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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…

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Why Use Purchase Order Software

Great Addition's to Your Accounting Setup Do You Use Xero, Sage or Quickbooks? Do You wish they had extra functionality in certain aspects? Such as Purchase Orders? Well, this article is going to cov…

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Purchasing Culture & Controlling Spend

A brief overview of what is purchasing culture and why we need to manage our spend. What is Purchasing Culture? Recently the company WeWork has been in the news. Because of a leaked document suggest…

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Virtual Demonstration Video

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…

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Zahara Going Down Under

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…

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Zahara Saves You Money

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…

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Increased Productivity

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…

Why Use Zahara?

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…

Who uses Zahara

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…

What is Zahara

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…

Purchase Order Template Date

Business Settings > Templates > Document Template If the date outputted on your Purchase Order PDF isn't to your liking, you can replace the default place-holder {created date} with 3 x sepa…

Custom date format

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…

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Workflow – Conditional Start

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…

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Ground Xero – Origins of Xero

Xero Innovation & Evolution We love Xero here at Zahara. It's so simple and easy to use, even the boss's dad who is 78 years old uses it! (He likes to keep the accounts in the family.) Origins o…

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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…

Importing makes set up faster

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…

Sage 50 Supplier Sync Tool

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…

Create a Business Unit

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…

Create new users & assigning permissions

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…

Let’s use it for Expenses as well

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…

Lets not take stock – February 2016

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…

Signature are good to go

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 …

Why call it Zahara then? December 2015

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…

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