In June 2021 I announced a new Workforce Management Cast Study in development. In their most recent annual report to shareholders Xero announced the acquisition of yet another “integration” that sets it up to become the Sage of Small Business Accounting.
Sage and other ERM’s work on the basis of modules that provide a specific functionality but until now it was only really relevant for the big end of town. Now Xero will capture revenue from several apps rather than charge one price that includes everything. It’s going back to the days of Attache!
Deputy was one of the first apps that I recall provided small business owners and employers with a program to help them manage their rosters, schedules, holiday leave etc.
Deputy was a featured Integration for Xero for a long time but their Planday acquisition will no doubt pan out very similar to WorkflowMax and Hubdoc.
In their new Xero App Store you can filter the integrations to find those that relate to Payroll and HR.
Xero Me is an app for employees to manage their roster and get key payroll information. It’s also linked to Xero Expenses if employees are keeping track of their expenses. Some of the features include:
Payslips
Timesheets
Leave
Expense claims* (must be using Xero Expenses)
Taken from the Google Play Apps Store:
This app has access to:
Location
Photos / Media / Files
Storage
Camera
Wi-Fi connection information
Other
I’ve written plenty of times about the numerous Xero Integrations which extend the value of using Xero (or any cloud-based accounting program). Xero has often “promoted” that they are the best accounting software for something (Real Estate for example) but it was one of their integration partners that actually provide the real estate software program.
With the recent purchase of Planday in Europe Xero is starting to look like an ERP system (Enterprise Resource Planning) for small businesses. You can start with your core accounting program and then bolt on other Xero Integrations to expand the functionality.
The thing is that Xero is starting to slowly replace their high profile “partners” with their own software programs that they have acquired to continue to grow the numbers of users and their income.
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