“I built an internal tool with Codex to make my life easier when it comes to accounting as Xero does my head in and then used Open Banking to pull data from our bank accounts.”
“my concern would be privacy or the accounting software calculating something incorrectly, at least Xero has insurance for a class action if they had a major flaw.”
“I run Xero for business but personal/rental etc still using complex google sheet for my accounts/tax. Before I start, anyone already vibe coded accounting software and care to share?”
“Its the same as making the argument Xero provides accounting advice. Now, if they do (which I disagree with and don't think they do), that would be different.”
“On software: Dext for receipts and bills, and testing Xero on your side business is the right way to build the case with your partner. Desktop pricing will make the argument for you soon enough.”
“It is a document fetching and data extraction tool, owned by Xero: it pulls in bank statements, bills and receipts and turns them into coded transactions. And QBO just means QuickBooks Online.”
“I just like Xero because it's generally easier and cheaper to work with but Quickbooks is fine. You can manually extract the journal entries and hand them over to DeepSeek.”
“I've been in this space for years, connecting Xero to Salesforce (default read-only) through Breadwinner, and now I'm connecting Xero to Slack/Teams/Claude (through kipper.com) and we are strictly read-only because the downside of wrong data in the accounting system is simply to high.”
“I wouldn't turn one away for Xero as I would be happy to learn it. But for a new business or one new to bookkeeping, I encourage them to use QBO so they can easily replace me if I get hit by a bus tomorrow.”
“As an accountant that only uses Xero occasionally to enter year end journals for clients, I hate it with a passion. I know what I'm doing, and if I want a JE to hit a bank or credit card, or AP/AR, I bloody well want it to do it.”
“xero, quickbooks, zoho books and quicken business and personal are probably worth looking at but the intercompany stuff would be the first thing i would make sure each one can handle properly.”
“There is a [Xero CLI on GitHub](https://github.com/XeroAPI/xero-command-line) that solves this, although with some work to set it up. You can connect five orgs in the Xero developer hub, but it’s just a simple request to get 50 connections or more if it’s an internal tool.”
“Xero also don't seem to very responsive to customers. We and many others need a field for our customer's purchase order reference on invoices (and I mean NEED) but Xero do nothing.”
“The hesitation is always around permissions, I don't care how many confirmation steps you build in, if the connection can write back to Xero I'm not touching it.”
“Take on two or three tiny businesses on the side, a landlord, a food truck, a friend's shop, run their books in QuickBooks or Xero, and after six months you have real client work to put on the CV instead of an empty experience section. QuickBooks ProAdvisor is free and the Xero cert is cheap, they matter more to a small firm than a degree.”
“The invoice flow is file triage and batching. The card payments become a Xero upload, then the clearing account exposes the exceptions. The penny differences remain visible.”
“Will the finance system (QuickBooks, Xero, etc) accept those numbers, and if Invoices are being generated in that system as well, how do you prevent collisions?”
“I love Xero (Accounting software) and I quote with it but it has limitations. I can't attach pictures and annotate then directly in Xero. Its not as visual as I would like it.”
“The sync is fine for a straight hourly crew but I've had to fix the mapping by hand whenever a client adds a new deduction type, so check the first two runs line by line.”
“When a supplier payment appears on the bank feed you need to match the statement line with the AP payment that already exists in Xero. Matching marks the AP payment as being reconcile, it does not create a duplicate transaction.”
“For invoices / receipts it can be good for compiling them into a spreadsheet but if you want a proper bookkeeping/accounting trail )especially for tax time) you’d be better off with Xero, MYOB or a proper accounting software.”
“I wouldn’t delete or recode anything until you compare the AP reimbursement ID, Xero payment ID, bank transaction, payee, amount, and date. The reimbursement may already have a payment object while the corresponding bank line is still waiting to be matched, which looks duplicated without necessarily being two payments.”
“If revenue recognition is the main pain point, I would keep Xero for now and run a focused rev rec selection. An Intacct migration brings a much larger implementation project, and you may still spend the next audit explaining old spreadsheet schedules while that work is underway.”
“B2B SaaS client is running on Xero but because it doesnt handle ASC 606 rev rec natively. We track all our deferred revenue waterfalls and midterm seat changes in sheets.”
“The simplest & most accurate way is to add bank fees, at the level of Xero subscription that gives you multiple currencies. That way you're capturing income & expenses in the source currency, plus transfers between wallets, all with accurate exchange rates.”