What is Batchly? How It Extends Xero Batch Payments for High-Volume Teams

What is Batchly? How It Extends Xero Batch Payments for High-Volume Teams

What Batchly Does

Batchly is a batch payment platform that works with Xero to help businesses pay large volumes of supplier bills, apply supplier credit notes, manage partial payments, set planned payment dates, and create bank-ready payment files.

If you manage bills in Xero and regularly pay large volumes of suppliers, you've likely run into limits that slow the process down. Batchly helps remove those limits, allowing you to select and process hundreds — or thousands — of bills in a single payment run.

Batchly also supports supplier credit notes. When available credits exist in Xero, Batchly can apply them during the payment run and reduce the cash amount that needs to be paid through your bank file.

Where supported, Batchly also allows partial bill payments and planned payment dates. This means you can choose to pay part of a bill now, set a planned date for the payment file, and avoid forcing everything into one run on the same day.

Batchly acts as a payment workflow layer between Xero and your bank. It pulls approved bills from Xero, helps you group them into a batch, applies eligible credit notes, lets you adjust payment amounts and planned payment dates where supported, generates the payment file your bank needs, and updates Xero once the payment workflow is completed. Batchly also sends remittance emails to suppliers — all from one place.

Where Batchly Fits in Your Workflow

Batchly sits between Xero and your bank. It doesn't replace either. Your workflow looks like this:

1
Approve bills in Xero
Continue approving supplier invoices in Xero as you do today.
2
Select bills, credits, payment amounts, and planned dates in Batchly
Choose which bills to pay, apply available supplier credit notes, adjust payment amounts, and set planned payment dates where supported.
3
Download your bank payment file
Batchly generates the net payment file your bank requires, based on the selected bills, applied credits, payment amounts, and planned payment date.
4
Upload the file to your bank
Log in to your internet banking and upload the file as normal. Payments are still authorised and processed by your bank.
5
Batchly updates Xero
Once the payment workflow is completed, Batchly records the relevant updates in Xero, including paid amounts and applied credit notes.
6
Suppliers are notified
Remittance emails are sent so suppliers can see what has been paid and which credits were applied.

What Batchly Does Not Do

To be clear and transparent:

✕ Batchly does not move money — Payments are authorised and processed through your own bank.
✕ Batchly does not store bank login details — Your internet banking credentials are never shared with Batchly.
✕ Batchly does not approve bills — All approvals happen in Xero before Batchly is involved.
✕ Batchly does not change your bill approvals or supplier invoices — Bills are approved in Xero first. Batchly only updates Xero as part of the payment workflow, such as applying credit notes, recording payments, and marking paid amounts.

The High-Level Flow

Sync
Approved bills and credits sync from Xero
Batch
Select bills, credits, amounts, and dates
Bank File
Download the net payment file
Mark Paid
Batchly records payment updates in Xero
Notify
Suppliers receive remittances

Batchly helps you pay suppliers in bulk, apply credit notes, manage partial payments, set planned payment dates, and keep Xero in sync — without losing control of the payment run.

Next: Learn how to log in, connect your Xero organisation, and run your first payment in Batchly.

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