The Arabic word Zahara means ‘beautiful flower’. In Swahili – ‘to blossom’. But for founder Martin Peirce, Zahara means growth, simplicity, and perseverance. Martin named his company after a Moorish town in the hills of Andalusia. Every summer he would take his family travelling through Spain to visit the friends he had there. On route he’d mull over local place names as names for potential products. Zahara stuck. If only he’d picked a town that didn’t leave us at the bottom of any alphabetical list...
Zahara’s vision for the future of AP Automation Software is one where every bill or expense claim can be created, read, approved and paid on the due date – no intervention needed. At Zahara we have the tools and capability to set the finance and accounts-payable teams free from the mundane work of endless keying and collating. Using AI, we help our customers’ teams fully automate functions like paying bills and reconciling statements.
As our software works in real-time, the rush to get the month, quarter or year-end figures done will be consigned to history. Your freed-up finance teams will then be able to concentrate on things that matter most to the growth of your business: supplier relations, cost savings and analysis.
Our passion is to make beautiful software that finance teams love to use.
We want to make it easier for Teams to control costs and pay their supplier bills more easily, with less effort.
We have five core values that drive Zahara.
Zahara has a vision where every bill or expense claim can be easily created in Zahara, read and routed for approval and then paid on the due date. Without any intervention. We have the tools and capability to set the finance and more particularly the accounts payable team free from the mundane tasks of keying and collating. Using the next level AI we can help our customers’ teams fully automate functions like paying bills and reconciling statements. This sets them free to concentrate on supplier relations, cost savings and analysis. The rush to get the month, quarter or year-end figures done will be consigned to history as everything works in real-time.
Zahara has a vision where every bill or expense claim can be easily created in Zahara, read and routed for approval and then paid on the due date. Without any intervention. We have the tools and capability to set the finance and more particularly the accounts payable team free from the mundane tasks of keying and collating. Using the next level AI we can help our customers’ teams fully automate functions like paying bills and reconciling statements. This sets them free to concentrate on supplier relations, cost savings and analysis. The rush to get the month, quarter or year-end figures done will be consigned to history as everything works in real-time.
Zahara’s core product of invoice processing, approval workflows and purchase orders can be expanded with payments and third-party integrations. We try to include as much as possible in the core product but have a quota approach, so you only pay for the parts of Zahara you use.
In addition to the software we sell, we also provide pre-sales consultancy to understand your requirements fully, and a turn-key onboarding solution so you can get to cost savings faster, knowing your Zahara build is the most elegant and efficient possible.
Zahara is a UK based team with colleagues working across Europe and Australia. The business is a team run on Teams with our senior leadership team based in the beautiful city of Bath. This includes our founder Martin Peirce, and Jonathan Lee who has an extensive history working as a finance director. Martin comes up with the ideas and Jonathan makes them happen. The directors are supported by Ruth Whittaker who leads support and customer success, Anthony Brooks our head of product, Nick Hedley-Harper on all things technical and Drew Murray heading up sales. And finally, Paul Droguet is our territory manager, based in Brisbane looking after the Asia Pac region.
While Zahara has registered offices in the UK and Australia, we are spread out with developers in Poland and Ukraine, testing in Scotland and various other home workers spreading us far and wide.
“I can 100% recommend Zahara. The beauty of it is you can set the coding and workflow and Zahara takes care of all authorisations. As a result, we’re now paying 95% of suppliers on time”
“I’m really pleased with how easy it is to approve costs using Zahara. The software has helped us control our spending.”
“The people at Zahara have been very helpful at explaining the software. Whenever we have an issue, we know we can get a prompt response which gives us the security we need when dealing with urgent and large amounts of money.”
