Consolidation add-on cost
Generic tiers (£50/~$68 per entity/mo and £300/~$406 per mo unlimited) reflect the published range across Joiin, Fathom, Spotlight Reporting and Syft Analytics (roughly $19–$399/mo). Scott's Add-in ($39 first entity + $12/mo each additional, converted at $1 = £0.7394, mid-market rate, 10 Sept 2026) is its own published rate card — a lightweight Excel formula add-in, not a full consolidation engine. dataSights' published base is AUD $130/mo for 5 entities; the £130/mo (~$176/mo) used here is a real practitioner's own effective billed rate, which sits above that base because it bundles PayPal, Square and a forex-conversion connector — included because it's the most solid figure on this row.
Manual consolidation hours
Default of 14 hrs/entity/month is anchored to a third-party report of 60–80 hours/month for a five-entity Xero group doing export, remapping and elimination by hand — the benchmark assumes no AI or automation is already layered onto that Xero workflow. Directional, not audited — the field exists precisely so you can overwrite it with the real number, lower if some of this is already automated.
Finance hourly rate
£50/hr (~$68/hr) is derived from Reed's UK average Financial Controller salary (£73,652, ~$99.6K), loaded roughly 20–25% for on-costs and divided across a standard working year. Reasonable midpoint, not this business's actual rate.
Close-cycle length
Shown for context, not costed separately (its cost already lives inside the hours line above). APQC's cross-industry median close is 6.4 days; multi-entity Xero groups are independently reported at 10–15 days for a five-entity group. Treat the widening gap as directional.
Platform licence & implementation
Pulled from the confidence-tagged ballpark ranges in The Xero Exit Framework — themselves third-party estimates (Vendr buyer data for Rillet; a quote-based estimate for DualEntry; single-source review-site estimates for Light and Campfire, the latter explicitly peer-anchored to Rillet's Vendr data). USD-denominated figures (DualEntry, Rillet, Campfire) are converted to GBP at $1 = £0.7394 (mid-market rate, 10 Sept 2026) — re-check this rate before relying on these figures at a later date. None of the four vendors publishes a price list. Treat every number here as a starting point for a real quote, never as a quote itself.
Residual labour reduction
70% default is a planning assumption, not a vendor claim — none of the four fully discloses how much human review survives once an agent is doing the posting. See the governance section of The Xero Exit Framework before assuming a lower number is safe.