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Xero isn’t free, but it’s a good alternative to QuickBooks if you need one. It has a neat feature called Hubdoc, which automatically scans, renames, sorts to folders and archives your invoices when you email them to a particular email address.

The integration between Hubdoc and Office365 is clunky because for reasons I can’t fathom, they only support Dropbox and Google Drive for archiving, but we have a script that we run on our Synology NAS that copies the invoices from Google Drive to SharePoint (OneDrive).

Nothing against GnuCash or open source, we use a lot of FOSS. But we’re in Australia and we switch banks all the time. Those compounding factors would mean that we’d spend a lot of time updating bank roll integration with GnuCash




It’s transformed businesses and the business of accounting down under. Accountants are focused on helping the companies and tougher questions rather than bookkeeping. Most accounting work is automated and companies have constant control and understanding of their numbers. Not always - but far more often.

It’s astonishing how slow the transition to online accounting is in the USA.




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