Integrations
Enter it once. It flows everywhere.
Hoist sits at the centre of your workshop and talks to the tools you already run on - so a job gets typed in one time, then the rego, the invoice and the payment all sort themselves out.
Working today with
Your books, kept up to date while you work
The moment you invoice a job in Hoist, it lands in Xero - coded, GST sorted, ready to reconcile. End-of-month stops being a clean-up exercise.
- Invoices push to Xero; payments reconcile back automatically
- Customers stay matched across Hoist and Xero
- GST calculated and categorised the way IRD expects
- Labour - full service
- $240.00
- Parts - oil & filter
- $73.00
- GST (15%)
- $46.95
- Total
- $359.95

Type the plate, the whole vehicle fills itself in
Hoist’s Carjam integration pulls live New Zealand vehicle records straight from the plate - make, model, year, VIN and WoF status - so nobody’s squinting at a rego label.
- Instant lookups from official NZ vehicle data
- No typos, no re-keying VINs by hand
- Vehicle history attaches to the job in one tap
- Make
- Toyota
- Model
- Hilux SR5
- Year
- 2019
- Fuel
- Diesel
- WoF
- Valid to 03/2027
- Plate
- FYZ248

Send the total to the terminal, get paid on the spot
Push the invoice total straight to your Verifone EFTPOS terminal. When the payment clears, Hoist marks the invoice paid for you - no keying amounts, no mismatches.
- Invoice total sent to the terminal in one tap
- Paid status flows back automatically
- Fewer keying errors at the counter
Connected in about a minute
No IT project, no consultant. You authorise it once and Hoist handles the rest.
Hit connect
Open Settings, find the integration and click connect.
Sign in once
Log in to Xero (or your provider) and approve access. Standard, secure sign-in.
That's it
Data starts flowing straight away. Nothing to maintain afterwards.
More on the way
We add integrations workshops actually ask for. Here's what's next - and you can vote with a request.

Windcave
Coming soonMany workshops trust Windcave for their payment processing. Our planned integration will connect Hoist to your Windcave terminal and online gateway, speeding up checkout and simplifying your end-of-day reporting.

Smartpay
Coming soonSmartpay is a popular choice for Kiwi businesses. Our planned integration will enable seamless payment processing directly from Hoist, making transactions quick and hassle-free.
Need something we don't have yet?
Tell us the tool you can't run the workshop without. Requests genuinely shape what we build next.
Build with us
Parts supplier, payment provider or software partner? Let's talk about connecting to Hoist and serving NZ workshops together.
One system that talks to the tools you already run
Xero, Carjam and EFTPOS, connected - so the data only gets entered once. Try it free, no credit card.