Works with Xero· Built for UK construction and trades
You run six companies in Xero. And one spreadsheet to see them.
Saral connects every Xero organisation you own and adds the layer Xero doesn’t: AI bill capture, CIS subcontractor payments, live project cost, procurement and intercompany recharges — consolidated across the whole group, not one entity at a time.
- 50% off your first month
- No card needed to sign up
- Sign up with your Xero login
- Cancel any time
The problem
Xero is excellent at one company. Your business isn’t one company.
The moment you are running a contracting group, the ledger stops being the hard part. These are the jobs that leak into spreadsheets, inboxes and someone’s memory.
Nobody can see the group
Every list, report and search in Saral spans every connected organisation by default — consolidated P&L, group debtors, one project across three entities.
Bills are typed in by hand
Forward the supplier's email. BillScan reads every line, codes it, flags the duplicate, and posts it to the right Xero organisation with the PDF attached.
Project cost is a month behind
Labour, materials, subcontract and recharges land on the project as they happen. The live report and CVR are current, not a fortnight-old export.
CIS is a monthly ordeal
Verification status, 0/20/30% deductions and the CIS invoices come out of the same data that paid the subcontractor — ready for your monthly return in Xero.
Intercompany never reconciles
Recharge generates both legs — the sale in one organisation and the matching purchase in the other — so the elimination works by construction.
Approvals live in WhatsApp
Requests, orders, timesheets, rate changes and invoices each route to the right approver by value and role, and the whole chain is in the audit log.
How it works
Follow one supplier bill through Saral
This is the whole product in one story. Nobody retypes anything, and the same transaction shows up correctly in five different places.
- Step 1
It arrives
The supplier emails the invoice to your Saral address, or someone photographs it on site. No portal for them to learn.
- Step 2
AI reads it
Supplier, dates, every line, VAT treatment, reverse charge, CIS. It matches the purchase order and flags it if you have paid it once already.
- Step 3
A human approves
It lands in a queue coded and ready. Approve, and the next one opens — no page reloads, no waiting on Xero.
- Step 4
Xero gets it
The bill posts to the correct organisation with the PDF attached and the project tracking category set, exactly as your bookkeeper would have keyed it.
- Step 5
The numbers move
Project cost, CVR, the group P&L, supplier spend and the credit-limit check all update off that one approval.
The platform
Fourteen modules. One login. Turn on what you need.
Each module is priced and switched on separately, and every one of them shares the same Xero connection — so the bill approved in BillScan is the cost on the project report and the figure in the consolidated P&L. Start with one. Add the rest when you want them.
Accounts
Balance sheet, P&L, trial balance and ledger straight from Xero — per company, or consolidated across every organisation in the group.
Cash flow, audit file, asset and vehicle registers, credit control, year-end journals.
BillScan
Start hereAI invoice capture. Email or upload supplier bills, extract every line item, approve, and push the bill with its PDF attached straight to Xero.
Duplicate detection, supplier catalogue, purchase-order matching, reverse-charge and CIS verdicts.
Buying
Purchase orders, material requests, delivery tracking and supplier intelligence — with a value-banded approval ladder so the right person signs.
RFQs and quote comparison, price history, supplier portal, three-way matching.
Email Hub
One inbox across every mailbox you work — read, triage and reply without leaving Saral, with the order or invoice already attached to the thread.
Cases, counterparty portals, order-email capture and variance flags.
HR
Start hereWorkers, invoicing, CIS, attendance and compliance — from the onboarding link you text a new subcontractor to the payment batch at month end.
CIS deductions at 0%, 20% and 30% from each subcontractor's recorded verification, right-to-work checks, timesheets, leave, worker portal.
Payroll
Wage-cost splitting. Upload payroll data, allocate it across projects, and push intercompany invoices and wages journals to Xero.
Pay register, wage history, bank files, per-project labour cost.
Projects
Project cost, CVR, valuations and the contract record — built from Xero tracking categories across every entity that ever touched the job.
Live report, cost value reconciliation, payment schedules, pivot analysis, Excel export.
Recharge
Intercompany recharge invoicing. Generate matched sale and purchase invoices with uplift and push both sides to the right Xero organisations.
Batch runs, mapping rules, stock sales, elimination-ready records.
Saral Sign
E-signature workflows. Upload a document, place the fields, assign signers and track who has signed — contracts, subcontracts, variations.
Public verification by document hash, countersigning, full audit trail.
Tenders
Opportunities, bid/no-bid, the tender pipeline, and BOQ estimating priced from the supplier prices and workforce rates the other modules already hold.
Submission packs, an evidence and response library, tender reports.
Lettings
Properties and units, tenancies and the rent roll, loans and LTV, and a property P&L straight from Xero — for every landlord company in the group.
Compliance certificates and reminders, maintenance, deals, VAT planning estimates.
Warehouse
Tools, plant and stock across the group — where every item is, who holds it, transfers between locations, and the inspections that are due.
Barcode and NFC scanning from a phone, hire tracking, consumables issued to projects.
Wealth
Owner-only. What each principal takes out of the group per tax year, with estimates to plan with your accountant — never a tax return.
Planner, net worth, holdings, the accountant's file gathered by income type.
Design
Bring your designers' files into one place: a brief drawn from the tender and project, RIBA stages, who designs what, the design team, and every drawing and model checked against the brief.
Designers keep their own CAD and BIM tools — Saral never draws.
