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XU Magazine Issue 21 - When did it become a late payment culture?

Paula Byers, founder and Director of LimeCloud, writes about cashflow for the latest edition of XU Magazine, issue number 21 out today.  With this sure to be a hot topic at this year's Xerocon, Xero's annual conference, Paula asks the critical cashflow question....

LimeCloud shortlisted for North Devon Business Awards 2019

We're excited to announce that Lime Cloud Limited has been shortlisted in the Best Digital Tech Business category in the North Devon Business, Leisure & Tourism Awards 2019!   The Awards received hundreds of entries across 16 categories to showcase the best of business across Northern Devon....

Training excellence comes as standard

This year we were part of the Enterprise Nation HeadsUp! training program on productivity tools including Xero and other Apps worth £1,000, which was offered FREE to small businesses.   The reviews are now in and we're pleased to report the scores are excellent!...

Founder Paula Byers judge for Tech South West Awards 2019

LimeCloud Founder, Paula Byers, sits on the Steering Group for Tech South West and is a judge for their upcoming regional Tech South West Awards 2019.  A passionate advocate for the digital tech sector locally and regionally, Paula is excited to see the entries for the Awards....

XU Magazine Issue 19 - Get with the App Integrator Program

Paula Byers, founder and Director of LimeCloud, writes about Xero's new App Integrator program for the latest edition of XU Magazine, issue number 19 out today.  As one of the companies in the program, she shares insights from herself and others in the industry on how this program can help businesses get expert help with Apps for their Xero....

Paula Byers becomes Enterprise Nation HeadsUp! Digital Trainer

Having been an Advisor Member in Enterprise Nation since 2017, Paula Byers is now a Digital Trainer for their HeadsUp! training on productivity tools including Xero and other Apps worth up to £1,000, which is offered FREE to small businesses. The training will focus on four key areas of accounting & finance, sales & marketing, collaboration and time management....

LimeCloud are Xero Trusted App Integrators

We're really excited to announce that LimeCloud have become trusted App Integrators with Xero.  That means we can help you find the best Apps for your business....

XU Magazine Issue 18 - Mind the [Skills] Gap!

LimeCloud founder and Director,  Paula Byers, has written about the importance of digital skills in digital transformation for the latest edition of XU Magazine, issue number 18 out today. If you've not come across it before, XU Magazine is the independent magazine run by Xero users, for Xero users. The magazine is aimed at the ever growing community of Xero subscribers. It can be delivered worldwide in print, but is also downloadable and it is absolutely free to subscribers, just complete ...

XU Magazine issue 17 - Talking Numbers with Della Hudson

LimeCloud founder and Director, Paula Byers, writes in the latest Issue 17 of XU Magazine with a profile on Della Hudson, speaker, author & business coach at Hudson Business Advisors. If you've not come across it before, XU Magazine is the independent magazine run by Xero users, for Xero users. The magazine is aimed at the ever growing community of Xero subscribers. It can be delivered worldwide in print, but is also downloadable and it is absolutely free to subscribers, just complete the form o...

XU Magazine Issue 16 - Hospitable Cloud

In issue number 16 of XU Magazine, LimeCloud founder and Director, Paula Byers, has written a case study on tea rooms, Market Street Kitchen in Appledore, North Devon. If you've not come across it before, XU Magazine is the independent magazine run by Xero users, for Xero users. The magazine is aimed at the ever growing community of Xero subscribers. It can be delivered worldwide in print, but is also downloadable and it is absolutely free to subscribers, just complete the form on the XU Magazin...

XU Magazine Issue 15 - Changing the Game

In the latest edition of XU Magazine, issue number 15, LimeCloud founder and Director, Paula Byers, has a feature on the benefits to businesses of using a Xero App Stack entitled 'Changing the Game'. If you've not come across it before, XU Magazine is the independent magazine run by Xero users, for Xero users. The magazine is aimed at the ever growing community of Xero subscribers. It can be delivered worldwide in print, but is also downloadable and it is absolutely free to subscribers, just com...

XU Magazine article - Who needs a cloud integrator?

LimeCloud founder and Director,  Paula Byers, has written a feature for the latest edition of XU Magazine, issue number 14. If you've not come across it before, XU Magazine is the independent magazine run by Xero users, for Xero users. The magazine is aimed at the ever growing community of Xero subscribers. It can be delivered worldwide in print, but is also downloadable and it is absolutely free to subscribers, just complete the form on the XU Magazine website here. The aim at XU Magazine ...

A better internet starts with you!

| by Paula Byers So, I have to confess this is a little bit of a soap box of mine.  I have long believed that responsible use of the internet (and by that token Social Media is a large part of it) starts with us.  We all have a duty of care: to ourselves, and others, to make sure we are using it in a caring and empathetic way; to ensure that we are teaching our young people what it means to be responsible online, so that the generations coming through understand how their actions onlin...

