<p>Every time a customer places an order in your WooCommerce store, someone has to get it into Xero. If that someone is you — copying line items, looking up contacts, checking tax amounts — <strong>Invoice Sync for Xero</strong> gives that time back.</p>
<p>The plugin connects your store directly to Xero over a secure OAuth2 connection. Orders become invoices automatically, with the contact matched by email, tax amounts passed from WooCommerce, complete line items, and the original order date used as the invoice date.</p>
<h2>What gets synced to Xero</h2>
<p>Every invoice created by the plugin includes:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Customer contact</strong> — matched by email address to an existing Xero contact, or created automatically. No duplicate contacts.</li>
<li><strong>Product line items</strong> — every item in the order, with quantities, unit prices, and your configured account code</li>
<li><strong>Shipping</strong> — as its own line item, with a separate tax type if needed</li>
<li><strong>Fees</strong> — payment surcharges, handling fees, and any other WooCommerce fee items</li>
<li><strong>Tax amounts</strong> — passed from WooCommerce to Xero to keep invoice totals aligned with the order.</li>
<li><strong>Invoice date</strong> — set to the original WooCommerce order date, not today’s date</li>
<li><strong>Currency</strong> — the WooCommerce order currency is passed to Xero, supporting multi-currency organisations</li>
<li><strong>Payment record</strong> — optionally marks the Xero invoice as paid when the WooCommerce order is paid, against a bank or clearing account of your choice</li>
</ul>
<h2>Built for how real stores operate</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Automatic sync</strong> — invoices are created when orders reach Processing or Completed status. No action needed.</li>
<li><strong>Immediate sync</strong> — optionally create invoices the moment an order is placed, before payment is confirmed. Useful for BACS, bank transfer, and offline payment methods.</li>
<li><strong>Manual send</strong> — push any order to Xero at any time using the Order Actions dropdown on the order edit screen. Works even with automatic sync disabled, and is perfect for backfilling older orders.</li>
<li><strong>Failed sync safety</strong> — if a sync fails for any reason, the error is recorded as an order note. The customer’s checkout is never interrupted.</li>
<li><strong>Contact updates</strong> — keep customer phone numbers and addresses in Xero current automatically on each order, or disable this to preserve manually managed contact data.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Tax that actually matches</h2>
<p>Getting tax right between WooCommerce and Xero is notoriously difficult with other plugins. Invoice Sync takes a different approach: it reads the tax amounts WooCommerce calculated for each line item and passes those figures directly to Xero. This is designed to keep totals aligned and reduce “Includes adjustments to tax” warnings when WooCommerce tax settings are configured correctly.</p>
<p>The Xero tax type you configure (e.g. GST on Income, Tax on Sales) tells Xero how to categorise the tax for your P&L and tax return — it does not affect the invoice total.</p>
<h2>Getting started</h2>
<p>Setup takes around 10 minutes:</p>
<ol>
<li>Create a free OAuth2 app at <a href="https://developer.xero.com/app/manage">developer.xero.com</a> to get your Client ID and Client Secret.</li>
<li>Go to <strong>WooCommerce → Settings → Xero Invoice Sync</strong>, enter your credentials, and click <strong>Connect to Xero</strong>.</li>
<li>On the <strong>Mapping</strong> tab, select your Sales Account Code and Tax Type.</li>
<li>Save. Done.</li>
</ol>
<p>For a full step-by-step walkthrough with screenshots — including how to create your Xero app, a tax type reference table by region, and guidance on WooCommerce tax configuration — see the <a href="https://woocommerce.com/?post_type=documentation&p=18734006569312">complete documentation</a>.</p>
<h2>Compatible with</h2>
<ul>
<li>WooCommerce 6.0 and later</li>
<li>WooCommerce Subscriptions — each renewal order syncs automatically</li>
<li>WooCommerce High Performance Order Storage (HPOS)</li>
<li>Multi-currency Xero organisations</li>
<li>All Xero regions (AU, NZ, UK, US, and others)</li>
</ul>
<h2>Requirements</h2>
<ul>
<li>An active Xero subscription — or a <a href="https://developer.xero.com">free Xero developer account</a> with a demo company for testing</li>
<li>Your WordPress site is accessible over HTTPS</li>
<li>WooCommerce tax rates configured (required for correct tax amounts to flow to Xero)</li>
</ul>

