For many companies in the building and construction sectors, purchasing is a pain. "We paid some sub-contractors twice for the same invoice. Our Director authorised payment of a paper invoice and t…
In a recent Benchmark report from the Institute of Finance & Management (IOFM), Efficiencies were cited by Accounts Payables as their biggest challenge. Based on a 2 year study of nearly 400 A…
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…
Great to welcome Andrew Van De Beek to Zahara’s Bath office recently. As a speaker at Accountex, Practicing Accountant and a 2018 Accounting Thought Leader of the Year, Andrew has real insights i…
What is Purchase-to-Pay? What are the Pain Points & Solutions - The Quick Win Fee Opportunity for Advisors As accounting firms and advisors seek out new revenue opportunities, they need…
Take a look at Zahara's 5 Step Guide to Managing Budgets and Approvals. In this simple to use guide, you'll find: A description of budget management and why its so importan…
With 5.6m users globally QuickBooks can justifiably claim to be a real powerhouse of small business accounting. The massive growth of QuickBooks Online is further proof that business leaders are deman…
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,…
Many companies recognise the importance of paying suppliers on time. They keep their valued suppliers happy and in return get better service and potentially improved prices. However, research indicate…
The recent events at Patisserie Valerie sent a shock wave through the business community. One minute all is supposedly well, and the next there is a multi-million-pound black hole with investors despe…
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…
The AP Association and Zahara – Transform your business & your career Zahara are an accredited partner of the Accounts Payable Association (APA) The APA represents the global interests of pr…
Who's buying what? Operational inefficiencies are a blight on business, yet largely avoidable with some straightforward technical interventions. The procurement process is a business function that…
Accounts Payable Research – Must Read Analyst Reports, White Papers and Webinars Get 2019 off to a great start. Take a look through Accounts Payable reports, white papers and webinars from global…
Slow processes in the Finance department aren't great for business. The good news is it's easy to make fast improvements and it's great for the bottom line as well. Are you happy …
As more and more companies embrace cloud-based technology, Accounts Payable Automation presents one of the most significant opportunities for forward-thinking accounting firms. Traditionally, business…
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…
Should we create retrospective purchase orders? You are using Zahara to raise your orders and an invoice comes into the business and doesn't relate to an order. What should you do? A lot of our cust…
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 & 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…
Our Zahara customers can create sophisticated approval processes that trigger in certain scenarios like a Budget being exceeded of an invoice coming in that is more than an order value. Pretty much wh…
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 …
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…
Sophisticated buying approvals with Xero & Zahara Xero is a great accounts system. We use it ourselves and it makes light work of running a business. It's an incredibly powerful, well thought out…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
We want Zahara to be as useful as it can be so we are trying to constantly make our innovative software even more innovative if that's even possible! A recent addition to Zahara that we are very p…