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DataDear
by DataDearMicrosoft 365Paid
Automates accounting data imports, edits, backups, and reporting in Excel and Power BI.
PRICINGPaid
DEPLOYMENTCloud
CATEGORYAnalytics
UPDATED ON MARKETPLACE
What it does
DataDear connects accounting data from Xero, QuickBooks Online, Practice Manager, and HMRC with Excel and Power BI. It supports bulk creation, editing, and archiving for company or group setups, plus imports of journals, invoices, bills, and other transactions from Excel. Users can edit or recode extracted data, build reports from live accounting data, and share drillable dashboards. It also provides offline copies of audit trails, attachments, and reference data, and supports consolidated group reporting with currency conversion.
Key capabilities
from the Microsoft Marketplace listingAccounting data connections
Connects Xero, QuickBooks Online, Practice Manager, and HMRC data with Excel and Power BI.
Bulk system setup
Creates, edits, or archives company and group records in bulk.
Transaction imports
Posts journals, invoices, bills, and other transactional data from Excel to the accounting platform.
Data editing
Edits or recodes hundreds of extracted data lines.
Live data reporting
Creates reports and drillable dashboards using live data feeds from accounting software.
Offline data copies
Downloads copies of the full audit trail, source-document attachments, and reference data.
Group reporting
Provides consolidated profit and loss, balance sheet, trial balance, aged payables, and aged receivables reports with currency conversion.
Use cases
- Finance teams can prepare consolidated reports for groups of companies.
- Accounting practices can reuse report templates across different clients or periods.
- Businesses can download an offline data copy before cancelling a subscription.
Who it's for
Finance teams, accountants, and accounting practices.
How it compares
DataDear is a paid cloud add-in, while Lantern | Model, Syft Analytics, and Accounting.BI for Xero, Sage and Zoho Books have unknown pricing and cloud deployment. Advanced Financial Reporting is also paid and cloud-based, while Policy management software - Xoralia is free and cloud-based. DataDear was updated on Jul 2026; the listed alternatives show update dates from Aug 2025 to Aug 2026.
| Name | Pricing | Deployment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| this plugin | Paid | Cloud | |
| Lantern | Model | Price not published | Cloud | |
| Syft Analytics | Price not published | Cloud | |
| Accounting.BI for Xero, Sage and Zoho Books | Price not published | Cloud | |
| Advanced Financial Reporting | Paid | Cloud | |
| Policy management software - Xoralia | Free | Cloud |
In the catalog
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Price distribution: 90 free, 139 freemium, 705 paid, 688 price not published
Pricing & deployment
Platform
Microsoft 365
Product
Power BI
Deployment
Cloud
Pricing
Paid
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What the vendor says
«Looking for a better way to handle and automate your data, both to and from your accounting software? Look no further. DataDear can help you speed up data entry and increase data visibility, whilst also enhancing your business reporting and insights. With DataDear your company's data from multiple sources is linked to …»