Balancing business and family life with Xero accounting software
Meg and Scott, owners of Tea Pea – a boutique retailer based in Wellington, New Zealand – manage busy lives as business owners and parents to their three children.
Meg is the creative brain behind Tea Pea, spending her days running the retail shop and online store, and sourcing interesting products for her customers. Scott holds now a full time job during the week and takes responsibility for doing the accounts for Tea Pea – a role that is made easy by Xero accounting software.
Family time and balancing work with their home life is incredibly important to Meg and Scott, and thats why they use Xero. In the early days of the business, Scott did a free trial, which led to him signing up and never looking back!
"My father had a retail store, and when we first got into this business, I was fearing that I was going to do 'the books'. He did 'the books' every night and he'd be there 'til midnight every night, processing invoices" Scott remembers.
"With Xero, I'm able to process those on the fly, as they come in... Xero enables me to jump in, get it sorted and move on to something else."
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FITAUS is the only specialist site in Australia that focuses solely on job advertisements for people seeking employment in the health & fitness, sport & recreation, and spa & beauty sectors. Like most people Richard’s company relies on being online – working with Internet-enabled technologies and being connected. He was surprised to find that there wasn't an accounting package to suit his needs. Richard had tried everything – MYOB, Excel, even an abacus."Being online and available from anywhere is a major factor, so whether I'm in Australia or New Zealand I can still keep an eye on the business."
Meg and Scott, owners of Tea Pea – a boutique retailer based in Wellington, New Zealand – manage busy lives as business owners and parents to their three children.
Meg is the creative brain behind Tea Pea, spending her days running the retail shop and online store, and sourcing interesting products for her customers. Scott holds now a full time job during the week and takes responsibility for doing the accounts for Tea Pea – a role that is made easy by Xero accounting software.
Family time and balancing work with their home life is incredibly important to Meg and Scott, and thats why they use Xero. In the early days of the business, Scott did a free trial, which led to him signing up and never looking back!
"My father had a retail store, and when we first got into this business, I was fearing that I was going to do 'the books'. He did 'the books' every night and he'd be there 'til midnight every night, processing invoices" Scott remembers.
"With Xero, I'm able to process those on the fly, as they come in... Xero enables me to jump in, get it sorted and move on to something else."
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FITAUS is the only specialist site in Australia that focuses solely on job advertisements for people seeking employment in the health & fitness, sport & recreation, and spa & beauty sectors. Like most people Richard’s company relies on being online – working with Internet-enabled technologies and being connected. He was surprised to find that there wasn't an accounting package to suit his needs. Richard had tried everything – MYOB, Excel, even an abacus."Being online and available from anywhere is a major factor, so whether I'm in Australia or New Zealand I can still keep an eye on the business."
Early 2007 Jacqui developed E2theMax ('effective to the max'), an online expo in the business-to-business space. In October 2007 E2theMax extended from cyberspace to a business lounge in the heart of Napier, and went on to win the Hawke's Bay Chamber of Commerce Award for online innovation. Jacqui feels that during her 12 years of business development she has endured ¬rather than enjoyed ¬ accounting software. She says she was working for the software rather than the other way around. "Xero also makes it easier to work with my accountant. I can email him with a query and he can go online and deal directly with it. That immediacy is fantastic."
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