MYOB to Xero conversion
AccountRight or Essentials converted to Xero — chart of accounts, contacts, open invoices with ageing, bank transactions, job codes and your full multi-year history, reconciled against your MYOB trial balance before you switch. Email-based, fixed price, Australia, New Zealand and beyond.
What moves from MYOB, honestly
Cleanly: accounts list remapped to a proper Xero chart · customers and suppliers with balances · open invoices and bills with ageing preserved · bank and credit-card transactions · items · and your transaction history — sales, purchases, payments, general journals — rebuilt in Xero for the years you choose to carry.
With remapping, stated up front: MYOB jobs become Xero tracking categories, so job-coded history keeps its codes and job reports still work · categories map to a second tracking category · GST codes map to Xero tax rates (BAS-ready) · inventory quantities carry, but complex assemblies need a conversation first.
Not at all, by anyone: historical pay runs into Xero Payroll (see below) · M-Powered services and bank feeds — feeds are re-linked fresh in Xero · custom forms and personalised invoices — rebuilt natively in Xero instead · MYOB audit trail (archived, never lost).
The two things that bite casual MYOB conversions
Payroll. Xero’s AU payroll cannot accept historical pay runs. We set up every employee with year-to-date figures and leave balances so STP continues cleanly, and your complete pay history goes in as journals plus an archived report set — nothing lost, and your accountant can still see every pay period.
Job costing. If every transaction is job-costed, that carries fully — each transaction keeps its job code as a Xero tracking option. But MYOB job budgets, progress claims and retentions have no native Xero equivalent; where you use them we recommend the right construction add-on alongside Xero before cutover, not after.
How it runs
- Email your MYOB backup or export — we send exact steps for your AccountRight or Essentials version.
- Fixed written quote by email, usually within one business day. No calls required — ever.
- We build and verify Xero while you keep working in MYOB.
- Cutover with trial balance, debtor/creditor ageing and GST summaries reconciled against MYOB, plus a delta pass for anything entered while we worked.
Questions MYOB users ask us
Do you handle both AccountRight and Essentials?
Yes. AccountRight (desktop or cloud) and Essentials both convert; the export steps differ and we send the right ones for your version.
We’re a construction company — every transaction is job-costed.
Job codes carry across: each MYOB job becomes a Xero tracking option, so historical transactions keep their jobs and your reports by job still work. If you also use job budgets, progress claims or retentions, say so — Xero does not do those natively and we will recommend the right add-on rather than let you find the gap after cutover.
Can our payroll history come across?
Xero’s Australian payroll does not accept historical pay runs — from any provider. Employees are set up with YTD figures and leave balances for a clean STP start; full pay history carries as journals plus archived reports.
Do invoice attachments survive?
Yes — attachments migrate onto their corresponding Xero invoices, not into a separate folder.
Send the file, get a number
Email care@ezconvertbooks.com with your MYOB version and how many years you want carried — or use the quote form. Fixed quote by reply, usually within one business day. Deciding between destinations? MYOB to Xero vs MYOB to QuickBooks — and if you are timing the move, EOFY timing for MYOB migrations. Related: Reckon to Xero · multi-currency rules.