I retired from personal blogging in July 2008.
But you can find me over at http://blog.xero.com.
You can now export any of your reports in Xero to Google Docs.
As we’re getting there with the core accounting functionality we’re now able to get some of the really cool things we’ve been wanting to for a while into the product.
Another cool thing we’re done recently is integration with other SaaS providers. It was good to work with the iPayroll team who helped us test our API functionality. Here is the combined help for Xero + iPayroll.
It’s magical to see complex business data moving automatically and securely between systems and really shows how we can use technology to make things easier for small businesses.
You can have a look at the API at http://network.xero.com. We provide a partner test rig so that it’s easy for other companies to develop and debug their interface with us.
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Rod
a great innovation
does it work with the Google Apps version of docs?
or just the @gmail version?
Gavin - it works fine with both - I’ve tested it with both (and that in itself is a bit of a story).
One annoying issue is that if you have a Google apps account and an @gmail account it asks you which account you want to link with each time. It’s an issue with Google, not Xero - ideally google apps accounts would/could include all the other google offerings (analytics,reader etc etc) one day they might - for now they don’t.
Roll on the power of 2.0 (and from your post title Rod I thought for a minute there that you were changing the name of Xero once again - back to the original original!)
@ben, cool, thanks
I agree, it’s a pain having to maintain an @gmail for Reader, web analytics, feedburner, etc etc when I have a Google Apps too
That sounds cool, but does anybody really use Google Docs?
@ziglio NZ - absolutely!
@ziglioNZ - certainly do, with OpenOffice as a backup. No MS Office in sight
@dan fowlie I was with you until you mentioned open office - its such an awful piece of work. To be honest I’d rather use MS office than open
With all the due respect, even if Google Docs were a useful, snappy, exciting piece of software, the fact that it’s painfully slow makes it really hard to use, here in old NZ.
Maybe one day we’ll have some Google servers closer to home and things will be different.
On a more technical side, Gmail and Reader are fantastic products, Calendar is handy but the rest of Apps have fallen way below their expectations. You can easily find lots of bad reviews on the web.
I subscribed to the first version of Apps for your domain and was really looking forward to the integration with the rest of Google products.
That hasn’t happened, and have been waiting for years.
When they bought JotSpot I thought: wow that’s cool, their product seems really ground breaking.
A year later they’ve just come out with the ugly ‘Sites’, yet another non-integrated google-something.
I’m sorry but maybe Google is too big and the goal of integrating every product is either a non-goal or too hard to achieve.
Anyway, and someone we’ll hate me for saying that, the main problem with these Ajax products is the ‘J’. Javascript is too limiting, what they’ve achieved in the browser so far is pretty amazing but I can’t see why in order to have collaboration features one has to use web apps.
@ZiglioNZ - Have you used Google Spreadsheets recently? It’s definitely not painfully slow, I use it every day, so I should know. And with the Xero export feature, it really is all good. There are very few web apps that rival the ’snappiness’ of a desktop app, but the tradeoff you make in speed, you make up for with the convenience of having all your apps, documents and settings available anywhere you have an internet connection. That’s also one of Xero’s selling points…