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Integrate Xero with StaffAny
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Written by StaffAny
Updated over 2 months ago

Contents of this article are applicable to the following users

Tier: NA

Product: StaffAny

Platform: Web

This article will explain to you how to set up the integration with Xero and push your payroll data from StaffAny to Xero.

This guide will cover the following:


Connecting to Xero

To establish the connection with Xero,

1) Go to Settings > Integrations > Xero.

2) Select “Xero Organisations” > “Connect to a new Xero Organisation”.

3) Log into Xero and select a Xero Organisation that you want to connect to.

4) Once connected, you will see the Xero Organisation is connected to StaffAny.


Mapping Business Entities to Xero’s Organisations

After establishing the connection between StaffAny and Xero, you need to map Business Entities to Xero’s organisations.

1) Select “Mapping”.

2) Select a Xero organisation to map to StaffAny’s Business Entity.

3) Click “Save” when you are done with the mapping.

4) After mapping, the “Map Chart of Accounts” button will appear under the “Action” column.


Mapping Pay Items to Xero’s Chart of Accounts

After mapping business entities, you need to map the Pay Items to Xero’s Charts of Accounts.

1) Select “Map Chart of Accounts”.

2) Map each Pay Item to the Xero’s Expense and Liability accounts.

These are the suggested accounts to map to each Pay Item.

Pay Items

Possible Expense Account to map

Possible Liability Account to map

Gross Salary

Wages & Salaries

Wages payable

Employee CPF

-

Superannuation payable

Employer CPF

Superannuation

Superannuation payable

Self Help Group Fund

-

Superannuation payable

Skills Development Levy

Wages & Salaries

Superannuation payable

Total Net Additions/Deductions

Others

-

3) Click “Save” once you are done with mapping the chart of accounts.


Pushing Payroll data to Xero’s Manual Journal

To push payroll data to Xero, ensure that you have finalised the pay items in the pay run.

1) In the payroll, click “Push to Xero”.

2) A popup window will appear that shows the list of Xero Organisations that the payroll data will be pushed to. Click “Confirm” to proceed.

Note: Payroll data will be pushed to the respective Xero Organisations if there are 2 or more entities.

3) On Xero, a manual journal with the payroll data will be created.

Note: These manual journals will be set as a draft on Xero by default.

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