Global Product Capabilities

Saasu’s functionally is "broad and shallow<" unlike our existing service in Australasia which is "broad and deep" functionally. This means it tries to do as much as possible for as many countries as possible with only limited country specific tailoring initially. Saasu products are fundamentally internationally capable from the outset, i.e. they can be used 'anywhere by anyone' and you can make your own tax codes if they don't exist already.

Of course each person, place or culture may have different rules, ways of acting and expectations that we don't always support. Our goal is to support as many people, places and cultures as possible. We call them zones because they are so flexible. To meet this goal we roll out hundreds of new improvements every year, but the world is a big place and we can’t do everything overnight. So if there is something you need that we don’t do yet then please tell us and if it is something that others are likely to need too then we will put it on our development list.

We currently support over 50 countries in Beta Release

Albania | Algeria | Andorra | Argentina | Armenia | Australia* | Austria | Belgium | Brazil | Bulgaria | Canada | Chile | Cyprus | Czech Rep. | Denmark | Egypt | Estonia | Finland | France | Germany | Greece | Hong Kong | Hungary | India | Indonesia | Ireland | Israel | Italy | Japan | Latvia | Lithuania | Luxembourg | Malaysia | Malta | Mexico | Monaco | Morocco | Montenegro | Netherlands | New Zealand | Norway | Pakistan | Philippines | Poland | Portugal | Romania | Russia | Saudi Arabia | Singapore | South Africa | Spain | Switzerland | Taiwan | Thailand | UK | USA | Vietnam | Zambia

* Commercial Release

What’s the difference between Commercial Release and our Beta Release?

• The notice to clients (on sign in) to let you know we don’t provide full support yet but you are still welcome to start using the service it also suggests you read this page.
• Single currency single zone and does not show currency symbols
• Primarily for general small business accounting (general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, journals, invoicing, employee list, client list, prospect list, supplier list etc) but can be used for larger businesses.
• Local consumption based tax (also known as GST/VAT) is supported for each zone but is simplistic in the sense it does know your local country base rate but does not know if you have special rates applied to certain types of goods yet
• Payroll is still using Australasian descriptions, if you calculate your own taxes etc you can use this function but we would not actively encourage it because when your local payroll settings are introduced your itemised payroll history will be inconsistent.

What Are Zones?

A zone is a way of defining a set of local behaviour you need from your business management system, it is much more flexible than traditional financial systems settings which were based only on country or state.

Saasu currently supports over 50 zones in beta and/or commercial release with more being developed every week.

A zone may be a -

• Country (any nation) or
• Another ‘area’ that is sub-national and is a legal jurisdiction in its own right for some laws or conventions or
• Either of the above that has particular set of business operating rules or culture that only applies to some sub-set of the population based on a non-geographic selection criteria

The different types of behaviour could be base currency, sales/consumption tax (GST/VAT or similar), payroll items and so much more.

A zone is hence much more than just a country because there may be multiple zones for any one country (over time) to handle specific circumstances.

An area might be any of these and more -

• City (such as New York or Sydney)
• District (such as Columbia)
• State(such as Florida or California or New South Wales)
• Administrative region (such as Hong Kong)
• Locality (such as the DIFC in Dubai)
• City State Country (such as Singapore)

A Zone can also be used to define special behaviour for a particular type of business that have special behaviour within a country such as exporters in a particular area.

We expect zones to be an increasingly common means for national, state, local and other forms of government around the world to compete economically in specific circumstances (usually defined geographically but not always) without making changes that impact their entire country.

How do I change my Zone?

1. When signed in to Saasu choose Manage in the top menu.
2. Click the Manage Files and Users link.
3. From the List of Files click Edit (the pencil icon) to open the file settings.
4. Change the Zone drop down list and save these changes.