The Benefits of a Custom Xero Integration
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Andrew Duncan, CEO, Databuzz Andrew is the founder and CEO of Databuzz, based in Sydney, Australia. Databuzz develops custom business applications for clients around the world and has been integrating with Xero since 2014. Databuzz is a Xero Approved Developer and member of the FileMaker Business Alliance.
There are over 500 add-on applications in the Xero App Marketplace but sometimes the solution you need is a custom integration option rather than an off-the-shelf app... T
here’s no shortage of choice when it comes to looking for add-on applications in the Xero App marketplace – there are currently over 500 apps to assist with Inventory, Payments, Payroll, Reporting and many more. However there are times when the solution you need doesn’t exist as an add-on app – for example you’re using a custom business application that doesn’t have a compatible add-on available.
many of our clients have faced over the years – how to prevent the double entry of data in our FileMaker CRM and also in Xero? Databuzz develops custom business applications and has been integrating these with other
software applications for many years, so we tackled the problem like we would for one of our clients. One of the main attractions of Xero for us originally was that it had an API (Application Programming Interface) that allows other applications to authenticate and
In the Xero App marketplace there is a ‘Custom-made integration’ section where you can find companies such as Databuzz that can help find a solution to challenging integration projects. We first encountered this ourselves back in 2014 when I moved my company over to the Xero platform after hearing great things about it for many years. As longtime Apple Mac users it was great finally having accounting software we could run natively on the Mac, iPhone and iPad. Our company uses a custom business application built with the FileMaker platform to run the business which tracks all Contacts, Sales, Leads, Invoices etc. We quickly ran into a problem that 110 / Issue 12
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