The Loop - Accountants
Ryan Pearcy, John Toon and Indi Tatla
The Loop is home to the Digi-Tools in Accrual World Podcast and the Digital Disruptor Awards.
Back orders are now in the Xero API, and that is not all good news
Back orders landed in the Xero Invoices API on 6 August. Tracked items only, and not automatic: try to sell more than is on the shelf and Xero pushes back until the app explicitly allows it. Once a back order exists, available stock can go negative. Kendrick Hair of Fishbowl has been waiting for thi...
Your loudest customer is not your roadmap
Every software company says it listens to its customers. The harder question is which customers, and what it costs to say yes. John Toon's point is that development time spent on one very vocal account is time not spent on the quiet majority, and the quiet majority rarely complains. They just do not...
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Fishbowl buys Repfabric: what happens before the order, and after it
Fishbowl has bought Repfabric, and the split between the two products is the whole point. Fishbowl handles what happens after an order comes in. Inventory, purchasing, manufacturing, fulfilment. Repfabric handles what happens before it. Pipeline, quoting, order tracking and commissions. John Toon's ...
Getting the numbers to people who will never log in
Joiin has added a proper way to get a report pack out to people who are never going to log into the platform. You share it as a PDF or an Excel file, the recipient gets a code by email and opens it from there. Drill-down is off on shared links, so what leaves the building is the pack rather than the...
The AI that hunts the exception instead of writing you a paragraph
Most AI releases in accounting software are trying to write a nicer paragraph about revenue. Joiin Intelligence is doing something more useful. Its agents clean the chart of accounts, build the eliminations, draft a report pack, then diagnose a consolidated balance sheet that will not balance. It na...
What happens when the platform decides to hire the accountant?
Starling took heat for putting books next to the current account. A LinkedIn post from Joshua at Reva asks the more interesting question underneath it: what if more vendors simply add the accounting service, advisers included, on top of the platform an SME already uses? Accounting ending up as a lin...
When Accounting Becomes Someone Else's Feature || In The Loop
John Toon is joined by Kendrick Hair of Fishbowl and Leigh Stallard for a news episode about who ends up owning the client. Leigh opens on a LinkedIn post from Joshua at Reva, written after Starling took heat for putting books next to the current account. The more interesting move is embedding the s...