MYOB Exo has served thousands of New Zealand businesses well for decades, and Acclaim has supported it since 1997. If you’re weighing up a move to MYOB Acumatica, this guide covers why Exo businesses are moving, what comes across, what changes, and how to plan it.
Why Exo businesses are moving now
- Payroll has already moved on. MYOB retired Exo Employer Services (Exo Payroll) on 30 November 2025. It is now read-only, with no new tax updates. MYOB Acumatica Payroll is MYOB’s replacement.
- Servers and remote access. Exo runs on your own servers, so you carry the cost of hardware, backups, security and remote desktop access. MYOB Acumatica runs in the cloud and works in a browser.
- Customisations that slow upgrades. Years of SQL customisations make every upgrade a project. Many of them cover what MYOB Acumatica does as standard.
- Growth. MYOB Acumatica isn’t licensed per user, so adding staff, sites or companies doesn’t add licence cost in the same way.
What moves across
| From MYOB Exo | In MYOB Acumatica |
|---|---|
| Debtors, creditors and contacts | Customers, suppliers and contacts, cleansed on the way across |
| Stock items, price policies and locations | Stock items, price lists and warehouses with bin locations |
| General ledger accounts | Chart of accounts, often simplified using subaccount segments |
| Open sales orders, purchase orders and jobs | Migrated as open transactions at go-live |
| Balances (GL, debtors, creditors, stock) | Opening balances, reconciled to Exo before sign-off |
| Transaction history | Summary balances by period, or detailed history where it’s needed. Exo can stay read-only for look-ups |
| Exo Business Analytics and Clarity reports | Dashboards, generic inquiries and live Excel reporting with Velixo |
| Exo Payroll | MYOB Acumatica Payroll |
What changes for your team
- Everyone works in a browser, from the office, warehouse or home, with no remote desktop.
- Approvals, alerts and workflows replace many manual checks and custom triggers.
- Upgrades arrive as part of the subscription, so you stay current without upgrade projects.
- Screens look different. Role-based training before go-live makes the biggest difference to how quickly people settle in.
How to plan the move
- List your Exo customisations, reports and add-ons with the customisation register. Decide what to retire, replace with standard features, or rebuild.
- Clean your data while you’re still in Exo: inactive accounts, duplicate stock items and old price policies.
- Pick a go-live date away from peak trading and, ideally, at the start of a financial period.
- Decide how much history you need and keep Exo available read-only for the rest.
- Run a trial migration and reconcile it before the real cutover. The go-live readiness checklist covers the rest.
Why move with Acclaim
We know Exo from the inside, including the SQL customisations, the reports and the workarounds, because we’ve built and supported them for hundreds of New Zealand businesses. That means we know what your Exo system really does before we start, and we can keep supporting it until the day you switch.
Frequently asked questions
What data moves from MYOB Exo to MYOB Acumatica?
Debtors, creditors and contacts, stock items and price policies, GL accounts, open orders and jobs, and opening balances. History is moved as summary balances or detail where needed.
Can we keep access to MYOB Exo after moving?
Yes. Many businesses keep Exo available read-only for historical look-ups instead of migrating all history.