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Boxkite — Xero Backup & Export MCP Server

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Boxkite — Xero Backup & Export is answering right now. Last checked moments ago. It exposes 7 tools.

Complete read-only backup and export of Xero accounting data as a ZIP plus a manifest.

Uptime history 52 days of history · worst day 82%
52 days agonow
93.5%
Uptime 24h
86 of 92 checks
7
Tools
read from the server
419 ms
Response time
average over 24h
authentication required
Access
streamable-http

What changed 5

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 11 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

27 Aug 2 tool descriptions were rewritten list_organisations, start_export
11 Aug 3 tool descriptions were rewritten get_export_mapping, list_organisations, start_export

Boxkite — Xero Backup & Export does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 97.8% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 0 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add xero-backup-export --transport http https://app.getboxkite.com/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "xero-backup-export": {
      "url": "https://app.getboxkite.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.xero-backup-export]
url = "https://app.getboxkite.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "xero-backup-export": {
      "url": "https://app.getboxkite.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "xero-backup-export": {
      "url": "https://app.getboxkite.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

This endpoint answered with an authorization challenge. The server is running, but it did not say what kind of credentials it expects.

Available tools 7

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

export
get_export_manifest
See what an IN-PROGRESS export contains so far (entities included, per-entity record/file counts, and per-file checksums), growing as discovery and downloading proceed. The per-file list is paged: check filesPage.hasMore and pass fileOffset to walk it. Once the export finishes, this returns status 'complete' with a pointer instead of a list, because the full manifest travels inside the ZIP as manifest.json: get a download URL, then read manifest.json from the archive.
get_export_mapping
For an IN-PROGRESS export, get the mapping of each file discovered so far to the accounting object it represents or is attached to (e.g. which invoice a receipt PDF belongs to). Paged (default 200 files, max 500): check filesPage.hasMore and pass fileOffset for the next page; the `objects` map covers only the files on the current page. Once the export finishes, this returns status 'complete' with a pointer instead: the full mapping ships under Info/ inside the ZIP, so download the archive and read Info/files.json from it.
get_export_status
Reports the state of one export: status (queued | running | ready | failed) and whether its download is available yet. Also returns progress {discovered, transferred, percent}; parkedUntil; and pollAfterSeconds, the interval after which this status is expected to have changed. A large export runs for hours, so pollAfterSeconds can be a long interval. parkedUntil is a timestamp, present whenever work on the organisation is paused and expected to resume. How long varies by cause and is not worth guessing at: hitting Xero's per-minute limit pauses for under a minute, approaching its daily quota pauses for about an hour, and exhausting the daily quota or Boxkite's own egress budget pauses until the next UTC day. Wait until the timestamp (or pollAfterSeconds, which already accounts for it) rather than describing a cause to the user.
download
get_download_url
Returns a short-lived signed URL for the export ZIP, valid within the export's 7-day retention window, along with byteSize (the archive's size in bytes, null if unavailable) and fileCount. These archives range from a few MB to several GB. The archive contains the exported files plus manifest.json (every file with its sha256) and Info/ (the file-to-Xero-object mapping).
exports
list_exports
List one-off exports (newest first), optionally for one organisation. Use this to find an export after payment and to poll its status until it is 'ready'. Side-effect free: it never starts a new export or charges anything. Each entry carries progress, parkedUntil and pollAfterSeconds.
organisations
list_organisations
List the accounting organisations (Xero, Sage, Reckon, or QuickBooks) connected to the authenticated Boxkite account.
start
start_export
Starts a read-only export of one accounting organisation's data (Xero, Sage, Reckon, or QuickBooks). Costs $39 per organisation: when payment is outstanding the response is status 'awaiting_payment' with a Stripe checkoutUrl for the user to complete in a browser, and the export begins once that payment settles. This is not a status endpoint: it reports only the state at creation, and repeat calls return the existing export for that organisation rather than creating or charging for a second one. Export progress is reported by get_export_status, and newly created exports appear in list_exports. A typical export runs for hours, and pauses whenever it meets a provider rate limit or Boxkite's egress budget — anything from under a minute to the next UTC day. get_export_status reports when it resumes.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://app.getboxkite.com/mcp streamable-http needs auth 121 ms 0 min ago

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Boxkite — Xero Backup & Export — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Boxkite — Xero Backup & Export do?
It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_download_url, get_export_manifest, get_export_mapping, get_export_status, list_exports, list_organisations and 1 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Boxkite — Xero Backup & Export working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 86 of 92 checks got a reply (93.5%), average response time 419 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Boxkite — Xero Backup & Export?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address. You will need your own credentials: it refuses anonymous clients.
Does Boxkite — Xero Backup & Export need an API key?
Yes. Every time we knock, Boxkite — Xero Backup & Export answers with an authorization challenge instead of its tool list — that is how we know it is running and gated rather than broken. Bring your own credentials and it will talk.
How fast is Boxkite — Xero Backup & Export?
It answers our handshake in 419 ms on average, which is faster than 39% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.