Invoice Sync for Xero

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<div>Stop entering WooCommerce orders into Xero by hand. Invoice Sync creates accurate Xero invoices automatically — correct tax, contacts, and payments every time.</div>
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<h2>Full-featured Profit and Cost of Goods Tracking for your WooCommerce Store</h2>
<p>WooCommerce gives you access to great reports on revenue and top-sellers or earners. Now we’ve added <strong>Profit Reporting</strong> to make these reports even more valuable! You can evaluate not only revenue, but costs and profit all from <em>within your WooCommerce store</em>. Quickly and easily get the information you need to make marketing and sales decisions to <strong>optimize your store’s revenue</strong>.</p>
<figure id="attachment_160400" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-160400" style="width: 950px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/woocommerce-cost-of-goods-profit-by-date-report.png" rel="attachment wp-att-160400"><img class="size-large wp-image-160400" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/woocommerce-cost-of-goods-profit-by-date-report.png?w=950" alt="WooCommerce Cost of Goods Profit by date" width="950" height="839" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-160400" class="wp-caption-text">Profit by Date report</figcaption></figure>
<p>Easily track total profit and cost of goods by adding a “Cost of Good” field to simple and variable products. Costs are automatically calculated on checkout so that you can see your profit in addition to simple sales information, and the in-depth reports provide exactly the details you need to improve your bottom line.</p>
<figure id="attachment_152653" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-152653" style="width: 550px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/woocommerce-cost-of-goods-bulk-view.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-152653" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/woocommerce-cost-of-goods-bulk-view.png" alt="WooCommerce Cost of Goods Product Table Display" width="550" height="254" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-152653" class="wp-caption-text">Costs in Product Table Display</figcaption></figure>
<h3>How “Cost of Goods” Improves Your Reporting</h3>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<li>Gives you vital information about your business – adds information about store profit and most profitable products so you know about more than just revenue</li>
<li>Add a Cost of Good to each product (including variations!) to always know total costs of products sold in each order</li>
<li>Apply costs to previous orders (placed before installation) after you set product cost</li>
<li>View profit and cost by date range, by product, or by product category <strong><sup>NEW</sup></strong></li>
<li>Export profit / cost report data to CSV <strong><sup>NEW</sup></strong></li>
<li>Include costs in orders exported with <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/ordercustomer-csv-export/">Order/Customer CSV Export Suite</a></li>
<li>Include costs in orders exported with <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/customerorder-xml-export-suite/">Customer/Order XML Export Suite</a> <strong><sup>NEW</sup></strong></li>
<li>Compatible with <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/product-csv-import-suite/">Product CSV Import Suite</a></li>
<li>Edit line item costs for editable orders <strong><sup>NEW</sup></strong></li>
<li>Gain insight into your <strong>most profitable</strong> and least profitable sellers so you know where to focus your marketing</li>
<li>See a <strong>total inventory valuation</strong> based on retail prices or cost of goods.</li>
<li>Quickly view costs next to prices in your product manager table display</li>
</ul>
<h3>Add Costs to Products</h3>
<p>Quickly add a Cost of Good to each product, including product variations, which are then used to calculate your total order costs so that you can always know what you <em>really</em> earned on every order – not just how much you sold. Total costs for each order line item are saved at checkout, so even if your costs increase in the future, your total costs are <strong>always historically accurate</strong>.</p>
<figure id="attachment_152654" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-152654" style="width: 550px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/woocommerce-cost-of-goods-set-product-cost.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-152654" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/woocommerce-cost-of-goods-set-product-cost.png" alt="WooCommerce Cost of Goods Simple Product Cost Configuration" width="550" height="307" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-152654" class="wp-caption-text">Simple Product Cost Configuration</figcaption></figure>
<p>Adding costs to variable products is easy as well. You can add a default cost for all variations or set costs for a variation manually.</p>
<h3>Focus Your Marketing on Top Products</h3>
<p>The Cost of Goods extension allows you to determine your true top products by viewing which products are <strong>most profitable</strong> and least profitable for your store, not just those that generate the most revenue.</p>
