- Tradify – the best app I have found if you are running a tradesperson business. It is by far the most economical and easy to use. It sends invoices through to Xero or MYOB seamlessly and has a mobile version for when you are on the road. You can save notes, upload photos from jobs, save purchase orders in the job file, invite your staff, all pretty cool.
- Receiptbank – Take a photo of your invoice/receipt while you are at the shop or supplier, upload it to Receiptbank and send it through to Xero or MYOB where it will be stored with the purchase details. Nothing could be easier. A few tweaks at the start to set up, but from there, a very time saving app.
- Tradify – the best app I have found if you are running a tradesperson business. It is by far the most economical and easy to use. It sends invoices through to Xero or MYOB seamlessly and has a mobile version for when you are on the road. You can save notes, upload photos from jobs, save purchase orders in the job file, invite your staff, all pretty cool.
- Receiptbank – Take a photo of your invoice/receipt while you are at the shop or supplier, upload it to Receiptbank and send it through to Xero or MYOB where it will be stored with the purchase details. Nothing could be easier. A few tweaks at the start to set up, but from there, a very time saving app.
- Hubdoc – Comes free with your Xero subscription. You can upload documents just like Receiptbank but it’s much more user friendly.
MYOB versus Xero – Which is the best?
Both of these accounting software programs are popular and great to use. They do have their slight differences so making the choice between them will depend on your personal preferences. Below are some of the stand out differences that I have found .
- Both cost money and have different levels of subscription. The cost will depend on a few factors such as whether you need payroll functionality, the number of employees you have, whether you need job or inventory tracking to name a few. Xero is generally cheaper for the base program.
- MYOB has a cloud based version and a program based version. Xero is purely cloud based.
- Both have “bank feeds”. You can link your bank account to feed your transactions into the software. Here are a few differences I have found.
MYOB
- Once you have logged into your MYOB software, you then have to log in at the bank feed window to get your bank transactions. L
- I have not encountered an error with MYOB bank feeds J
Once your bank transactions have been fed into MYOB, you have to allocate the transactions to the appropriate accounts. You can set up some “rules” but it’s not as automated as Xero.
- You can set up some “rules” but it’s not as automated as Xero.
Xero
- Bank transactions are automatically fed into your Xero cloud software overnight.
- Occasionally Xero does not import some transactions so they have to be entered manually L
- Once you have allocated a transaction in Xero to the appropriate account, it “remembers” where you put it last time and populates the entry so if it’s correct, all you do is click ok.