and ease of use. As a non-accountant I love that it’s reasonably fool-proof (and my accountant can log in and check in just a few minutes). And because the statements are imported every day, our financial reporting is much more timely. I should add that I have also put our family accounts on Xero (for an extra $10 a month)and that has made a huge difference too.

There are things I wish were there – for instance, I find using filters to track certain categories clunky as it includes all transactions not assigned to a tracked category instead of excluding them – but on balance, I wouldn’t go back to any of the other systems I have used.

By: Ben Kepes

Ben Kepes — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:06:29 +0000

Gordon – just thought I’d dig my oar in. As well as spending a huge amount of time watching and analysing Xero, I’m also a SaaS accounting commentator generally – check out my series of reviews and analysis pieces on cloudave.com/tag/accy2. There’s a bunch of SaaS accounting products out there – many of which do the stock control that seems to be such a deal breaker for you…