Xero and Odoo: when to connect them, and when to move everything into one system

For small businesses and their accountants.

Too deep?

The short answer

• Xero is a good fit for small businesses, sole traders and nonprofits, with plans for medium-sized businesses.
• Odoo is a good fit for businesses that need stock, production or several companies with the ledger.
• TRC ERP sets Odoo up for your business and connects what you keep.

What Xero does well

• Invoicing, online payments, bills and bank reconciliation, built for small business.
• Connects with more than 1,000 apps.
• Backed by a network of 250,000 accountants and bookkeepers.
• Used by 5 million customers worldwide.

Sources: Xero: US home page opens xero.com ↗ (checked 11 October 2026).

Xero and Odoo, question by question

Your question · What happens · Odoo 20 · How TRC delivers it

Finance and tax

Can it file my VAT or sales tax? · Runs in Odoo · UK Making Tax Digital VAT filing is standard; US sales tax through Avalara AvaTax; other countries through Odoo's localizations. · Standard in Odoo · TRC configures

Bank feeds? · Runs in Odoo · Bank synchronization and reconciliation. · Standard in Odoo

Stock and operations

Stock, orders and purchasing with the accounts? · Runs in Odoo · Inventory, Sales and Purchase share one database with Accounting. · Standard in Odoo

A shop point of sale or an online store? · Runs in Odoo · Point of Sale and eCommerce, in the same database. · Standard in Odoo

People and scale

Several companies? · Runs in Odoo · Multi-company in one database. · Standard in Odoo · TRC configures

Payroll? · Stays, connected to Odoo · Your payroll provider posts journals into Odoo. · TRC connects

Setup and data

Can my accountant work in it? · Runs in Odoo · Accountant access, with the reports they need. · Standard in Odoo · TRC configures

Will my history come across? · TRC moves it across · Lists, balances and the history you choose. · TRC builds

Where Odoo goes further

Stock, sales and accounts in one system

Orders, stock and invoices share one record, so nothing is retyped between packages. Standard in Odoo

A point of sale and an online shop on the same records

Point of Sale and eCommerce sell from the same stock and post to the same books. Standard in Odoo

Several companies in one database

Each company keeps its own books, with intercompany rules between them. Standard in Odoo · TRC configures

How TRC handles the rest

Payroll

TRC connects your payroll provider: Xero payroll, BrightPay, Thesaurus or SimplePay.

UK VAT

Odoo files Making Tax Digital VAT returns to HMRC. TRC sets it up and plans the switch around your VAT quarter.

Ireland

TRC delivers Irish VAT and RCT filing with your accountant and Odoo's localization team.

Your accountant

TRC sets up the access and reports they need.

Moving across

• What comes over: opening balances, customers, suppliers, products, open items, and history to a date you agree.
• How: TRC maps your Xero data and runs a trial import. You check it, then the switch happens at a period end.
• What runs alongside: Xero keeps running where it serves you, connected to Odoo.

Who should stay on Xero

• Your books are simple and your apps already do the job.
• Your accountant prefers Xero and nothing else needs to join it.

Questions buyers ask

Yes. Odoo can run sales, stock and operations and pass figures to Xero.

We list them in the review. Many functions, such as stock, CRM, point of sale and an online store, are standard Odoo apps.

We include them early and agree access and reports.

At the start of a VAT period, planned in the review.

Why TRC

TRC has connected bank feeds and payroll to accounting for many years. We can connect Odoo to Xero while you're small, and move everything across when you're ready.

An official Odoo partner, registered in the US, UK, Ireland and South Africa.

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Journeys to explore

• Small business · Retail An owner with one to five shops, often a website, and a point of sale system or accounts package that has done its job for years.
• Small business · Manufacturing A workshop or startup maker, often selling online and to trade, where the owner works out costs at month end, if at all.
• Small business · Professional services A firm of a few partners or a small installer, where unbilled hours and late invoices are the biggest leak.

Tell us how you work today and we will show you it in Odoo.

• Odoo UK fiscal localization (20.0) opens odoo.com ↗
• Checked 9 October 2026.

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