 Hero accounting software 30-day free trial and purchase options Get ready to become an office hero with zero Here we are in the zero website. That's xero.com. I'm currently in the US the United States We're gonna go through the trial version set up located here But before we do let's first take a look at the plans Scrolling down through the plans. We've got the three levels the three tiers like quickbooks online Zero is an online based accounting software Therefore you would think the three plans would be basically the same software the higher levels of the plan Giving you more access to more features of it That could be good because it should be a fairly seamless process to go from a lower level and Ratchet up to a higher level as needed So it's not like you're moving in other words to a completely different accounting software Which can kind of be a painful move you are really just kind of turning on more features You might think of it as and that should be fairly seamless It can be a little less seamless to go through the higher level Back to the lower level if you've gotten used to using some of the features on the higher level Clearly the middle level is probably the most popular Let's just take a quick look at the features here. So you got the early level notice This one has some pretty severe limitations Send quotes and invoices 20 invoices. That's a pretty severe limitation on your invoicing five bills That's a pretty severe limitation on the bills and then so you got reconcile Capture bills short-term cash flow and business snapshot bulk what we do not have bulk reconcile Transactions use multiple currencies track projects and claim expenses and the middle one probably the most popular one We've got send invoices and quotes no limitation Interbills no limitation. That's great. These are on both plans What they do not still have is used multiple currencies So if you need that added feature then of course you'd have to go to the higher plan for that track Projects which might be in like a job cost type of system. You'd have to level up for that claim expenses You'd have to level up. Of course those would be in the higher plan here. Also note Payroll like always pretty much you have the option when you're thinking about payroll Do you want to do that within the software? You're using in this case zero and you have the payroll with gusto paying more for that Or do you want to basically hire a third-party payroll professional? We'll talk about that more and dive into those options more when we get into kind of the payroll But that's always an added cost I mean pretty much all the time it's going to be an added cost with regards to how you're going to be dealing with Your payroll paying more for it within zero or going to a Third-party provider of payroll. Let's go ahead and try it for free then Let's snap on this and go through the setup process So it says start a 30-day free trial join over a 3.5 million subscribers using zero to power their business No credit card required. That's great 24 7 online support cancel any time So we don't have to put the credit card in place So that is a it's kind of a great option. So it doesn't like start to automatically bill you in that case We're going to put the basic information in here first name last name email phone Location and claiming that you're not a robot then I'm going to continue So now it's saying hi I confirm your email and start using zero so they sent me an email So I'm going to verify the email the next step verify your account click on the