Xero Integration

Use Xero + Empower together, your seamless ‘World Class’ Engineering and Manufacturing Software Solution

Xero + Empower Workshop Productivity and Scheduling manages your core business, namely your finances and your jobs and labour. Your labour cost being 1. one of your highest costs (at some $85 per hour overhead cost), 2. your most likely cost to “blow out” on jobs and 3. your hardest cost to plan, monitor and control.

You are a lot Stronger with Xero + Empower Together.

Empower can export Job details to Xero and imports contacts and invoices from Xero. Empower gets the various revenue accounts from Xero to be used when an invoice is raised in Xero.

Empower automatically creates and updates draft invoices in Xero and will post these to Accounts Receivable. It will insert Empower customer related information.
Once an invoice is raised in Xero, its invoice number will be recorded in Empower for that Job.

Empower can import 3 types of invoices from Xero – Draft invoices, Awaiting Payment invoices and Paid invoices. You can either select a single invoice or multiple invoices from the list to create a Job in Empower. Contacts from Xero can also be imported in a similar way.

About the Empower Workshop Productivity and Scheduling App

  • Touch Screens used on Workshop floor for workshop staff to view their job lists and start and finish each job
  • 50 inch TV screens in office and workshop present Jobs, Tasks, Individual Staff and Times in real time and continuously throughout the day
  • Individual workshop staff use Empower to be fully aware of expected job times and their performance on every Task
  • Production management and all administration staff and other management have access to highly accurate job status and job times in real time from workshop floor
  • The over riding main benefit of Empower is that Job times and Job labour cost on jobs will reduce by 20% to 40%+
  • Empower have a team of highly experienced production experts to assist you implement successfully and get the most out of Empower on going
  • Engineering and Manufacturing Financial Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) – that highlight the value of Xero + Empower to your business:
  1. For example a 10% increase in workshop productivity will increase your annual profit by projected 30%. For example a 20% increase in workshop productivity will increase your annual profit by projected 60%. Templates are available from Empower to confirm
  2. Empower guarantee to increase your workshop productivity by 20%+ within 6 months
  3. If for example you have 10 workshop staff Empower is projected to increase your production hours by 80 hours per week and increase your revenue by $6,000 per week. (ie 80 hours at $75 per hour overhead cost)
  4. $6,000 per week is $294,000 additional revenue per year. This $294,000 is largely additional profit, because your overhead costs are covered in your existing production levels
  5. Over 10 years this is $2.94m additional revenue, largely additional profit
    Your Return on Investment (ROI) weekly of is 136

About Xero

Xero is world-leading online accounting software built for small business

  • Get a real-time view of your cashflow. Log in anytime, anywhere on your Mac, PC, tablet of phone to get a real-time view of your cash flow. It’s small business accounting software that’s simple, smart and occasionally magical.
  • Run your business on the go. Use our mobile app to reconcile, send invoices, or create expense claims – from anywhere.
  • Get paid faster with online invoicing. Send online invoices to your customers – and get updated when they’re opened.
  • Reconcile in seconds. Xero imports and categorises your latest bank transactions. Just click ok to reconcile.

How Empower and Xero Integrate

Empower can export Job details to Xero and imports contacts and invoices from Xero.

Empower gets the various revenue accounts from Xero to be used when an invoice is raised in Xero. Empower automatically creates and updates draft invoices in Xero and will post these to Accounts Receivable. It will insert Empower customer related information. Once an invoice is raised in Xero, its invoice number will be recorded in Empower for that Job. Empower can import 3 types of invoices from Xero – Draft invoices, Awaiting Payment invoices and Paid invoices. You can either select a single invoice or multiple invoices from the list to create a Job in Empower. Contacts from Xero can also be imported in a similar way.

Getting Started
When the Connect to Xero button is clicked in Empower, the user will be directed to Xero’s login screen. Use Xero’s credentials to Log on. If the authentication is successful, the user will be asked to allow access to his/her organisation. Once the User allows access, he/she will be redirected to Empower and asked to select a Xero revenue account. Once the revenue account is selected, Empower will display the Organisation connected to with selected revenue account.

How Empower and Xero Integrate​