Former Xero executive Ian Boyd joins Budgetly as Chief Revenue Officer. Budgetly, the real-time spend control system for Australian SMEs, has appointed former Xero General Manager Ian Boyd (pictured above) as Chief Revenue Officer. Track Finances Boyd joins Budgetly from GoCardless, where he was General Manager, ANZ. Before that, he spent eight years at Xero, most recently as General Manager, Partnerships, APAC. In his new role, Boyd will lead Budgetly's revenue organisation across go-to-market, marketing and partner growth. His focus will include expanding Budgetly's work with accounting firms, bookkeepers and business advisers. The appointment comes as Budgetly passes 20,000 users and continues to grow its role in helping Australian businesses replace reimbursements, shared cards and manual spend processes with real-time budgets, approvals and audit-ready accountability. Budgetly has processed more than $1.5 billion in payment volume across more than two million transactions. User numbers have grown 70% in the past year, while customer retention remains at 99%. The appointment comes as financial teams continue to look for ways to reduce manual admin and adopt new technology. The company's March 2026 CFO Survey of 106 finance leaders also found that 49.1% spend 40% or more of their team's time on manual tasks. While 74.5% of respondents were interested in using AI for finance automation, only 25.5% were using AI-enabled tools. "Ian understands the role accountants and bookkeepers play in helping businesses improve their financial operations. His experience at Xero and GoCardless gives him a clear view of what advisers need from the tools they recommend," said Simon Lenoir, CEO of Budgetly. Track Finances "Australian SMEs need control before money moves, not another report explaining where it went. Ian will help us make Budgetly's value easier to see, easier to adopt and easier to build into everyday workflows." Boyd said his 8 years at Xero working with accountants and bookkeepers showed him how much finance work still happens after the transaction. Discover more Plan Finances Compare Cards Find Suppliers "Accountants and bookkeepers often spend too much time cleaning up spend data after the fact," said Boyd. "I did my due diligence before joining the team. Budgetly has a really smart point of difference. Most expense management starts after the money's gone, but Budgetly starts before it's spent. That shift gives businesses greater control over spending, taking unnecessary admin off finance teams. I'm looking forward to bringing that approach to more Australian businesses." Boyd will also support Budgetly's partner program, which helps accounting firms, bookkeepers and business advisers improve the way their clients manage company spend. "Good advisers should not have to spend their time chasing receipts and reconstructing transactions," Boyd said. "I'm genuinely excited about helping our partner accountants and bookkeepers get on top of their clients' budgets so they can spend more time on what matters most: providing valuable advice." Boyd has more than 20 years' experience across B2B SaaS, payments and financial services. Earlier in his career, he spent eight years at Visa, leading Commercial Payments for Australasia. Track Investments

The Layer wins Best Software Vendor - Workflow at the Channel National Awards 2026. A second Channel National Award in two years, this time for the workflow its partners run their businesses on. The Layer is delighted to have won Best Software Vendor - Workflow at the Channel National Awards 2026, held last week at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge in London. It follows Best Software Application of the Year at last year's awards, which makes this its second win at the event in two years. It was a strong shortlist. DocuWare, Kaseya, PacketFront, Red Cactus, Smarsh and Tollring are all serious businesses, and The Layer were pleased to be in the room with them. Well done to every finalist, and thanks to Sue Perkins for hosting and to the Channel National Awards team and Giacom for a brilliant evening. Why workflow matters. Workflow is the part of the job its partners least want to think about: orders, provisioning, billing and the handoffs between them. When it works, nobody notices. When it doesn't, customers wait, invoices go out wrong and teams spend their day re-keying data from one system into another. That is the problem The Layer was built to solve for telecoms and MSP providers: one system from prospect to cash. What The Layer has shipped this year. Most of its development over the past year has gone into automation and practical AI that partners are already using in production: * Automation Builder: a visual, no-code builder that takes repetitive work off teams' hands. Windsor Telecom connected its credit-control process to The Layer with it, with a full audit trail. * Self-Heal: its AI engineering system that investigates, fixes and tests product improvements, with every change reviewed by its engineers before it ships. Fixes that used to take days now take minutes. * MCP server: lets partners connect AI assistants such as Claude and Copilot securely to their own Layer data and ask questions of it in plain English. Alongside those, The Layer has released Report Builder, AI case categorisation, a new user interface and deeper integrations with Giacom, Abillity, GoCardless, Stripe, HubSpot and Microsoft Teams. Built with its partners. Its roadmap is shaped by the businesses that use The Layer every day. Over 200 partner-requested improvements shipped this year on weekly releases, and every implementation in the period went live. "With five acquisitions over the last five years, we would've had no chance of doing the acquisitions, and becoming the seamless UK-wide organisation that we are now, if it hadn't been for The Layer." Pete Tomlinson, CEO, Windsor Telecom Thank you. It was great to see so many of its customers and partners on the night. Thank you for trusting The Layer with the work that keeps your businesses running, and thanks to the whole Layer team, who build and support it every day. If you'd like to see what The Layer could do for your business, get in touch. Posted. September 28, 2026 Cookie consent This website uses cookies that help the website to function and also to track how you interact with its website. But for The Layer to provide the best user experience, enable the specific cookies from Settings, and click on Accept.