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Another price increase from Xero – 4 straight years of price increases sends social media mad?

Common People Black Mirror episode reflects business sentiment towards Xero price increases - Learn Online with Xero Courses

It’s interesting how negative the sentiment is on Linkedin and Facebook when you start seeing annual price increases for Xero.

MYOB has been smashed in it’s social media marketing campaign for their MYOB Solo software but Xero’s CEO was smashed on Linkedin for the continuing increases in price of Xero.

You can push the innovation angle for so long but it seems like Xero are trying to test how much their clients can really afford.

There is a link in their price increase email to their innovations page and I wonder if they did the price increase just to get more traffic to that part of their website!?

The question is:

  1. Is that innovation worth the cost to your business and do you use those features, and
  2. What are your alternatives.
  3. Do you need all this extra functionality that Xero is promoting?

These increase in subscriptions seem a lot like the recent Black Mirror episode “Common People” where users have no real choice but to keep paying more and more for the software because it is hard to find an alternative.

If you are into dark comedy or want to see how bad things can get from a technology perspective this episode has a very interesting take about subscriptions and premium services – wait until you when the subscriber starts talking about sponsored products!

Xero justifies it’s price increase using Innovation

Xero did a great job with an earlier price increase by telling their users about the massive gain they received with the inclusion of Hubdoc in their Xero feature list.

It was portrayed as a massive saving compared to the monthly fee and it worked very well at a time when other software companies were simply increasing their subscriptions with bland corporate notification emails.

They’re pushing the innovation angle again but users are pushing back.

Learn Online with Xero Courses

Xero COMPLETE Training Courses Online Suite - EzyLearn

Like it or not, Xero is still the leading online accounting software in New Zealand, Australia and the UK and it’s popularity continues to rise.

  • If you’re looking for accounts or bookkeeping jobs you need to know how to use Xero.
  • If you’re running your own business or a business manager you need to know how to use Xero

Learn everything about Xero in the Complete Xero Course. It includes 7 skill levels from beginners to advanced bookkeeping using Xero and it’s available from $20pw.

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What is the cheapest way to learn Xero and Microsoft Excel

EzyLearn Online Course Training Manuals and Workbooks for MYOB, Xero, Excel, Office, Word, QuickBooks Online

Learning how to use Xero for specific tasks is easy. There are dozens of videos that you can watch for free on YouTube and they are good for “JIT Learning” – Just In Time Learning. If you want to get a thorough and detailed training about how to perform bookkeeping using Xero you need to learn how to perform all the bookkeeping tasks.

Most people like to watch training videos about how to use Xero or Excel and then try to replicated it.

But once you’ve watched 3-4 videos you get the feeling that you should be using the software. You’ll also start to realise the benefit of a course that contains all the sample data and exercises to help you learn bookkeeping.

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BAS Course and Financial Reporting training by rescuing Jerry’s messy startup

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Some of the most challenging bookkeeping work is catchup or rescue bookkeeping. When there are 3 months worth of transactions of all different types and you need to

  • enter the data,
  • reconcile the bank accounts and
  • make sure that the tax, GST and payroll data is accurate –

Welcome to Jerry’s Messy Startup Case Study.

This course is designed for students or workers who already have an understanding about data entry for daily financial transactions, credit management and bank reconciliation.

You’ll work with 3 months of data and end up producing financial reports to help Jerry be compliant with the ATO for GST as well as his payroll PAYG obligations.

You’ll also give Jerry some useful insights into his messy business using financial reporting.

This BAS Course case study is available to help you learn BAS and Financial Reporting using QuickBooks, MYOB and Xero.

Information about these BAS Courses

  • BAS course in QuickBooks Online, MYOB and Xero takes approx 5 hours to complete
  • You are legally permitted to provide BAS services provided you are under instruction from the Business Owner, the business accountant or a registered BAS Agent.
  • BAS Services include Payroll and Superannuation calculations
  • Completing your BAS gets tricky with partial GST expenses
  • Data entry for historical transactions is what takes the most time when completing the BAS
  • Catchup or Rescue Bookkeeping is hard when the business owner can’t find copies of receipts
  • Business owners get stressed at BAS lodgement time because there are penalties for being late

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Stay Ahead of the Curve: Our Updated Xero Beginners Course Reflects Xero’s Constant Evolution

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In today’s fast-paced business environment, staying stagnant is a recipe for falling behind. This is especially true with accounting software, where innovation and updates are constantly reshaping how businesses manage their finances.

