LONDON: Xero’s Chief Product Officer Angus Norton says that with the release of Google’s material design standards, Xero’s designers took the opportunity to revisit the entire Android approach and have developed a “best-in-class app that will deliver a seamless user experience.”
According to Norton, downloads of the Xero Touch app now number more than 470,000, an increase of 82% year-over-year when compared to the same period in 2014.
Norton says Xero Touch for Android now offers a simpler, more consistent experience, and “it’s faster than ever to input data.”
“Uniform layouts, typography and spacing throughout the app – and with other apps that take advantage of Google’s new standards – provide an even more beautiful experience for Xero customers.”
Xero says the app’s user-centric design gives small business owners greater control, with consistency, simplicity and uniquely revised features, including:
- A dashboard providing a summary of bank account information, the state of invoices and receipts
- Easy access menu links to invoices, receipts, contacts, files and more
- Enabling bank reconciliation on the go so business owners to check their accounts and reconcile them anywhere, any time
- Easy expense and receipt management so businesses can claim personal expenses and track business receipts to keep records always up to date. Simply take a photo and claim the expense on the spot – no more lost pieces of paper
- Creating new invoices, chasing overdue invoices, or invoicing customers on the spot, or on the road
- Gain quick access to your customer and inventory information, making it faster and more accurate to invoice your customers when the job’s done.
- Contact information is updated in real-time and always available via the cloud, ensuring businesses have the latest updates when they call or email contacts from within the app
- All records in one place so they can be accessed anytime, anywhere.
According to Xero, Touch on Android is used by Xero’s mobile small business owners and accounting providers worldwide, enabling them to create and send invoices, add receipts, and create expense claims anytime, anywhere. The company also says businesses using Xero are getting paid 24 days after invoicing their customers, down from 54 days in 2011.
