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Take Back Control of Your Purchasing

Operational inefficiencies are a blight on business, yet largely avoidable with some straight-forward technical interventions. The procurement process is one such business function that has potential…

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Stop Approving Supplier Invoices!

If you’re having to check every supplier invoice is ok to pay - your process is broken.   When a supplier submits their invoice, they will typically have fulfilled their part of the contract,…

Bath Business Awards

Zahara are delighted to be shortlisted for the 2019 Bath Business Awards. In 2018, Zahara doubled its customer base in just 10 months and now has 5,000 users. The team at Zahara are delighted to be…

Audit trail & transparency

Zahara adds control and visibility to your buying. That's one of our main statements.  Every purchase and every invoice has a full audit-trail behind it. Who created it? who approved it? Wha…

How to get your invoices paid faster

As a software application, Zahara is all about purchasing and managing spend. The end result of the purchase approval process is often the purchase order. One persons purchase order is another's sales…

GDPR – Our initial thoughts

GDPR & Zahara    GDPR is all about consumers and consent. You can take it as read that Zahara is as secure a system as it can be. We are on Microsoft Azure and we have encrypted databases at re…

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You have to eat your own dog food

Dyson has certainly come a long way in the 20 years since Sir James launched his first vacuum cleaner, the DC-01. This much-admired UK company now claims to spend about £2 billion a year on research …

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Zahara is a class act with QuickBooks…

Pay attention Class Ok. So enough class puns. We've been getting to know QuickBooks better this month. Our developers have kicked off an integration with QuickBooks Online - it's a very popular accou…

Release Notes – 28/1/2017

  Release Notes 28/1/2017 New Feature - Save as Draft - You can now create an order but Save as a Draft - then edit and resume at any time New Feature - Reporting - We have now added invoices…

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We Trust in Zahara – Confidentiality

Trust Zahara - Confidentiality Agreements Zahara is getting bigger and better all the time, we are constantly adding more features to Zahara. We've had some feedback from our customers, and there has…

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Dummy’s Guide to Documents

At Zahara we want to help our customers as much as possible. so we have created this handy guide to different document types. It will cover Purchase Orders, Invoices, Purchase Requisition, etc. This…

Zahara Going Stateside

Zahara our PO management system keeps getting more and more enquiries from the U.S. Because of this we keep discovering new features that our customers in America need. Quickbooks & The U.S Za…

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Conditional Workflow Coming Soon

h1 {text-align:center;} New feature added to Zahara - conditional workflow. Will add new functionality to an already great purchase order system. Long Summer Nights Ending but Winter is Comi…

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