WOW Continuity — A Continuity Ledger for Accounting Firms

A desktop accounting application that gives your firm a fully functioning, double-entry general ledger any time you need to operate outside Xero. Import a backup, keep posting transactions, run audited reports, and push everything back to Xero when you're ready.

Cross-platform · Offline-first · Round-trip safe with Xero
Built for the moments your firm cannot afford to stop billing, posting, or reconciling.

What It Does

A complete ledger you can run from your desktop.

Point WOW Continuity at a Xero JSONL or CSV backup folder and within seconds you have a working environment with your full chart of accounts, contacts, opening balances, organisation details, and complete transaction history. From there your team can keep recording invoices, bills, payments, transfers, and journals exactly as they would in Xero — with reports that balance to the cent against the imported source.

When your Xero environment is back in service, export a Xero-compatible CSV bundle and re-import everything you posted while you were offline. No manual re-keying. No reconciliation guesswork.

Key Capabilities

Everything an accounting firm needs to keep working.

Six core capabilities, engineered for the precision and traceability your practice demands.

1

Import a Xero backup in seconds

Reads JSONL and CSV interchangeably. Brings in the full chart, contacts, tax rates, organisation details, branding, opening balances, and historical transactions — invoices, bills, credit notes, journals, bank transactions, and payments. Tested at 17,000+ line items in under a second.

2

Full double-entry accounting engine

A runtime ledger engine handles AR, AP, tax payable and receivable, payment legs, multi-line bank coding, and inclusive-versus-exclusive tax semantics. Trial Balance and Balance Sheet reconcile to the penny on real-world data.

3

Multi-country, multi-jurisdiction

Supports Australia, New Zealand, Canada (with provincial tax rates), the United States (with states), and the United Kingdom. Country selection drives currency defaults, tax rate defaults, and the terminology used throughout — BAS, GST, GST/HST, VAT, or Sales Tax.

4

Multi-session, multi-client

One install holds many client continuity sessions side by side. Switch between firms with a click. Each session keeps its own chart, transactions, balances, and reports, and nothing is silently deleted.

5

Audited reports with PDF export

Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet, Trial Balance, Aged Receivables, Aged Payables, and country-aware Sales Tax / BAS / GST / VAT returns. Every report exports to branded PDF, and every figure is traceable back to the underlying ledger activity.

6

Round-trip safe export to Xero

When restoration is complete, export Xero-compatible CSVs for every entity type — invoices, bills, credit notes, payments, bank transactions, journals, contacts, and opening balances. Tax type strings, line groupings, and date formats are preserved to Xero's import contract.

How It Works

From outage to fully operational in four steps.

Step 1

Install

Download the Mac DMG (Apple Silicon or Intel) or the Windows installer. No server. No subscription. No account required.

Step 2

Import

Create a new continuity session, choose your country, and point WOW Continuity at your Xero backup folder. The chart, contacts, balances, and historical transactions load in seconds.

Step 3

Operate

Keep posting. Invoices, bills, credit notes, journals, bank transactions, payments, transfers — all with multi-currency support, inline coding, bulk approval, and bank reconciliation tools.

Step 4

Export

When Xero is back, export the Xero-compatible CSV bundle and re-import. Every transaction posted during the outage flows back into the cloud cleanly.

Built for the way accountants actually work

Bank reconciliation tools including statement CSV import, payment matching, accepted/uncoded filters, and bulk coding across selected rows.
Inline and bulk coding on bank transaction lists — apply an account or tax rate to one row or fifty.
Multi-currency on every transaction type, with transaction currency, exchange rate, and base-currency amount preserved end to end.
Auto-incrementing reference numbers that pick up where your imported backup left off.
Server-side pagination on every list screen with selectable page sizes and direct page navigation.
Idempotent imports — re-importing the same backup folder will not duplicate a single record.
QuickBooks Desktop opening balances can be imported directly from a QBD export folder, with company details pulled from Company.json.
Diagnostic transparency — every report includes a settings panel showing resolved AR, AP, and tax accounts, plus any unmapped codes that need attention.

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know before you download.

No. It's a continuity tool. It mirrors enough of Xero's structure and behaviour to keep your firm operating during an outage, restoration, or migration window — and then hands the work back to Xero through a clean export.

Yes. The accounting engine performs runtime double-entry posting and has been tested against a real-world dataset of 17,000+ line items. Trial Balance, Balance Sheet, and Profit & Loss reconcile to within a penny.

Both .csv and .jsonl exports. The same import logic handles either format, so you don't need to convert files before loading them.

Yes. WOW Continuity supports unlimited continuity sessions in a single install. Each session is fully isolated.

Opening balance import from QBD is supported today — drop in your QBD export folder and WOW Continuity will pull opening balances from Account.json and company details from Company.json. Full QBD transactional import is on the roadmap.

Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Country selection drives currency, tax rate defaults, and the tax-return terminology used in the app.

Locally, on your machine, in a SQLite database. Nothing is sent to a server. Nothing leaves your computer unless you export it.

The current build is unsigned. Mac users will need to approve the application via System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway on first launch.

WOW Continuity is free to download and use.

Download WOW Continuity

Free for Mac and Windows. No account required.

First-time Mac users: the application is currently unsigned. After downloading, open System Settings → Privacy & Security and choose Open Anyway to launch.

Questions, bug reports, or onboarding help: info@wowzer.tech