Record PayPal payments in Xero automatically
HumDay can watch PayPal for settled payments and record each one in Xero, matched to the right contact. Anything that writes to your books sits behind an approval you grant explicitly, and the contract names what happens when a payment cannot be matched instead of guessing.
What this automation is built from
Real operations each provider publishes, in their own words. HumDay only ever uses the specific ones your approved contract needs.
How this gets built
- Describe the outcome. The button above drops this job, already worded, into the composer — edit it until it says exactly what you want.
- Approve the contract. Before anything is built you see what it will do in PayPal and Xero, what it will never do, and what happens when something fails.
- See it proven. The generated program runs and shows you the result — including the duplicate rule working — before it is allowed near either account.
- Grant access, then go live. You approve the specific operations it may use on each side — and only those.
Related automations
- Send a receipt email with Gmail when a payment lands in PayPalPayPal → Gmail
- Send a receipt email with Resend when a payment lands in PayPalPayPal → Resend
- Send a receipt email with Postmark when a payment lands in PayPalPayPal → Postmark
- Send a receipt email with Mandrill when a payment lands in PayPalPayPal → Mandrill
- Post a Slack alert for every new PayPal paymentPayPal → Slack
- Post a Telegram alert for every new PayPal paymentPayPal → Telegram
- Post a Google Chat alert for every new PayPal paymentPayPal → Google Chat
- Log every PayPal payment to a Google Sheets spreadsheetPayPal → Google Sheets
Questions about this automation
- Do I need to write code to record PayPal payments in Xero automatically?
- No. You describe the job in plain words and HumDay works out which PayPal and Xero operations it needs, writes the program, and shows you the result before anything runs live.
- What do I need before this can run?
- A PayPal account and a Xero account. You connect each one when the automation is ready, and you are shown exactly which operations it will use on each side before you grant access.
- Will it ever act without my approval?
- No. The contract you approve names everything the automation may do, anything that writes to Xero is held behind an approval you grant explicitly, and the generated program cannot reach any service the contract did not name.
- How do I know it works before it touches my accounts?
- Every automation runs a proof first: the generated program executes against realistic data and shows you the outcome — including what it does with duplicates and failures — before it is allowed near your live PayPal or Xero account.
- What happens when something fails?
- The contract states the failure behaviour up front — what is retried, what stops the run, and when you are told. A failure is reported to you rather than silently swallowed, and the run's evidence shows exactly what happened.
Where this came from
Operations are read from the published API descriptions for PayPal and Xero. Descriptions are each provider’s own words, not ours. See everything the PayPal and Xero integration can do.