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What is Xero


Focus on what’s outstanding

With Xero, it's quick and easy to do daily bank reconciliations to keep your accounts accurate and up–to–date. Your bank statements can be automatically imported daily by Xero and then matched to transactions you have entered.

  • Automatically import your bank statements daily
  • It’s easy to reconcile your bank statements with your invoices and cashbook
  • You can see interactive graphs and charts, which provide at-a-glance visibility of your cashflow
Xero automates the mundane

Banking within Xero automates those repetitive mundane processes, enabling you to focus on dealing with the exceptions.

Automated matching

Any transactions that have been downloaded from your bank will be automatically matched to transactions entered into Xero.

Automatically import bank statements

Bank statements can be automatically imported into Xero daily, so you don’t waste time exporting and importing bank files manually.

Transfer money

Record a transfer in Xero that you have made between your bank accounts.

Reconcile when you need to

You can reconcile outstanding transactions as often as each day or as little as six monthly, it’s up to you when you reconcile.

Easily identify unreconciled items

View the number of items that have been automatically downloaded from your bank and are awaiting reconciliation.

Reconcile and pay in one go

When you reconcile to an invoice that is not already marked as paid, the invoice will be automatically marked paid for you.

Identify past trends

Interactive graphs show snapshots for the previous six months. Hovering your mouse over a date displays your bank balance on that date.

Automatic bank feeds Manual bank imports
Setup fee QIF OFX Import data from
ANZ Free Yes Yes 3 months previous
ASB Free Yes Yes 13 months previous
BankDirect Free Yes Yes 13 months previous
BNZ Free Yes   3 months previous
Kiwibank Free Yes Yes October 2004
National Bank Free Yes Yes 3 months previous
Sovereign Free Yes Yes 13 months previous
TSB Bank Free Yes   30 months previous
Westpac $25.00 Yes   January 1996
Other banks - Yes Yes  
American Express - Yes    

Automatic credit card feeds are available for Bank of New Zealand customers.

For more details on automatic bank feeds and set up information, visit our help centre. Xero supports QIF and OFX import formats and can import transactions from almost all banks.