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SaaS and ops platforms with live books. Products that already invoice, collect, or pay out, and need those movements to land cleanly in QuickBooks or Xero.
Finance integrations
Your sync drifts every month-end. Ours doesn't.
Connect your product or ops platform to QuickBooks Online and Xero. Finance sees a next step, not a log file.
QuickBooks and Xero integrations for finance teams
What we own
Sync, exceptions, operator UX. Connectors, matching, retry policy, and the dashboard finance uses when a line does not match.
Not this page
Generic API glue or Zapier-only. CRM, payments, and ops connectors live under Integrations & APIs. Make/Zapier orchestration lives under Automation.
The integration is not finished when data syncs. It is finished when finance can confidently close the books. Need CRM or payment connectors too? See Integrations & APIs.
Platforms
The two ledgers we actually ship against
Official APIs, not Desktop workarounds as the default. UK and US entities, with a unified operator view when you run both.
QuickBooks OnlineIntuit API
QBO is the default for US books. We map invoices, payments, customers, items, and tax codes through Intuit's API, with token refresh, rate-limit backoff, and idempotent writes.
- Invoices, payments, credit notes, and bills
- Customers, vendors, and chart of accounts mapping
- Multi-entity US books with per-company tokens
- Desktop scoped only when the ledger cannot move to Online
XeroXero API
Xero is the default for UK orgs and many dual-region SaaS setups. Same operator dashboard as QBO, separate connector, shared exception language so finance is not learning two products.
- Invoices, bank transactions, contacts, and tracking categories
- Multi-org UK/US books with unified triage
- VAT and multi-currency lines with readable deltas
- Webhook + poll hybrid so silent drift cannot hide
Why this exists
When finance stops trusting the sync
The connector "worked in staging." Month-end is where it fails. These are the patterns we design against.
Silent drift
Jobs report success while amounts, tax, or entity mapping quietly diverge. Controllers find it in a spreadsheet, not in the product.COST: variances surface outside the product
Month-end archaeology
Exceptions pile up as raw API errors. Outsourced finance cannot act without engineering, so close slips by days.COST: close slips waiting on engineering
Retry that duplicates
A timeout posts the invoice twice. Without idempotency keys and a match engine, the books get worse every retry.COST: duplicate postings on every retry
One close cycle
Import to audit trail: one close cycle
Seven stages. Scroll to run one job: 247 matched + 1 exception is better than a fake "100% success."
QuickBooks Online
Xero
Job #2291-08 · queued
INV-2291Acme Ltd · Aug4,120.00Imported
INV-2292Northgate · Aug880.50Imported
INV-2293Halden Co · Aug1,204.75Imported
INV-2294Brightside · Aug310.00Imported
Exception · amount variance on INV-2293
Source 1,204.75 · ledger 1,240.75 · transposition suspected
- 14:02 Job started · 248 records imported
- 14:03 Validated against ledger schema
- 14:04 247 matched · 1 remaining
- 14:04 1 exception · amount variance
- 14:09 Operator review · Shaw confirmed value
- 14:11 Reconciled · amount aligned
- 14:11 Audit entry written
01 · Import
Source events land as records, not a JSON dump.
Invoices, payments, and credit notes queue with stable keys and idempotent workers. Finance sees counts, not a log file.
02 · Validate
Schema and tax codes before the match.
Missing accounts, unknown tax, or a currency the org does not hold fail here, not inside the ledger.
03 · Match
247 of 248 is a result, not a silent 100%.
The job reports what matched. The one that did not stays visible instead of disappearing into "success."
04 · Exception
A variance with a human-readable delta.
Source 1,204.75 against ledger 1,240.75. Transposition suspected. No raw Intuit or Xero payload in the operator view.
05 · Review
Finance acts without an engineering ticket.
Retry, confirm the correct value, or park it. Every action is attributable. Outsourced controllers can finish this step.
06 · Reconcile
The line closes. The amount is honest.
Once confirmed, the record matches both books. Close does not wait on a Slack thread.
07 · Audit
Who changed what, when, and why.
The trail is written in language an accountant will accept. That is the bar: the integration is finished when finance can confidently close the books.
Capabilities
What we deliver for QuickBooks and Xero
Connectors and operator UX from the same in-house team: no handoff between "the API person" and "the dashboard person."
Sync that holds at close
Match invoices, payments, and credit notes with counts finance can trust. See FinanceSync.
- Idempotent Intuit and Xero workers
- Per-entity tokens and rate-limit backoff
- Parallel run before cutover
Dashboards operators can finish
Discrepancy cards with remediation steps for outsourced finance teams.
- Queue ordered by close risk
- Named actions: retry, confirm, park
- No raw JSON in the operator view
Trail an accountant will accept
Who changed the amount, which job retried, and why the line closed.
