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The Best Way to Merge Etsy and BigCommerce Data for Xero Import
If you're doing xero import by hand right now, here's the fastest path from "two exports" to "one usable sheet," and why the manual version keeps breaking.
Step by step
- Decide your target columns once. Most people settle on Date, Channel, Order ID, and Total — set that up in CSV Experts and you won't redo it.
- Import the Etsy file first. The first time you see this file shape, you map each of its columns to your target list.
- Import the BigCommerce file the same way. Its columns get mapped once too — after that, every future file with this shape merges with no extra clicks.
- Check the merged totals. Dates and numbers are normalized automatically, so a European "24,00" and a US "24.00" both land as the same value.
- Export. CSV or Excel, ready for xero import.
What actually goes wrong if you do this by hand
Etsy gives you Sale Date, usually already in your local timezone, while BigCommerce gives you an Order Date column that includes a full timestamp — line those up manually across a few hundred rows and it's easy to miscount a week. On top of that, Etsy's export listing titles are included in full and often contain commas, which can shift columns if opened carelessly in Excel, and BigCommerce's many optional columns are exported blank depending on store configuration, which can throw off auto-mapping by header position. Individually those are minor quirks; combined into one spreadsheet by hand, they're where most reconciliation errors for xero import actually come from.
Why it matters for xero import
Xero's bank/sales import works best with a single uniform sheet, which is hard to get directly from two different platforms' raw exports.
Just want the quick column-difference reference instead? See the short version.