You can change the email address you use to log in to Xero accounting software at any time. Simply click on your name in the top corner and go to ‘Account’. Once you reach the Account Settings screen, click ‘Edit’ on the email section, and update your email address. You’ll need to enter your password to enable the ‘Change Email’ button. Xero will send a confirmation email to the new email address, with an activation link, which will need to be clicked on within 10 days. Here you can also cancel the confirmation, or resend it. If you do change your login address, be aware your login will be changed for each of your organisations. Unless you have previously changed them, your billing email and reply-to address will also be updated. If you need to, you can change your billing email address in My Xero, under Subscriptions and Billing, and your reply-to address in your organisation’s General Settings under Email Settings. Check out this video tutorial for a demo of how it’s done!

The Dashboard in Xero accounting software is the starting point for all we do in Xero. This video gives you a quick tour of the Xero Dashboard for invoice-only users.

Xero accounting software integrates with WorkflowMax Practice Manager to provide a single ledger solution. This video tutorial shows financial advisers how to export a full general ledger out of Xero, using the export function to import into another system.

It’s easy to add and manage your contacts in Xero accounting software. This video tutorial shows you how to add the companies and/or people you’ve done business with based on your Xero transactions. You can: – add a contact while entering sales invoice or purchase bill – edit a contact address from a saved invoice – set up a contact from the contact tab – edit contact details from the contacts page – look at contacts who are both customers and suppliers – add a discount and currency default to a contact – add bank account details and invoice branding to a contact – merge duplicate contacts.

With Xero accounting software, it’s easy to create professional-looking invoice template in a matter of minutes. This video tutorial runs through how to: – add your business logo and other company details – add a footer message such as remittance details – creating new branding themes to be used for quotes.

If you have products and services you buy and sell regularly, you can make data entry easier and faster using Inventory Items in Xero accounting software. This is a great way to track how many items you’ve bought and sold over time. This video tutorial shows you how to: – create a new inventory item – edit and delete an existing item – import bulk items using a template CSV file – export an inventory item list.

When you connect Square to Xero accounting software, they sync daily. This means your previous day’s card and cash sales, refunds, fees, tax and tips are all brought into Xero for you and correctly accounted for. So how does it work? Well, as your card and cash deposits reach your bank, Xero keeps your balances up-to-date, showing you what’s still due to come in. Square card and cash sales come into Xero and generate an invoice with all the elements coded to the correct accounts and a payment applied from the designated clearing accounts. These are not ‘real’ payments – they are accounting entries that Xero uses to keep your Square clearing account and cash clearing account balanced. When the actual payments from Square arrive in your bank account, a bank rule is automatically applied. This codes those amounts to the Square clearing account to clear it back down when your reconcile the transaction. When you deposit your cash takings, simply create a ‘receive money’ transaction and code it to the cash clearing account to clear that amount. If you ever want to cross-reference what Square owes you, or how much cash you have not yet deposited, just take a look at the clearing accounts on the balance sheet. This balance should reflect what’s still due to come in. Check out the full video to learn more about the integration between Square and Xero and how to set it up.

Use tracking to review and compare different areas of your organisation, and improve your reporting. Tracking may also reduce the number of accounts in your chart of accounts, as tracking removes the need for duplicate accounts across different business areas. Learn how this feature can improve your reporting capability for your business. To find out more about reporting in Xero check out xero.com/accounting-software/financial-reporting/.

With desktop accounting software, accountants and their clients typically work from separate systems and separate ledgers – even for the same business! Now with Xero’s single ledger, both accountants and their clients can access the same set of data in the cloud for a real-time view of the business financials. This video tutorial takes a closer look at the backbone of the single ledger in Xero – the Chart of Accounts.