Stop reconciling Zapper by hand
Recording your Zapper takings in Xero manually works, but it’s a few hours every month, it’s easy to get the VAT split wrong, and your clearing account rarely lands on zero. Here is the honest comparison.
By hand
What the manual way actually involves
- Download the Zapper settlement statement and open it in a spreadsheet.
- Split each day's takings into net sales and output VAT, and the fees into net and input VAT.
- Capture the sales and the fees in Xero, entry by entry.
- Record the payment into a clearing account and the bank transfer, then match the payout.
- Chase the cents when the clearing account doesn't land on zero.
Side by side
By hand vs with Crosspost
| What | By hand | With Crosspost |
|---|---|---|
| When it happens | A month-end scramble | Every day, automatically |
| Capture | Re-key the day's totals by hand | Nothing to capture |
| VAT split | You work out output and input VAT line by line | Done for you: fee VAT taken from Zapper's own figure |
| The entries | You capture the sales, the fees and the transfer | All of it posted for you |
| Clearing account | Rarely lands on zero | Zapper Balance nets to R 0.00 when settled |
| Audit trail | Your own notes and spreadsheets | A Zapper reference on every entry |
| Your time | A few hours every month | Minutes: you approve the first sync once |
The same work, done while you sleep.
By hand, that’s a few hours every month of capture and VAT coding, time you’re paying for, whether it’s yours or your bookkeeper’s. Crosspost does the same work automatically for R 199 a month, or R 149 a month billed annually, and it reconciles to the cent.
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