Making work life easier for bookkeepers in the UK A feature rich tool packing a punch on the fintech scene in Australia, is heading to the UK.
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Troy Brown, co-founder, XBert Troy Brown founded and ran a highly successful marketing agency for 12 years before moving on to do the same with a digital agency for eight years. He and his teams delivered projects in Australia, New Zealand, and Asia for blue-chip and government clients. After understanding the challenges business and finance teams have, he and the XBert Team are working closely with bookkeepers to deliver a product specific for their needs.
Troy Brown talks all things XBert and how their users are driving the roadmap...
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hen you consider all the things the finance industry has come up against since the start of 2020: lockdowns and a move to working remotely, struggling businesses, the need to pivot to online solutions, stimulus packages and the management of them – it’s been tough. With all the added responsibilities, the workload for bookkeepers and accountants has increased exponentially, but the day-today tasks haven’t let up. In our conversations with hundreds of bookkeepers and accountants, we discovered there are some common pain points and we at XBert could help alleviate them. It’s been our focus to work alongside the people on the ground, to ensure we’re offering a product that’s practical, intuitive and really does make work life easier. This is where we’ve come to – but it’s just the beginning. We have an extensive development roadmap ahead of us.
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Do more, in less time Diane McCaffrey from BYO Group has freed up hours each week using XBert. “We love perfect, and XBert helps us do things faster and know it’s right.” Right now, XBert is unrivalled in its AI-audit risk alerts. Our mission is to help bookkeepers have the cleanest set of books, at any given time, for smarter advice and decisions in business. When you can trust the data is accurate, you can add meaningful value to your clients and take your business to the next professional level. Bookkeepers have moved from being data entry professionals and into a more advisory role – with this evolution of the industry, technology can be a bookkeeper’s best friend. Using the latest in data science, AI and machine learning to analyse your accounting software, flagging any issues, inconsistencies and errors as they arise, XBert reduces your manual task load
while giving piece of mind the data is accurate and up-to-date. Our unique product has over 50 XBerts (eXpert Business alERTS) integrating with a task automation tool built exclusively for bookkeepers and accountants. Our passionate users have requested 50 more that are currently in development. The days of spending hours on managerial tasks like checking your teams work (or your own!) are gone. As Brendan Lucas of Hopscotch Accounting explained: “XBert is the gatekeeper for human error” and we couldn’t agree more. With our AI-audit trawling the data relentlessly, there is less self (or team) review needed which also means less rework. You’ll never have any nasty surprises come End of Financial Year again. Know what needs to be done, by when – across your whole team The feedback we were getting was there is no app developed
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