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The Budget: Zahara’s Take

Well, this is long overdue. Anticipation for the first Labour Party budget in fourteen years has been mounting since July’s election walkover. Two weeks of mainstream media drip-feeding us tax-hike …

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Combating Financial Fraud

The best solution against fraud might be Automated Accounts Approval  Fraud is on the rise. Figures from Crowe’s Annual Fraud Indicator show that the UK private sector lost an eye-watering £157.8…

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What is ERP Integration?

Looking for an integrated AP Automation Solution for your ERP System? This article looks at different ways to handle ERP integrations – but as your here, let us quickly mention Zahara. Our software …

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Purchase Order Automation: What is it?

The Complete explanation of purchase order automation It might sound obvious, but there's more that goes into purchase order automation than you might think.  Purchase order automation allows yo…

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What is a Goods Received Note?

Every company will have a slightly different invoice processing method, especially if they're automating and using different systems. However, there's one thing that every company must do, regardless …

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Accountex London 2024

See Zahara at Accountex London 2024!   For the third year in a row, we’re exhibiting at Accountex, and we can’t wait to get back to ExCel and bring you all our exciting updates from last year.…

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Man Maths and the Science of Buying

Have you heard about Man Maths? It’s the logical decision making that men (this one in particular) often use to justify a purchase they are planning to make. The second biggest purchase most of us …

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Purchase controls, even for shoes

It was only when I had finished my accountancy training, left practice and had worked in industry for 2 years, that I fully understood the point of PO's. They might not be an exciting topic but they …

See you at Accountex 2023!

Accountex 2023. We’re off to London again!   2022 was our first year exhibiting at Accountex and we cannot wait for Accountex 2023. The buzz and excitement, the bright colours, all the people w…

Finance Teams Problems

Finance Team Problems in 2023 – An insight from over 200 discussions. As we hit mid-March, our team has spoken to more than two hundred Finance Teams this year, some looking at AP automation, som…

Purchase Requisitions vs Purchase Orders

What is the difference between a Purchase Requisition and a Purchase Order?  A purchase requisition (PR) is a request. The request to buy something for the organisation and that request will likel…

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Future-proofing your AP process

As the cost of living crisis emerges there is no doubt that we are all looking after our money more than ever.  Wall Street is warning of inflation rates and fears of a repeat of 2008. The UK is bein…

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Zahara visit Accountex 2022

A few weeks ago Zahara exhibited at Accountex 2022 at the ExCel centre London with 250 other global brands and 8,000 accounting and finance professionals. After months of planning, the Zahara team wer…

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It’s easy to spend other peoples money

Margaret Thatcher famously said - "The trouble with socialism, is that eventually you run out of other peoples money to spend". Regardless of your political views, the point is well made. It's really …

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5 New Year’s Resolutions

Improvements to make for a successful business You may have decided on some personal new year’s resolutions such as dusting off your gym membership or eating more kale, but have you thought about r…

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The best headsets for Teams or Zoom

The team here at Zahara spend a huge amount of their time on Zoom or Teams calls and as a result we have all used different headsets and audio devices. In this article we share with you what we use an…

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The truth about Black Friday

Black Friday is coming up on Friday 26th November, the day after thanksgiving, and this year it poses a lot of questions. Year after year we see huge discounts on TVs, gadgets, appliances, clothing an…

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Buying better, for a better world

This week we have most of the world's leaders in Glasgow UK for the Cop26 Climate Change Conference. We have Boris Johnson telling us we are drinking in the last chance saloon. The world has to take a…

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Introducing… Zahara AutoPilot!

Let Zahara AutoPilot take the wheel! Imagine software that will create an invoice, without you having to press “create"… well we have it! Introducing Zahara AutoPilot.  Not only can you avoid h…

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Sage Drive (you mad)

We have made the decision to say no to Sage Drive - now known as Remote Data Access. Our SmartSync tool has a really good integration with Sage 50 that allows purchase invoices to be created in Sage …

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New Mobile App Update!

New Zahara Mobile App Update Now with expense submissions on the mobile, a new suppliers module and more.   Capture and submit expenses for approval Users can now build and submit expense claim…

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Zahara News

Zahara News - September 2021 New suppliers module - released today We have just released our new Suppliers module. You can access this from the Business Menu - (Suppliers Z3) or when in Zahara 3, th…

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