Plus the parts nobody advertises but everybody needs: a worker portal your subcontractors use from their phone, an Excel connector that refreshes live from Saral, VAT and CIS deadline tracking and reconciliation (your returns are still filed from your own accounting software), carbon reporting, and a board-resolution register.
Who it’s for
Everyone gets their own version of Saral
The owner
One number for the group, and the ability to open any entity, any project, any invoice behind it without asking anyone.
Finance
Bills coded and posted, CIS and VAT reconciled before you file them from your accounting software, intercompany that reconciles, and a month end that stops being a fortnight.
Commercial and QS
Live cost against value on every project, valuations, payment schedules and the contract record — with the invoices underneath each figure.
Site and workers
Attendance from a phone, timesheets approved on a link, and subcontractors submitting their own invoices without a seat to pay for.
The Xero connection
Exactly what Saral does with your Xero data
You authorise Saral once, choose which organisations to connect, and Saral keeps them in sync. Nothing is written to Xero without someone in your team approving it first.
What Saral reads
- Sales invoices, bills, credit notes, purchase orders and quotes
- Payments, batch payments, overpayments and prepayments
- Bank transactions and transfers
- Contacts — suppliers and customers
- Chart of accounts, tax rates and tracking categories
- Manual journals
- The fixed asset register
- Budgets
- Profit and loss, balance sheet, trial balance, aged and bank-summary reports
What Saral writes back
- Supplier bills, with the original document attached
- Sales invoices, including intercompany recharges
- Contacts you create or correct inside Saral
- Wages, accrual, prepayment and year-end journals
- Tracking category values for new project codes
- Fixed assets you register in Saral
Only after a person in your team approves it.
Only the scopes we use
Saral requests granular Xero scopes, not blanket access. The premium general-ledger Journals scope is deliberately never requested.
Disconnect whenever you like
Remove an organisation from Settings → Xero in Saral, or from Xero's own connected apps screen. The token is revoked and syncing stops immediately.
Your ledger stays yours
Saral never edits or deletes a transaction it didn't create, and never posts anything a person in your team hasn't approved.
Trust
Built to hold your ledger and your people’s data
Tokens encrypted at rest
Xero refresh tokens are sealed with AES-256-GCM under a rotatable key ring, never stored in plain text, and unsealed only inside the integration layer.
Hard tenant isolation
Every request is scoped to your billing group before any data is read. Row-level security stays on for every table, and cross-tenant tests run against the live schema.
Strong authentication
Sign in with Xero, Microsoft SSO, a passkey, or a password. Two-step verification is required for every office user, and administrators can require it for everyone.
Everything is logged
Approvals, pushes to Xero, permission changes and deletions are written to an audit log you can read yourself — with the actor and the before-and-after value.
UK GDPR, EU-hosted
Data is stored on EU-hosted infrastructure and processed under UK GDPR. Personal documents live in a private store, served only through short-lived signed links.
Never used to train AI
Your accounting and workforce data is never used to train machine-learning models. AI reads the documents you send us, and does nothing else with them.
Read the trust page, support docs, privacy notice, terms of service, subprocessor list and cookie policy. For a signed data processing agreement, email admin@getsaral.co.uk.
Pricing
Pay for what reaches your books
Switch on one module, pay for what it does, and add the next when you want it. No bundle, no tie-in.
BillScan, per bill pushed
You pay when a bill reaches Xero. Purchase orders, statements and delivery notes are read free, so forward everything that helps the matching.
HR, per user
A monthly rate for each user and each CIS worker. Add a module whenever you like from Settings — it starts straight away and is pro-rated on your next invoice.
50% off your first month
There is no free trial. Your first month is discounted and no card is needed to sign up: you are billed monthly in arrears by invoice, with Direct Debit available. Cancel any time — access runs to the end of the month you have paid for.
Current module prices are on the sign-up page. Saral bills you directly — subscriptions are not charged through the Xero App Store.
FAQ
Questions people ask before they sign up
Does Saral replace Xero?
No — it needs Xero. Xero stays your ledger and your filing system. Saral is the operational layer on top: it reads every organisation you connect, gives you the consolidated and per-project views Xero doesn't produce, and writes approved transactions back so your ledger stays the single source of truth.
How many Xero organisations can I connect?
Every organisation you tick on Xero's consent screen, and they are treated as one business. You authorise once, and every report, list and search spans the group — you are never logging in and out of entities to answer one question.
What happens to my data if I leave?
Disconnect Xero from Settings or from Xero's own connected-apps screen and syncing stops immediately. Ask us to delete your account and we remove your data on the retention schedule set out in the terms. Nothing we wrote to Xero depends on Saral continuing to exist.
Will it change anything in Xero without me knowing?
No. Saral only creates transactions a person in your team has approved, it never edits or deletes anything it didn't create, and every push is recorded in the audit log with who approved it and when.
Is it only for construction?
It is built for UK construction and trades — CIS, retentions, site attendance, valuations and cost value reconciliation are first-class. Any group running several Xero organisations gets the consolidation, bill capture and recharge modules, but the deepest value is on a contracting business.
How long does setup take?
Sign-up is three clicks and your Xero history starts syncing straight away, so the first reports have real numbers in them the same afternoon. Getting workers, projects and approval rules set up the way you work is usually a day or two, and we will do it with you.
Connect your first organisation today
50% off your first month, no card to sign up, and your own data in the reports by the first afternoon. If it isn’t for you, disconnect Xero and nothing is left behind.
Saral is an independent application that connects to Xero. Xero is a trademark of Xero Limited. Saral is operated by Deshwal & Co. and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a product of Xero Limited.