MYOB or Xero keeps
- The general ledger and financial reporting
- Payroll and superannuation
- BAS, GST and compliance
- Bank feeds and reconciliation
- Your accountant and bookkeeper’s workflow
Works with MYOB and Xero
We work with MYOB and Xero. You keep them.
Tall Emu isn’t an accounting package and doesn’t want to be. MYOB or Xero stays where it is, doing the accounts, payroll and compliance. Tall Emu runs the rest of the business around it - the quotes, orders, stock, purchasing, manufacturing, warehouse work and freight - and keeps the two in sync.
Tall Emu Works With
How a growing business ends up here
Most product businesses start in MYOB or Xero and it does the job. Then the business grows. Quoting moves into Word or Excel. Stock lives in a spreadsheet, or three. Orders come in by phone, email and the website and someone retypes them. Purchasing is a separate list. The warehouse runs on paper. Every one of those is a sensible fix on the day, and together they become the way the business runs.
The accounting software isn’t the problem. MYOB and Xero are perfectly good at accounting - for businesses with a large turnover too. Where they fall down is operations. They were never built to run a quote with live stock and freight, a pick list, a work order or a multi-location stock position, and the add-ons that try to bolt those on each become another disconnected system.
What stays in MYOB or Xero, and what moves to Tall Emu
Tall Emu runs
- Leads, customers and every conversation
- Quotes with live stock, pricing and freight
- Sales orders from every channel
- Purchasing, suppliers and landed costs
- Stock across locations, serials and batches
- Manufacturing, work orders and jobs
- Picking, packing, freight and dispatch
- Invoices and payments, synced back to the accounts
Invoices, payments, customers and products sync two ways, so the bookkeeper sees one financial record and nobody enters a sale twice. How the MYOB sync works → · How the Xero sync works →
It’s not a platform switch
You’re not migrating your accounts, retraining your accountant or starting a six-month ERP project. You keep using MYOB or Xero. What changes is that quoting, invoicing, inventory and the operational work you’ve been squeezing into the accounting package (or into spreadsheets beside it) move into a system built for them - and the financial results flow back automatically.
Your bookkeeper keeps their system. Your team gets one that runs the business.
That’s the whole idea. Compliance and payroll stay with the accounting software. Tall Emu runs the process and helps you run it efficiently.
Why not just add more apps to MYOB or Xero?
You can, and plenty of businesses do: a quoting app, an inventory app, a warehouse app, a freight app, a CRM. Each one is fine on its own. The cost is at the joins - the same customer in five places, stock figures that don’t agree, a quote that has to be retyped as an order, and a team that spends its day checking which system is right. Tall Emu is one system for that whole chain, with MYOB or Xero as the accounting layer underneath.
Why Tall Emu is the ERP alternative for growing businesses →
Common questions
Questions about working with MYOB and Xero
Do I have to leave MYOB or Xero?
No. That’s the point. MYOB or Xero stays your accounting system. Tall Emu connects to it and runs the operational work around it.
Which versions are supported?
MYOB Business and AccountRight, and Xero. The MYOB and Xero integration pages cover what syncs and how.
Will my bookkeeper have to change how they work?
Their day-to-day stays in MYOB or Xero. What changes is that invoices, payments and customer records arrive there from Tall Emu instead of being typed in, so there’s less to key and less to reconcile.
Where do I invoice from?
Invoices are raised in Tall Emu as part of the order process and synced to MYOB or Xero, so the accounts always match what was sold and shipped.
Is Tall Emu an accounting package?
No. Tall Emu doesn’t do payroll, BAS or the general ledger, and won’t. It runs sales, stock and operations and leaves accounting to the accounting software.
Australian company. Australian team. Local support.
Tall Emu is built and supported in Australia, with help available from 9am to 5pm Sydney time.
MYOB or Xero stays as your accounts. Tall Emu handles the leads, quotes, orders, stock, warehouse and customer work around it. Tall Emu and MYOB · Tall Emu and Xero
See how Tall Emu and your accounting software share the work
Watch the recorded demo to see a quote become an order, an order become a shipment, and the invoice land in MYOB or Xero without anyone retyping it.
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