Changes to the Xero Developer Pricing

In December 2025 Xero announced that they were making changes to their pricing and policies for the  Xero Developer Platform, including moving to a new usage-based pricing effective March 2, 2026.

New apps created in the Xero Developer portal will default to the free Starter tier and existing apps will be migrated starting mid March, 2026. You will receive an email from Xero when your app has been migrated and which plan it has been migrated too.

We are expecting that fmAccounting Link (Xero Edition) users will be migrated to the free Starter plan – most customers will have created a Xero developer app for use with integrating with their own Xero Organisation only and will fall within the limits of 5 connections and 1,000 API calls per day.

The main limitation with the free Starter plan is that you no longer have access to the Journals API endpoint. Access to the Journals API requires a Xero security assessment (initial and annual) and use case approval, and is only available starting at the more expensive Advanced tier.

We have a new article in our support site with more details about the error you will likely encounter when trying to access the Journals endpoint. It also covers some additional changes Xero have made to the authentication scopes for new Xero OAuth Apps that were created on or after March 2, 2026. Existing apps created before 2 March 2026 will be assigned the new granular scopes by the end of April 2026 and will have until September 2027 to switch over the scopes they’re using.