At OdataLink, we’re continually looking for ways to improve both performance and efficiency for our customers. Over the coming weeks, we will be rolling out a series of optimisations designed to deliver faster response times while making more efficient use of Xero data.
At Accounting Addons and OdataLink, we are committed to providing practical, high-quality consulting services that help our customers get the most value from their reporting and data solutions.
As our consulting services continue to evolve and demand for specialist expertise grows, we will be making a small adjustment to our standard consulting rates effective from 1 July 2026 (ACST)
Why are we introducing a Fair Use Allowance?
In December 2025, Xero announced changes to its platform pricing model, introducing charges based on the volume of data downloaded through its APIs. These charges came into effect on 1 March 2026.
Historically, OdataLink has not needed to monitor or limit the amount of data being downloaded by individual customers. However, with data egress now representing a direct cost to our business, it has become necessary to introduce a fair use allowance to ensure we can continue providing a sustainable and cost-effective service for all customers.
You can view our Fair Use Policy here – OdataLink Fair Use Policy – OdataLink
The latest March 2026 update includes many improvements to the Odata Feeds and logging mechanism. These improvements are aimed at providing even more performance when pulling data from Xero or MYOB.
They provide additional mechanisms to:
- Handle concurrent requests.
- Poll for changes.
- Improve the display of logs.
MYOB is introducing mandatory security changes that take effect 1 March 2026.
OdataLink users reporting on MYOB company files will need to reauthorise each data file to continue accessing live data via OdataLink.
This change applies to MYOB connections only. Xero data file connections are not affected.
In late May 2026, Xero will cease to provide access to the Legacy Expense Claims endpoints.
We’re pleased to announce some major improvements to the OdataLink logs architecture.
We are pleased the announce the recent addition of a new option to the Model. The OData Client Compatibility option fine tunes the OData Feed as different client have different implementation of the OData standard.
Prior to this option, OdataLink would auto detect the client requesting data (whether Excel, Power BI, Tableau, Data Factory or other) and would make slight changes to ensure the OData feed was compatible.
This option now allow you to force it to work a specific way. This was primarily added as it was not possible to detect customers who used Solver to pull data.
We’ve been hard at work writing a few new tutorial articles to help explain how you can control how accounts appear on reports and dashboards.
One set of tutorials explain how you can create a mapping table to add additional rows to your Profit and Loss, and Balance Sheet Reports for both Power BI and Excel.
We are pleased to formally announce that MYOB report templates for both Excel and Power BI are available for download.
These templates are the first step to transition some users from BudgetLink and ExcelReportLink over to OdataLink. There will be many more to come in the next few months.