Brisbane's best Xero training.
Learn Xero from the experts: a 2-hour session on your own file, customised to your business. In person in Fortitude Valley, or over Zoom anywhere in Australia. Whether you're brand new to Xero or sharpening up, there is a session for you.
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Tailored one-on-one Xero training.
Two hours with an experienced Xero expert, on your file, at your pace. Walk out confident in the exact workflows your business runs on.
$350 + GST
$385 including GST, for the full two-hour session.
Bringing someone else? Each extra person in the session is $50 + GST ($55 including GST), so the owner and the admin person together is $400 + GST.
Team Xero training, up to 10 people.
Get the whole team running Xero the same way, in the same session - limited to attendees from one company so nothing is off-limits.
Sorry, group sessions are currently unavailable.
One-on-one training is running as normal. Register your interest and we will tell you as soon as group sessions are back on.
Become confident using Xero.
Your trainer is a working Xero-certified bookkeeper from a Platinum Partner firm, so every question gets a real answer from someone who solves it daily, over Zoom or in person at Fortitude Valley. And you have the LINK team behind you afterwards, for the questions that only surface once you are using the file properly.
What your session covers.
- Bank feeds and reconciliations
- BAS lodgement assistance
- Inventory management and setup
- Fixed assets register
- Xero payroll: setup and usage, including staff portal access
- Reports - how they work and when to use them
- Contacts and management
- General settings and initial file setup
- Accounts receivable and accounts payable management
Tea, coffee and lunch, sorted.
Sessions at our Fortitude Valley office include a tea and coffee service, set up in the room before you start and topped up as you go, plus cold drinks and refreshments. Two hours on your own file is real work, so nobody should be doing it thirsty. Over Zoom you are on your own for the coffee.
Tea, coffee and refreshments
Included in your session
Tea, coffee, herbal teas and cold drinks, set up in your room before you start and topped up through the session. No extra charge and nothing to add on when you book. Bring one person or bring three, it is part of the session either way.
Lunch, if you want to eat mid-session
What the food costs, plus a flat $25
Pick from our suppliers’ menus and pay exactly what they charge. We do not mark the food up. The $25 covers ordering it, setting it out and clearing it away. Around $30 a head is typical. Wraps, salads and healthy options, and tell us about any dietary requirements when you book.
What to expect when you book.
The questions people ask us most about Xero training, answered up front so you know exactly what you are getting.
How much does Xero training cost?
LINK Books charges $350 plus GST - $385 including GST - for a two-hour one-on-one session on your own Xero file, and each extra person you bring is $50 plus GST. It covers the session and the preparation, because we go through your file beforehand so the two hours are spent on your business rather than a generic walkthrough. Sessions at our Fortitude Valley office include tea, coffee and refreshments, and we can organise lunch if you want to eat mid-session.
What happens after the session?
You keep a written summary of everything covered, your reports stay set up and saved in your file, and you have a bookkeeper you can call. Questions come up in the weeks after training, once you are using Xero properly and start noticing things. Email or ring us and we will answer them. You are part of LINK from that point on, and most people find that ongoing line matters more than the two hours did.
How much does it cost to get Xero certified?
Xero's Advisor Certification is free, but it is built for accountants and bookkeepers rather than business owners, and the badge is restricted to staff at Xero Partner firms. If you run a business and want to use Xero well, you do not need to be certified. Correct as at August 2026 - Xero sets these terms, not us.
How long does it take to learn Xero?
Two hours is enough to run your own file confidently day to day: reconciling without guessing, invoicing, applying payments and reading the four reports that matter. Fluency across everything Xero does takes months of real use. Xero's own Advisor Certification is roughly 8 to 15 hours of study, but that is a qualification for advisors, not what an owner needs.
Six habits that keep your file clean.
These are the habits that separate a file you can trust from one you have to check. Every one of them is quick to learn and easy to keep up once you have seen it done on your own transactions, and they are the backbone of the two hours.
Reconcile with your eyes open
Xero suggests a match and offers a green button, and the suggestion is right most of the time. The skill is knowing when to look twice. Check the amount, the date and the contact before you click, and slow down on anything that is not an exact match. It takes a few seconds longer per line and it is the single biggest difference between a file that reports accurately and one that merely looks tidy.
Match to what is already there
When the bill is already in Xero, matching the bank line to it keeps one clean record of the expense and closes off the payable at the same time. We show you where to look for the existing document and how to find it when the bank line does not obviously connect - part payments, rounded amounts, a supplier name the bank abbreviates. Get this one habit and your creditors ledger stays true all year.
