What crosses from GoCushy into Xero, what it looks like when it lands, and — stated plainly — the things it does not do.
Connecting Xero means a paid order in GoCushy becomes a record in Xero without anyone retyping it. Refunds follow the same path, which matters because refunds are where hand-maintained records usually stop agreeing with reality.
Connect it at Dashboard → Settings → Integrations → Xero. Authorisation happens on Xero’s side; GoCushy never sees your Xero password.
It does not file your GST return. Nothing in GoCushy files anything with Inland Revenue. Your return is prepared and filed the way it always was, by you or your accountant, in myIR or through Xero’s own filing.
We are specific about this because the category has a habit of describing an integration as though it removes the return itself. It does not, and a claim like that is checkable in about a minute by anyone who has actually filed one.
The single most common confusion when a payment provider meets an accounting system is that one deposit is not one sale. A payout is a batch: several orders, minus fees, minus refunds, arriving as a single line in your bank feed.
So a NZ$1,000 day does not appear as NZ$1,000. It appears a few days later as one deposit, net of processing fees, possibly spanning two calendar months. The orders are the revenue; the deposit is the cash. Keeping those separate in your head — and in your chart of accounts — is most of what makes reconciliation calm.
Your payment provider’s fees are a cost of your business and are recorded as such. Whether GST applies to a given provider’s fee depends on that provider’s own registration and how it supplies you, and it is not the same answer for every provider or every merchant.
GoCushy is never the merchant of record and never takes a cut of the payment, so we are not a party to that fee at all — we have no view to sell you here. Ask whoever prepares your return; it is a two-minute question and the answer applies to every transaction you will ever process.
Every order is exportable, with the buyer’s country and the tax treatment on each line, so the same information reaches a spreadsheet, a different ledger, or an accountant who would rather have a file than a login.
General information about how GoCushy behaves, correct as at 19 August 2026. It is not tax advice about your circumstances — your accountant knows those and we do not.
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