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Bath Business Awards

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…

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Why Use Purchase Order Software

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…

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Purchasing Culture & Controlling Spend

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…

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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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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 of …

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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 …

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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…

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…