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ApprovalMax

By ApprovalMax
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ApprovalMax makes it easy for Xero users to build robust financial controls across accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR).
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Overview

ApprovalMax makes it easy for Xero users to build robust financial controls across accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR). This all-in-one solution gives you full control and speeds up approvals for bills, PO’s, invoices, credit notes, and batch payments without the need for paper or emails. Automated routing has been designed to handle multi-role and multi-tiered approval workflows, giving you precious time back in your day.

Hundreds of Xero users have given ApprovalMax 5 star reviews for maximising efficiency, going paperless, automatic audit trails, and speeding up invoice approvals. An added security bonus is that there’s no need to give Xero access to your users in order to do approvals – use ApprovalMax instead and your approvers will only see what they need to see, keeping the accounting data in your general ledger safe and secure.

ApprovalMax has new product add-ons for Xero users, as at 12 June 2024, to help build out end-to-end AP efficiency:

  • ApprovalMax Capture. Upload photos or PDFs of bills so they can be automatically scanned, then imported into ApprovalMax for approval.
  • ApprovalMax Pay (currently in Beta for UK businesses). Make secure payments for approved bills directly from the ApprovalMax platform with open banking technology.

Benefits of ApprovalMax for businesses:

  • Automated approvals. Manage your delegation of authority with flexible approval workflows.
  • Full control. From purchase order approval, to bill approval, and batch payment execution.
  • Budget checking. Check spend against budgets in real-time.
  • Sales quotes. Create, approve, and share sales quotes with customers from ApprovalMax.
  • Audit-readiness. Benefit from automatically generated audit reports and for stress-free audit preparation.

Benefits of ApprovalMax for accounting and bookkeeping firms:

  • Clean data. Peace of mind knowing your clients have clean and correctly coded data.
  • Reduce your firm’s risk. Share responsibility with your clients by seeking approval at every stage.
  • Standardisation. Give your clients’ an efficient app stack with best in class approval workflows.
  • Broaden your service offering: Use automation to expand the services you provide for clients.

Need more end-to-end automation? ApprovalMax also integrates with other apps:

  • Capture it – save time on entering the data with Dext.
  • Approve it – process bills with ApprovalMax.
  • Pay it – close the loop of AP processing with Airwallex batch payments (for UK, Australia, and New Zealand businesses only).
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ApprovalMax + Xero

ApprovalMax is a powerful all-in-one solution that integrates seamlessly with Xero to ensure automatic data exchange with a two-way sync. It only takes minutes to connect your Xero account to an ApprovalMax organisation. Once you connect ApprovalMax with Xero, you’ll be able to enhance your accounts payable and receivable processes securely in just a few clicks and create end-to-end workflows across AP and AR.

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4.8 out of 5 stars
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Kamilah Sauls
Posted 27 Sep 2024
5 out of 5 stars
I love how ApprovalMax gives me control over the processes of bills and invoices in Xero
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Duncan Greaves
Posted 25 Sep 2024
5 out of 5 stars

Superb

ApprovalMax has been at the centre of a thoughgoing overhaul of our financial workflow and it has proved invaluable. Easy to use and richly functional. And an excellent Android app.

Response from ApprovalMax

Thanks for the review Duncan - it makes us happy to hear you're loving the product.
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Matthew Ott
Posted 17 Sep 2024
1 out of 5 stars

Limitations with Xero

The access controls of Xero mean that users can simply 'approve' Bills and bypass ApprovalMax. This needs some of fix to limit how users can enter Bills.

Response from ApprovalMax

Hi Matt, this issue you've mentioned is related to Xero's access controls, rather than ApprovalMax. The good thing when using ApprovalMax is that you don't need to give people Xero access at all – in other words, all approvals are only done within ApprovalMax. If you've given people Xero access and they're approving items directly from the general ledger, the fraud detection feature in ApprovalMax will send an email to your administrator to let them know. Your administrator can void those bills and prevent unauthorised payments. Hope this clears things up in some way.

Additional info

Shared data

Xero
ApprovalMax
Invoicesshared from Xero to ApprovalMax and from ApprovalMax to Xero
Contactsshared from Xero to ApprovalMax and from ApprovalMax to Xero
Accountsshared from Xero to ApprovalMax
Tracking Categoriesshared from Xero to ApprovalMax
Tax Ratesshared from Xero to ApprovalMax
Purchase Ordersshared from Xero to ApprovalMax and from ApprovalMax to Xero
Itemsshared from Xero to ApprovalMax
Currenciesshared from Xero to ApprovalMax
Credit Notesshared from Xero to ApprovalMax and from ApprovalMax to Xero
Branding Themesshared from Xero to ApprovalMax

Functions

Invoicing and jobsBills and expenses

Industries

Property and realtyAccountingNot for profit

App details

By ApprovalMax
Added in 2016

Countries

Australia, Canada, Global, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States

Languages

English

Support

Contact supportsupport@approvalmax.com

Contact

+44 20 3034 3380

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