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Ratelift in New Zealand

What it does

Ratelift puts a price rise through many of your Xero repeating-invoice templates at once. You choose a percentage or a fixed amount and a rounding rule, and you see every line before anything is written. It also imports templates from a spreadsheet, as drafts, and gives you a free forecast. Many New Zealand businesses move prices on 1 April.

Ratelift's Xero App Store certification is underway. It is independent of Xero Limited.

GST and the demo proof

Ratelift changes prices on whatever basis a template already uses, GST inclusive or exclusive. It leaves each line's tax code alone, and Xero works out the GST. After each change it reads the new template back from Xero and checks every field, including the tax treatment and the GST on each line. Only then does it remove the original; if anything has moved, the new copy goes and your original is untouched.

On 5 November 2026 we ran it on Xero's New Zealand demo company. We imported five templates as drafts, four GST exclusive and one GST inclusive, applied a 1% price change, checked it and undid it. Every figure matched Xero's own at 15% GST, and no invoices were raised. The GST-inclusive template, NZ$555.00, read back as NZ$482.61 before GST. That was a demo company, not a customer's books.

An import must say whether its prices include GST; nothing is assumed. Every date you see, and the two-day hold on templates about to bill, is worked out in Auckland time for a New Zealand book.

Prices in New Zealand dollars

Your first job of up to five templates is free. After that each job is priced by size, with no subscription: NZ$69 for up to 25 templates, NZ$119 for 26 to 100, NZ$239 for 101 to 500, and NZ$349 for 501 to 2,500. A price rise can be undone free for 7 days. Our fee carries no New Zealand GST for a GST-registered business, which accounts for any GST itself; the terms say what applies if your business is not registered.

Where your data sits

The app and its database run in London. Xero tokens are encrypted, every connection uses TLS, and only the company's director has access. We keep a copy of each template previewed or changed, with the run history, so that undo works; the copies include customer names and line descriptions. Ask us and we delete everything we hold for your organisation within 30 days.

New Zealand's Privacy Act 2020 has a rule about sending information overseas. The Privacy Commissioner's guidance says a provider that stores or processes information on an agency's instructions, and not for its own purposes, is treated as the agency's agent, and that is not a disclosure overseas. That is how Ratelift works for a New Zealand firm. Xero Ltd is on Inland Revenue's published list of providers approved to store taxpayers' electronic records offshore. Ratelift keeps copies of templates and run history, not records of account. This is our understanding, not legal advice. The full policy is at /privacy.

For accountants and bookkeepers

Sign in with the Xero login you already use for your clients and tick the ones you want. There is no charge per client and no subscription, and each client's jobs and history are kept separate. Every client's first job, up to five templates, is free.

Try it

The sample demo connects nothing to Xero. It uses an invented Auckland business, Sample Limited: /demo/nz