About Xero
Xero is an online accounting software that allows small businesses to take complete control over their cash flow and their finances. Use Xero’s time-saving tools to process invoices, manage your bills and expenses, reconcile transactions, and run your business on the go.
About Heroku Connect
Heroku Connect is a data integration tool that uses bi-directional synchronization between Salesforce and Heroku Postgres to harmonize Postgres data your Salesforce information like contacts, accounts, and custom objects. Heroku connect includes a user-friendly, point-and-click interface so non-tech-savvy users can set up the service in minutes without coding or complicated configuration procedures.
Popular Use Cases
Bring all your Xero data to Amazon Redshift
Load your Xero data to Google BigQuery
ETL all your Xero data to Snowflake
Move your Xero data to MySQL
Bring all your Heroku Connect data to Amazon Redshift
Load your Heroku Connect data to Google BigQuery
ETL all your Heroku Connect data to Snowflake
Move your Heroku Connect data to MySQL
Xero's End Points
Xero Contacts
Retrieve, add, update, or attach files to contacts in a Xero organization. Then, enrich and integrate this data to get accurate insights and send targeted communication.
Xero Accounts
Take full control of your financial accounts: attach files, archive accounts, update details, delete accounts, and more. Use this information to get a well-rounded understanding of your financial standing and make any necessary strategic improvements.
Xero Items
Add, update, retrieve or delete both tracked and untracked items in your inventory. This will give you a better idea of what’s selling, what’s not, and where you should take your business.
Xero Invoices
Create, update, delete, void, and retrieve sales invoices or purchase bills. Monitor this data and use it to gain a clearer view of your expected revenue gains and losses. This, in turn, will help you to run accurate predictive analyses.
Xero Receipts
Retrieve, delete, add, or update draft expense claim receipts. Monitor this information to take full control over your transactional information.
Xero Payments
Refund credit notes, reverse a payment, apply payments to approved AR and AP invoices, and refund prepayments and overpayments. Then, use your payment data to track how much you are making from specific customers or during specific time periods. This will allow you to hone your marketing efforts and score leads more effectively.
Xero Reports
Review your most commonly viewed reports in Xero, and use data to improve your efficiency and gain actionable insight.
Heroku Connect's End Points
Heroku Connect Synchronization of Apps Across Heroku and Salesforce
Heroku Connect allows you to build apps with open source stacks, natively integrate the apps with Postgres, and directly sync them with Salesforce. By integrating your Salesforce data with Heroku Postgres, it's easy to combine the power of the Lightning Platform with Heroku. Heroku Connect makes the process of building apps that bring your data and processes to your users as easy as coding in SQL.
Heroku Connect External Objects
Heroku Connect External Objects let you make your Heroku Postgres database information available inside your Salesforce deployment. This empowers you to synchronize your information across both platforms as you create, read, update, and delete data. By creating sophisticated applications inside Heroku and making the app data available to your Salesforce processes, you'll present a seamless experience in Salesforce, while all of your data stays inside Heroku Postgres. Moreover, configuring Heroku-Salesforce integrations for data pertaining to apps, sensors, customers, and products is a simple, point-and-click process that doesn't require any coding skills. Heroku External Objects combined with Salesforce Connect makes it easy to create a seamless experience across all of your business systems.
Heroku Connect Data Security Compliance
Heroku Shield Connect supports the development of applications that share sensitive data with Salesforce while complying with the strictest data security standards. Safely integrate CRM data, Protected Health Information (PHI), Personally Identifiable Information (PII), contact information, account data, and custom objects between Heroku apps and Salesforce. Heroku Shield Connect provides an easy pathway for building advanced applications that need to adhere to the most complicated data security regulations, including HIPAA compliance.
Heroku Connect Easy Application Development and Scaling
Through its compatibility with the most popular stacks and programming languages, Heroku Connect facilitates easy application development. Its add-on ecosystem includes your favorite development tools and databases (like New Relic, Mongo, and Redis) so you can use them with the applications you're creating. Through Heroku's proven infrastructure, which currently supports 26 billion daily transactions for massive consumer websites (such as Upworthy and Bonobo) virtually limitless scaling is available for high volume applications.