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We’re global!

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Published in Company News on 22 December 2008 by Rod Drury

Today we released the global version of Xero. Now virtually every small business on the planet can use the world’s easiest accounting system. Thousands of customers have been loving Xero in New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Australia. The requests for a global version were overwhelming. It’s great that now anyone and everyone can use Xero, anwhere, anytime.

If you’re new to Xero, this short video will show you why Xero is the world’s easiest accounting system.

The global version of Xero has configurable sales taxes and reporting, so it can be used essentially anywhere. Right now.

The following video shows how easy it is to set up your sales taxes.

We’re really proud that people love using Xero. Thousands of people around the world depend on Xero as the easiest and smartest way to run their business. As always, we’ll continue to make Xero even better based on your feedback. We’ll be listening to customer feedback as we prioritize additional country-specific features throughout 2009, to make it even easier and smarter for your part of the world.

We look forward to getting to know many small business owners around the world. Send us an email, comment on our blog, tell your friends.

We’re here to help you be more successful.

 

7 comments

Amusis
22 December 2008 #

Nice development. However, you may want to review your pricing.

The UK version is £29 per month- equal to $43. However, the global version is only $29 per month- not $43!. This is bad for 2 reasons:

First, the global version is 33% cheaper than the UK version. As such, customers have an incentive to migrate en-masse to the global version. The only cost is changing a few tax code. The payoff is a 33% discount.You may have created a problem for yourselves.

Secondly, UK customers will feel cheated. Xero is a great product, but already much more expensive than rivals like Kashflow (£16), Winweb (£12), e-conomic (£14), Sagelive (£10), Liquidaccounts (£20). Watching customers on the global version paying 33% less will onlymake Uk customers feel even more overcharged.

I would recommend that you cut the price of the UK version to £19 monthly. This is the £ equivalent of the $29 price of the global version. This has two advantages: you bring the global and UK versions to the same price, and you bring the UK price more in line with those of competing products.

Katie
22 December 2008 #

I agree with the Amusis comments. UK Version needs to be reduce to £19 from £29. UK Customers are paying between $14 to $15US Dollars more.

Also £29 is equivalent to about $74NZ for the same product.

Rod Drury
22 December 2008 #

Hi Amusis

Yes we are very aware of that inconsistency.

Global came together earlier than originally planned and we decided to make it available ahead of some other changes originally planned for the same time – like a UK pricing review.

We will address this very early in the new year.

Best regards,

Rod

Mike Scott
23 December 2008 #

Are you guys gonna use data from yodlee or similar to provide the automated bank feeds as you do currently? Yodlee connects to 11,000(!) different banks and money providers.

Rod Drury
23 December 2008 #

Hi Mike, that’s an option we’re looking at.

Cheers

Rod

Amusis
23 December 2008 #

Dear Rod

Thanks for the response. I’m in the process of choosing an online accounting package. I really love Xero, but I’m in the UK, and the current price is just a little too hard to swallow, considering what the other alternatives are costing.

Eagerly looking forward to the price review, and you’ll definitely have a new customer afterwards.

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