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Overview

Connect Bill Pay to Xero to keep your vendors, bills, and payments in sync without double entry. Once connected, you can:
  1. Import your existing Xero suppliers as HitPay vendors
  2. Have new HitPay vendors pushed to Xero automatically
  3. Map your HitPay bill categories to your Xero chart of accounts
  4. Have approved bills appear in Xero as bills, with the right vendor and account code
  5. Have payments recorded in Xero automatically once a bill is paid

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Connecting Xero

Go to Settings > Connections and click Connect BillPay Xero to start the OAuth flow. Xero connection settings before connecting an account Once connected, HitPay begins syncing your accounts and contacts in the background, and you’ll be prompted to import your existing Xero suppliers - or skip and import them later from the Vendors page. You’ll also be asked to map your HitPay categories to Xero expense accounts (auto-suggested by name match where possible), and can optionally set a default expense account for anything unmapped. Xero settings after connecting, showing category to GL account mapping

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Vendor sync

  • Vendors imported from Xero are read-only in HitPay. To change one, edit it in Xero and re-sync.
  • Vendors created in HitPay push to Xero automatically on create and update. If a Xero contact with the same name already exists, HitPay links to it instead of creating a duplicate.
  • Only Xero contacts marked as suppliers are imported - customer-only contacts aren’t relevant to Bill Pay.
See Vendors for how the vendor directory works day-to-day, and Bulk vendor import if you’d rather import via CSV instead of syncing from Xero.

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Bill & payment sync

When a bill is approved, HitPay pushes it to Xero as a bill using the vendor and the GL account mapped to its category, automatically creating the vendor contact in Xero first if it doesn’t exist yet. When that bill is paid in HitPay, the corresponding Xero bill is automatically marked as paid - there’s nothing to reconcile manually. Sync status (synced, pending, or error) is shown against each bill and vendor. If a sync fails, HitPay retries automatically before asking you to retry manually.

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Disconnecting

You can turn Xero sync off at any time from Settings > Connections. Disabling it stops future syncing but doesn’t change anything already recorded in Xero.
Last modified on September 17, 2026