At EzyLearn, we’re committed to providing our business administration students with the most current and relevant training possible, particularly when it comes to mastering Xero.

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Cyber Security for Bookkeepers – How are scammers trying to get you

Cyber Security for Bookkeepers - How scammers are using MYOB and Xero to get you

Every contract bookkeeper loves receiving these emails but they can wreak havoc with your computer

Emails like these usually means you have a new client and the client has invited you to start doing the bookkeeping for them on their MYOB file.

Everything about the email looks good but here is what to look for and the steps to take:

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Engaging a New Worker? Here Are The Things You Need To Do, particularly if you’re classified by the ATO as a withholder:

There’s lots to do when businesses engage a new worker.  As an employer, you’ll be busy going through the onboarding process and showing your new employee the ropes, but there are other important things to do when you add a new member to your team.

Keeping accurate records complete with the right information is essential for businesses to maintain, and that means updating and adding data when engaging a new worker.  Here are some things to keep in mind as you go through this process:

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COMPLETE Xero Course includes Beginners to Advanced skills

Xero COMPLETE Training Courses Online Suite - EzyLearn

This Xero course is the most popular with job seekers and business owners because it gives them the training they need to do almost anything using Xero. These are the course topics:

The Complete Xero Course takes most students 3-4 weeks to complete but you can learn it at your own pace and in your own time.

12 months or LIFETIME access – your choice

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Enrol at our original enrolment website and you can learn everything about Bookkeeping using Xero with LIFETIME course access.

This includes all additional content we create and updates to training material. It also includes access to EzyLearn ANSWERS!

If you want the cheaper option you can enrol into the course here with 12 months course access and support.

Join us as a Tutor

If you have industry experience AND you complete our courses you can also become an EzyLearn Tutor.

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As an EzyLearn TUTOR you become our partner and work part time, while also earning an income online as our affiliate – this is just one of our Career Academy membership options for students.

Enquire with us today and get the FREE Xero course sample – as well as Microsoft Office and Word training!

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If you have any other questions you’ll find answers to most of them at our FAQ’s.

Here are just some of the most common questions and links to their answers.

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2024 in Review – Most popular topics

What most readers where interested in this year.

There are a couple trends which seemed to dominate the small business course market in 2024 and most of them related to replacing your bookkeeper!

It was the rise of automated bookkeeping services from companies like

  • Thriday,
  • HNRY, and
  • NAB’s Bookkeeper.

There also appeared to be a lot of ambiguity in job descriptions between Office Admin and Business Administration topics.

The other major observation is why did Intuit buy MailChimp and do email marketing companies make more money than accounting software companies?

Here’s our most popular blogs of 2024:

The range of skills and software knowledge for office and business admin employees is widening as they perform more and more of the daily tasks for each business.

A bunch of videos on Youtube or even Udemy is commonly called a course these days so Xero course prices vary widely. Some training company providers create interesting “accreditations” to lure students. In the end you get what you pay for and a real course involves you doing the work for a business – that’s the power of case studies.

Mentor Education advertised heavily and sold lots of courses and most of their students thought they could trust Australia’s accredited training framework – that didn’t end up being the case for thousands of unfortunate students.

Accounting automation has been a buzz word for several years but it now seems to be maturing when NAB and other major banks start promoting their automation features.

Payroll is a very complicated job to manage. It is important for all of our livelihoods and it’s a significant cost and time consuming task for businesses. It goes from hiring staff to tracking their every working hour, lunch break and sick day and more of these tasks are being combined into one software platform rather than a suit of software programs.

We offer free samples so you can get to know us and we get to show you the work involved in creating a proper course with practical tasks and business case studies. There are lots of free samples available so check them out.

