Our business landscape is changing We are busier than ever with finance teams wanting to work from home more efficiently. We are showcasing our approvals portal and amazing invoice OCR, InvoiceExpr…
Working from home for the Zahara team hasn’t been a stretch so far. We are fortunate to use some great software apps that enable us to communicate, share and collaborate quickly and easily. The tea…
Time to go Paperless? With the recent outbreak of Coronavirus, the government has encouraged people to work from home in a bid to limit the spread of the virus. Working from home isn’t a new conc…
Technology is changing before our eyes; every day there is more news about AI, machine learning or automation. In the home, our smart plugs are controlling our lights and we can control our heating fr…
We all know that stress is bad for us, right? My diet app tells me it is, and I know I’m much happier when there is less to worry about, both in my personal and professional life. It seems though…
So, you have decided you need software to improve your purchasing. But there’s a host of things to consider to ensure you select the right product for your organisation. This handy checklist should …
How British Airways Holidays reduced the cost, time and errors involved in raising requisitions As part of British Airways, BA Holidays helps customers find and book perfect holidays in locations a…
By Guest Author: Heather Smith Budgeting certainly has its place in the business world, but not all businesses understand how to make a budget work for their needs. I spoke with some colleagues to le…
By Guest Author: Heather Smith Budgeting and cost control can be useful business tools when used properly, but if used arbitrarily, there are practitioners that believe you might be wasting your time…
Keeping an eye on Budgets is easier than you think. Running a business is not easy. There's never enough time and often the senior team are more focussed on top line revenues than managing the costs.…
How things have changed... Back in the 80’s, when I was a demanding teenager, my dad went to work every day in a suit, and he went to his office. He worked there all day, doing paper work. He had a…
By Francois Badenhorst, Business Editor, AccountingWeb According to a new guide from Zahara, there’s a big difference between ‘budgeting’ and ‘budget management’. While budgeting is often…
How are you performing against your half year budget? Reviewing your actual performance against the budget is prudent business practice. As we’re half way through many company’s accounting peri…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
Virtual Demonstration Video Have a demo of Zahara when you have time We decided to put together this handy demonstration video, for those of you who don't have time to book in for a demo with us. It…
The Search For Zahara Partners in Australia. Zahara is expanding rapidly and we want to grow our presence in the Australian & New Zealand Market. We are currently looking for partners in Australi…
With all of your purchasing centralised in one easy-to-use and easy-to-access platform, you will be able to visualise and analyse your spend so much more easily. We have a range of graphs and chart…
Your staff can raise purchase requisitions in seconds and approvals can be done - for both invoices and purchase orders, quickly and easily using email or our elegant approvals dashboard. Deliverie…
Zahara is all about simplicity. One of our core values is to maintain a clean user interface yet have layered sophistication and capability that can easily be adjusted in the settings yourself. Zah…
Zahara is designed for the multi-site organisation like pub groups, care homes, school groups, nursery school groups or multi-site retail outlets. It also works perfectly for those with multi-concurre…
Zahara is an online tool for managing your organisational spend. Zahara adds control and visibility across your organisation, so every purchase request follows an agreed workflow, allowing faster a…
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Business Settings > Formatting We have now introduced a feature that allows you to choose one of three date formats: US Rest of the world ISO standard This is available in the Busi…
Business > Divisions > Workflow We have just updated Zahara adding some more functions. One of those functions is the conditional approval workflow starts which has been requested by many Zahar…
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…
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…
9/5/2016 - We are pleased to release a new version of Zahara today. We have added in and import facility, so now it's much easier to get setup, as you can import all your suppliers, products and nomin…
We have a tool called "Click2Sync" that can keep Sage 50 fully in sync with Zahara. It is a desktop tool and is available to buy or made available for to any customers using Sage 50 The tool i…
Tenancy Settings > Create Business Unit As part of your sign-up, you will create your first Business Unit. We think of these as separate companies or separate Business Units. Example, you are…
Admin > Settings > Create User You create a new user by populating the relevant fields under "Create User" and then clicking "Create". You can suppress (stop) the automatic email going off to…
Our company is relatively easy to manage. Our staff go off and visit customers and rack up some travel costs and the odd overnight stay, and, of course, they want to be reimbursed for this. They li…
We were riffing in the office today about budgets. For some customers, settings a monthly budget per division is sufficient. For others they want to allocate the monthly budget by nominal code. Some c…
So many systems like Zahara are designed around stock and stock control. But there are plenty of businesses like ours, service businesses, that don't care about stock. We do care passionately about co…
After months of setup and testing we have gone live with our customer Signature. They are now rolling out Zahara to their 200 staff across 15 different sites in the UK. Zahara is the perfect solution …
So our chief software designer spends his holidays every summer in Andalucia in the south of Spain. There is this gorgeous lake about 20kms from Ronda called Zahara. He liked the lake, he liked the li…