- Who it’s for
- Sole operators
- Software
- Xero
- Setup
- 15 minutes, then one email to your suppliers
- Gives back
- 1 to 3 hours of handling, every week
Step-by-step walkthrough
- In Xero, go to Business → Bills to pay, then the Email settings link to find your organisation’s unique bills email address
- Copy that address somewhere you can reach it. It is long and not memorable
- Set up a forwarding rule in your accounts inbox so anything from a known supplier forwards to it automatically
Get the rest of the steps and the one-page PDF
Steps 4 and 5, what to watch for, and a one-page PDF to keep.
Where the recovered time should go
Not into doing more of the same. That is the whole argument — the hour you get back isn’t a cost you’ve cut, it’s a return you can finally collect. Put it on a client, on the person you have been meaning to train, or on the work that has been good enough for two years.