Hassan Zaidi
February 13, 2026
At Round, we're constantly working to make financial operations seamless for our customers. After successfully launching our Xero integration, we knew the next step was to support enterprises using NetSuite. Today, I'm excited to share how we built our NetSuite integration, enabling customers to connect their NetSuite instance with Round and streamline their accounts payable processes.
Round already has a robust Xero integration that our customers love. It supports full two-way syncing of invoices and automatically syncs payment data when invoices are paid through Round. This integration has been invaluable for small to medium businesses looking to automate accounts payable and simplify reconciliation.
However, as we've grown, we've encountered more enterprise customers who rely on NetSuite for their accounting operations. These companies manage higher transaction volumes, multiple entities, and more complex accounting workflows. They need the same seamless experience our Xero users enjoy, but built for enterprise accounting systems.
Building a NetSuite integration was the natural next step to support enterprise finance teams and extend Roundʼs accounts payable automation capabilities to NetSuite users.
When evaluating integration platforms, we looked at several providers including merge.dev and others. Ultimately, we chose Apideck for several compelling reasons:
Apideck's API design eliminated the complexity of session management, which would have been a significant maintenance burden for our team. This allowed us to focus on building reliable financial workflows rather than maintaining fragile integration infrastructure.
Excellent Sandbox Environment
Having access to a NetSuite sandbox through Apideck was crucial for development and testing without affecting production data. This allowed us to build and validate the NetSuite integration safely, especially since access to live NetSuite environments can be limited during early development.
The Apideck team has been incredibly helpful throughout our integration journey, quickly addressing issues and implementing fixes to help us progress.
Having a partner invested in our success accelerated development and reduced integration risk. As a European company ourselves, working with another European company aligned well with our values, compliance requirements, and expectations around data security and privacy.
Our implementation strategy was pragmatic: start with what we know, then adapt.
We began by integrating with Apideck using Xero as the backend connector.This allowed us to validate our integration patterns, authentication flows, and data synchronisation workflows using an accounting system we already understood well.
Once we had confidence in our integration architecture, we switched the backend to NetSuite.
This is where things became significantly more complex.
NetSuite and Xero do not map one-to-one. They have fundamentally different data models, field requirements, and accounting logic.
NetSuite is designed for enterprise use cases, which introduces additional complexity around entities, permissions, and record structures. Supporting NetSuite properly required careful handling of these differences to ensure invoice and payment data remained accurate and consistent.
We encountered various challenges throughout the process, including field mapping discrepancies, validation constraints, and handling enterprise-specific accounting requirements.
We tackled each issue systematically, working closely with the Apideck team when needed. After multiple iterations, testing cycles, and refinements, we successfully built an integration that reliably syncs invoice and payment data from Round into NetSuite.
This integration allows finance teams to continue using NetSuite as their system of record while leveraging Round to automate payments and treasury execution.
While we're proud of what we've achieved, transparency is important. Here are the current limitations of the NetSuite integration:
Unlike our Xero integration, which supports bidirectional syncing, the NetSuite integration currently supports one-way sync from Round to NetSuite. Invoices uploaded and paid in Round flow into NetSuite automatically, but changes in NetSuite do not yet sync back to Round.
Bank feeds are not currently supported for NetSuite. This means reconciliation workflows are not yet as automated as they are for Xero users.
Handling invoice attachments in NetSuite is more complex due to NetSuiteʼs document and record handling structure. We are actively working on improving attachment handling to match the seamless experience available in our Xero integration.
We're committed to bringing the NetSuite integration to full feature parity withour Xero integration and delivering complete accounts payable automation forenterprise customers. Our roadmap includes:
Full Two-Way Sync
Enabling bidirectional synchronization so that changes in either Round orNetSuite are reflected automatically across both systems.
Bank Feeds
Adding bank feed support to enable complete reconciliation workflows and improve financial visibility for NetSuite users.
Expanded Coverage
Supporting additional NetSuite entities, accounting workflows, and enterprise configurations as customer needs evolve. Our goal is to ensure NetSuite users can manage accounts payable, treasury, and financial operations seamlessly within their existing accounting infrastructure.
Building the Round-NetSuite integration has been a challenging but rewarding journey. It represents an important step in supporting enterprise finance teams and enabling seamless connectivity between enterprise accounting systems and modern payment infrastructure.
This integration allows NetSuite customers to automate accounts payable workflows, maintain NetSuite as their system of record, and execute payments reliably through Round.
While there is still work to do to reach full feature parity with our Xero integration, we are excited about the foundation we have built and the value it is already delivering.
If you're a NetSuite user interested in automating your accounts payable and streamlining your financial operations with Round, we'd love to hear from you.