A trip to Xero HQ New Zealand

I don’t imagine there are many Xero fans in the UK who have been lucky enough to look around Xero One in Wellington, New Zealand.  But the last working day before Christmas, I stepped through the doors and into this hallowed space, the Mothership of Xero. To be honest, I hadn’t travelled all the way to New Zealand just to visit Xero; I was part way through a fortnight holidaying in my home country and Wellington had more than one draw for me - catching up with extended family and spendi...

Wishing you all Merry Christmas . . .

the OscarBlog | Although you won’t be receiving a card from them this year, the hoopeeps (and furpal . . . that’s me!) at LimeCloud wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy & Healthy New Year.  Instead of sending cards though, a donation has been made to my favourite friends at Border Terrier Welfare so they can continue to do the brilliant work they do all year round, looking after my furpals who have fallen on harder times....

XU Magazine article - Xero Projects

LimeCloud founder and Director,  Paula Byers, features in the most recent edition of XU Magazine, issue number 13. If you've not come across it before, XU Magazine is the independent magazine run by Xero users, for Xero users. The magazine is aimed at the ever growing community of Xero subscribers. It can be delivered worldwide in print, but is also downloadable and it is absolutely free to subscribers, just complete the form on the XU Magazine website here. The aim at XU Magazine is t...

What is Your App Stack

by Paula Byers |  “My What?!” I hear you ask, let me explain . . .Technology, it seems, comes up with an ever-increasing list of jargon that seems to be set to confuse or intimidate, but this, at least is exactly what is says on the tin!  An App Stack is a group (or Stack) of bits of software (Apps) that link together (integrated) to perform tasks (like managing your business)....

Christmas For Good

by Estelle Sherlock |  Christmas is a season for giving, well it has been in recent times anyway (Coca Cola has a lot to answer for with their jolly man dressed in red and weighed down with gifts).  A season for giving, feasting and generally indulging in excess . . . needless to say it’s not my favourite time of the year; simply because I think that the wave of consumerism has enveloped us all and swept us up in its flow, regardless of any honourable intentions to the contrary. ...

People first . . . tech second

the OscarBlog | If you read the footnote of my last blog, then you will know that I wasn’t allowed to go to Xerocon – apparently Excel London have some weird rule about dogs not being allowed at tech conferences!  Pfftt!  My OscarBlog noted that I was ably deputising my twitter account to the very well-travelled Miss Sybil.  She shared her thoughts on attending Xerocon for the first time.So it’s over to Miss Sybil . . (you’ll note that she writes in the third person, ...

Xerocon London 2017 – It’s a wrap!

by Estelle Sherlock |  Last week Paula, Phil and I were fortunate enough to attend the accountancy conference of the year – Xerocon, it’s no ordinary business conference.  In fact it has been billed as "Coachella for accountants", a phrase coined during Xerocon South in Melbourne, I believe, by Rebecca Stevenson @TheSpinOff.  During a presentation on Cognitive Applications & AI at a recent Tech conference, Paula leaned over to show me a handwritten note on her iPad.  Thi...

Why Xerocon?

the OscarBlog | Ok, so next month is the event of the year for me, yes, I am going to my first big BTPosse tweetup! Yes, yes I have been to a couple of small ones over the summer, but this will be my first big one and I am so excited! The #BTPosse is a twitter community for border terriers and friends managed by the lovely Sir Clapton Terrier and there are meet ups around the country.   Wait, what . . . you thought I was going to say Xerocon was the event of the yea...

Breaking down the barriers of data silos

by Estelle Sherlock |  In business, a silo is a process, a system or even a whole department, that operates in isolation from others.  More specifically, a data silo is a cache or bundle of data that is controlled, often within one department, and is segregated from other data within the company.  These separate data files can also be isolated from decision making as they are not part of the enterprise-wide data systems and are therefore useless to the company as a whole. They ex...

What is Xero & why is it beautiful, anyway?

by Estelle Sherlock | When I first met Paula and we began discussing LimeCloud, she seemed very passionate about a certain little piece of cloud accounting software called Xero . . . I was very interested to learn that it was founded in New Zealand in 2006, as it is where I was born and spent the first 23 years of my life.  ...

IMPAWTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

the OscarBlog |  Hi Pals, I have exciting news!  I have been given a promotion to Chief Fundraising Officer for LimeCloud! For those who don’t know me my name is Oscar and I am Office Therapist here LimeCloud but I have been given the promotion, as they have entered a team in the Superhero Tri Superhero Tri at Dorney Lake, Windsor on 19 August 2017. This is a disabled Triathlon team event, with Paula doing the 20k cycle, Estelle doing the 5k run and our last-minute star, H...

Cloud (Dis) Ability

by Paula Byers | Have you ever met someone you have long admired, only to be blown away even more by their inspirational story when you get to hear them speak in person? This was my experience when I met one of my foodie heroes yesterday.  I was fortunate to be part of a group of Barnstaple & District Chamber of Commerce Ltd Members invited to Calvert Trust Exmoor for A Morning with Michael Caines.  The event was to announce that he had become an Ambassador for this amazing charit...