Xero integration and automation

Stop retyping what your systems already know

Automation and software integration with Xero is what we are known for. The tools you already use can push their data into Xero on their own, and set up correctly that means fewer errors and an afternoon a week back. Set up carelessly, it means a reconciliation nobody can explain.

What goes wrong without it

A connection that codes badly is worse than none

A connection that codes badly is worse than no connection, because it produces a great deal of tidy-looking data that does not agree with your bank.

Merchant fees netted off Sales land net of fees, so your income is understated and your GST on purchases is wrong at the same time.
Duplicate transactions The same expense arrives from two sources, inflating your costs and your GST on purchases together.
Timesheets retyped by hand Rostering data entered a second time into payroll, with the transcription errors and leave-balance arguments that follow.
What you get

Connections that actually reconcile

A review of what you enter by hand that a connection could do for you
Invoices created in Xero as drafts for you to review and approve, never retyped
Cliniko, Clinic to Cloud and HealthKit for clinics, with billing reconciled
Shopify, WooCommerce, Stripe, PayPal and Square, with fees coded properly
Rostering and timesheets pushed straight into Xero payroll
GST checked on every mapped account, not assumed
A check that the first synced period reconciles before we hand it over
How it works

Four steps, in this order

1 A free 30-minute call Tell us what systems you run and what you are entering twice. We will tell you what connects and what genuinely does not.
2 Mapping before switching We decide where sales, fees, refunds and GST should land before anything is turned on, because unpicking it afterwards costs more.
3 Connect and test Integrations configured, then run against a real period so you can see the entries arrive in the accounts we agreed.
4 Reconcile, then hand over We do not leave you with a live connection until the first synced period reconciles.
What we connect

What we can integrate with Xero

Connect Xero to the systems you already run, and save time, remove errors and get real-time visibility over your finances.

Health, Medical & NDIS

Cliniko, Clinic to Cloud and HealthKit all push appointments and payments into Xero on their own. Set up correctly, Medicare and private billing reconcile themselves instead of eating an afternoon a week. SupportAbility does the same for NDIS providers, so participant billing and claims reach Xero without being entered a second time. Gentu has no official Xero integration at all, so that one we built ourselves.

eCommerce & Payments

Shopify, WooCommerce, Maropost, Stripe, PayPal, Square and PencilPay each handle merchant fees differently, and fee treatment is where most integrations go wrong. Done properly, your sales and your fees land in the right accounts with the right GST.

Not-for-Profits & CRMs

Keap, Salesforce and HubSpot connect donor and member data to your accounts. Grant reporting stops being a manual rebuild every quarter.

Operations & Scheduling

Deputy, ServiceM8 and WorkflowMax push timesheets straight into Xero payroll. No retyping, no transcription errors, no arguments about leave balances.

Purchases & Inventory

Dext reads bills and receipts so purchases arrive already coded instead of being typed twice, and Unleashed pushes stock movements and cost of goods into Xero. Between them the purchase side of the file stops being manual, which is usually where the hours go.

Not seeing your system? Where there is no official Xero integration, we build the connection ourselves. Keap, WooCommerce and Gentu all run this way, and so do email, spreadsheets and folders of PDFs or Word documents. Everything arrives in Xero as a draft for you to review and approve. Book a call and tell us what you are running.

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Stephen, Chief Technology Officer
When there is no integration

Automation built where the connector does not exist

Plenty of what a business does by hand follows a pattern, and a pattern can be automated. Where a system has no Xero connector at all, or the one it has is not sophisticated enough to code a transaction properly, we build the connection ourselves. Everything we automate arrives in Xero as a draft for a person to review and approve, because ownership of what reaches your ledger stays with you.

Excel to Xero The spreadsheet you already maintain becomes invoices, bills or journals in Xero, coded correctly and left as drafts for you to approve, without anyone retyping it.
Email to Xero An invoice or an order that arrives by email becomes a coded draft in Xero instead of a job for whoever opens the inbox.
PDFs to Xero A folder of PDFs or Word documents becomes coded draft invoices in Xero, without anyone opening them one at a time.
Custom integrations Wherever there is a gap between a platform and Xero, we build across it. Keap, WooCommerce and Gentu among them, and systems with no official Xero integration at all.

If your team spends hours every week on something that feels like it should not be manual, it probably should not be. That is the conversation to have.

Diagram of how the automation we build reaches Xero: a spreadsheet, an email or a folder of PDFs becomes a coded draft in Xero, and a person reviews and approves it before anything reaches your ledger
Questions we answer every week

Questions we are asked most

Which systems can you connect to Xero? Cliniko, Clinic to Cloud and HealthKit for clinics. Shopify, WooCommerce, Stripe, PayPal and Square for sales and payments. Rostering and timesheet systems into payroll. If you are not sure whether something connects, tell us what it is and we will find out.
Why does fee treatment matter so much? Because platforms handle it differently, and if fees are netted off your sales your income is understated and your GST on purchases is wrong at the same time. Getting the mapping right at setup is the whole job.
Will an integration fix my existing file? No. A connection only controls what arrives from today. If the file already has duplicates or coding problems, that is a Tune-Up and Repair session, and it is usually worth doing first.
Do I need to change the software I already use? Usually not. We work with what you have wherever it connects sensibly. If a tool genuinely cannot integrate we will say so rather than build a fragile workaround.
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