Xero MCP server

The self-hosted MCP server Xero maintains. It exposes about 50 tools, including read tools (accounts, contacts, invoices, quotes, payments, bank transactions, P&L, balance sheet, trial balance, aged receivables and payables, payroll leave and timesheets) and write tools (create-invoice, create-payment, create-bank-transaction, create-manual-journal, update-invoice for drafts, and approve-payroll-timesheet and revert-payroll-timesheet).

When to use it

• Pulling a trial balance, aged receivables or a P&L into an agent session for close or variance work.
• Drafting invoices, quotes or credit notes from a conversation or a document.
• Building your own bookkeeping automation that needs write access.

Before you install

If you only want answers about your books, use Xero’s Claude connector (add it from the Claude connectors directory). Xero describes it as read-only and session-only: it “can’t edit invoices, post transactions, or change anything in your books.” This server is the developer tool with write access. Start with Xero’s Demo Company. On the Custom Connection, set only the scopes you need (the XERO_SCOPES variable overrides the defaults). Keep write tools behind your client’s per-call approval. Payroll tools only work for UK and NZ organisations.