The Receipt Bank team were delighted to have the opportunity to be a part of QuickBooks Connect last week in California. Myself, Alexis & Adam headed to San Jose for this, the first QuickBooks event of its kind. With over 4,000 delegates, this was an enormous opportunity for small business owners, accountants & bookkeepers, developers, & add-ons alike, to network & learn from other industry professionals.
For Receipt Bank, this event also came at a particularly exciting time for our US expansion, coinciding with the appointment of Damien Greathead as Vice President - Business Development, North America.
And what an event it was! As well as catching thought-provoking talks from world leaders in entrepreneurship, such as Arianna Huffington & Marc Andreessen, our Receipt Bank representatives had the pleasure of catching up with new & existing partners from around the world.
But it wasn’t all work & no play. There were some familiar faces in attendance from the accounting software eco-system, from Practice Ignition, to Spotlight, to Fathom, to Vend, & it was a joy to catch up. To top it all off, Wednesday night ended with a bang. There was a fantastic (and somewhat interactive) party with Grammy Award winners Train, complete with on-stage singalongs & karaoke input from the crowd!
The overarching theme of the conference was innovation & technology; how to carve out a successful business in today’s climate, & how to stay ahead of the curve & constantly adapt to remain relevant. Receipt Bank, as a rapidly expanding small business, was humbled to be a part of this important conversation.
Now is an exciting time for accountants & bookkeepers globally. The shift to new ways of working is in full swing. Access to real time information through compliance-cost-reducing tools such as Receipt Bank is giving advisors the opportunity to focus on high value work, & expand their client base not just locally, but globally.
The endorsement of a hugely successful global accounting software company such as QuickBooks in this technological shift, through innovative events like QuickBooks Connect, is further indication of the necessity for accountants & bookkeepers to ‘keep running’, as speaker Kevin Clearly aptly pointed out.
We look forward to doing it all again next year...