Overview
Lopay is the UK’s lowest-cost card payment platform built for small businesses and sole traders. Accept contactless, chip & pin, and card payments via smartphone, card reader, or terminal, then let Lopay handle the bookkeeping automatically. With the Lopay-Xero integration, your transaction data flows straight into Xero every morning. No spreadsheets, no manual entry, no reconciliation headaches.
Key features: • Fees from just 0.79% per transaction - one of the lowest rates on the market • Same-day and next-day payouts to your bank account • Automatic daily sync of sales, fees, payouts, tips, refunds, cash advance repayments and reward card spend to Xero • Backdated sync from any date within your current financial year, so you can catch up from day one • Full account mapping, map Lopay data types to your exact Xero chart of accounts • Payout sync toggle for merchants with multiple bank accounts • Sync log in the Lopay portal so you can see exactly what’s been sent to Xero • Works with Xero Ultimate, Grow, Comprehensive and Trial plans Set up in minutes. Connect once. Let Lopay keep your books in order.
Lopay + Xero
The Lopay - Xero integration runs automatically every day at 2AM, syncing the previous day’s data from Lopay into your connected Xero organisation.
Here is exactly what gets created in Xero: • Sales invoice (Accounts Receivable): Your card sales for the day, broken down by tax rate or by product line depending on your Lopay POS settings. Tips are included as a separate line item. • Fees bill (Accounts Payable): A bill showing the Lopay processing fees you were charged, broken down by fee type. • Payout bank transfers: One bank transfer per payout received from Lopay, reflected against your mapped bank account in Xero. Payout sync can be toggled off if you manage multiple bank accounts manually. • Business Funding repayment bill: If you have an active Lopay cash advance, repayments are recorded as an Accounts Payable bill. • Reward card spend draft bill: Transactions made with your Lopay Reward Card are created as draft bills, allowing you to categorise them against the correct accounts before authorising. • Refund credit notes: Refunds are submitted as unpaid, unauthorised credit notes so you can correctly assign the applicable tax treatment before finalising. • Setup and account mapping: After connecting via Xero OAuth2, you map each Lopay data type (Sales, Fees, Tips, Payouts, Cash Advance) to an account in your Xero chart of accounts. Sales, Fees and Tax mappings are required before sync can be enabled. You also map each Lopay tax type to a Xero Tax Type. • Backdated sync: You can select a historical start date (going back no further than your Xero financial year start) to sync past data when first connecting. • Supported Xero plans: Ultimate, Grow, Comprehensive and Trial (up to 30 days). Ignite plan is not supported.
Pricing plans
Free to use with Lopay
- Sync Lopay Data
- Create Invoices with Lopay Payment Links
Getting started
- Sign up for a Lopay account at lopay.com or download the Lopay app (iOS or Android).
- Start taking card payments. Lopay works with your smartphone, a card reader, or a full terminal.
- Log in to the Lopay merchant portal at portal.lopay.com. Go to Integrations->Third Party in the navigation menu and select Xero Alternatively, tap the 'Connect Xero' option from the Account & Settings section of the mobile app.
- Click ‘Connect to Xero’. You will be redirected to Xero to authorise the connection using your Xero login.
- Once authorised, select which Xero organisation you want to link to your Lopay account.
- Complete account mapping: assign each Lopay data type (Sales, Fees, Payouts, Tips, Business Funding) to the relevant account in your Xero chart of accounts. Also map each of your Lopay tax types to the corresponding Xero Tax Type. Sales, Fees and Tax mappings are required before you can enable sync.
- Optionally, choose a backdated start date if you want to sync historical data. The earliest date available is your Xero financial year start.
- Toggle sync on. Lopay will run its first sync and then automatically sync every day at 2AM.
If you wish to change your account mappings, you can return to this page and update them at any time, changes will take affect on the next sync.


