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Shopify to Xero integration

Shopify is where the orders come in. Xero is where the books balance. A well-built integration takes the daily reconciliation effort and reduces it to a check rather than a project. We move orders, refunds and payments out of Shopify into Xero as proper sales invoices and credit notes, with VAT codes mapped, Shopify Payments fees separated from gross revenue, and gateway payouts reconciled against the Xero bank feed. Built and supported as a Patchworks Partner Agency, with the same engineering team carrying the work through to ongoing retainer.

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Flow shape

Order sync: Shopify to Xero

Every paid Shopify order lands in Xero as a structured sales invoice with the right VAT codes and customer record, ready for the gateway payout to land in the bank feed.

  1. Trigger Shopify Order paid orders/paid webhook
  2. Extract Patchworks Ingest order queue, dedupe
  3. Decision Patchworks Contact exists? lookup by email
  4. Transform Patchworks Map invoice VAT codes, payment account, currency
  5. Action Xero Create invoice with payment applied
  6. Writeback Shopify Tag order store Xero invoice number

Illustrative only. The diagram above shows how an integration of this shape works in concept. It is not a screenshot or export of the actual Patchworks process flow; the production flow has more nodes, more branches and more error handling than a marketing page can usefully render.

What we sync

3 synchronisations between Shopify and Xero.

Only the data flows that both platforms actually support. Each section below describes what’s in scope, the gotchas we watch for, and how the flow is shaped inside Patchworks.

  1. 01

    Order sync

    Shopify Xero

    Orders raised in Shopify flow into Xero on creation, status change and edit. The flow normalises Shopify's order schema into the record shape Xero expects, including line-level discounts, taxes, gift cards, shipping methods and multi-currency. Partial cancellations and post-capture edits are handled with idempotent updates so Xero stays the system of record without double-counting. Edge cases that come up most often on this pair: backorders, pre-orders, subscription rebills and orders placed through guest checkout with no matching customer record on the destination side.

  2. 02

    Customer sync

    Shopify Xero

    Customers created or updated in Shopify flow into Xero with a stable cross-system identifier so the same shopper isn't fragmented into duplicates across the estate. Addresses, marketing preferences, B2B account hierarchies, tax exemption flags and channel attribution are mapped explicitly rather than left to Xero's defaults. Where Xero is the customer system of record (CRM or ERP) we publish back into Shopify so storefront personalisation and segmentation reflect the canonical state. GDPR deletion and rectification are propagated across the integration in both directions.

  3. 03

    Refund sync

    Shopify Xero

    Refund decisions raised in Shopify push into Xero as the financial event they are, with original payment method, partial-versus-full handling, tax recalculation and currency intact. The flow waits on inspection outcome where the merchant policy requires it rather than firing on RMA creation. Refunds against gift cards, multi-tender orders and marketplace orders (where the marketplace owns the refund execution) each take a different path; the integration picks the right one based on the original order's tender mix rather than a single default rule.

Typical delivery

4 to 6 weeks for a standard delivery.

Up to 5× faster using PatchBuddy
  1. Week 1 Discovery: VAT scheme, chart of accounts, gateway payout cadence, multi-currency exposure.
  2. Weeks 2 to 3 Build: orders, refunds, customers, payments, fee separation.
  3. Week 4 Reconciliation: gateway payouts mapped onto Xero bank feed entries.
  4. Weeks 5 to 6 UAT with finance, cutover, hyper-care into retainer.

Patchworks delivery

How Patchworks shapes Shopify to Xero.

The Shopify-to-Xero canonical patterns are well-trodden on Patchworks; the work we add is everything Xero is opinionated about. VAT scheme alignment under MTD, multi-currency rounding to the contact's base currency, gift-card liability accounting and the difference between bank-fed and integration-fed reconciliation. Flows live in Patchworks, version against your release cadence, and the handover runbook is one your finance team can audit on its own.

Got more connectors that need to live in this flow? A 3PL, a marketplace, returns, a PIM, anything. We can do it. Most live integrations end up larger than a pair, all built and supported as one estate. More on multi-platform estates →

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