The Accounting and Business Expo at the ICC in Darling Harbour in Sydney was excellent. It is on again today -it is free! So many exhibitors! Short presentations all day long. I met up with new and old friends, colleagues and business partners and learnt a lot.

What apps do you use in your business? Bookkeeping or other? Obviously I use Xero and Quickbooks but (amongst others) also zoom, skool, chatgpt, 1 Password, Upmetrics.. the list goes on.

Dext and Airwallex partner to bring Dext Payments. Strategic partnership enables seamless, secure and scalable finance automation with Dext Payments rolling out in Q3 2025 London - 8 July 2025 - Dext, the leading provider of bookkeeping automation and part of the IRIS Software Group, today announced a strategic partnership with Airwallex, a leading global payments and financial services platform. This collaboration enables the launch of Dext Payments later this year - a seamlessly integrated payments solution within the Dext platform, completing the accounts payable workflow in Dext and offering full automation from invoice upload through to payment. The partnership between Dext and Airwallex brings together two fintech leaders with a shared vision: to modernise financial workflows for SMBs and their accounting and bookkeeping partners. By integrating Airwallex’s world-class payments infrastructure into Dext’s intelligent automation platform, Dext Payments will deliver a single, seamless solution for managing supplier and expenses payments, payroll and an easier way to get paid directly from an invoice. The solution also introduces enhanced security by verifying suppliers and payment details using data held by Dext, giving users greater confidence that suppliers are paid correctly and effortlessly.

Hey everyone! 🌟I’d love to know — what apps or tools do you use regularly to run your business more smoothly? Think: - Invoicing & bookkeeping - Time tracking - Task/project management - Document signing - File storage - Email marketing - Anything you can’t live without! 💬 Comment below with: 1. The app name 2. What you use it for 3. Whether you’d recommend it to others I’ll compile a list of the most popular ones to share with the group — so we all walk away with new ideas! Let’s do this 💡👇