{"id":535943,"date":"2026-07-20T23:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/535943\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T23:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:55:12","slug":"new-shearing-tally-app-makes-pay-runs-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/535943\/","title":{"rendered":"New shearing tally app makes pay runs easier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tReading Time:   2 minutes<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=farmersweekly.co.nz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"google-follow-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\" alt=\"Follow on Google News\" class=\"google-follow-image pk-lazyload\" width=\"120\" height=\"35\" data-pk- data-pk-src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Google_follow-240x71-1.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new phone app allows shearing contractors to save time by uploading photos of their tally books, which it uses to create invoices and pay runs in Xero.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ShearOps was designed by Anton Musalov, Luke Hillis and Ronan Avery from Gore.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Musalov told Farmer\u2019s Weekly he grew up working on mate Luke Hillis\u2019s farm and shearing with him and his family\u2019s Hillis Shearing gangs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Musalov went to study engineering, Hillis was off to Australia for shearing and eventually started his own shearing gang.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Musalov said Hillis had challenges with payroll and invoicing, and did not like the outdated options available, saying they were time consuming and expensive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These options were also tied to a single computer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEach week shearing contractors have to send in a bunch of tally books, manually enter numbers into Xero, and then manually create invoices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This took Hillis an entire day each week to do.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"| Farmers Weekly\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAABAAAAAKrAQMAAABV2G3XAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAGxJREFUeNrtwTEBAAAAwqD1T20MH6AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOBtYOgAB23VbnQAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Three men stand together outdoors in front of a rustic barn, smiling at the camera on a rural farm.\" class=\"wp-image-151040 pk-lazyload\" data-pk- data-ls- data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shearops1-1024x683.jpeg\" data-pk-\/>From left, ShearOps founders Luke Hillis, Ronan Avery and Anton Musalov.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hillis asked Musalov to build something more efficient.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With ShearOps you can take a photo of a tally book, or upload a photo, and the system reads the tally book, checks the calculations, pulls all the work types, and matches it to employees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The software gives a full breakdown of work completed, and automatically creates invoices as soon as the job is logged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is also tied to Xero, which most shearing gangs use, and can be used offline, with the app connecting to Xero to update documents as soon as there is a connection available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Besides invoicing, the app has more add-ons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shearers can log health, safety and animal welfare issues and store related documents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gang operators also get in-depth data on employees and clients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On top of that the app allows contractors to book shearing courses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most importantly of all, in collaboration with FarmStrong, it will send shearers wellbeing tips as they start work.<\/p>\n<p><img title=\"| Farmers Weekly\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAABAAAAAKrAQMAAABV2G3XAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAGxJREFUeNrtwTEBAAAAwqD1T20MH6AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOBtYOgAB23VbnQAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"ShearOps branding above two devices: a phone showing a tally sheet and a laptop with a Xero invoice, illustrating Tally to Xero.\" class=\"wp-image-151041 pk-lazyload\" data-pk- data-ls- data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shearops2-1024x683.png\" data-pk-\/>ShearOps users can take a photo of their tally book and the ShearOps app takes it straight to Xero.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shane Ratima, president of the Shearing Association and owner of Ratima Shearing Limited, said he has been helping Musalov develop ShearOps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said the software that many shearing contractors use ties you to a single computer and is all based on manual entry. This limits him to where he can use it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, \u201canyone could be doing your payroll from all around the planet\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s the way of the future. The biggest thing for contractors is just getting our time back, that\u2019s worth quite a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ShearOps is currently working with four contractors, and has interest from Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reading Time: 2 minutes A new phone app allows shearing contractors to save time by uploading photos of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-535943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}