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…
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 prof…
Who's buying what? It's time to take back control Operational inefficiencies are a blight on business, yet largely avoidable with some straight-forward technical interventions. The procurement p…
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 …
Accounts Payables - The Manual Menace   As more and more companies embrace cloud-based technology, Accounts Payable Automation presents one of the most significant opportunities for forwar…
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…
Why You Should 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 Purchas…
Purchasing Culture 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 lea…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 of …
Trust Zahara - Confidentiality Agreements Zahara is getting bigger and better all the time, we are constantly adding more functions to Zahara. We've had some feedback from our customers, and there ha…
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…
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…
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…
We are pleased to release our invoice processing module today. We have been working on this for a few weeks and are very pleased with the first release. We now offer our users the ability to match a s…
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…
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…