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<figure id="attachment_160403" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-160403" style="width: 236px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/woocommerce-cost-of-goods-least-profitable-widget.png" rel="attachment wp-att-160403"><img class="size-full wp-image-160403" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/woocommerce-cost-of-goods-least-profitable-widget.png" alt="WooCommerce Cost of Goods least profitable products widget" width="236" height="420" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-160403" class="wp-caption-text">Least Profitable Products</figcaption></figure>
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<p>Maybe you track pay-per-click or print advertising with the <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/url-coupons/">WooCommerce URL Coupons extension</a>? Now you know which products to create these coupons for since you know which will earn the most for your store.</p>
<h3>Detailed Reporting</h3>
<p>Tracking your cost of goods is pointless without in-depth reporting to give you actionable information to improve your profitability. Reports include:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Profit by date</strong> – See your net sales, cost of goods, profit, and average profit per order for any date range.</li>
<li><strong>Profit by product</strong> – See your net sales for the item, total costs, total item profit, and total item purchases for the given date range.</li>
<li><strong>Most/Least Profitable Sellers</strong> – See the most or least profitable products for a given date range.</li>
<li><strong>Profit by category</strong> – View total profit for any product category or multiple categories for a date range.</li>
<li><strong>Inventory Valuation</strong> – See the total value of your inventory, calculated using the retail price or the cost of good.</li>
</ul>
<figure id="attachment_160401" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-160401" style="width: 944px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/woocommerce-cost-of-goods-profit-by-product-report.png" rel="attachment wp-att-160401"><img class="size-full wp-image-160401" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/woocommerce-cost-of-goods-profit-by-product-report.png" alt="WooCommerce Cost of Goods Profit by product" width="944" height="846" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-160401" class="wp-caption-text">Profit by Product report</figcaption></figure>
<figure style="width: 814px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/woocommerce-cost-of-goods-product-valuation.png"><img src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/woocommerce-cost-of-goods-product-valuation.png?w=814" alt="WooCommerce Cost of Goods Product Valuation report" width="814" height="643" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-711842" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Product Valuation</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_161022" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-161022" style="width: 550px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/woocommerce-cost-of-goods-total-valuation-report.png" rel="attachment wp-att-161022"><img class="size-medium wp-image-161022" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/woocommerce-cost-of-goods-total-valuation-report.png" alt="WooCommerce Cost of Goods total valuation" width="550" height="364" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-161022" class="wp-caption-text">Total inventory values</figcaption></figure>
<h3>Powerful Configuration</h3>
<p>You can apply costs to <strong>previous orders</strong> to gain immediate insight into profitability. Simply add costs for your products, and any orders placed before using this extension can be updated from <strong>Settings > Products > Inventory</strong> to see most and least profitable sellers without waiting for new sales to roll in.</p>
<figure id="attachment_160404" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-160404" style="width: 938px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/woocommerce-cost-of-goods-profit-by-category-report.png" rel="attachment wp-att-160404"><img class="size-full wp-image-160404" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/woocommerce-cost-of-goods-profit-by-category-report.png" alt="WooCommerce Cost of Goods Profit by category" width="938" height="847" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-160404" class="wp-caption-text">Profit by Category report</figcaption></figure>
<h3>How to Get Started</h3>
<ol>
<li>Buy this extension 🙂</li>
<li>Download and install into your WooCommerce store</li>
<li>Add a cost to each of your products (you can bulk-add this too!)</li>
<li>Optionally apply those costs to previous orders</li>
<li>Check out your profits under <strong>WooCommerce > Reports > Profit</strong></li>
<li>That’s it! Sit back and enjoy your shiny-new Profit Reports!</li>
</ol>
<p><em>Need any more reason to buy? When you purchase a SkyVerge-developed extension, you’re getting the highest quality extensions for your WooCommerce store. Gain peace of mind by knowing that when you purchase our products, your store’s performance is as important to us as it is to you.</em></p>

Cost of Goods

<p>Easily track profit by including your cost of goods in your orders and reports.</p>

Invoice Sync for Xero vs Cost of Goods