Great SaaS updates. Maybe the greatest ever. Tremendous Features – Everyone’s Talking About Them. Beautiful.

Welcome to the Digi-Tools in Accrual World Podcast - your place for accounting tech news!   This episode is sponsored by FYI, the new practice management challenger, John and Ryan bravely soldier on without Indi to keep them in line.   They dive deep into Xero's new API-like MCPs, discuss the eye-watering $2.2 billion valuation of Penny Lane, and share updates from a huge week of product releases - from FreeAgent, Intuit TaxCalc Joiin, Workflow Max and Countingup.     00:00 Intro 02:49 App News   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 02:52 Xero adds MCP server for smarter integrations 08:34 Pennylane doubles valuation to $2.2bn 11:27  FreeAgent rolls out CIS features for contractors 13:49   Intuit adds project tools to enterprise suite 16:39 TaxCalc bridges the MTD spreadsheet gap 25:32 Xero and Sumday partner on free carbon accounting tools 28:20  Countingup introduces new product features 30:55 WorkflowMax shares latest product updates 33:39 Joiin unveils new features in ‘Joiin Unwrapped’ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 37:11 From Outsourced Finance Provider to Partner: Winning Against the In-House Trend: Xledger   47:29 Outro