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Xero vs Calisto Pro

Online accounting for small businesses and their advisors, used in many countries.

What moves

Bringing your data from Xero

Your data is read in your own browser and sent to your Calisto account. Calisto never sees your login for the old system.

From an export file

Export your data from Xero and drop the file in. It is read in your browser and mapped onto Calisto.

  • Chart of accounts

    Your accounts, with their codes and types. Bring these first: everything else names them.

  • Customers

    The people and companies you invoice.

  • Suppliers

    The people and companies who bill you.

  • Trial balance at your switch date

    Every account’s balance on the day your books start in Ledger. It becomes your opening balances.

  • Unpaid invoices at your switch date

    Invoices customers still owe you on the switch date, with what is left to pay. They are already in your trial balance; a payment after the switch clears them.

  • Unpaid bills at your switch date

    Bills you still owe on the switch date, with what is left to pay. They are already in your trial balance; a payment after the switch clears them.

  • Journal history

    Journal lines, if you want your history in Ledger. Lines dated before your switch date are kept for reference (your trial balance already holds them); later ones post.

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