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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