Integrations Xero Payroll Integration for Sri Lanka
Xero Payroll Integration for Sri Lanka
Post every Humanised pay run to Xero as a manual journal: salaries, EPF, ETF, APIT, stamp duty, loans and reimbursements, mapped once to your chart of accounts.
Xero has no Sri Lankan payroll, so Sri Lankan firms on Xero run payroll elsewhere and key the journal by hand at month end. Humanised runs the payroll and posts the journal to Xero after each confirmed run.
Supported Xero editions
Humanised connects to Xero cloud accounting (any plan) through the official Xero API. There is no desktop edition of Xero. If your organisation needs a different posting structure, such as tracking categories per branch, ask us about a custom integration, which we build at cost for a specific setup.
How the integration works
Each confirmed pay run posts one journal: gross salaries by department, the employee and employer EPF and ETF contributions, APIT and stamp duty liabilities, loan and advance movements, approved expense reimbursements and net pay to the bank clearing account, each to the account you mapped once during setup. Nothing is re-keyed and the month-end reconciliation is a comparison of two identical figures.
Setting it up
- Choose the Accounting Software Integration add-on (LKR 6,000 a year on any plan) and connect your cloud accounting file from Humanised with your login; we never store your accounting password.
- Map each payroll line to an account in your chart of accounts once; your accountant can do this with you on a call.
- Run the first pay run in parallel and check the journal in your accounting software against the payroll summary.
- From then on every confirmed pay run posts automatically; edits and reversals post as adjusting entries.
Using QuickBooks instead? See the QuickBooks payroll integration.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Humanised integrate with Xero?
Yes: any Xero plan through the official API. Each confirmed pay run posts a journal for salaries, EPF, ETF, APIT, stamp duty, loans and reimbursements to the accounts you map once.
Which Xero editions are supported?
The cloud edition: any Xero plan through the official API.
What does the integration cost?
The Accounting Software Integration add-on is LKR 6,000 a year on any Humanised plan (Enterprise: included in the quote).
What is posted each month?
Gross salaries by department, employee and employer EPF, ETF, APIT and stamp duty liabilities, loan and advance movements, approved expense reimbursements and net pay to the bank clearing account.
Can my accountant set up the account mapping?
Yes. Mapping is done once with a login that has access to both systems; most accountants do it on a 30-minute call with us.
Can you build a custom integration?
Yes, at cost, for a specific setup such as a desktop accounting product, an ERP or a bank portal. Ask us on a demo with the details.
Does Xero run Sri Lankan payroll itself?
No. Xero has no Sri Lankan payroll with EPF, ETF and APIT; the pay run happens in Humanised and the accounting entries travel to Xero.
See your devices feeding payroll automatically
Book a free demo and we’ll show attendance flowing from your terminals into a live pay run — with EPF, ETF and APIT handled by our payroll software for Sri Lanka. More on time tracking in our time and attendance articles.