# Which Xero features do small businesses end up paying extra for?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">I'm writing a piece on what <a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/xero/reviews">Xero</a> actually costs a small business once the basics are running, and from the reviews the answer is that the core bookkeeping sits on the entry plans while multi-currency, expenses, projects and the deeper reporting are what people describe moving up a tier for. Invoice and bill volume is the other thing that pushes a plan change. Within <a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/accounting">Accounting</a> software that tiering is standard, and it does mean a sole trader is not funding features built for a twenty-person firm.</p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">What comes through positively alongside the cost discussion is that the entry tiers are genuinely workable rather than a trial in disguise. People run real businesses on them for years, which is why the step up gets noticed when it comes rather than being accepted as inevitable at signup.</p><ul>
<li>Which limit or feature actually pushed your plan change</li>
<li>Whether multi-currency justified the step for you</li>
<li>Whether expenses or projects got used once you had them</li>
<li>Whether you reviewed the plan since, or set it once and left it</li>
<li>Whether the entry tier lasted longer than you expected</li>
</ul><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">If you have been on Xero a few years, has the plan you are on kept pace with the business, or is it the one you picked at the start?</p>

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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;We ran a real business on the entry plan for a good while before multi-currency moved us up. It was more than enough while we were small.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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