- Attributable operator actions
- Job history across QBO and Xero orgs
- Alerts when a run stalls before close
Types we surface
AMT
Amount variance
Source and ledger disagree. Both values and suspected cause, not a status code.
TAX
Tax / VAT mismatch
Wrong code, missing rate, or a US/UK org using the other region's rules.
ENT
Entity mapping
Posted to the wrong company file or Xero org. Multi-entity is first-class.
DUP
Duplicate or orphan
A retry that already posted, or a payment with no matching invoice.
Operator view
INV-2293 · Amount variance
Close risk
Source value1,204.75
Ledger value1,240.75
Suspected cause: digit transposition · Halden Co · Aug close
Operator Shaw · 14:09
Audit Pending review
Demo Operator UI pattern · illustrative data
Architecture
A path from source event to a closed ledger
Six stages we design and build. Failures surface at the stage they belong, not as a generic 500 at month-end. Same path as the close cycle - shown here as architecture for engineering review.
01
Source events
Invoices, payments, payouts, and credit notes from your product or ops platform.
02
Queue & workers
Idempotent jobs, backoff, and canaries. Retries that cannot duplicate a posting.
03
QBO / Xero API
Official connectors, token refresh, and rate-limit handling per org.
04
Match engine
Amount, tax, entity, and currency compared with a readable delta.
05
Exception queue
Operator triage with retry, confirm, or park - before close, not after.
06
Ledger + audit
Closed records and an attributable trail finance can keep.
Books that are not one company, one currency
Multi-entity, multi-currency, still one operator view
UK and US books, separately tokened
A SaaS that bills in both regions usually runs QBO in the US and Xero in the UK. We keep connectors separate and triage unified.
Acme US · QBOUSD
Acme UK · XeroGBP
Acme EU · XeroEUR
FX lines with a readable delta
We do not hide a conversion inside a "matched" tag. Operators see source currency, ledger currency, and the difference that needs a decision.
Source amountGBP 1,204.75
Ledger amountUSD 1,540.20
FX delta shownDecision
VAT and sales tax as mapping, not a guess
Tax codes are signed off in discovery. A missing or wrong code is an exception type, not a silent post to the default account.
UK VAT codesMapped
US sales taxMapped
Missing codeException
Proof
FinanceSync · QuickBooks & Xero reconciliation hub
Month-end close stalled on silent sync drift: finance found variances in spreadsheets, not in the product. Idempotent QBO/Xero workers, a match engine, and an exception queue with webhook + poll hybrid replaced the parallel spreadsheet.
- Architecture
- Idempotent QBO/Xero workers, match engine, and exception queue with webhook + poll hybrid.
- Operator workflow
- Discrepancy cards with retry, confirm, and park: queue ordered by close risk, not arrival time.
- Outcome
- Finance teams clear exceptions without engineering tickets. Parallel run validated before cutover.
- Sector
- UK & US FinOps / accounting ops
- Focus
- QB/Xero sync, anomaly triage, operator dashboards
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Process
How we deliver a connector finance will use
Four gated phases: Map → Build → Operator UX → Parallel run/go-live. Each gate is a finance-readable artefact.
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01
Data mapping
Entities, tax codes, edge cases, and failure modes between your product and QBO or Xero. We do not start workers until mapping is signed.
Mapping signed off -
02
Connector build
Sync jobs, webhooks, and retries against a sandbox company. Staging must survive a forced timeout without duplicating a post.
Staging validated -
03
Operator UX
Dashboards and alerts so finance can clear exceptions without engineering tickets. If they still Slack us to close a line, the UX is not done.
Finance self-serve -
04
Go-live & monitor
Parallel run against live books, reconciliation checks, and a monitoring playbook. Cutover only after a clean close cycle.
Parallel run clean
FAQ
About QuickBooks & Xero integrations
Asked most often by finance and engineering leads before a first call.
We primarily integrate QuickBooks Online via Intuit's API. Desktop is scoped case-by-case when the ledger cannot move to Online. Xero is always the cloud API.
Yes. Multi-region billing with separate connectors and a unified operator dashboard is a common SaaS pattern: QBO for US entities, Xero for UK, one exception queue.
Every job logs errors, retries with backoff and idempotency keys, and surfaces exceptions in an operator dashboard with a next step. Failures are visible before close, not after.
Integrations & APIs covers CRM, payments, ELD, and general connectors. This page is the finance-specific solution: QuickBooks, Xero, matching, close, and the operator UX around exceptions. Many products need both.
A focused QBO or Xero connector with operator UX is usually 8 to 12 weeks, including mapping sign-off and a parallel run. Dual-region or multi-entity setups run longer. We give a real range on the first call, not a padded one.
Payment events are source events in the same queue. Full payment connector scope lives under Integrations & APIs; close UX and matching stay here.
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