Magento and Xero Integration
Integrate your Magento online store with Xero Online Accounting Software
If you already use the power of Xero Online Accounting Software and have a Magento online store, then reviewing our solution for integrating Magento and Xero is a must. Having already spent hours or days (and sometimes weeks) updating your product lists in your Xero Online Accounting Software it makes sense to be able to automatically send the product pricing and availability to your Magento online store. With linksync Magento and Xero integration you only need enter your products into Xero and the products will be available to sell via your online store. Xero Online Accounting Software and Magento key Integration features:
- Export existing Xero stock/inventory items to your Magento ecommerce online store including:
- Stock code
- Stock Description
- Product notes
- Pricing
- Categories and Sub Categories
- Quantity available
- Update changes in stock to your website automatically, or manually with only a few clicks
- Magento orders are automatically imported into Xero to create sales orders
- Be up and running in minutes
Contact linksync today to discuss how we can get you up and running with Magento that fully integrates with your Xero Online Accounting Software.
FAQs
Once you sign-up for linksync for Xero and Magento, and install the linksync Magento module, we start keeping the two systems in sync. Xero is the ‘master’ when it comes to inventory, so changes made in Xero are synced to your Magento store.
The linksync Magento module gives you the option to select what stock data you want updated on your store when syncing with Xero. Options include:
- Price – update price from Xero, or maintain the price in Magento
- Inventory – update stock levels from Xero, or maintain stock levels in Magento
- Title – update the product title from Xero, or maintain the product title in Magento
- Description – update the product description from Xero, or maintain the product title in Magento
- Publish new product automatically – this option lets you decide if you want a new product created by linksync to automatically be published when a sync takes place.
linksync will update existing product using the SKU. If no product exists on the Magento site for an SKU, a new product will be created automatically.
linksync uses the SKU as the common field between the two systems. As long as the SKU in Xero matches the SKU in Magento the stock will remain in sync.
Yes, if you are already using Xero and have a Magento online store, and your SKUs are the same in both systems, then linksync will keep the systems in sync.
Yes, linksync can be used to populate product on a new Magento site. Within minutes you can have all Xero product imported into your new Magento store, and keep the stock in sync moving forward.
Yes, if you have Configurable Products in your Magento store then the Xero and Magento linksync can keep them synced with Xero based on the SKU of the Simple Product/s.
The linksync Magento module lets you choose if you want order information synced to Xero or not, and if you do, you select the order statuses you want linksync to send the order detail to Xero. For example, you may want to review orders first before they are synced to Xero, or you can have then sync to Xero as soon as the order is raised on your Magento site. Order data synced to Xero includes:
- Customer information, such as name, email address and delivery address information
- Sales information, including product sold, qty, sell price, order discounts, and shipping charges
- Order comments
- Payment information
The frequency of updates depends on the linksync subscription you choose. The options are:
- Every five minutes
- Every hour
- Once a day
You choose the option that best suits your business. More information about our subscriptions can be found here.
Yes, absolutely. We offer a 14 day free trail for you to test linksync first before you sign up for a subscription. Click here to get start with linksync trial now.
About Magento
Magento is a flexible award-winning open source ecommerce platform that is taking the web design world by storm. It gives your business enterprise level ecommerce features without the enterprise level price tag.
Magento offers flexible, scalable eCommerce solutions designed to help businesses grow and succeed online. The Magento platform is trusted by more than 200,000 businesses, including some of the world’s leading brands.
Customers choose Magento because their cost-effective solutions—built on open source technology—enable businesses of all sizes to control and customize the look and feel, content, and functionality of their online stores.
A comprehensive feature list can be found on the Magento website, but some of the key selling points as to why our clients choose Magento include:
Powerful attribute based product catalog functionality
This makes Magento the perfect choice for selling anything from a simple t-shirt, to a complex computer with customisable technical specifications.
Multi-store functionality
Different websites can all be managed from the same Magento back-end. This could include a completely new site, or a geo-location target such as a US store in US currency, or a French store in Euro’s and french language.
Modular architecture
Magento is modular software, this means that you build on top of it without ever changing the core code. This prevents issues in future with upgrades, and also means that there are 25,000 extensions out there that can be quickly and easily plugged into your site.
enterprise level ecommerce features with minimal outlay – features such as product reviews, layered navigation, product tagging, feature rich customer accounts and superb back-end administration out of the box.
Search engine readiness
Magento is one of the most SEO friendly ecommerce applications on the market. However it is not perfect, and we always make a point of installing things like canonical URL’s to iron out some of the kinks in the way Magento is build.
enterprise level ecommerce features with minimal outlay – features such as product reviews, layered navigation, product tagging, feature rich customer accounts and superb back-end administration out of the box.
strong Google Analytics integration
Full ecommerce reporting in Google Analytics is included in Magento as standard.
Magento offer a range of resources, support, and consulting services to help our customers get the most from their Magento deployments, including education, training, and developer certification programs. Their global community of partners and developers gives customers access to robust third-party extensions and certified professional integration help. Magento is owned by eBay Inc., a global leader in commerce technology.
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About Xero Online Accounting Software
Xero is an online accounting software product for small and medium-sized businesses, as well as for personal finance.
The key features of Xero include automatic bank account feeds, invoicing, accounts payable, expense claims, fixed asset depreciation, and standard business and management reporting.
Xero can automatically import bank statements from thousands of banks globally, including the major banks in USA, UK, New Zealand and Australia.
Xero is available globally and provides localized versions for USA, UK, New Zealand and Australia.
