MARBLES AND XERO, COMPARED

Marbles vs Xero

Marbles is a bookkeeping service with the software built in. You pay one monthly fee and the bookkeeping is taken care of.

Xero is good software. But it's still software: you do the bookkeeping yourself, or pay someone else to manage your books.

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From $349/month + GST · Software included · No lock in

SIDE BY SIDE

The real difference is
who does the bookkeeping.

Xero gives you good tools to do the bookkeeping. Marbles does the bookkeeping.

	XERO	MARBLES
Who does the bookkeeping	You do - or you find and pay a separate bookkeeper to do it in Xero.	We do. Transactions reconciled and coded, receipts matched, books kept current.
What you pay for	A software subscription. The bookkeeping - your hours or a bookkeeper's invoice - is on top.	One monthly fee. The service and the software your books live in are both included.
How current your books are	As current as your last session - or your bookkeeper's last visit.	Done every month. Clean, reconciled and ready for BAS all year round.
BAS	You prepare it, with good tooling to help.	Prepared for you each quarter. You review and lodge it, or hand it to your accountant.
Your accountant	Free advisor access.	Access whenever they need it - with clean, organised records to work from at tax time.
Price	$38-$143/mo for the software, plus what the bookkeeping costs you in hours or fees.	From $349/mo + GST, all in. Fixed, based on your monthly business expenses. No hourly charges.

AT YOUR OWN PACE

You don't have to leave Xero to start.

Marbles includes the software we use to keep your books - so a Xero subscription is optional, not required.

KEEP XERO

Use Marbles for the bookkeeping

If you'd prefer to keep Xero, you can. The books we reconcile and maintain live in Marbles, so Marbles becomes the day to day source of truth for the bookkeeping we do for you.

Keep your existing software as long as you want

Your accountant keeps working the way they do now

Move across only if and when you want to

OR REPLACE IT

Drop the subscription entirely

Marbles includes the software your books live in. When you join, we help bring across what we need from Xero or any other platform - and you stop paying for software you no longer open.

We handle the move - you don't lift a finger

You drop a subscription and a login

Your records are always yours to export

What bookkeeping is actually costing you

The subscription is only part of what your bookkeeping costs. Someone still has to do the work - you, or a bookkeeper you pay.

THE FULL COST WITH XERO

Software subscription$38-$143

A bookkeeper to run it$600-$2,000

Or your own evenings40 hours/mo

Typical total $638-$2,143/mo

THE FULL COST WITH MARBLES

Bookkeeping + softwarefrom $349/mo + GST

Fixed monthly fee. No hourly charges. No surprise bills.

You could save up to $1,794/mo · ~84%

Ready to hand the
bookkeeping over?

No lock in contracts and you cancel any time.

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