Microsoft Excel is such a versatile program that it remains in strong demand even though specialist programs come along to try to make things easier. We have some free samples and hundreds of Excel exercise files that you can open and use to learn Excel.

Intuit bought MailChimp and we delved deeper into the world of email marketing software and how much these companies charge for their software. It’s far more lucrative than accounting software because they charge more as your subscribers increase. This will be an industry to watch in the coming years.

Xero course workbooks now for sale

It was also the first year we started selling the full range of Xero Course workbooks and exercise files. In these challenging financial times it is a cheap way to learn how to use Xero.

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Jerry knows all about email..

Jerry profile startup course and social media marketing for small business entrepreneur

Jerry Lame is a serial entrepreneur and loves shiny new objects. He was a corporate employee but went out on his own to start a business and be his own boss – then things got messy.

He needed to learn how to use Xero, MYOB or QuickBooks Online to manage his bookkeeping.

Mailchimp Course for Email Marketing

He started doing whatever he could to earn money and created income selling lots of different things to lots of different people. He used Outlook to send group messages to his clients until one day he realised it was going to get too hard.

Tony, a customer, sent him a reply email abusing him for sending junk mail and that surprised Jerry!

Jerry loves people and he loves talking to people from all sorts of different backgrounds and he remembered his conversations with Tony vividly so he was surprised to get such a reply.

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I’m not sure what to say..

Have you ever been in that situation? There’s lots going on and you have a lot on your mind yet you just can’t think of something to say? It’s like that with content marketing too.

It can be challenging but if you are in sales and marketing you MUST find something to say.

I was reviewing some of the recent updates to our Mailchimp Course for Email Marketing and realised that most content marketing is based around what is happening at the business.

It might have something to do with suppliers or products and changes to features or it can simply be about a success story or what one of your clients did.

Mailchimp Course for Email Marketing - Create a new email campaign - Digital Marketing Academy

When the Mailchimp course is ready it will be available at a discounted price to our Bookkeeping Academy members and can form part of your CPD Points.

Explore the Bookkeeping Academy and Inquire to learn more

PS. A new member recently understood how affiliate marketing works and was able to earn someone money just by referring someone to our courses. We’d rather pay you for introducing a new client than give the money away to Google Ads to get new students!

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New menu items have been added for ‘Customers & leads’ and ‘Budgets’

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There have been some big changes in Intuit QuickBooks Online navigation that have given our course development team the nudge to create updated training material.

All current students and members can access this material at no extra cost – that’s our Updates and Additions Policy.

Some of the biggest changes relate to Customers and leads and that makes sense when you consider that Intuit now owns Mailchimp – one of the largest email marketing service providers in the world.

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Why MYOB makes you log in after inactivity

ATO makes MYOB improve login security for inactivity of users - MYOB courses

Have you noticed a change in how MYOB makes you login? They’re starting to do as they are told by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), that’s why.

We’ve seen lots of login issues with Xero in the past when they focused on authentication for their users and now it’s MYOB announcing improvements in their security – this time for inactivity.

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Do I need one to one training to learn MYOB and Xero?

When I see this comment I wonder if it’s not just based on the fear some students have about learning by themselves.

They’re worried about what happens if they get stuck on something, what happens if they don’t understand the instructions and wanting to know that someone will be available to help them.

I started teaching students how to use computer software on a one to one basis and thought to myself,

“these people are all spending a lot of money to go through the same basic steps”.

The problem with a lot of courses is that they just dump you with information and then get you to answer some questions in an assessment or test – not EzyLearn, we guide you through learning journeys.

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Is Xero really promoting websites for $2,700

GoDaddy websites created for you - Xero Training Sydney

Xero has always used its partner network to reach it’s users. I remember one claim made by Xero that they are the accounting software of choice for property and real estate businesses but it was really their integration partner Re-Leased that did the heavy lifting.

I received an email from Xero promoting GoDaddy. It was a promotion where GoDaddy would create the website for you and optimise it for Search engines.

What surprised me the most is that GoDaddy will actually create the website for you – not just host it.

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