What’s it all about?
We will give you peace of mind. Knowing you data is backed up through these great features…
With a copy, comes control
While Xero is a great tool, we want to make it even more efficient and reliable for you and your business.
controlc is a new and exciting product from a company based in Auckland, New Zealand, that gives you added control of your Xero accounting package by giving you the ability to take control and take a copy.
It is a simple, easy to use back up solution that provides backups from Xero. We all know that the world isn’t perfect and that we need to back up our data to prepare for the worst case scenario.
controlc is unique is in that your data is downloaded to New Zealand owned and based data centres, with the option to download to your Office server, PC or Apple Mac, therefore you are not reliant on the shortcomings of email to deliver it to you. Stored locally and easily accessible whenever you need it and all versions right back to when you first started the service. Once downloaded, you don’t even have to be online.
controlc also comes with a FREE app backapp which enables you to view, search and report on your Xero data. Powerful searching allows you to locate transactions quickly and easily across all you backed up Xero data.
It’s so so easy to use and you will quickly wonder what your business did without it!
FAQ’s
There is really no easy way to calculate how long the first backup will take as it comes down to quite a few factors, just like how long will it take to sail from A to B? Some Xero organisations have taken a couple of weeks, some even longer, but most small Xero organisations complete within a couple of days.
Factors to consider are how many records do you have in each Xero table of accounts, there are more than a dozen tables, for example your Receivables and Payables, your Bank Accounts and your Customers and Suppliers etc. If you are using Xero’s ability to store attachments, you are also going to need to allow time to back these up.
Xero also limits the amount of requests for data in a 24hr period. Once you hit the limit, controlc have to wait until the next day to pickup where it left off.
If you think your first backup is taking way too long, then you should contact us at support.controlc.co.nz and we will look into it for you and let you know its progress.
Hope that helps.
With backapp you can then create easy to view reports and easily and quickly search for all sorts items in your Xero data.
Basically, we give you peace of mind.
We have a phone line that you can call as well as online chat available and are more than happy to meet people in person should the need arise. We have an open door policy and do not hide behind an ’email only’ contact.
If you are based in the United Kingdom, we have a representative and re-seller available to assist you locally.
- Firstly subscribe to the FREE 14 day trial.
- Once Subscribed you will be guided to add a Xero organisation to be backed up. NOTE: You can add as many Xero Organisations as you like. Watch this video.
- Wait for your first backup to complete. This may take only one night to backup depending on your amount of data. Some Xero Organisations could take up to a week to backup, depending on the amount of attachments they have. If you think it is taking a long time, please let us know and we will investigate.
- Once complete, please login and download your successful backup to your local device. Watch this video.
- Download backapp to view and search your backed up Xero data file. Watch this video.
Any question, please email us. We are here to help.


- We backup your data every 24hrs
- Your data is downloaded to your office directly, not via email, which can have issues
- We enable you to see ALL data available to us on an ongoing basis
- We backup any attachments added to an invoice at the time of creation
- Backups are saved in the cloud for easy access in the future
- We offer several data formats (such as XML, XSLX or CSV), but if you use our FREE App,
, you can export the data in many other common formats too
- Also, with
, you are able to easily view, search and report on any of the data transferred from Xero
- Our On-Demand downlaods allow you to get the latest data when you need it
- We store the data in a data centre local to you, in the same country as you. You can download any backup from your history for you to store or work with using
Read our full terms and conditions and privacy policy by clicking at the foot of the page.
What we provide, is the ability to view your data from any previous day, such as invoices, expenses, balances (creditors/debtors etc), reports, attachments associated to these records, and then do with that as you need.
We have also added Dropbox and GoogleDrive connectivity – which means we additionally sync data to these global storage providers – which can then sync your data back to your own PC/Servers. This gives you the highest-level redundancy and access to your data anytime and anywhere.
If someone says they can restore data to Xero, then eye them very suspiciously. There are considerable limitations in what is possible, and any attempt to restore leaves many holes in the data.
Our view is, that having so many gaps in a restore, and so many limitations on what can currently be restored means that a partial restore actually has little value to a business or accountant.
We work with thousands of businesses and accountants around the world, and what they value is clear access to accurate data, the ability to get the chart of accounts back into a new Xero organisation or other package, import (or enter) opening balances as of a certain date and get a business trading again.
It is due to the current limitation of Xero’s API and not being able to suitably return all data to Xero, we have currently decided not to offer a restore feature as it will never meet any customer requirements. It may also be, that the reason for needing to restore – isn’t to get a company running again in Xero – it could be that Xero is down for extended time – and the requirement is to get the business trading again in another platform.
Control-C is the only Xero backup provider offering usable visibility to the data to make accurate business continuity possible.
So, in summary: Due to API limitations, we believe no one can accurately or completely restore data to Xero, however we do provide the next best alternative.
Classic
- 1 GB
FREE
Classic
- 1 GB
FREE
Enterprise
- 10 GB
- (greater capacity for increased attachments in your Xero data)
FREE
Enterprise
- 10 GB
- (greater capacity for increased attachments in your Xero data)
FREE
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Getting Started
1. As a new subscriber, this video takes you through the steps to add a Xero organisation to controlc automated daily backup schedule.
2. Once you have completed setting up a Xero organisation to backup, watch this video to see how, as a controlc subscriber, you login to the New Zealand backup servers and download your backed up data to your office server, Mac or PC.
3. This short video demonstrates how, as a controlc subscriber, you download the FREE backapp utility to browse, search, report on and export your controlc backed up Xero data.
4. This is a quick overview of backapp, a product of controlc ltd that allows you to view, browse, view and export your backed up Xero accounting data (Xero.com) offline.