There we were, setting up a new payment gateway for a client. The client wanted to automatically generate an invoice in Xero every time a customer was charged in Stripe.

That seemed easy enough.

A trigger was created to automatically punch out the invoice whenever a new charge occurred. Great. All that was left was to create a Stripe transaction within Xero to reconcile against that invoice.

That's where we were halted in our tracks. Our thought process was that it had to be possible to bring the transactional data into Xero. Especially because Stripe and Xero are two of the most connected platforms out there!

Turns out it wasn't possible at all. With a bit of research, we found a solution and created an app for the client.

Now, Stripe transactions magically show up in her Xero account every day. Reconciling against invoices is as simple as hitting the little green OK button when Xero finds a match.

A quick look in the forums showed that we definitely were not the only people facing this problem. So, we made Silver Siphon public. Now you can slash hours off your bookkeeping every month and have Silver Siphon do the heavy lifting.

Since then, we have expanded to include Pin Payments, with more gateways on the way.