Xero or MYOB to ERP migration in Australia: what moves, what it costs, where to go

You probably already know. The common ones we see: inventory lives in a spreadsheet that argues with the accounts, orders arrive by email and get retyped, nobody trusts the margin numbers, month end takes a week, and adding a second entity or location made everything twice as manual. AccountRight and Xero are good at accounting. They were never built to run purchasing, warehousing, jobs, service and manufacturing, and the workarounds are what you are paying for now, in hours rather than licence fees.

Most partners will migrate you to the one platform they sell. We implement both Odoo and MYOB Acumatica, so the recommendation is based on fit. As a rough guide: Odoo suits businesses that want one flexible platform across operations, from the webshop to the warehouse, with module-by-module rollout. MYOB Acumatica suits finance-led mid-market organisations that want ANZ compliance and payroll built in, with deep financials, distribution and project accounting. We wrote a full Odoo vs MYOB Acumatica comparison if you want the detail.

Less than you fear, more than a CSV export. A typical migration covers your chart of accounts, customers and suppliers, open invoices and bills, stock on hand with costs, and opening balances tied to a clean cutover date. The big decision is history: bringing across years of transactional history is possible but expensive, and most businesses land on opening balances plus a read-only archive of the old system. We help you make that call based on what you actually look up, not on nostalgia.

For the platform-specific detail, see our guides Xero to Odoo migration, step by step and MYOB AccountRight to Odoo migration, step by step, or the AccountRight to MYOB Acumatica upgrade path.

Payroll is its own decision and we scope it separately, on purpose. Depending on the platform and your award complexity, the right answer is sometimes payroll inside the ERP and sometimes a dedicated payroll product connected to it. Getting this wrong is expensive, so we would rather tell you the honest answer in scoping than bundle an assumption into a quote.

MYOB moved the AccountRight desktop (Classic) product to view-only in February 2026, and the browser version continues. If you are on AccountRight today this is a reason to plan, not to panic: the worst outcome is choosing your next system in a rush. Our AccountRight comparison guide covers when the upgrade to Acumatica makes sense and when it doesn't.

For Odoo, our published implementation packages apply: most businesses moving off accounting software land in the Essentials range, live in 2 to 3 months. For MYOB Acumatica, eligible wholesale distributors can use the fixed-scope FastStart program with a 12 week go-live; broader implementations are scoped after discovery. Either way you will know the number before you commit.