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Xero is an accounting software that caters to small businesses across multiple sectors, such as agriculture, construction, education, healthcare, hospitality, and more.
Designed for childcare providers, childcare centers, state agencies, CACFP sponsors, and family childcare providers, the tool helps manage food programs, claims, and operations.
I love Xero - Xero is a multifuctional site/app that has many features and abilities that are useful for individuals and small business which is what I use it for.
Unable to run a payment history by vendor for some reporting I needed to complete. Possible user error but, I was told functionality not available.
Features such as bank connections and invoice creation are great, while the dashboard offers very useful and great information.
Back to the bank feed -- Xero is unable to connect with a number of banks. In addition, the bank feed sometimes drops out transactions with no notice to the file owner or bookkeeper.
Xero is a good choice for businesses looking for comprehensive accounting software with a range of features and good customer support.
Lack of integration with Shopify for invoice/inventory management.
I love, love, love the app and cloud versions. I like that I can snap pictures of my receipts and chart them immediately so that my reconciliations go smoother.
1099 reports are too limited. Tracking categories are too limited.
Love the ease of use for providers it makes recording meals easier and love love love the copy days options and all the infant options we did not have before.
Terrible user interface. Updates are slow and sloppy, leaving numerous errors for the user to fix.
It has been an excellent business saver time and money wise. I am so grateful for the wonderful resource it has been to my large home daycare.
Their customer service is terrible. They have had numerous accounting outages, and have cost family childcare providers a lot of money.
I loved this software because it helps me find child care when I need it. Its easy to use and very simple.
Each child and each meal is ridiculous. Each day should start with breakfast - not dinner.
I love how easy the program is reallyset-up for you to choose meals for day to day planning. I love how I can run reports for everything I can think of that I might need.
Just when internet not working is the only time have trouble.
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?
Jennifer J.: Hi, my name is Jennifer and I'm an education provider and I did give KidKare five rating and for more [inaudible 00:00:07]. I switched to KidKare because it's more convenient because I used before system from [inaudible 00:00:17] department and it was too slow or sometime they don't have the flexibility to our children to get out and use. It wasn't convenient for me so that's why I switched to KidKare. I decided at the end to try KidKare and then I stay with it for more than five years now because it's more convenient for me. It's easy to use, it a lot of tools that I can improve my system with my all the children that I have and it's great. It's work easy and convenient for me. To start KidKare first I, when I knew this, it was through my agency and it's super easy. So if you download the application on your computer, you go to the website and they give you a tour, how to use everything. So you're not going to be lost. So it's quicker to learn it and it's very easy. I will advise all my colleagues maybe to switch if they're looking for something convenient, easy, and not a headache to use because we have a lot of software out there. But when you find something that it go with the job that you do it's a lot better because everything is clear. And if you don't know something there was always assistant online, so they can help you with anything that you maybe don't get. But everything's pretty clear so I would advise them to get KidKare for sure.
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