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Congratulations to our winner, SimpleAI Books!

SimpleAI Books is the AI-powered partner that helps small businesses and accounting firms eliminate bookkeeping chaos, streamline bank reconciliation, and get tedious data entry done in seconds. Powered by intelligent reasoning models, it adapts to existing workflows to extract line-by-line data from bills, receipts, and bank statements with precision—leaving teams free to focus on what matters.

Key features include:

  • Smart data extraction & custom tagging: Accurately processes messy invoices, receipts, and PDF bank statements while using custom prompts to match preferred workflows.
  • Automated bank reconciliation: Converts bank statements into clean files, automatically generates accounting entries, and performs reconciliations using logic instead of rigid rules.
  • Seamless Xero sync: Automatically syncs charts of accounts, tax rates, and contacts to push finalised entries, tracking, and original documents straight into Xero with one click.
  • Flexible control: Offers complete flexibility to set up custom approval workflows, letting AI do the heavy lifting while keeping team members in control.

Learn more about SimpleAI Books below and meet the rest of our finalists that are driving efficiency and innovation for small businesses and practices.

  1. Accountant tools, Bills and expenses

    SimpleAI Books

    5 out of 5 stars
     12
    Accountant tools, Bills and expenses
    Meet your next accounting hire - an AI agent that thinks like an accountant. It breaks silos, auto-categorizes with reasoning, supports custom prompts, reconciles bank feeds, and cuts manual work by up to 90%.
  2. Inventory

    inFlow Inventory

    4.8 out of 5 stars
     5
    Inventory
    Inventory your accountant will LOVE. inFlow pushes invoices, bills, COGS, and inventory value into Xero, tags every line with your tracking categories, and syncs payments both ways.
  3. Payroll HR

    SimplePay

    4.72 out of 5 stars
     72
    Payroll HR
    Payroll software that simply works, for South Africa, Ireland, Singapore and Hong Kong. Fully online and up to date with the relevant legislation.
  4. Documents, Other

    The Portal Genie

    5 out of 5 stars
     8
    Documents, Other
    The Portal Genie syncs Xero documents into your own branded portal. Clients view and pay invoices like a shopping cart, upload and retrieve other documents, plus you can advertise and communicate. Fast, easy, affordable. Goodbye email trawling, hello customer experience layer.
Although Xero reviews each app in the Xero App Store, we can’t give any guarantees. It’s up to you to assess the performance, quality and suitability of any app before going ahead.