Xero integration

Xero in Polar: your real costs, in the P&L.

Connect Xero through the AI Data Engineer and your expenses, COGS and fees flow into Polar, blended with Shopify orders. Contribution margin and net profit finally reflect real cost, not a gross number with the expenses left out.

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Connect Xero See the setup
Xero → Polar

The Xero costs your store never saw, added to your margin.

Operating expenses, cost of goods and fees from Xero, added onto governed revenue, so contribution margin and net profit are computed on what you actually spent.
Operating expenses
"Where do overhead and app costs go?"
Load the operating costs that never hit Shopify so net profit is real.
overhead + apps
Cost of goods
"My margin is wrong without real COGS."
Product cost from Xero so profit is calculated on true cost.
cost per product
Fees
"Fees aren't in my margin."
Processing and platform fees added so margin isn't overstated.
fees netted out
Net profit
"What did we actually keep?"
Revenue from Polar, costs from Xero, net profit on one line.
revenue - all costs
Contribution margin
"CM after everything variable."
Margin after COGS, shipping, fees and ad spend, not just gross.
CM, fully loaded
AI Data Engineer
"How does it connect?"
The AI data engineer writes the connector to Xero over its API.
AI Data Engineer
Setup Guide

How to Connect Xero to Polar.

01 · What you need
Polar

A Polar account with Shopify

A Polar account with Shopify connected. This connector plugs in right next to your stack.

Connect your data →

A Xero account

API access to the expenses, COGS and fees you want reflected in your P&L, so the AI Data Engineer can build the connector.

Open Xero →

Polar's AI Data Engineer

Xero is ingested via the connector and mapped into your semantic layer, blended with orders.

02 · Bring Xero into Polar
1

Ask the AI Data Engineer for Xero ~ minutes

Plain language, no code.
Describe what you need from Xero in plain language. Polar's AI Data Engineer reads the Xero API, writes the connector and pipes the data into your warehouse as governed data, in minutes. No code.
2

Map to the P&L automatic

Costs, governed.
Xero resolves into your semantic layer, so costs net out and behave like any governed metric, blended with Shopify.
3

See true profit the payoff

Real net revenue.
Net profit and contribution margin now reflect real cost, everywhere in Polar, not just in your accounting tool.
Get started

Net profit, not gross.

Ingest your Xero expenses, COGS and fees with the connector and blend them into the P&L.

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Side by side

Xero keeps the books. Polar puts them in the P&L.

Xero reports your costs in its own ledger, apart from your Shopify orders, ad spend and margin. So net profit, the number that matters, has to be reconstructed by hand. Polar builds it for you.

Xero on its ownon its own

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Xero with Polarblended

Costs live in the accounting tool, apart from commerce.
Expenses, COGS and fees ingested and netted.
Gross revenue, with expenses in separate reports.
Net revenue and margin on real cost.
No blended view of net profit or margin.
One P&L, blended with Shopify and ad spend.
Nothing reconciles against live performance.
Profit reflects what you actually spent, everywhere.
The Gap

The Xero connector is only half of it.

Once your Xero costs are clean and attributed inside Polar, you can use them wherever you already work. Ask Polar in plain language, pull them live through the Polar MCP, or schedule a snapshot into the report your team reads every morning.

Xero

expenses, COGS and fees
Polar

Polar

net profit, blended margin

Ask Polar

Polar MCP

Scheduled reports

Featured Use Case

Net profit with Xero costs in, not gross.

Your accounting is accurate but slow and siloed: Xero knows the costs, but they live in a ledger disconnected from the Shopify orders, ad spend and margin that make up the operating picture, and net profit only shows up weeks later at close.

Costs netted out

Real cost

Expenses, COGS and fees pulled and subtracted, so margin is real. Once in, accounting behaves like any Polar source across dashboards, reports and AI answers.

Ask Polar, in plain language

No SQL

“Show net profit and contribution margin on real costs this month.” No SQL, no export.

See how the blended P&L works
Your Prompt Library

15 prompts a connected Xero unlocks.

Operating expenses, cost of goods and fees added onto governed revenue, all the way down to net profit.
Type
Audience
15 of 15
Get started · connect once · real net profit

Your real costs, in the P&L.

Ingest Xero through the AI Data Engineer, net the costs out, and blend into net revenue and margin on one P&L.

Get started by booking a demo Connect your data in Polar
Phase 1 plain languageConnect XeroThe AI data engineer writes the connector to your accounting.
Phase 2 built for youMap to the P&LCosts net out and become governed metrics.
Phase 3 the payoffSee true profitNet profit and margin on real cost, blended with Shopify.