Reckon to Xero conversion
Reckon Accounts, Reckon Accounts Hosted or Reckon One converted to Xero — full transaction history, GST coding, contacts and open balances, reconciled line by line against your Reckon trial balance before you go live. Email-based, fixed price, Australia-wide and beyond.
What moves from Reckon, honestly
Cleanly: chart of accounts · customers and suppliers with balances · open invoices and bills with ageing · bank and credit-card transactions · items · and your transaction history for as many financial years as you want to carry, rebuilt as native Xero transactions.
With decisions: classes become Xero tracking categories · GST codes map to Xero tax rates so BAS continues cleanly · estimates and orders carry as drafts where you still need them · negative or muddled stock has to be resolved, not copied.
Not at all, by anyone: historical pay runs into Xero Payroll (employees arrive with YTD and leave balances; history as journals plus archived reports) · memorised transactions and custom templates — rebuilt natively as Xero repeating invoices · the Reckon audit trail (archived, never lost).
Worth knowing
Reckon Accounts descends from the QuickBooks codebase — its company files are a format we have converted for years, so “our file is old / upgraded many times / has years of history” is normal, not a problem. Hosted files are simply downloaded as a backup first; Reckon One exports its data directly. Either way you keep your Reckon data untouched as the permanent archive.
How it runs
- Email your Reckon backup or export — we send exact steps for your product and version.
- Fixed written quote by email, usually within one business day.
- We build and verify Xero while you keep invoicing in Reckon.
- Cutover with trial balance, ageing and GST summaries reconciled against Reckon, and a delta pass for entries made while we worked.
Questions Reckon users ask us
Which Reckon products do you convert?
Reckon Accounts (desktop), Reckon Accounts Hosted and Reckon One. The export route differs per product and we send exact steps for yours.
Our file started life as QuickBooks — does that matter?
No — that lineage is exactly why the format is familiar. Age and upgrade history are normal, not obstacles.
What about BAS and GST history?
GST-coded transactions map to Xero tax rates so BAS reporting continues cleanly; historical GST summaries are reconciled against Reckon before cutover.
Payroll?
The same honest rule as every Xero conversion: historical pay runs cannot be posted into Xero Payroll by any provider. Employees arrive set up with YTD figures and leave balances for a clean STP start; pay history carries as journals plus an archived report set.
Send the file, get a number
Email care@ezconvertbooks.com with your Reckon product and years of history — or use the quote form. Fixed quote by reply, usually within one business day. Running Hosted or Reckon One? What to check before leaving either for Xero. Related: MYOB to Xero · multi-currency rules.