Construction invoicing with Xero: from booked-and-done to invoiced

The gap between "the work is done" and "the invoice is out" is where margin quietly leaks. Hours sit uninvoiced, plant-hire days get forgotten, and the person who knows what happened on site isn't the person who raises the bill. Connecting construction invoicing with Xero to your live site data closes that gap.

Invoice from the work itself

SiteLive sits on top of what actually happened on site — confirmed bookings, plant-hire records, completed work. So instead of reconstructing an invoice from memory, you raise it from the source:

• Build an invoice manually when you need full control.
• Generate one from a confirmed booking or plant-hire record, so nothing billable slips through.

Straight into your own Xero

Connect your own Xero account once — your admin approves access a single time — and invoices push straight into Xero as drafts. You review and send them from Xero exactly as you do today. SiteLive never touches your money or your bank feeds; your billing stays entirely yours.

Why drafts, not auto-send

Auto-sending invoices is how you end up apologising to a client. Pushing drafts means a human still checks the numbers, the wording and the timing before anything goes out — you just skip the data entry, not the judgement.

Less leakage, faster cash

When invoicing starts from the site record, two things improve at once: fewer billable items are missed, and the invoice goes out sooner because nobody's hunting for the detail. On a long project, getting paid a week earlier across every claim adds up.

SiteLive lets you raise client invoices from your real site and plant-hire records straight into your own Xero as drafts — your billing, your control. Try it free for 7 days on your first site.