Released on: August 16, 2008, 12:06 am

Press Release Author: Lucy Whittington

Industry: Management

Press Release Summary: Xero recently expanded its offerings to Apple users with the
introduction of Xero for iPhone and iPod Touch. This enables customers to access
their accounts information wherever and whenever they need to and it's available
free to all Xero users.

Press Release Body: England,UK, August 16, 2008 -- Mac users are generally more
likely to rave about their computers' great graphical capability than the business
software they can use, but a new online accounting package called Xero
(http://www.xero.com) is out to change all that.

Xero co-founder and UK MD Hamish Edwards says the business has committed Mac users
on staff. So when it came to developing the software, making sure Xero worked on
Safari was never going to be enough. Xero also had to deliver the intuitive, great
looking experience Mac users are used to.

"We are big fans of the Mac experience so we realised there was huge scope to
improve the experience small business owners were having inputting and analysing
their financial information."

Katie Lips, Mac-user and social media strategist and Director of Kisky Netmedia
(http://www.xero.com/whosusingxero/kiskynetmedia.htm), says Xero has more than
delivered.

"We're always on the lookout for cool new web apps and I find it quite funny that I
am so excited about one that does accounting - but I am!

"What I also like about Xero is that it looks good. Not something that you
immediately think of as necessary when doing your accounts, but for me it's so
obvious the designers have thought about how people work and what they want to be
able to look at. All the 'headline' data is there for me to see easily, which is
quite often all I want to know."

As well as presenting key financial data in dashboard format, Edwards says Xero is
intuitive in other important ways. It's as simple to use as a computer game, but
also has enough sophistication to prepare a business' end of year financials.

Says Lips "The best way I can think to describe how happy I am with Xero is I use it
all the time. From not even looking at the accounts side of the business I am now
using Xero all the time to run invoices, look at the bank statements and all sorts
of accounting things I never wanted to know about before. And I am enjoying it."

As well as running on Safari, Xero also runs on Internet Explorer and Firefox,
making collaboration with people using PC-based systems hassle free.

Xero recently expanded its offerings to Apple users with the introduction of Xero
for iPhone and iPod Touch. This enables customers to access their accounts
information wherever and whenever they need to and it's available free to all Xero
users.

Check out a great recent review of Xero at nzmac.com
(http://www.nzmac.com/reviews/office/xero.html).

Xero provides small businesses and their advisers with one, up to date, easy to use,
instantly accessible set of accounts and business information.

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Contact:
Lucy Whittington
Xero
England,UK
0800 085 3719
ukpress@xero.com
https://www.xero.com


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Contact Details: Lucy Whittington
Xero
England,UK
0800 085 3719
ukpress@xero.com
https://www.xero.com