Never get surprised by an accounting-software price change again.

StackWatch monitors pricing across the accounting-software stack — QuickBooks, Xero, BILL, Gusto, and dozens more — every single day, and flags a change the morning it happens.

Track the tools my firm uses → Built for accounting & bookkeeping firms. Every figure checked against the vendor's own page.

What StackWatch does

Pricing intelligence, not another newsletter.

You quote clients on the software they run. When a vendor quietly raises a plan, drops a tier, or moves a feature behind "contact sales," you find out from an angry client — or you don't find out at all. StackWatch closes that gap.

Daily, not annual

Every tracked vendor is checked each morning against its live pricing page — not a blog, not a cached aggregator.

Confirmed before it's reported

A change has to appear in two consecutive checks before it's ever flagged. No false alarms.

Severity-ranked

A price hike or a removed plan is a P1. A copy tweak is logged and ignored. You only hear about what matters.

2026 price tracker

What's already changed this year.

A sample of what StackWatch has caught — each verified against the vendor's own page.

Tool / planWasNowChange
QuickBooks Online — Essentials$75/mo$85/mo+13%
QuickBooks Online — Plus$115/mo$140/mo+22%
QuickBooks Online — Advanced$275/mo$340/mo+24%
Xero (US) — all plans$25/$55/$90$27/$59/$97from Oct 1

And a warning most "pricing" articles get wrong: BILL is actually $49 / $65 / $89 per user — not the $45 / $55 / $79 still quoted across the web. If you're quoting a client from a blog post, you may be quoting last year's price.

Who it's for

Firms that quote, advise, or resell software.

If your clients ask "what will this cost me next year," StackWatch is the answer sitting in your inbox before they ask.

Accounting & bookkeeping firms

Keep every client quote current, and turn a price hike into a proactive client email instead of a complaint.

ProAdvisors & consultants

Advise on the right tier at the right price, with numbers you can trust the morning they change.

Fractional CFOs

Build software-spend forecasts on live pricing, not aggregator data that lags the vendor by a year.

Free guides — verified this month

Current pricing, not last year's.

We publish what these tools actually cost, read from the vendor's own page. Useful whether or not you ever talk to us.

QuickBooks Online raised prices Aug 1 →

The exact new numbers — Essentials $85, Plus $140, Advanced $340 — and the promo trap to avoid.

Xero's US prices rise Oct 1 →

$27 / $59 / $97 from October 1 — plus the multi-org discount that's quietly being phased out.

The real 2026 prices (blogs are wrong) →

BILL, SmartVault, Dext, Karbon & Gusto — what they actually charge vs. the stale figures online.

BILL pricing 2026 →

$49 / $65 / $89 per user — not the $45 / $55 / $79 still quoted everywhere.

Gusto pricing 2026 →

Base plus per-person, the real math — and the fifth plan most roundups miss.

Dext pricing 2026 →

$25.21 or $31.50? The toggle trap that quietly commits your client to a year.

Karbon pricing 2026 →

$59 / $89 per user — and why the "$19 Solo plan" you'll see quoted doesn't exist.

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