3 ms·

My understanding from a brief stint in an adjacent industry is that Xero is pretty good and popular for accounting, but I cannot vouch for it as an end-to-end s

My understanding from a brief stint in an adjacent industry is that Xero is pretty good and popular for accounting, but I cannot vouch for it as an end-to-end solution for self-employment needs.

deleted 5y ago
[deleted]
ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
I use Xero for my business accounting. Works well. My accountant had never used it before, but had no problem grokking it. Intuit has my email address from an abortive attempt to use Quickbooks, about a decade ago. It sucked so hard, I ran screaming. Every now and then, I get an email from them, suggesting that I “reactivate” My account. The unsub link is worthless. I have to log in with the nonexistent account, in order to unsub. The reset password function doesn’t work (non-existent account). I am doomed to get these emails for eternity, but they aren’t frequent enough to be much more than an annoyance. But Equifax has a crappy record on data integrity. I expect an avalanche of penis pill spam, soon.
- kevin_thibedeau 5y ago
  > I have to log in with the nonexistent account, in order to unsub I would consider this a CAN-SPAM violation. You can have your representative and AG apply some pressure.
  - ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
    Yeah…they aren’t interested in addressing this. Not sure why. So far, it has only been a slight annoyance.
- cure 5y ago
  > The unsub link is worthless. I have to log in with the nonexistent account, in order to unsub. Ah, hey, that's the same level of incompetence as British Airways. I'm in the same boat there, but that's why /dev/null exists, of course :)
buildint 5y ago
Xero is massive in Australia. Almost every small business uses it and every accountant supports it. It has a highly populated plugin marketplace to, which is where I think you need to go for the receipt evening part.
- dwd 5y ago
  New Zealand company, a guy I used to work with in Brisbane is a software architect for them these days in Auckland. They had a good incentive program for accountants to bring on clients. My account was super disappointed I already had an account and knew how to give them just enough access to it to do their job, but no more.

My understanding from a brief stint in an adjacent industry is that Xero is pretty good and popular for accounting, but I cannot vouch for it as an end-to-end solution for self-employment needs.

deleted 5y ago

[deleted]

ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago

I use Xero for my business accounting. Works well. My accountant had never used it before, but had no problem grokking it. Intuit has my email address from an abortive attempt to use Quickbooks, about a decade ago. It sucked so hard, I ran screaming. Every now and then, I get an email from them, suggesting that I “reactivate” My account. The unsub link is worthless. I have to log in with the nonexistent account, in order to unsub. The reset password function doesn’t work (non-existent account). I am doomed to get these emails for eternity, but they aren’t frequent enough to be much more than an annoyance. But Equifax has a crappy record on data integrity. I expect an avalanche of penis pill spam, soon.

kevin_thibedeau 5y ago
> I have to log in with the nonexistent account, in order to unsub I would consider this a CAN-SPAM violation. You can have your representative and AG apply some pressure.
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
  Yeah…they aren’t interested in addressing this. Not sure why. So far, it has only been a slight annoyance.
cure 5y ago
> The unsub link is worthless. I have to log in with the nonexistent account, in order to unsub. Ah, hey, that's the same level of incompetence as British Airways. I'm in the same boat there, but that's why /dev/null exists, of course :)

buildint 5y ago

Xero is massive in Australia. Almost every small business uses it and every accountant supports it. It has a highly populated plugin marketplace to, which is where I think you need to go for the receipt evening part.

dwd 5y ago
New Zealand company, a guy I used to work with in Brisbane is a software architect for them these days in Auckland. They had a good incentive program for accountants to bring on clients. My account was super disappointed I already had an account and knew how to give them just enough access to it to do their job, but no more.