Xero and QuickBooks in ChatGPT and Claude: what each app can do

Does Xero work in ChatGPT and Claude?

Xero works in ChatGPT and Claude through its own app. Xero Limited publishes Xero on ChatGPT, where it sits at #39 in Finance, and Xero on Claude, at #66 in Most popular. QuickBooks is the same story with a bigger reach. Intuit QuickBooks is #2 in ChatGPT's Small Business list, and Intuit QuickBooks is #39 in Claude's Most popular.

Cursor publishes a Xero plugin and a QuickBooks Online plugin, which Grok Bot also lists. Neither comes from Xero or Intuit. The table below shows each store's app for the two brands, what it does, and whether we can see it make changes.

None of the brands' own apps shows its tools to us without sign-in. Intuit's ChatGPT listing says it can make changes, but we can't see its tools to check. Xero says its Claude connector is read-only (Xero's Claude page). ChatGPT carries more of the apps around both brands: 14 of the 27 Xero listings and 20 of the 43 QuickBooks listings. In OpenApps Rank, Intuit QuickBooks is #19 on ChatGPT and #25 on Claude. Xero is #157 on ChatGPT and #143 on Claude.

What can you do once your assistant reaches your books?

An assistant connected to Xero or QuickBooks mostly answers questions about your books. A smaller group of apps also writes to them. The two brands travel together: 13 of the 19 apps we tag Xero also name QuickBooks, so most third-party apps below work with both. Grouped by job:

• Report on the business. VODER answers questions about profit and loss, revenue, expenses, aged receivables and payables, and the trial balance. It works across Xero, FreshBooks, MYOB and QuickBooks Online. Nella Finance AI and SHVL do similar reporting on ChatGPT.
• Update the books. The Meridian connectors from Pilot.com read and update Xero and QuickBooks. NumbersGame MCP queries and updates invoices, bills and reconciliations on Claude.
• Close the month. Double automates the month-end close. Briefcase reviews approvals, posts journals and runs month-end schedules, and works on Xero and QuickBooks books.
• Turn statements into imports. Bank Statement Conversion, KontoCSV and Bankstatemently convert bank statements into files your accounting app can import.
• Sync other systems. SKU.io Inventory Reconciler ties inventory to your books. Breezing books crypto activity into Xero or QuickBooks.

VODER is the one app here whose full tool list we can read. It has 37 tools, and 36 of them are marked read-only. The other one records feedback for VODER, so it reports on your books and never changes them.

Which other apps connect to Xero and QuickBooks?

Third-party apps fill the gaps around the brands' own apps. The table lists the ones whose listing says what they do with Xero or QuickBooks. The last column goes by the tools we can read. When we can't see an app's tools, it says "Tools hidden", whatever the listing claims.

Pilot.com is the one publisher with a connector for each brand on both ChatGPT and Claude. Its Claude listings say they can make changes, and its ChatGPT listings say they read and update. We can't see the tools of either version, so we can't confirm it. QBO Connector by Meridian is #19 in ChatGPT's Finance list, the highest third-party QuickBooks app we list there.

None of the top accounting apps we list is FreshBooks' own. VODER is the app that reaches it, and some of VODER's yearly reports are not available for FreshBooks organisations, by VODER's own tool notes.

How do you connect Xero to ChatGPT or Claude?

Open the brand's app in the store, connect it and sign in with your Xero or Intuit login. Xero's own page gives these steps for Xero on Claude (Xero's Claude page):

1. In Claude, open the connectors directory and add Xero.
2. Sign in with your Xero login.
3. Choose the Xero organisation you want to use.
4. Ask about your profit, cash, invoices and customers.

You need an active Xero subscription and a Claude account, free or paid. Xero's ChatGPT launch post gives no setup steps for Xero on ChatGPT (Xero's blog). Open the app from its ChatGPT listing and connect it.

Intuit gives these steps for Intuit QuickBooks on ChatGPT (Intuit's ChatGPT help):

1. In ChatGPT, search for Intuit QuickBooks and choose Connect Intuit QuickBooks.
2. Sign in to your QuickBooks Online account. ChatGPT opens again once you're in.
3. Choose Start chat in the Intuit QuickBooks app.

On Claude, open Connectors in the sidebar, find QuickBooks, choose Connect and sign in with your Intuit account (Intuit's Claude help). Intuit says both QuickBooks apps are for US customers for now. Cursor and Grok Bot list both plugins under Cursor's name; browse the Cursor charts for them.

The tags page lists every app we tag Xero, QuickBooks or accounting.

Method and limits

Our counts come from brand tags that match listing text. A listing that only mentions Xero or QuickBooks in passing gets the tag too. We kept apps out of the tables when their listing did not say what they do with either brand, such as CRM Connector and Hive.

Most servers here hide their tools until you sign in. Of the 27 Xero listings, 12 have an MCP server we know of, and only 1 of those shows its tools without sign-in. For QuickBooks it is 2 of 20. So "tools hidden" says nothing about what an app can do once you connect it. An auth-gated server may well write to your books.

Store ranks move daily, and a rank says how visible a listing is, not how well it works with your books. Counts by store add up listings, so an app on ChatGPT and Claude counts once in each. The wider accounting tag holds 248 apps, most of them for other ledgers, and we left those out here.