The simplest way to back up Xero is a service that copies it for you. TradieBridge reads Xero through Xero’s official API, with a sign-in you approve, and keeps 43 resources current in a backup your business owns. A record deleted in Xero stays in your copy, and you can export all of it as JSON, CSV or a Postgres database at any time.
What Xero keeps, and what it doesn’t
Xero keeps your live books and backs up its own service. What it doesn’t give you is a copy of your own: once an invoice is deleted, a contact merged or an organisation cancelled, the old version is hard or impossible to get back. Exporting by hand means many separate reports, each a snapshot of one day.
A full Xero backup, kept for you
TradieBridge copies far more than one report. It holds each record exactly as Xero sent it, and keeps it after Xero drops it:
- Sales and purchases: invoices, bills, credit notes, quotes, purchase orders and payments.
- Banking: bank transactions, bank transfers and accounts.
- Contacts: customers and suppliers, with their groups.
- Payroll (Australia): employees, pay runs, payslips, timesheets and leave.
- Reports: month-end reports such as profit and loss and the balance sheet.
- Attachment details: the name of each attachment and the record it belongs to.
Export all your Xero data
Any member can export a whole Xero copy from TradieBridge as a zip file: JSON for developers, CSV for spreadsheets, or a Postgres database. The copy stays browsable and exportable even after you cancel TradieBridge.
Backup and restore: what to expect
TradieBridge is a backup you can browse and export, not a restore button. It only reads from Xero and never writes back, so it can’t put records into Xero for you. What it does give you, when something goes wrong, is every record it has copied, including deleted ones, ready to look up or export. That makes it one useful part of a disaster recovery plan, alongside your accountant’s own process.
Ask questions your ledger can’t answer alone
With Simpro or Deputy connected too, your assistant can read your books beside your jobs and timesheets:
- What did we clear on the school job after costs?
- Do the Deputy timesheets match last week’s pay run?
- Who took longest to pay us this year?
Connect your AI with one link.
Docs Every Xero resource TradieBridge holds