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Sterling

By Sterling
5 out of 5 stars
An AI assistant accountant that takes over the repetitive 60% of finance work, improving accuracy, speeding up close, and freeing your team to focus on insight and business performance.
Rated
5.0
out of 5
Reviewed by
2
Xero users
Listed for
1 month
April 2026
Key functions
Development partners
Accountant tools

Overview

Sterling is an Agent Assistant Accountant designed to eliminate the repetitive, manual, accuracy-critical work that slows finance teams down. Instead of forcing teams to re-engineer processes or adopt a new ERP, Sterling works alongside your existing systems—especially Xero—to automate the 60% of finance tasks that are essential but time-consuming.

Finance teams spend too much time preparing numbers before they can analyse them. Reconciliations, coding, accruals, data checks, evidence collection, and report preparation consume capacity that could be better spent on insight, partnering with the business, and decision-making. Sterling takes on this preparation layer reliably and consistently, at a fraction of the cost of additional headcount.

What Sterling Does

  • Automates routine accounting workflows including reconciliations, account coding, accrual schedules, journal preparation, evidence packaging, and month-end activities.
  • Handles the administrative and data-prep layer so teams can move straight to review and analysis.
  • Works natively with Xero, pulling required data and applying your organisation’s accounting logic, workflows, and approval rules.
  • Executes tasks with accountant-level accuracy, improving consistency and auditability.
  • Fits into existing processes, avoiding the disruption common with ERP add-ons or traditional RPA tools.

Key Features

  • Reconciliations & Coding
    Auto-prepare reconciliations, identify anomalies, and apply coding rules aligned to your chart of accounts.

  • Accruals & Journals
    Generate and post accruals, prepayments, recurring journals, and multi-period adjustments.

  • Month-End Preparation
    Prepare evidence packages, schedules, and variance explanations so month-end starts with cleaner data.

  • Custom Rules & Workflows
    Adapts to your organisation’s accounting practices, approval flows, and business-specific nuances.

  • Audit-Ready Outputs
    Every action includes supporting documentation and a clear review trail.

  • Human-in-the-loop by Design
    Sterling prepares and proposes; your team reviews, approves, and posts.

Benefits

  • Recover up to 60% of finance team time by eliminating repetitive preparation work.
  • Improve accuracy and consistency across core accounting processes.
  • Increase capacity without adding headcount.
  • Accelerate month-end close with cleaner, more reliable data.
  • Enable accountants to focus on insight and business partnering.

Built for Finance Teams

Sterling bridges the gap between basic automation and accounting judgement. It’s not a chatbot or an RPA script—it’s a specialised agent built to understand accounting, follow instructions, and operate safely within established finance controls.

If your team spends more time preparing numbers than analysing them, Sterling provides the execution layer you’ve been missing: accurate, consistent, and always available.

Sterling + Xero

  • Data Retrieval
    Sterling reads transactional and master data from Xero on demand or on schedule, ensuring automation is always based on current information.

  • Preparation Layer
    It processes Xero data to prepare reconciliations, accruals, prepayments, and evidence packages. Multi-period calculations and adjustments are handled automatically, with human review built in.

  • Human-in-the-loop
    Sterling proposes journals, adjustments, and postings. Your team reviews and approves all changes before anything is posted to Xero.

  • Data Posting
    After approval, Sterling can post journals, accruals, reconciliation adjustments, multi-period invoices, and month-end entries directly into Xero, following your organisation’s coding, tax, and tracking rules.

  • Audit-Ready Outputs
    All actions are documented with supporting evidence and clear audit trails retained in Xero.

  • Seamless Workflow Integration
    Sterling works alongside existing Xero workflows, enhancing them rather than replacing them, so teams can focus on analysis and insight.

  • Security & Compliance
    All communication with Xero is encrypted. Sterling does not store credentials and respects Xero permission levels and access controls.

Reviews & ratings

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Rebecca Anderson
Posted
5 out of 5 stars

Game Changer

Sterling eliminates the tedious, high-volume tasks that drain your finance team's time — receipt matching across entities, large-scale channel allocation, multi-department AP approvals — all handled seamlessly. The team is great to deal with, and the platform's capabilities just keep growing.
One person found this review helpful.

Response from Sterling

It’s been an absolute delight to work with you Rebecca and we look forward to eliminating ever more drudgery from your day-to-day 🙌
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James Everett
Posted
5 out of 5 stars

Highly recommend - don't sleep on this tool

We adopted Sterling as soon as it became available, and it’s already made a meaningful impact on our workflow. We’re using it to automate accounts payable invoice entry in Xero, and we’re now expanding into month-end processes where we have a lot of manual, repetitive work. So far, it’s freed up around a quarter of our bookkeeping time. What’s been most impressive is how quickly Sterling understands context with minimal setup. It learns fast, adapts easily, and doesn’t require heavy configuration to get value. It genuinely feels like adding another team member - one that can work across systems. Sterling’s wide range of integrations makes it easy to pull together information from multiple sources and keep everything aligned in Xero. If you’re looking to reduce manual accounting work and improve efficiency, Sterling is well worth a look.
One person found this review helpful.

Response from Sterling

❤️ Thank you for the kind words James, we love being able to help you and your crew out!

Additional info

Shared data

Xero
Sterling
Paymentsshared from Xero to Sterling and from Sterling to Xero
Invoicesshared from Xero to Sterling and from Sterling to Xero
Contactsshared from Xero to Sterling and from Sterling to Xero
Accountsshared from Xero to Sterling
Tracking Categoriesshared from Xero to Sterling
Tax Ratesshared from Xero to Sterling
Reportsshared from Xero to Sterling
Purchase Ordersshared from Xero to Sterling and from Sterling to Xero
Manual Journalsshared from Xero to Sterling and from Sterling to Xero
Currenciesshared from Xero to Sterling
Credit Notesshared from Xero to Sterling and from Sterling to Xero
Bank Transactionsshared from Xero to Sterling and from Sterling to Xero

Functions

Development partnersAccountant tools

Industries

FranchiseProfessional servicesAccounting

App details

By Sterling
Added in 2026

Countries

Australia, Canada, Global, Ireland, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States

Languages

English

Support

Contact supportsupport@histerling.com

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