Message from Xero: "Xero has advised that it's making changes to the price of its subscriptions in Australia. This reflects their ongoing commitment to investing in a platform that helps you run your business. From 1 July 2026, the following changes will apply: • Ignite plan increases to $37 per month • Grow plan increases to $78 per month • Comprehensive plan increases to $107 per month • Ultimate 10 plan increases to $143 per month • Ultimate 20 plan increases to $180 per month • Ultimate 50 plan increases to $250 per month • Ultimate 100 plan increases to $300 per month. This year, Xero delivered a wave of new capabilities to make the platform faster, more insightful, and smarter behind the scenes. Pricing is in AUD, includes GST, and is subject to change at any time on notice to you as per Xero's terms of use. As a reminder, any subscription on special discounted pricing will no longer be eligible for that discount if you move that subscription to a different plan, and it cannot be transferred to another plan or customer. If you have any questions, please let me know"

Not sure how many of you have been impacted this week by the Xero outages: "We've updated our status page to reflect that our technical teams have implemented a fix for the third-party hardware issue that impacted our platform - an Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage that impacted various organisations globally. Between the fixes now implemented for the AWS outage and our own platform challenges you should now be able to use Xero without issue."

Hi everyone I’m new here and learning how to record keep and label and upload in Xero. I’m a professional singer / entertainer and teacher. What code do I put Gig shoes into? Thanks, Aneesa

Employee self-onboarding now available in Xero Payroll Employee self-onboarding is now available for all Xero customers!! This was one of the most highly requested features from the community, with 448 votes across AU & NZ on Xero Product Ideas! Now, instead of collecting new starter details via emails, forms or external platforms to onboard, you can now send a secure onboarding request to the new employee within Xero! All you need is their name and email address to get started. Employees simply complete their details online via mobile or desktop, submit the form securely and the payroll admin receives a notification to review and approve before the employee record is created. No doubt this will help reduce manual data entry, minimise errors AND speed up the onboarding process! Will this change your payroll workflow? https://central.xero.com/s/article/Employee-self-onboarding

I must admit I am quite enjoying auto-reconcile in xero. Anyone else? Is this now offered world wide?