Mayday x Xero New Zealand Partnership

Scaling with Xero in its home market: Mayday x Xero New Zealand Partnership

New Zealand is where Xero began, and today, it remains a mature and deeply embedded market.

Thousands of growing businesses have built their finance operations on Xero. But, as those businesses scale, many hit a familiar ceiling: increasing complexity at month end, more entities, higher transaction volumes and more manual work.

Historically, that moment has meant one thing: move to ERP.

But things are changing…

A shift in how New Zealand businesses think about scaling

At our recent “Scaling with Xero: How far can you go?” event in Auckland, co-hosted with Xero, one thing was clear: there is a strong and growing appetite to stay on Xero.

Finance leaders weren’t asking whether they should move to ERP, they were asking: “How far can we actually push Xero?”

And what’s changed isn’t the ambition of these businesses, it’s the tooling around Xero.

With the right infrastructure layered on top, finance teams can handle:

• Multi-entity complexity and intercompany workflows
• Advanced revenue and cost allocations
• Scalable month-end processes

…all without leaving Xero.

Introducing Mayday’s New Zealand partnership with Xero

To support this shift, Xero and Mayday are officially expanding our partnership into New Zealand.

Following strong momentum across Australia, this marks the next step in building a global pathway for scaling businesses to stay on Xero longer.

By working more closely with Xero teams across New Zealand, and Australia Mayday is making it easier for finance teams to:

• Remove manual bottlenecks at month-end
• Automate complex accounting workflows
• Avoid costly and disruptive ERP migrations
• Build a modern, flexible finance stack

This is a direct response to what we’re seeing on the ground:

Businesses don’t want to leave Xero; they just need a way to scale with it.

Rene van Oosterom, CFO at CLL Group in Auckland, discusses his experience:

"At CLL Group, we came to our senses and moved from an ERP to a modern Tech Stack with Xero being the solid foundation to build on. As our finance team reduced from 9 to 3, it quickly became clear how we could handle everything with a smaller team through the right products solving the right solutions - Xero really does have so much potential with the right stack behind it! 

I'm very excited to see two great products in Xero + Mayday partnering, and I can't wait to see what this means for finance teams in the M of SME, and beyond!"

Why New Zealand matters

As Xero’s home market, New Zealand has always been ahead of the curve when it comes to cloud accounting adoption.

This also means it’s the first market where we’re seeing, at scale, the limitations of traditional “graduate to ERP” thinking.

The opportunity is clear: instead of forcing businesses into heavier, more rigid systems, we can extend the life of Xero with the right automation and workflows around it.

And for others, we can now support a move back to Xero from legacy ERPs that haven’t delivered the expected outcomes.

What Xero is seeing

Bridget Snelling, Country Manager of Xero New Zealand, shared:

“Aotearoa New Zealand is Xero’s home and most mature market. We want to support more SMEs as they grow into larger, more complex and multi-entity organisations.

We’ve seen the positive impact Mayday has delivered in Australia with Xero, supporting larger, more complex businesses. So I’m pleased to see this partnership extend to New Zealand. It is an important step in helping businesses continue to grow on Xero, with the right tools in place to manage a scaling business without needing to move to legacy ERP systems.”

What Mayday is seeing

David Tuck, Co-Founder & CEO of Mayday, shared:

“We’re incredibly excited to expand our partnership with Xero into New Zealand: its home market and one of the most advanced finance ecosystems globally. In Australia, we’ve seen what’s possible when you combine Xero with the right automation layer, and we’ve long believed New Zealand is primed for that same shift.

There’s a growing cohort of scaling companies that want to stay on Xero, but historically haven’t had the infrastructure to do so. This partnership is about changing that: giving finance teams a clear path to scale on Xero and Mayday without taking on the cost and complexity of ERP.”

What does this partnership offer?

Through this partnership, Mayday and Xero will collaborate on joint commercial initiatives designed to help scaling organisations automate their month-end processes and migrate off costly, complex ERP systems.

Together, we’re making it easier for finance teams to build a modern tech stack with Xero at their core, empowering them to mend month end and scale efficiently without the burden of an ERP.

As part of the collaboration, customers will be able to access exclusive discount offers:

• Mayday customers without an existing Xero plan can receive 90% off their Xero subscription when subscribing to a Xero Comprehensive or Ultimate plan for the first 6 months of their subscription.
• Xero customers subscribed to a Xero Comprehensive or Ultimate plan without an existing Mayday subscription can receive 50% off their Mayday subscription for 12 months (annual plans) or 6 months (monthly plans).

Each offer will be available to Xero customers in New Zealand from 19th March 2026 and will run alongside the Australian partnership (which was initiated on 25th October 2025 for a 12-month period). 

Terms and eligibility criteria apply.