--- title: "Xero-effort R&D claims with our new integration" id: "29471" type: "post" slug: "xero-and-seedlegals-faster-rd-claims" published_at: "2022-08-05T10:00:44+00:00" modified_at: "2022-08-05T12:00:44+00:00" url: "https://seedlegals.com/resources/xero-and-seedlegals-faster-rd-claims/" markdown_url: "https://seedlegals.com/resources/xero-and-seedlegals-faster-rd-claims.md" excerpt: "If you use Xero and you like free money, you’re in the right place. Our Xero integration is now live so it’s even easier to claim back up to 33% of your R&D spend. Pull in the numbers from Xero..." taxonomy_category: - "R&D Guides" --- 2 min read # Xero-effort R&D claims with our new integration Published: Aug 5, 2022 Contents [Pull in the numbers from Xero](#pull-in-the-numbers-from-xero) [Connect to Xero on SeedLegals](#connect-to-xero-on-seedlegals) [SeedLegals x Xero = founders’ favourites](#seedlegals-x-xero-founders-favourites) [Talk to the R&D experts](#talk-to-the-rd-experts) [Kirsty MacSween](https://seedlegals.com/resources/author/kirsty/) **Update for accounting periods starting on or after 1 April 2024** The information on this page applies to accounting periods starting before 1 April 2024. If your accounting period starts on or after 1 April 2024, a new merged R&D scheme is now in place. 👉 [Find out what’s changed and how it affects you](https://seedlegals.com/resources/rd-merged-scheme/) If you use Xero and you like free money, you’re in the right place. Our Xero integration is now live so it’s even easier to claim back up to 33% of your R&D spend. ## Pull in the numbers from Xero To save you having to manually input the numbers for your R&D spend, you can now connect to Xero from SeedLegals to pull in the numbers to populate your forms – a few clicks and it’s done. Claims can only include expenses for research and development so on SeedLegals, you can easily adjust the numbers from Xero to fit your claim. For example, if you have an employee who spends 70% of her time on research and 30% on sales, you can import the figures for her payments and change the percentage to 70%. ## Connect to Xero on SeedLegals Here’s how it works: - To add your employee costs from Xero, choose **Import from Xero** - Select the employees to import - Enter additional details, including job titles and % time spent on R&D activities - To add your other R&D expenses, choose **Import from Xero** - Select the costs you want to claim for and categorise by type (subcontractor, software, consumable, prototype, other) - Add extra information, including start and end dates, and adjust percentages SeedLegals is one of the fastest ways to complete your R&D claim. Now, with our Xero integration, it takes even less time to get your claim together and submitted to HMRC. Connect to Xero, select your qualifying costs and we’ll import them for you ## SeedLegals x Xero = founders’ favourites Why have we made it easy to connect to Xero? Because Xero is so popular with small businesses: over 3 million startups, SMEs and accountants use Xero to manage their transactions. We want to make it as simple and seamless as possible for UK startups to get their R&D cashback – so it makes sense to integrate our R&D workflow with your favourite book-keeping system. If you use another book-keeping system, it’s still easy to create your [R&D Tax Credits](https://seedlegals.com/grow/rd-tax-credit-claim/) claim with us. You can add your costs directly into the workflow, or ask us to do it for you – we’re happy to help. ## Talk to the R&D experts Our team of R&D specialists know exactly how to put together winning claims. To find out if you can claim, how much you might get back and how to get started, book a demo with our experts. ## Related posts [6 min readR&D tax relief has changed – here’s what you need to know about the new merged schemeBig changes are coming to R&D tax relief. For accounting periods starting from 1 April 2024, a new merged scheme replace... Michael Atherden](https://seedlegals.com/resources/rd-merged-scheme/) [5 min readR&D success stories: meet the companies claiming back cashMeet the innovative companies who have successfully recovered money through the SeedLegals R&D Tax Credits service. Kirsty MacSween](https://seedlegals.com/resources/rd-success-stories/) [6 min readR&D Tax Credits update: how to prepare for changes to R&D tax relief 2023In this post, we break down the information you need for the new additional information form, explain how the additional... Benedict Conry](https://seedlegals.com/resources/changes-to-rd-tax-relief/)