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 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. If you make an API call to the Journals endpoint you will receive the following error message:
If you use the Script Debugger to examine the value for the $response variable after the Insert from URL script step has been performed you will see a 401 response code has been returned with the following response:
{
"Detail" : "AuthorizationUnsuccessful",
"Extensions" : {},
"Instance" : "5265a683-f31e-436e-8a24-e795e9eef70d",
"Status" : 401,
"Title" : "Unauthorized",
"Type" : null
}
Xero have also made changes to the authentication scopes for new Xero OAuth Apps that were created on or after March 2, 2026. They are replacing the previous broad scopes with more granular scopes to give you more control and security. 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. We have the details of the changes you need to make to the authentication scopes in this support article (for existing apps created before 2 March 2026 do NOT make these changes until after the end of April 2026 as these granular scopes currently only work with new apps created on or after March 2, 2026).
You can get more information about the changes to the Xero Developer Pricing at the following sites: