Increased business efficiency for Sydney and NZ hair salon

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“Christine saved my business”


Ngarino Tumai is the owner of Sydney and New Zealand based hair salon 1Nine7Two.

About eight years ago, Ngarino loved the direction his business was going in, but he absolutely dreaded a massive part of running his business – the accounting and bookkeeping side of things.

Doing all data entry manually, Ngarino spent most of his time after hours entering data, managing slips, doing payroll and keeping track of his taxes. He needed to increase his business efficiency.

“It was a nightmare. I had no system in place to automate things… but I wasn’t aware of better solutions. I had business coaches and a legal team that cost me an arm and a leg, but didn’t really help my business,” says Ngarino.

To make matters worse, when the COVID-19 pandemic struck, none of his business or legal service providers remained by his side. His business suffered, and Ngarino was stressed.

Until Christine from Unity Accounting came along.

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From hair client to business superhero


One day, while Christine sat in the salon chair, she and Ngarino informally spoke about business and how he spent hours on end keeping his accounting and bookkeeping matters up to date.

Christine desperately wanted to help Ngarino and his business. So, she suggested that he start using the cloud-based accounting software Xero and spoke about ways for him to streamline his operations. Soon, 1Nine7Two became a loyal client of Unity Accounting.

“During the COVID-19 pandemic, all my business coaches and legal advisors basically ran away. Christine was the only one who stuck by me. She turned things around and saved my business.”

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Software that automates accounting and bookkeeping


Christine worked closely with Ngarino to put Xero in place, and empowered him to easily be across all his business accounting matters. By streamlining the management of business taxation, compliance, payroll, bookkeeping, budgeting and account management, Christine helped Ngarino get his time back so that he could focus on running his business – and not only surviving – but thriving during the pandemic.

“Xero was the hero,” laughs Ngarino.

Apart from automating his business accountancy, Ngarino felt comfortable asking Christine with help in other areas, too.

“With anything that I needed… nothing was ever a problem. When I had to redo my mortgage and sort out my personal finances… Christine was there to help. She has the knowledge to solve any problem. I will never go to anyone else with my personal or business finances until the day I die.”

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“I feel safe”


“Basically, Christine gave me my life back. My business accounting is now easy. What usually took me three to four hours every week, now only needs 20 minutes of my attention every three months.

And if I ever have a question, I know that Christine or a member of her team will always pick up the phone to help me.

Christine gave real solutions that saved my business and made things so much easier for me.

After each conversation with Christine or someone in her team, I feel safe. With Unity Accounting, nothing is ever a problem. In this day and age when you’re growing a business, it’s not easy to trust people with your finances. I had no idea about the ins and outs of accountancy… but when you find that person you can trust with it, you stick with them. Christine charges me a fraction of what I paid my previous accountant, and I’m getting a thousand times more back than what I pay.”

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