We only currently convert the core accounting information and not the following types of data:


  • Sage archives or backup data that isn’t “open” or “live”
  • Sage Departments tracking for opening (conversion) balances
  • Sage Cloud (SageOne) Analysis Types (equivalent of departments)
  • Budgets
  • Project data/Job Costing
  • Stock or inventory invoice lines or stock amounts*
  • Product/Service/Sales Items*
  • Sub-account structure of the chart of accounts (Xero has no sub-accounts)
  • Accounts that have never had any transactions
  • Deleted or cancelled transactions
  • Fixed Asset Registers
  • Sales and Purchase Orders
  • Quotes/Estimates/Draft/Unposted invoices or bills
  • Bank statements
  • Memorised Transactions
  • Default nominal codes, payment terms or tax rates
  • Custom tax rates (see workarounds used)
  • Filed tax returns (tax transactions are converted not returns)
  • Tax journals made to non-system accounts
  • Templates such as invoice templates
  • Timesheets/Time Records
  • Payroll and Employee Records*
  • Transactions after the “Convert To” date
  • Nil value invoice line items
  • File attachments (optional extra on certain conversions)
  • CIS details (transactions are also unlikely to convert correctly)*
  • Unpaid expense claims
  • Charity fund codes
  • Custom fields (invoices/bill/contacts)

If the option to convert departments is not displaying on the Conversion Setup page then no department data (or equivalent) will be transferred.


*Associated transactions will be converted ie. for a stock item, the purchase would be converted but no stock will be present on the transaction