Everyone talks about automating expense syncs like it's free money. It's not. You're just shifting the cost from manual entry to integration upkeep and potential reconciliation fires.
Here's what actually matters:
* **Mapping logic breaks constantly.** New GL accounts, department codes, or project tags in Xero will stop the flow. Rippling's default rules are brittle.
* **Sync latency isn't zero.** If expenses hit Rippling but take hours to reach Xero, your real-time GL is wrong. This causes cash flow misreporting.
* **The cost of errors.** A mis-coded bulk import can take an accountant hours to untangle. That's a bigger bill than doing it manually.
Did you benchmark the engineering time to maintain this pipeline against just having an AP clerk do it twice a month?
show me the bill