Empty the holding account monthly
A suspense or holding account is a useful queue for anything you are unsure about, and it works beautifully as long as it gets cleared. Make it a monthly ten minutes rather than a June job and every item is still fresh enough to identify, still substantiated, and still claimable. We will set up the routine with you and show you how to work through a queue quickly.
Know which changes are safe
Editing a transaction in a period you have already reported touches figures the ATO has been given, and there is a clear line between the amendments that are fine, the ones that want a note against them and the ones that call for the BAS to be revisited instead. Learning where that line sits means you can correct things confidently, which is far more useful than being afraid to touch anything.
Let the paperwork carry the meaning
The bank feed is precise about money and quiet about meaning. It knows $4,200 left the account; the invoice, the bill and the receipt are what tell you it was stock rather than a loan repayment or a vehicle deposit. Treat the feed as the start of the question and the document as the answer, and your coding stays right without you having to remember anything.
Agree one way of coding
When more than one person touches the file, a short written set of rules keeps the same expense landing in the same account regardless of who is at the desk, so your trend lines describe the business rather than the roster. Writing that set of rules down is exactly what a team session produces, and it is why we keep those sessions to people from one company.
Two hours on your file, not a slide deck.
Nothing generic. We open your Xero, work through your own transactions, and you keep the notes. Bring the things that have been slowing you down - those usually turn out to be the fastest wins in the room.
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Tell us who is in the room
Owner, admin person, or both with different goals. We ask before the session and weight the two hours accordingly, because the person reading the numbers and the person entering them need almost nothing in common. Bring the questions that have been sitting unanswered.
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Reconciliation, done properly
Working through your real bank lines: matching to existing invoices and bills, handling part payments, overpayments and credit notes, when a bank rule genuinely helps and when it just automates a mistake, and what to do with the line you cannot immediately place.
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Getting paid, and chasing it
Invoicing from the template that suits your business, payment terms that mean something, automatic reminder sequences so the chasing is not a phone call you dread, and reading aged receivables by client rather than as one average that hides the two who are genuinely slow.
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Reading what it tells you
The four or five reports worth your time, what each is for, and how to spot a coding error rather than a business problem. You leave with the reports set up and saved, so the next month is a click instead of a rebuild, and with a written summary of what we covered.
Frequently asked questions.
I'm a complete beginner. Is this for me?
Yes - beginners are exactly who the session was designed for, and it is customised to your business rather than a generic demo. Experienced users book it too, usually to fix habits and find features they never knew existed.
One on one or group - which should I pick?
Group sessions are currently unavailable, so one on one is the session running right now. When groups are back on, the choice is this: one on one if it is your file and your questions; the group package (up to 10 people from one company) when a whole team needs to run Xero the same way. Both run for two hours. If a team session is what you need, register your interest and we will let you know as soon as they resume.
In person or online?
Either - at our Fortitude Valley office or over Zoom. The screen-share works just as well as the shared desk.
What do we cover?
The essentials in two hours, weighted to what your business actually uses: reconciliations, payroll, invoicing, reports and setup. You set the priorities; we bring the expertise.
Should the owner and the admin person do the same session?
They get more out of separate sessions, because they want different things. An owner wants to open Xero on a Monday, read the position in ten minutes and know which number to ask about, so that session leans on reports, ageing and cash. The admin person is in the file every day and wants the mechanics: reconciling, matching, part payments, credit notes, supplier statements and repeating invoices. Run separately, both walk out with something they use the next morning. Tell us who is coming and we will weight the time accordingly.
What will I actually be able to do afterwards?
Reconcile a week of transactions without guessing, and know which ones to leave alone and ask about. Raise an invoice, apply a payment, issue a credit note and set up automatic reminders. Read a profit and loss with comparatives and an aged receivables report, and say what each is telling you. Find a transaction when someone queries it, and know which changes are safe and which touch a period already lodged. Not everything Xero can do. The part you touch every week, done correctly.
Our reconciliation is up to date but the numbers still look off. What are we missing?
Up to date and reconciled are two different things, and the gap between them is where the answer usually sits. The three we find most often are income recorded twice where a payment was created rather than matched to its invoice, items still waiting in a holding account, and GST claimed on something that never carried it. All three leave the same footprints every time, so a session on your own file typically turns them up inside the first half hour and you learn to spot them yourself from then on.
How do we get the most out of a session?
Training pays off fastest when one person is going to own the file week to week, so bring whoever that is and let them set the agenda. Send us the things that have been slowing you down beforehand and we will build the two hours around them. If we look at your file first and think it needs repair work before training makes sense, we will tell you and quote for that instead, so you are not paying to learn on a file that is about to change.
Book your Xero training today.
Two hours now saves hours every week after. Call 07 3899 8311 or book online.