Accounting Syncs
The books close slowly when a human re-types the store's month into QuickBooks. The sync moves every invoice, payout and fee across automatically, and the hard part is the mapping, not the pipe.
Commerce data is accounting-hostile by default: gross revenue, gateway fees, refunds, taxes and payouts arrive as separate realities that a human reconciles by hand at month-end. The sync's job is to land each piece where the chart of accounts expects it, invoices as invoices, fees as expense lines, payouts as transfers, so the books close from review instead of data entry.
The build starts from your accountant: the chart of accounts, tax codes and payout cadence are theirs, and importing software opinions into the books is how audits happen. Then the plumbing, QuickBooks or Xero, fed from WooCommerce/Shopify/custom, with reconciliation rules (payout vs order-date timing, fee breakdowns, multi-currency) and a trial period where the books get compared against the old manual numbers before anyone trusts it.
Honest boundary: this is integration engineering alongside your accountant, not accounting advice, journal-entry templates get their sign-off, and tax treatment stays in their jurisdiction, stated plainly.
What the engagement covers
- Invoices, customers and products flowing to QuickBooks/Xero with the mapping documented
- Payout reconciliation: gross, fees, refunds and taxes landed as distinct, correct lines
- Tax codes mapped per your accountant's chart of accounts, their sign-off, not software defaults
- Multi-currency handling where it applies, exchange-rate source decided deliberately
- Reconciliation reports: store-month vs books-month, comparable side by side, and month-end that stopped being a weekend
- A trust period: parallel-run against the manual process before the manual process retires
Honest limits
What this is deliberately not.
Not this: Bookkeeping and accounting advice, your accountant owns the rules; the sync obeys them
Not this: Tax filing and jurisdiction decisions, counsel and CA territory
Not this: ERP-class finance transformations, a different profession's project
Not this: Importing years of unreconciled history as a "quick sync", cleanup first, honestly scoped
Questions · Accounting
Asked before building.
Often yes, and the honest test is hours: if month-end is a re-typing ritual with reconciliation pain, the sync pays for itself in the first quarter. If your volume is a handful of invoices, the CSV ritual may honestly be cheaper than maintaining a pipe, the consult says which one you are.
Because gateways settle in batches, minus fees, on their own calendar. The sync maps that reality: orders land on order dates, payouts as transfers on settlement dates, fees as expenses, three views your accountant actually wants, instead of one mushed line that hides all of them.
Please do, the mapping is built from their chart of accounts and their sign-off closes the loop. The best outcomes on record all ran the same way: accountant defines the rules, the build implements them, the parallel month proves it.
Whichever your books already live in, the sync follows the ledger, not the other way around. Both integrate well; switching ledgers to suit a plugin is a tail wagging a very expensive dog.
Related: all integrations · the integrations stack page · the requirements template.
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