Xero
· #194 most-usedYour accounts, handled. Every invoice, bill, and payroll run.
Xero is cloud accounting software used by small businesses, accountants, and bookkeepers to manage invoices, bank reconciliation, payroll, and financial reporting in one place. Connect it to Actionist and your agents can create contacts, raise and send invoices, record payments, create bills, and react to financial events — all in plain language, without anyone opening a spreadsheet.
Eliminates manual work. Eliminates the manual loop of checking for overdue invoices, re-keying data between CRM and accounting, and chasing payments that should trigger automatically.
What your Xero agent runs on autopilot
A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.
Xero × every other app you use
End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.
Invoice dispute resolved in under 5 minutes
When a customer emails querying an invoice, your agent reads the invoice history in Xero, checks whether it was opened and when, cross-references the payment record, and posts the full audit trail to Slack — the support rep gets context, the customer gets a reply, and the dispute is closed before it escalates. No Xero login required, no digging through email threads.
Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot
Savings
What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.
What you do manually today
What your agent runs for you
- Sales23 min / weekManual invoice creation
After closing a deal, reps email finance to request an invoice — the request sits in a queue for hours before anyone acts on it.
Sales Agent0 minAgent raises invoice on closeWhen a deal moves to Closed Won, the agent creates the Xero invoice and emails a draft to finance for one-click approval — the billing cycle starts in under a minute.
- Marketing17 min / weekCampaign spend guesswork
Agency invoices arrive sporadically and get manually coded to campaigns — the marketing team never knows their actual spend until month-end.
Marketing Agent0 minReal-time budget trackingThe agent creates a Xero project per campaign and records each agency bill as it arrives — marketing sees live spend vs. budget from a Slack update, not a finance email.
- Customer Support23 min / weekInvoice dispute digging
Support reps manually search Xero for invoice history when customers dispute a charge — taking 10–15 minutes of context-switching per query.
Customer Support Agent0 minAgent surfaces invoice historyWhen a dispute arrives, the agent fetches the Xero invoice audit trail and posts the full history to Slack in seconds — reps resolve queries without touching Xero.
- Human Resources9 min / weekManual payroll record setup
HR manually keys new hire details into Xero Payroll after onboarding — a 20-minute job per employee that is error-prone when done in bulk.
Human Resources Agent0 minAgent creates employee on start dateWhen a new hire is confirmed in the HRIS, the agent creates their Xero Payroll record automatically — payroll admin touches zero fields before the first pay run.
- Finance17 min / weekOverdue invoice chasing
Finance manually reviews the aged debtors report each week and sends templated chasers — some slip through, others are chased too aggressively.
Finance Agent0 minPersonalised chasers triggered automaticallyWhen an invoice goes overdue, the agent sends a personalised chaser via Gmail with the exact amount and due date — finance only intervenes at 30 days.
- Operations33 min / weekThree-way match done manually
Ops manually cross-checks supplier invoices against purchase orders and delivery notes before approving payment — a slow, error-prone bottleneck in the AP cycle.
Operations Agent0 minAgent matches and codes bills on arrivalWhen a supplier bill appears, the agent looks up the PO in Xero, confirms quantities match, and codes the bill to the correct account — approval is a one-click confirm, not a 20-minute audit.
- Legal8 min / weekContract cost centre setup
When a new contract is signed, legal manually asks finance to set up the cost centre in Xero — the process takes days and delays the first PO.
Legal Agent0 minAccount provisioned on signatureWhen a contract is countersigned, the agent creates the Xero account and opens the first purchase order — the cost centre is live before legal has sent the countersigned copy to the client.
Calculate what your team saves
Based on Xero's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~3.3 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.
How to plug Xero into Actionist
Pick the connection method that suits your environment.
The fastest path to a live Xero connection. Install the official Xero MCP server and your agent accesses invoices, contacts, bills, and payroll through a permissioned OAuth handshake — no tokens to manage, no scopes to audit.
Find Xero in the Apps library and click Connect. MCP is selected by default.
You are redirected to Xero's OAuth screen. Select the Xero organisation you want to connect and approve the requested accounting, payroll, and contacts scopes.
Actionist runs a read-only call to verify the handshake. You're ready.
45 actions your agent can call
Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.
10 events your agent can react to
Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.
Skills that pair with Xero
Reusable agent skills that work well alongside this app.
Managed OAuth integration for the Xero API — read and write contacts, invoices, payments, accounts, and payroll records without handling tokens directly.
MCP servers that work with Xero
Connect Actionist to MCP servers built for or around this app.
Official Xero MCP server providing standardised access to the full Xero accounting API.
Community MCP server from XeroAPI that exposes accounting, invoicing, and contact management endpoints via the Model Context Protocol.
MCP server connecting CollectiveSpend to Xero for contact synchronisation — retrieve, create, and update Xero contact records from spend management workflows.