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Small business accounting platform Xero has partnered with Bookkeeper360, a provider of cloud-based accounting and advisory solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, to launch a custom integration that brings Xero and Melio’s accounts payable and accounts receivable (AR) capabilities directly into the Bookkeeper360 platform through a fully embedded, white-label solution, enabling Bookkeeper360 to offer those services to its clients under its own brand. The embedded solution allows accounting firms, regardless of whether they use Xero, to offer their clients a fully branded AP and AR experience, powered by Melio, directly within their own platforms. The integration offers the ability to embed natively into an existing tech stack, with firm-branded user interface and client experience, including SSO, portals and internal tools; dedicated engineering and support teams, who help maintain enterprise workflows, scale and long-term needs, including enterprise-grade security and reliability; and a lower total cost of software, without per-seat fees or platform overhead, removing platform subscription fees and prioritizing unlimited accountant users and simple per-client pricing. … Enterprise AI implementation solutions provider Superglue and Artifact, an AI-focused accounting process automation solutions provider, have announced a strategic partnership to take accounting firms from client onboarding to first close with AI. Superglue’s implementation agents will set up and migrate each client’s systems. Artifact’s agents will then run the recurring accounting work from the first month. … Legora, a provider of AI collaboration software for legal professionals, and AI-driven tax research platform Blue J announced a partnership to bring Blue J’s AI-powered tax research into Legora. Eligible customers can query Blue J directly in Legora and receive answers with inline citations linking back to sources in Blue J. The integration is built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect Blue J’s tax research to the Legora aOS. Blue J performs the research on its own infrastructure. Users need subscriptions to both products and must sign in with their own accounts. Each answer includes inline citations linking to the underlying Blue J sources, subject to applicable content permissions. The integration will open first to selected eligible joint customers through early access, with general availability planned for November. … Mastercard has selected virtual card provider Extend as one of its financial operations platform partners to bring modern spend and expense management to issuing banks and their existing commercial card programs across the US and Canada.  … MySSAgent,, an optimal Social Security claiming platform, is now available inside Claude, listed in Claude’s Connectors Directory. Advisors can work a case start to finish in minutes: the engine runs every claiming month from 62 to 70 on the client’s own earnings record, including spousal and survivor strategies and IRMAA, and each analysis produces a client-ready PDF report. In Claude, advisors can ask about any client in plain English, and every figure comes straight from our engine. Anyone can use the estimator for free, with no account. The company’s SOC 2 Type I report is issued, its Type II audit is under way, and its web platform earned an A+ on an independent penetration test. … Aline Accounting Partners announced its partnership with AI-driven audit and advisory platform Fieldguide. The rollout spans the Financial Audit practice of AAPG, LLP, Aline’s separately licensed CPA firm responsible for attest services, supporting engagement types from reviews and compilations to single audits, employee benefit plan audits, and engagements across the construction, healthcare, non-profit, and government sectors. … Excise tax automation solutions provider IGEN announced an expansion of its strategic collaboration with indirect tax solutions provider Vertex. The initial integration adds IGEN’s excise tax calculation into Vertex’s SAP-certified connector, so enterprises modernizing on SAP S/4HANA can calculate excise and other indirect taxes in a single transaction flow. Using an existing SAP connection can reduce the need for a separate integration project, while the shared flow supports reconciliation and audit preparation. Future integrations with additional ERP systems are planned. …  Payment network and shopping assistant Klarna  announced today that it is the first flexible payments option available on practice management platform TaxDome. Starting today, TaxDome customers can receive Klarna payments from their clients, who can choose to pay in full, split the cost into four interest-free installments, or choose financing at checkout. … Financial data connections platform Amalgam added two new resources for QBO: Vendor Credits and Credit Memos.These resources give users more flexibility to work with supplier and customer credit information directly from Excel or Google Sheets, making it easier to incorporate credits into their existing accounting workflows.