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Quick Create a Purchase Order

This is a quick guide for a trial user who wants to create a purchase order and see what that looks like when it's rendered to a PDF. The video below will give you a 4-minute overview of how to do thi…

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Approvals Workflows (part 1)

Approvals sit at the Division level and Divisions are designed to be flexible, but are really the natural groupings of people in your organisation. If you are a typical business with Marketing, Sales,…

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Xero Integration Explained

Zahara has a full integration with Xero. We sync suppliers and coding and export invoices from Zahara into Xero. This means you can use Zahara for it's full intended use - purchase requisition, purcha…

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Budget Setup

Zahara Budgets are a framework for controlling spend. You create a Budget for a Division or a Project and all spend create in Purchase Orders (requests) can be applied to the budget. You can also appl…

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Invoice Inbox

This help article will help you set up the Invoice Inbox and start getting your invoices read, for fast and easy processing. So let's get you started.  To have access to the Invoice Inbox, you need …

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User Management

Your license with Zahara is for named users. This means if you need to register a new user, you need to make sure your license count will allow for a new user. If you are taking a trial, the you have …

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Editing Email Templates

Every email sent from Zahara (apart from the password reset email), has an HTML template that you can style to suit. These are found in Business Settings and the HTML Templates tab. By clicking into t…

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Staff Expenses

Staff expenses claims can be placed on the mobile app. This section of the app allows a user to create a claim and hold the claim on the phone until they are ready to release it for approval and then …

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How Zahara works

This is our method for accounts payables. It all starts with someone wanting to buy something. We provide the approval process around this and then complete the loop. Zahara's role is at an end when t…