Xero Online Accounting

Dashboard

Get a real-time view of your business at a glance, with a snapshot of all your recent transactions.

Invoicing

Create send, receive and report on invoices in one place and get a clear view of where your income is coming from and when.

Banking

Keeps your records accurate and up to date with easy bank reconciliations and automatic daily feeds of account transactions, direct from your bank.

Payables

Monitor and manage how much money you owe – instantly know what's waiting payment and what's overdue.

Contacts

Keep a file of the individuals and organisations you do business with, and have their details automatically populate your invoices and transaction records.

Expense claims

Make it easy to enter, manage and reconcile your personal expenses.

Web-based

Access your accounts and run your business from any web connection, anywhere in the world, using a PC, Mac or mobile device.

Reporting

Generate and view interactive reports in real-time, anytime. Your financial advisors can also create and publish the reports they need, as they need them.

For your accountant

At Xero’s heart is a full accrual accounting system which automates and simplifies your day-to-day bookkeeping, ready for professional analysis.

Multi-currency

Automatically convert foreign currency exchanges with live exchange rates for over 160 currencies, updated every hour from XE.com.

Payroll

Everything you need to manage your staff. Make pay runs, track leave and rest never pay for an upgrade. Payroll is built-in to Xero so payments, leave obligations and tax are automatically accounted for.

Smart, speedy pay runs

Schedule regular pay runs and ABA files are automatically created, with a full history for you to audit whenever you want.

Automatic tax tables

Never pay for tax tables again. Xero automatically updates your tax tables every year.

Employees manage themselves

Give employees access to view payslips and apply for leave without seeing any other part of your accounting or payroll.

Xero’s entire reputation depends on its security. So you can rest assured that your sensitive financial data is heavily guarded.

Xero’s developers work closely with Aura Security to continually audit security. Among other assessments, the Aura team conduct penetrative testing, with unannounced and deliberate attacks to measure Xero’s vulnerability. Aura has been highly impressed by Xero because, as they found, "the security of Xero was embedded in the company's mindset and filtered down from the CEO right through to the admin team."

Xero refuses to publish many of its security practices because doing so could create an opening. However, some of the more obvious precautions include:

• Xero models its security on the policies and measures taken by banks
• They use 128 bit SSL encryption, the same used for internet banking
• Their servers are hosted on a tier-one hosting provider, who monitors their servers and firewalls 24 / 7 / 365 at a guarded facility
• Only a few authorised personnel at Xero have admin access to the servers
• There is an audit trail of everything users do in Xero, and you can monitor the activity of all your invited users
• No one gets access to your records unless you invite them. You can remove any invited users whenever you want. You can invite Xero Customer Care for support purposes only and completely at your discretion
• Users must choose a strong password and automatic lockouts are enforced if incorrect passwords are entered – alerting Xero to any hacking attempts.
• Xero doesn't allow the browser to save your login, to eliminate potential access from a stolen or compromised computer
• If you are logged in and don't use Xero for a set period you will be automatically logged out, in case you’ve left your computer unattended
• Security is an ongoing process, not a singular event – Xero continuously reinforces its defences.

Xero is more secure than desktop accounting systems because:

• Unlike desktop applications, your data isn't stored on your computer. So if your laptop is lost or stolen no one can access your data without a login.
• Accessing your accounts online, from Xero’s servers, is infinitely more secure than sharing files by email or sending data on removable disks and drives.

Choose from three plans to suit your business:

Xero is available on an internet-connected PC or Mac running Internet Explorer 7+, Firefox 3+ and Safari 3+ web browsers². Xero also works across mobile devices such as iPhone, iPod Touch, BlackBerry® and Windows mobile devices.