Connect Xero to Power BI, Tableau, Looker Studio

The Xero connector by Vidi allows you to extract Xero data into any data consumption tool that you want including Excel, Power BI, Tableau and Looker Studio. 

The connector works by extracting data automatically from Xero into a database such as Azure SQL Server. This database can then be used for many different purposes including building dashboards, using the data for Machine Learning models and many more purposes.

There are several differences for this connector vs all others:

1. It is possible to combine data from multiple Xero companies together in a single dataset

2. Supports Direct Query

3. The data output of it can be customized for specific needs of a client

Vidi Corp is actively working on development of a proprietary software for extracting data from Xero. The timeline for delivering the first version of it is towards the end of May 2024. The software will cover the script maintenance component of the data extraction work. 

Below is the documentation for tables and columns available inside of the connector

Journal Lines

This is the main table that contains the list of your transactions and grouping of those transactions into accounts. Grouping into accounts is important for replicating the calculation logic for P&L, Balance Sheet and other financial statements.

More detailed descriptions of all the columns and their meaning is available on Xero website

Available Columns
AccountCode
AccountID
AccountName
AccountType
Description
GrossAmount
JournalID
JournalLineID
NetAmount
TaxAmount
TaxName
TaxType

Tracking Categories

This table can be used to identify a tracking category for every transaction. These tracking categories can be regions, departments, etc depending on how you created them inside of Xero.

More detailed descriptions of all the columns and their meaning is available on Xero website

Available Columns
JournalLineID
Name
Option
TrackingCategoryID
TrackingOptionID

Journals

The most useful column here is SourceType which could be used for grouping transactions into financial statements. 

More detailed description of these columns can be found on Xero website

Available Columns
CreatedDateUTC
JournalDate
JournalID
JournalNumber
Reference
SourceID
SourceType

Accounts

Accounts are grouping your transactions into lines on financial statements. Both active and inactive accounts are available to extract from this table. Bank account codes and currencies for those accounts are available to access through the accounts table.

More detailed description of these columns can be found on Xero website

Available Columns
AccountID
Description
SystemAccount
AddToWatchlist
BankAccountNumber
BankAccountType
Class
Code
CurrencyCode
EnablePaymentsToAccount
HasAttachments
Name
ReportingCode
ReportingCodeName
ShowInExpenseClaims
Status
TaxType
[Type]
UpdatedDateUTC

Bank Transactions

Useful columns inside of this table include CurrencyRate and CurrencyCode for bank transactions which describe what exchange rate was used for bank transactions. There is also a flag to identify reconciled vs unreconciled transactions. 

 More detailed description of these columns can be found on Xero website

Available Columns
BankTransactionID
BankAccount_AccountID
BankAccount_Code
BankAccount_Name
BatchPayment_Account_AccountID
BatchPayment_BatchPaymentID
BatchPayment_Date
BatchPayment_DateString
BatchPayment_IsReconciled
BatchPayment_Status
BatchPayment_TotalAmount
BatchPayment_Type
BatchPayment_UpdatedDateUTC
Contact_ContactID
Contact_HasValidationErrors
Contact_Name
CurrencyCode
CurrencyRate
[Date]
DateString
ExternalLinkProviderName
HasAttachments
IsReconciled
LineAmountTypes
OverpaymentID
Reference
[Status]
SubTotal
Total
TotalTax
[Type]
UpdatedDateUTC
Url

Contacts

This table contains data for your counterparties saved in Xero. Apart from contact details it contains the total outstanding balance between you and the counterparty.

More detailed description of these columns can be found on Xero website

Available Columns
ContactID
LastName
FirstName
Name
ContactNumber
AccountNumber
AccountsPayableTaxType
AccountsReceivableTaxType
Balances_AccountsPayable_Outstanding
Balances_AccountsPayable_Overdue
Balances_AccountsReceivable_Outstanding
Balances_AccountsReceivable_Overdue
BankAccountDetails
ContactStatus
DefaultCurrency
EmailAddress
HasAttachments
HasValidationErrors
IsCustomer
IsSupplier
SkypeUserName
TaxNumber
UpdatedDateUTC

Billable Expenses (Linked Transactions)

The basic purpose is to link line items from a purchase transaction (e.g. ACCPAY invoice) to a customer and a sales transaction (e.g. ACCREC Invoice).

More detailed description of these columns can be found on Xero website

Available Columns
LinkedTransactionID
ContactID
SourceLineItemID
SourceTransactionID
SourceTransactionTypeCode
Status
TargetLineItemID
TargetTransactionID
[Type]
UpdatedDateUTC

If you haven’t found the needed column or table, please contact us. We can customise our product to satisfy your specific needs.