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Usability is perhaps the biggest differentiator between Xero and Sage. Features and benefits for the non-expert user Usability In May, we anticipate that Xero will announce it has overtaken Sage’s leading product, Sage 50, as the leading accounting package for SMEs in the UK – where they both have over 100,000 business users. While Xero has yet to make a profit, it is gaining significant global market share and stock markets know that profits will come. The New Zealand firm has been around for just seven years, but has invested heavily in product features, usability, support and integrations – a real SaaS model. Firmly rooted in its desktop roots, the company offers a range of products – solutions such as Sage 50 and Sage 200, payments and payroll solutions, and their newer entry-level cloud offering: Sage One.
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Over the years, it has helped many SMEs move from manual systems onto computerised solutions – removing the need for businesses to develop and support their own accounting software. But what are the main differences between these two offerings? Sage and Xero: past, present and future The good news for SMEs is that increased competition in this area is resulting in better choices, better features and lower costs. Sage is a well-established company with a variety of products – mainly desktop and server based – whereas Xero is the new disruptor ‘born in the cloud’.
There’s a lot happening in the accounting software space for SMEs and the two leading competitors, Sage and Xero, are battling it out for market share. Solutions for small business: the old guard or the young pretender? You can also read it on their website, bizplus.ie. This article was written for publication in Business Plus Magazine.