Beta program opens to five select businesses, with general availability to follow

Duplo, Africa’s leading B2B payments and financial operations platform, today announced the launch of a native Xero integration within the Duplo Dashboard for South Africa (SA). The integration establishes a two-way data sync between Duplo and Xero, one of the world’s most widely adopted cloud accounting platforms, enabling businesses to manage their entire financial operations workflow from a single, unified interface.

The integration is launching as a controlled beta, initially available to five select businesses. General availability is expected to follow the beta phase, with Duplo’s sales teams actively identifying eligible customers to participate.

What the Integration Does

The Duplo–Xero integration bridges the gap between payments and accounting, eliminating the manual reconciliation work that finance teams across South Africa currently perform. Once connected, the two platforms stay in continuous sync, ensuring that every transaction, approval, and payment status recorded in Duplo is immediately reflected in a business’s Xero accounting environment.

Key capabilities of the integration include:

• Chart of Accounts Sync: Duplo automatically maps and syncs the chart of accounts from Xero, ensuring all expense categories, ledger codes, and account classifications remain consistent across both platforms without manual entry.

• Supplier Management: Supplier records created or updated in either Duplo or Xero are reflected in real time across both systems, maintaining a single source of truth for vendor data.

• Expense Tracking: Business expenses logged in Duplo are pushed directly to Xero, complete with correct categorisation, eliminating double entry and reducing the risk of reconciliation errors.

• Approval Workflows: Duplo’s approval workflows, including multi-level authorizations, are synchronized with Xero, ensuring finance teams maintain full audit trails and compliance without toggling between tools.

• Payment Status Updates: Real-time payment status updates flow between Duplo and Xero, giving finance leaders instant visibility into outstanding, processing, and completed payments directly within their accounting records.

• User-Configurable Sync Settings: Businesses retain full control over what syncs and when. All integration settings are configurable by the user, enabling finance teams to tailor the integration to their specific operational workflows.

Why This Matters for South African Businesses

South African finance teams, particularly those in mid-market and growing enterprises, frequently operate across fragmented toolsets, managing payments in one system while maintaining accounting records in another. The friction created by this separation contributes to reconciliation delays, data discrepancies, and significant time overhead for finance staff.

Xero is deeply embedded in the South African accounting ecosystem, used by thousands of businesses and their accountants and bookkeepers. By integrating directly with Xero, Duplo is meeting businesses where their financial data already lives, reducing the cost and complexity of adoption while delivering immediate operational value.

“African businesses deserve financial infrastructure that works as hard as they do. Our Xero integration is about removing the invisible tax of manual reconciliation and giving finance teams back their time — so they can focus on decisions that grow the business, not on moving data between systems.”

— Duplo Leadership Team

Controlled Beta Program

The Xero integration is launching as a controlled beta, limited to five businesses. The beta phase is designed to allow Duplo’s engineering and product teams to gather real-world feedback, validate performance across diverse use cases, and ensure the integration meets the high standards expected before broader release.

Beta participants will work closely with Duplo’s team and will receive priority onboarding support, direct access to product specialists, and the opportunity to shape the feature’s development ahead of general availability.

Businesses interested in participating in the beta are encouraged to contact their Duplo account manager or reach out through the official Duplo website. Duplo’s sales teams are already identifying and qualifying eligible beta customers.

Availability

• Current Status: Controlled beta, limited to five businesses.
• Target Audience: Businesses in South Africa using Duplo Dashboard and Xero.
• General Availability: To be announced following the conclusion of the beta phase.
• Beta Enquiries: Contact a Duplo sales representative or visit sa.tryduplo.com/contact-us

About Duplo

Duplo is a B2B payments and financial operations platform built for African businesses. Duplo enables companies to streamline payments, manage approvals, track expenses, and integrate with accounting tools, all from one platform. Operating across South Africa and Nigeria, Duplo is trusted by forward-thinking finance teams looking to modernize how they move and manage money.