Move from Xero to Oracle NetSuite without losing your history, your integrations, or a pay run

All Xero editions used by Australian businesses — standard Xero organisations (the cloud accounting product used by the vast majority of Australian SMBs), Xero Payroll, and Xero connected via third-party apps such as Cin7, WorkflowMax, or Unleashed. The scoping call identifies your Xero stack and sizes the extraction and mapping effort accordingly.

In principle, all of it — GL transactions, AR/AP detail, customer and supplier records, inventory, sales orders. In practice we recommend migrating the last 2–7 years as live transactions and archiving older data as exports. The ATO requires 5 years of records; we always migrate enough to satisfy that requirement and the next audit. Opening balances are loaded for any years not fully transacted.

NetSuite replaces a simple chart of accounts with a multi-dimensional classification model: Segments, Classes, Departments, and Locations. A single transaction can be tagged across multiple dimensions simultaneously, giving you the consolidated, slice-and-dice reporting that Xero cannot produce. The migration maps your existing Xero account codes into this structure — a process that requires careful design up front to avoid rebuilding it later.

Multi-subsidiary consolidation is one of NetSuite's core strengths. Each Xero organisation becomes a separate subsidiary in a single NetSuite account with a shared chart of accounts and intercompany eliminations handled automatically. MYOB or Xero data from each organisation is migrated into the corresponding subsidiary with its own currency, tax, and reporting settings. Month-end consolidation that currently takes days of manual spreadsheet work typically becomes a one-click process in NetSuite.

SuitePeople is Oracle's payroll module and it is built for the US market — it does not support Australian award interpretation, STP Phase 2 reporting, or the superannuation rules that Australian businesses are legally required to comply with. We scope a compliant Australian payroll platform alongside the NetSuite project, most commonly KeyPay (now part of Employment Hero), and integrate it into NetSuite via the REST API so payroll data flows automatically without double-entry.

Every integration currently connected to Xero is inventoried in the scoping audit. Each one is rebuilt for NetSuite using SuiteScript 2.x and the NetSuite REST or SOAP APIs. Custom Xero reports and exports are recreated as NetSuite Saved Searches or SuiteAnalytics Workbooks. We do not declare the migration complete until every integration is live and reconciling correctly in the new environment.

PE-backed mandates typically mean faster timelines and stricter reporting requirements. NetSuite's multi-subsidiary consolidation, role-based access controls, approval workflows, and audit trail are usually the capabilities driving the mandate. We have delivered migrations under PE timelines before — the scoping call covers the specific reporting package your board or PE sponsor requires and we scope accordingly.

Yes. All migration scripts, SuiteScript source code, reconciliation reports, and data-mapping documents live in your GitHub repository from day one. Xero remains accessible for one financial year as a read-only audit reference. After project close there is no ongoing licence or retainer to us — you have everything you need to maintain and extend the integration yourselves or with any NetSuite partner.