The short version. Core operations are live within one business day — either self-serve with AI-guided onboarding, or with our customer success team doing it alongside you at no charge. Closing the books, tax filings, bank reconciliation and payroll are onboarded separately, at the pace needed to get them right. We bring balances, not archaeology: your full history stays in your existing system, read-only, for reference.

1. Live on day one

These are running, with your data in them, by the end of the first business day:

2. What we bring across, and how

There are three ways in, and which one applies depends on the system you are coming from. The distinction is worth stating plainly rather than flattening it into a single claim: two systems connect and pull straight across, two more have file formats we have built specific handling for, and anything else comes in by CSV.

FromHowWhat comes across
Xero Connect Chart of accounts, contacts, opening balances and invoices over the API. Historical profit & loss and journals in the history step, and account transactions from a report export.
Zoho Books Connect Chart of accounts, contacts and opening balances over the API.
MYOB Guided export Chart of accounts, contacts and trial balance from MYOB Business or AccountRight. Transaction history from the General ledger detail report. We read MYOB's own account types, tax codes and header accounts — no re-mapping by hand.
QuickBooks Guided export Chart of accounts, customer and vendor lists, and trial balance. Our column and account-type detection is built against QuickBooks Online exports.
Any other system CSV Anything that can export a CSV. Columns are detected and mapped for you, with a review step before anything is imported.

Payroll is separate. Employee records and leave balances come in by file import, and are onboarded after day one along with the rest of payroll — see section 3.

You choose the cutover date and how much history to bring. That single decision is made at the start and pre-fills every later step, so opening balances, transactions and invoices all line up against the same date rather than being answered piecemeal.

3. What is onboarded after day one

Some things should not be rushed into a single day, and we would rather say so than promise otherwise:

Your full transaction history stays where it is. Keep the old system read-only for as long as you want it for reference — we bring the balances, not the archaeology.

4. How the guarantee works

Everything in section 1 is live within one business day, or our customer success team does the setup with you at no charge. There are two paths to the same place:

The guarantee covers the day-one scope in section 1. It deliberately does not cover the items in section 3, which are onboarded afterwards at whatever pace gets them right.

Want to see it before you commit? Book a demo and we will walk through the migration for the system you are on now.