Payroll Times - Independent Reporting on Accounting and Payroll Software

Incidents AdvisorySage

Sage books six days of scheduled downtime across five services

Between 19 and 24 August, Sage has scheduled maintenance windows taking payroll, Intacct, the Sage Portal, French e-invoicing and TimeSlips Anywhere offline in turn. All are planned, and most land on working days.

19 August 2026 3 min read

Regulation

SEC proposes a rules framework called Regulation Crypto Assets

The Commission announced on 18 August that it has proposed new rules covering certain investment contracts involving crypto assets. The text is at proposal stage, so nothing changes for practitioners yet.

19 August 2026 2 min read

Incidents AdvisoryXero

Xero to suspend AU Tax pre-lodge and prefill on 1 September

Xero Practice Manager loses pre-lodge and prefill for an hour on the morning of 1 September AEST. A separate window two days earlier blocks subscription changes across Xero Billing.

19 August 2026 2 min read

What this is

Most coverage of accounting software is written by outlets that depend on the vendors for access and sponsorship. This one reports the failures: outages and their acknowledgement, sunset dates, migrations that break, and what any of it does to a firm mid-close.

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Incidents 2
Outages, degraded service and defects in accounting, payroll and tax software, with the vendor status record and the times it was acknowledged.
Sunsets 0
End-of-support and discontinuation timelines, forced upgrades, and what stops working on which date.
Migrations 0
Version upgrades, platform moves and data conversions: what breaks in practice, and what it costs to find out late.
Regulation 1
Actions by the SEC, the PCAOB, the IRS, the GAO and the standards setters that change what practitioners have to do.
Analysis 0
Longer reads on how the software the profession runs on actually behaves, and why it fails the way it does.