Stripe and Xero, read together
Stripe collects the money: charges, refunds, disputes and subscriptions, settled in batched payouts. Xero is the books: invoices, bills and a bank feed that has to be reconciled line by line. A payout bundles many charges, minus fees, refunds and disputes, and arrives days later as one deposit; an invoice paid by card can sit open in Xero for weeks.
Liaison reads Stripe and Xero together, ties each payout to the charges and invoices inside it, and shows you exactly where the two disagree.
Where Stripe and Xero disagree
- A payout is many charges minus fees, refunds and disputes, settled days after the sale, so the deposit never equals any invoice.
- Invoices paid in Stripe that stay open in Xero, so receivables look larger than they are.
- Subscription renewals, prorations and failed retries that create revenue the books see in a different month.
- Disputes that pull money back weeks later, after the original sale was recorded.
- The same customer twice, once in each system, under a different name or email.
Questions it answers across both
- “Which invoices were paid in Stripe but are still open in Xero?”
- “What did Stripe fees cost us last quarter, as a share of revenue?”
- “Does every payout this month match a deposit in the books?”
- “Which disputes are open, how much is at stake, and when is each response due?”
What Liaison does with Stripe and Xero
- Ties every payout to its charges, fees, refunds and disputes, and flags any that do not match a deposit in Xero.
- Records the payment on invoices paid in Stripe that are still open in Xero, after you confirm.
- Lists failed subscription payments and drafts the customer follow-up in your voice.
- Writes the month-end summary of charges, fees, refunds, disputes and net deposits from both.
What it reads and does in each
Liaison across Stripe and Xero, set up with you, for $629 a month.
- Connects to Stripe and Xero with access you grant and reads them as one record; nothing is replaced or re-entered.
- Does the routine work in your voice; each kind of work is approved once.
- Answers across both: what Stripe says, what Xero says, and where they disagree.
On Professional we connect your tools, bring your data in and set up the first rules with you. Anything that moves money waits for your yes.
“Cut our month-end close from 4 days to 4 hours.” Marcus C., owner
$629 a month, or $500 a month on a 12-month term. Prefer to start on your own? Starter is $149 a month, self-serve, with a free trial first: 7 days, no card.
Questions
Do I still need the sync from Stripe to Xero?
Keep it if you run one. Liaison reads both after the sync and finds what it left open or double-counted.
Will Liaison refund or retry a charge?
Never on its own. Anything that moves money waits for your yes.
Will it post to Xero?
It drafts the entries with the payout behind each and waits for your confirmation; once you have approved that kind of entry, it posts the next ones.
What does it cost?
Liaison starts at $149 a month. Professional is $629 a month and Team is $2,950 a month for up to five seats. Every plan works with the tools you connect.
See it on your own business.
Thirty minutes with us, on your own tools. Bring the thing that eats your evenings and watch it get handled from your own inbox, calendar and books.
Professional is $629 a month and we set it up with you. Starter is $149 a month, self-serve, with the free trial first: 7 days, no card. Every plan is on the pricing page.