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Xero vs Cin7 Core: Which is a better fit?

Updated on January 22nd, 2025
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Key features rated by users
Features selected based on 9,394 reviews from Accounting users.
% Fit
High performer
Feature ratings
Income & Balance Sheet
4.5
Document Management
4.7
Financial Reporting
4.4
Financial Management
4.5
Billing & Invoicing
4.6
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Feature ratings
Income & Balance Sheet
3.7
Document Management
4.0
Financial Reporting
4.3
Financial Management
4.5
Billing & Invoicing
4.3
User satisfaction
4.4
User reviews3,113
Ease of use
4.3
Functionality
4.3
Value for money
4.2
Customer support
4.0
4.3
User reviews711
Ease of use
4.2
Functionality
4.2
Value for money
4.3
Customer support
4.4
Price starts from
Monthly subscription
Free version
Free trial
Monthly subscription
Free version
Free trial
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Accounting for Small Business

Connect your inventory, suppliers, sales channels, orders and warehouses in one automated solution with 700 integrations.

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Nigel E
Managing Director
5.0

Nigel: My name is Nigel. I'm the Managing Director of my own company, D13 Solutions. We are a consultant company using Xero, which I'm rating five out of five. Xero was recommended to us by our accountants. They had options for products like Sage and some other products as well. They showed us two or three of those products, and we chose Xero from that list. We chose Xero because Xero was the most usable of the products. So the interface was very simple, but it also suited the way we work. So inability to do what we needed to do in the shortest possible time, in the easiest way. Xero gave us the best options out of all of the things we looked at. So we switched to Xero from our previous package. That was really straightforward. But for everything we use it for, which is invoicing, quotes, purchase orders, it's all really good. It's really straightforward and simple to use. We use it in multiple currencies as well, and it supports that very well indeed. But we've integrated things like the company credit cards, so everybody's credit card is integrated into the system, so it really works nice and simple. So things like my month end when I'm doing all my reconciliations, those take a matter of a couple of hours, not a couple of days. Xero has been a game changer for us. It's made my life more simple. It's kept my costs down. This means I haven't got to go and find someone external to my bookkeeping because it's all simple and easy to use within the app. I would recommend anybody to try Xero. It may not be for everyone, but it's certainly worth trying. And with a free trial available, why would you not?

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Steve H
President
5.0

Steve: My name's Steve, I'm president of my company in the automotive industry, and I give Orderhive five stars. We switched over from Brightpearl, which is an ERP system, to Orderhive. We didn't think that Brightpearl was the right product for us. The user interface is pretty dated, and it required a lot of clicking around to get any basic things done. We needed a product that could do two things, it could manage our inventory well, including our purchasing, and it could do automation of processing of orders, so backend order processing. And both products can do that, we felt that Orderhive had a cleaner, more contemporary user interface, it's automation engine is much, much stronger. The customer support has been much stronger. Brightpearl lacks a lot of the handholding that's necessary to onboard properly, and overall Orderhive offers a much greater value. It's monthly pricing, and even annual pricing is extremely competitive, and we felt that it was just a more beneficial process for us at a better price. We chose Orderhive because Orderhive offered a quick onboard, strong automation, good inventory management, a user interface that's really a joy to work with. A manager and I who work in it all the time say that we're drawn to using it like a moth to flame. It's not a click intensive process, but instead you can get the work done and you can see the work as you're doing it, and that's pretty rare. I mean, it just feels streamlined. And on top of that, the customer support has been both technically, and just in terms of having somebody to talk to, has been absolutely outstanding. I would say that the product is India based. They do not have a US side customer service team, but they make themselves available on US time. So we have not had any issues with that, although you do need to learn to work with that. Onboarding is always expensive, it takes a lot of labor, there's some wasted effort. But in this case, we found that onboarding on to Orderhive was actually pretty much as good as you can get. There is a lack of support articles and self-help, so you really are dependent on their team, but they have a good team. Their folks are right there with you, they feel ownership over your success. Early on we expressed some concerns during the sales process that we need more help than they could imagine, and they told us not to worry about it. And we weren't sure if that was just a sales pitch, but in the end, what we found was that they were right there, and that they did follow through on all their promises. We couldn't be any happier with the people at Orderhive and the way those people have supported us and taken on our problems as their problems. They often approach an issue as, let us see if we can figure out a way to make that happen, make your workflow work, rather than asking us to fit into their products. So that's been a pleasant surprise. Any backend system that helps with inventory and order management needs to be scaled properly for your enterprise, and I think that we found one that works for us. I think a business that's very large and needs a full ERP system with order level or transaction level financial analysis, they wouldn't get everything they need out of Orderhive. but for us, where we can use our accounting software separately and look at numbers rather than just tracing every transaction to its exact margins, we don't need to do that, so we really are focused more on the labor efficiencies of having an automation system. In that case, Orderhive is perfect. It does a good job managing inventory and purchasing, and it does an excellent job of automating the order processing, and I think that that's who it's good for, and that's exactly what we needed.

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Xero

Top Features
35/43
  • Audit Management
  • Chart of Accounts
  • Data Security
  • Encryption
  • Financial Consolidation & Close Management
  • Multi-Location
  • Reminders
  • Workflow Management
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Accounts Payable
  • Accounts Receivable
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Activity Tracking
  • API
  • Approval Process Control
  • Audit Trail
  • Bank Reconciliation
  • Billing & Invoicing
  • Budgeting/Forecasting
  • Cash Flow Management
  • Compliance Management
  • Currency Conversion
  • Document Management
  • Expense Tracking
  • Financial Management
  • Financial Reporting
  • Fixed Asset Management
  • Fund Accounting
  • General Ledger
  • Income & Balance Sheet
  • Mobile Access
  • Multi-Currency
  • Payment Processing
  • Payroll Management
  • Project Accounting
  • Purchase Order Management
  • Quotes/Estimates
  • Receipt Management
  • Recurring/Subscription Billing
  • Sales Tax Management
  • Status Tracking
  • Tax Management
  • Third-Party Integrations
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Cin7 Core

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Xero
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Cin7 Core
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Xero
  • By Xero
  • Located in New Zealand
  • Founded in 2006
Cin7 Core
  • By Cin7
  • Located in New Zealand
  • Founded in 2011
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