Xero partners with NZ Football and FIFA Women’s World Cup
Xero has partnered with New Zealand Football until 2026, which will include the period covering the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023, to be held in Australia and NZ.
Emma Scoringe, Head of NZ Marketing at Xero, says the New Zealand Football partnership will support football clubs across Aotearoa, helping Kiwis balance better numbers off the field through a club support programme.
"Local clubs are often run by dedicated Kiwis who may not have experience in aspects of running a small business. As a result, they're spending additional time on finances and general admin, which is time better spent managing the growth and development of a club," Scoringe says.
"We look forward to introducing our technology to more football clubs across Aotearoa because we believe better numbers off the field will contribute to better numbers on the field."
The club support programme will set the benchmark for club standards throughout the country, with a focus on areas such as admin, leadership, financing, player development, and community engagement.
"We are really pleased to partner with Xero to help support the football whānau in Aotearoa New Zealand," says Andrew Pragnell, CEO, NZ Football.
"This is an exciting time for the game from grassroots right up to the international stage."
"It is brilliant to see a Kiwi success story like Xero join with us to champion community football whilst also partnering with FIFA for the home FIFA Women's World Cup 2023."
Xero and New Zealand Football are currently developing the programme, which will be available to all football clubs registered with New Zealand Football from April next year.
"2023 is shaping up to be an incredible year for football in Aotearoa and Xero is thrilled to be a part of it," Scoringe says.
"We look forward to initiating our club support programme with New Zealand Football while helping to drive success for women in football as the FIFA Women's World Cup arrives in town."
Xero recently announced a number of new updates, including a small business insight update, additions to the Xero apps store, and other compliance and invoicing-related enhancements.
Some of the latest small business insight data reveals that small business sales growth has generally been slowing so far in 2022 in all five of the countries tracked by the program. (Australia, NZ, Canada, the UK and the USA).
Xero says this trend looks to be in response to rising cost of living pressures, as customers need to stretch their slower-growing pay packets to cover the much faster rising prices for basic household items such as food, energy bills, transport and housing.
The company compared sales growth for all five XSBI countries up to June 2022. Comparing the average for the first three months of 2022 with the June 2022 results, the study found Australia had the highest sales growth percent year on year, with New Zealand trailing behind at 5.5%.
The company has made a number of enhancements to new reports in Xero over the past month and will be retiring the older versions of reports in Xero, so customers will not be able to use them from 31 July 2023.
Part of this change includes the addition of bar charts to the Top Customers and Top Vendors reports. Users can also switch between a bar chart, treemap chart or donut chart in the Expenses by Contact and Income by Contact reports.
The presentation of tracking columns has also been improved in new reports where 'follow report date' range is used. When the date of the column matches the date of the report, the company now only displays the tracking option name and doesn't also repeat the report date in every column heading.
