MYOB Integration in New Zealand
MYOB integrations cost more than the equivalent Xero job, and the reason is not your business. It is which MYOB product you are on, and nobody asks that early enough.
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What people usually mean by myob integration
An MYOB integration brief is almost always about ending double entry — invoices raised twice, orders retyped, payments reconciled by hand. The work is well understood, but MYOB is several different products with different APIs and different limits, so the first hour of any honest quote is spent working out exactly what you are running.
Push invoices and payments into MYOB
Your website, job system or ordering system raises the invoice and MYOB receives it with the right customer, account codes and GST treatment. The most common brief.
Read from MYOB into something else
Showing customers their statements and outstanding invoices in a portal, or pulling customers, items and pricing into another system.
Two-way sync
Customers, items or stock kept in step in both directions. Materially harder, because both ends can change the same record.
What it costs
Indicative ranges from projects posted here. Use them to sense-check a quote, not to budget precisely.
One-way, one document type
Invoices from one system into MYOB, with error handling and a way to retry safely.
$10k – $22k
Multi-document integration
Invoices, credit notes, customers and payments, with reconciliation and visibility of what failed.
$22k – $50k
Two-way sync
Both systems can change records, with conflict rules and a full audit trail.
$50k+
Questions worth asking a provider
·Which MYOB product are we on, and what does that mean for what is possible?
·Is our file in the cloud or on a server in the office? Does that change the price?
·How will I see what failed, and how do I retry it without creating a duplicate?
·Who maps our account codes and GST treatment — you, or our accountant?
·Would moving to Xero make this integration materially cheaper, and by how much?
Common questions
How much does an MYOB integration cost?
A one-way integration pushing invoices into MYOB is $10,000 to $22,000. Adding credit notes, customers, payments and proper reconciliation puts it at $22,000 to $50,000. Two-way sync starts around $50,000. As a rule of thumb it runs 20 to 30 percent above the equivalent Xero job, because the API is less pleasant to work with and there is more variation between MYOB products.
Why is MYOB more expensive to integrate than Xero?
Xero has one modern API and one product family. MYOB has several products with different histories — MYOB Business, AccountRight, and the older desktop lineage — and they do not all expose the same things in the same way. AccountRight files hosted on your own server need an additional local connector, which is another moving part to install, secure and keep running. None of this is insurmountable; it just means more of the quote is spent on plumbing.
Which MYOB product are we on?
It matters more than anything else on this page, and many businesses are not sure. If you log in through a browser and never install anything, you are likely on MYOB Business. If someone installs software and the file lives in the cloud or on an office server, that is AccountRight. Ask your accountant or bookkeeper before you brief anyone, and put the answer in the brief — it will make every quote you receive more accurate.
Should we move to Xero instead?
It is a fair question and worth asking your accountant, but not one to answer for integration reasons alone. Changing accounting systems is a real project with its own cost and risk, and the saving on one integration rarely covers it. If you were already considering the move for other reasons, the integration saving is a genuine point on that side of the ledger. If you were not, integrate what you have.
What happens when MYOB is unavailable?
A well-built integration queues the work, retries with backoff, and surfaces anything that still fails somewhere a person will see it, with a retry that cannot create a duplicate invoice. A poorly built one fails silently and you find out at month end. This is the single most useful question to put to each developer quoting, and the answers will differ sharply.
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Find out which MYOB you have first
This single fact changes the price more than anything else in the brief, and a surprising number of businesses cannot answer it.
MYOB Business is used entirely in a browser. Nobody installs anything and the file lives with MYOB. It has the more modern API and it is the cheaper of the two to work with.
AccountRight involves installed software. The file may sit in the cloud or on a server in your office. Integrating with a file hosted on your own premises needs a local connector running there, which is an extra piece of software to install, secure, monitor and restart when the server is rebooted at Christmas.
Ask your accountant or bookkeeper this week and put the answer in the brief. It is the difference between quotes that agree with each other and quotes that do not.
Check the marketplace before you build
MYOB has an app marketplace, and for common connections — several ecommerce platforms, job management systems, point-of-sale — something may already exist for a few tens of dollars a month.
A developer worth hiring will tell you this in the first conversation and lose the job cheerfully. Ask every one of them: is there an app that already does this? Silence on the subject from all five is worth a follow-up.
Custom work is for what the marketplace does not cover: your own software, an unusual process, or a connector that does 80 percent and leaves the awkward part to a person.
What you are actually paying for
People assume the cost is in talking to MYOB. Some of it is — the API is older than Xero's and has more edges — but most of it is in your business rules, and there are always more than anyone expects:
- Which account code does each product or service map to?
- How is GST handled on freight, on discounts, on exports?
- What happens when a customer exists twice under slightly different names?
- What does the system do with a part-paid invoice, or a credit note against an invoice already reconciled?
- Which system wins when both have been edited?
Every one of those is a decision only you and your accountant can make, and every one has to be encoded. That is the project. The developer who asks the most uncomfortable questions while quoting is usually the one who has done this before.
The question that separates the quotes
What happens when MYOB is unavailable?
It will be. There are maintenance windows, occasional outages, rate limits a busy system will reach, and — with AccountRight on a local server — the possibility that the machine simply is not on.
A good answer sounds like: the work is queued, retried with backoff, and if it still fails it appears somewhere a person will see it, with a retry button that cannot create a duplicate. A bad answer is that it will not happen.
Ask about duplicates specifically. The most common failure in a rushed integration is the same invoice arriving twice after a retry, and finding that at month end is genuinely painful.
One direction is much cheaper than two
Pushing invoices into MYOB is well-trodden and predictable. Keeping records in step in both directions is a different class of problem, because both systems can change the same customer and something has to decide which change wins.
Before paying for two-way sync, check whether you need it. Usually one system is genuinely the master for each kind of record — your job system owns jobs, MYOB owns financial data — and one-way flows in each direction are far simpler and far cheaper than true synchronisation.
Should you just move to Xero?
Someone will suggest it, and it is a fair question rather than a rude one. The same integration on Xero typically costs 20 to 30 percent less, and the API is more pleasant to live with over the following years.
But changing accounting systems is its own project, with conversion cost, retraining, a year of two sets of records, and your accountant's opinion in the middle of it. The saving on one integration rarely justifies it on its own.
If you were already thinking about moving, count the integration saving on that side. If you were not, integrate what you have and spend the difference somewhere it shows.
What good looks like after launch
You should be able to answer three questions without ringing your developer:
- Did today's invoices reach MYOB?
- If something failed, what and why?
- How do I retry it safely?
If the integration has no screen that answers those, you have bought something that works until it does not and then becomes a mystery. Ask to see that screen from a project they have already delivered.
Comparing five quotes
Read for judgement rather than price:
- Who asked which MYOB product you are on before quoting?
- Who mentioned the marketplace?
- Who asked about your account codes and GST treatment?
- Who described failure handling without being prompted?
- Who has integrated MYOB specifically, rather than "accounting systems generally"?
Describe the two systems you want connected, what is being typed in twice today, and which MYOB product you run. Developers who work with this API regularly will tell you quickly whether it is a $12,000 job, a $45,000 job, or a $50-a-month app you did not know existed.
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