Bill coding is still a manual step for most invoices, even with Hubdoc or Dext sitting in front of Xero.
Accounting platform
Xero automation, built for Australian finance teams.
The accounting platform most Australian finance teams run on. Also the one most of them have outgrown without noticing.
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named automations shipped on Xero
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Context
Why Xero matters for mid-market finance.
Xero is the finance system of record for a huge share of Australian mid-market businesses, and that is exactly why it is usually where the hours leak. Teams onboard onto Xero when they are small, keep adding manual workarounds as they grow, and end up with a chart of accounts, a tracking taxonomy and a reconciliation process that works at ten staff but quietly breaks at fifty. Xero's own automation primitives (bank rules, repeating invoices, approvals) solve the easy cases. The hard cases, the ones that consume genuine finance hours, live in the gaps between Xero and everything else in your stack.
Xero is the ledger. The hours live in the gaps between Xero and everything else in your stack. The job is to close those gaps, not to replace Xero.
Where the hours go
The four signals that Xero is costing you more than it should.
Bank reconciliation takes a finance person half a day each week, because Xero's suggested matches miss anything unusual.
The aged-debtors report is only trusted once someone has spent Friday cleaning it up.
Management reporting is compiled by exporting Xero to Excel, then re-pivoting the same numbers every month.
What we’ve shipped
10 automations we’ve built on Xero.
Grouped by where they sit in your finance month. Each one is a named build Ordron has shipped, not a capability slide. Tap a card to see what it actually does.
Accounts Payable
3 automationsAccounts Receivable
2 automationsReconciliations
2 automationsMonth-end close
1 automationReporting
2 automationsCost of inaction
What Xero is costing your team in manual work.
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The Xero hours, in dollars.
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5people
1FTEs in finance and accounting30
300per week
0Bills in plus AR invoices out1,500
10days
1From period end to signed-off reports20
Current platformChanges the named automations shown
All dollar figures in AUD. Assumes a blended finance rate of $55/hour and 50 working weeks per year.
Your annual cost of manual finance
$106,400
Ordron-style automation typically captures $79,500 of that per year. On a typical $10,000 project, payback lands at roughly 7 weeks.
The approach
How Ordron automates on Xero.
Ordron treats Xero as the ledger, not the platform. We build a database-first automation layer next to it: a structured copy of your transactions in Azure, OCR and coding models tuned to your own chart of accounts, and a Control Panel your team actually logs into. Xero stays the single source of truth for the numbers. The repetitive work, the coding, the matching, the chasing, happens in the automation layer, with exceptions routed to a named owner.
Database-first
Every transaction, contact and tracking category writes to a structured Azure-hosted database you own. The platform stays the ledger; your data is never vendor-locked.
Automation layer
OCR, coding models, matching rules and approval workflows run next to the platform, tuned to your chart of accounts and approval thresholds.
Control Panel
Your team logs into one interface to review exceptions, see throughput, and audit every automated action, with a named owner for every exception path.
Proof
Xerowork we’ve shipped.
- Logistics
Xero AR and reconciliation
80% reduction in AR reconciliation time
Auto-coded GL tags, automated bank reconciliation and real-time aged-receivables visibility in Xero.
- Manufacturing
Multi-system data flows
Monthly close cycle cut by 80%
Hybrid RPA and rule-based transforms consolidate Xero, a custom inventory tracker and Excel forecasts into a single SQL-backed reporting layer.
- Logistics
Legacy ERP bridge
160+ hours per month saved
RPA bot that drives a legacy ERP interface, validates with SQL, and syncs clean data into Xero and reporting dashboards, without replacing the ERP.
Go deeper
Related automation guides.
The pillar guides unpack each function across every platform, not just Xero. Useful when you are benchmarking or briefing the rest of the leadership team.
- Guide
Accounts payable automation
How mid-market AP actually gets automated in Australia. Intake, coding, approvals, posting, exception paths.
- Guide
Accounts receivable automation
Invoicing, collections, remittance matching and aged-debtor surfacing without the chase-up spreadsheet.
- Guide
Reconciliations automation
Rule-based and ML-assisted reconciliations across the main AU business banks, cards and inter-entity accounts.
- Guide
Month-end close automation
Close checklists, automated accruals, reporting packs and a defensible five-day close for mid-market AU teams.
Next step
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