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…
RIP Purchase Invoices Isn’t it astonishing that the biggest problems in accounts payables occurs before the purchase invoice even arrives with the AP team. But the resultant invoice can tie the tea…
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.…
Purchase Invoices - what a waste of time. According to Levvel Research's 2019 Payables Insight Report, 80% of invoices require multiple approvals. In many companies, that means at least 3 people ne…
FROM KEEPING THE BOOKS TO FINANCIAL DATA ANALYST & ADVISOR For many years, ‘keeping the books’ has been a critical function for businesses, however AP professionals, bookkeepers and financial…
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…
An article written to Accounts Payables Teams by a frustrated supplier. For over 20 years my businesses have been suppliers to larger companies. My first business was a TV and Radio production comp…
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…
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…
Purchase-to-Pay Pain Points & Solutions - The Quick Win Fee Opportunity for Advisors As accounting firms and advisors seek out new revenue opportunities, they need look no further than …
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 straight-forward technical interventions. The procurement process is one such business funct…
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…
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…
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…
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 runs from a web browser. All you need to do is Register and get started or arrange a demonstration You can quickly setup your company and start a 30-day trial. After that, it’s entirely u…
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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Raise purchase orders in seconds and have them sent to your suppliers by email. Create Purchase Orders with your own logo Reduce…