Shopify Accounting Integration by Alpha Expansion
Shopify Accounting Integration01Payouts reconciled02Tax posted correctly03Posting rules agreedBook a call

Shopify Accounting Integration

Every payout, tracedback to its orders

We connect Shopify to your accounting system so sales, refunds, taxes, fees and payouts are posted to the right accounts, and each bank deposit can be traced back to the orders inside it.

Payouts reconciledTax posted correctlyPosting rules agreed

What we build

01Payouts reconciled

02Tax posted correctly

03Posting rules agreed

01Our Approach

Finance should be able to pick any deposit on the bank statement and see exactly which orders, refunds and fees produced that amount.

02Overview

From store sales to a reconciled ledger

  • 01Payouts reconciled
  • 02Tax posted correctly
  • 03Posting rules agreed

Shopify accounting integration turns store activity into accounting entries. Orders, refunds, discounts, shipping income, taxes, gift cards, payment fees and payouts are read from Shopify and posted to your ledger under rules your accountant has approved. We build on Shopify's Admin API, including its payout and transaction data, and on the API of your accounting system, with a reconciliation step between them.

It suits merchants whose bookkeeper rebuilds revenue from exports each period, who sell in several currencies or tax regions, or whose payouts never quite match the sales report. The store and the ledger measure different things. One counts orders when they are placed and the other counts money when it is earned and received. Most of the design work is agreeing how to bridge that gap.

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03What We Do

Capabilities, End to End

01
Chart of accounts mapping

Sales, discounts, shipping, taxes by region, gift cards, fees and refunds are each mapped to an account and tax code, in a table your accountant signs off.

02
Posting level and direction

Entries flow one way, from store to ledger. We agree whether to post every order as an invoice or a daily summary journal, which keeps the ledger readable at volume.

03
Finance-grade access

The store app holds read-only scopes for orders and payouts, and the accounting credential is limited to creating entries, so the integration cannot alter settings or bank data.

04
Payout reconciliation

Each payout is broken into its charges, refunds, fees and adjustments and matched to the bank deposit, with unmatched amounts listed for review.

05
Exceptions and retries

An entry the ledger rejects, such as a posting to a closed period, waits with its reason. Retries carry a reference that prevents double posting.

06
Period-end checks

Before each close, totals in the store are compared with totals posted, differences are itemized and alerts go to finance when a day has not balanced.

04In Production

What It Looks Like When It Ships

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MC
WORKSPACE
Accounts
Payments
Cards
Invoices
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Reports
Team
Settings
Usage
72% of plan
Overview
Updated 2m ago
7d30d90d
Export
Balance
$12,480.20
+4.2%
Transactions
3,904
+11%
Approval rate
98.6%
+0.3%
Disputes
0.4%
-0.1%
Balance over time
This periodPrevious
$12,480.20JanFebMarAprMayJunJul
Breakdown
61%
Operating
61%
Reserve
24%
Payroll
15%
Activity
Payout scheduled - $18,400
6m ago
Card approved - A. Rivera
22m ago
Customer
Detail
Amount
Status
S
Salary
Deposit - Acme Inc.
+$4,200.00
Cleared
S
Spotify
Subscription
-$9.99
Posted
AR
Alex Rivera
Transfer
+$250.00
Pending
A
AWS
Infrastructure
-$1,204.10
Posted
Payouts reconciled
Tax posted correctly
Posting rules agreed
Account mappingPayout breakdownException queuePeriod comparison
05What You Receive

Handed Over, Ready to Run

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01
Approved account mapping table
02
Posting rules for each transaction
03
Integration service with source code
04
Payout to bank reconciliation
05
Exception queue for finance
06
Period-end comparison report
07
Historical data load option
08
Runbook and handover session
06How It Runs

From Kickoff to Launch

01
Agree the rules
02
Build and test
03
Shadow a period
04
Switch and close
01
Agree the rules

With your accountant we decide posting level, revenue timing, tax treatment by region, the handling of gift cards and deposits, and which clearing accounts sit between sale, payout and bank.

02
Build and test

The service is built against a development store and a sandbox ledger, using real past orders including refunds, partial refunds, chargebacks and currency conversions, until test totals agree.

03
Shadow a period

The integration posts to a test company for a full accounting period beside your existing process, and finance compares both sets of figures line by line.

04
Switch and close

Live posting begins at the start of a period. We stay through the first close, resolve exceptions with finance and hand over the reconciliation reports and runbook.

07Technology

The Stack We Use

Shopify sideGraphQL Admin APIPayout transactionsOrder webhooksBulk operationsIntegration serviceNode.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQLScheduled jobsShopify sideGraphQL Admin APIPayout transactionsOrder webhooksBulk operationsIntegration serviceNode.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQLScheduled jobs
Accounting sideXero APIQuickBooks Online APINetSuite RESTOdoo accountingControlsReconciliation reportsAudit trailAlertingPeriod locksAccounting sideXero APIQuickBooks Online APINetSuite RESTOdoo accountingControlsReconciliation reportsAudit trailAlertingPeriod locks
08Who It Is For

Built for Teams Like Yours

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Your books and your store report different numbers

Every period someone exports orders, adjusts for refunds and fees and types journals by hand. The payout in the bank does not equal the sales total and explaining the difference takes a day. Tax by region is assembled in a spreadsheet.

Stores selling in several currencies
Sales tax across regions
High refund volumes
Several payment providers
Stores preparing for audit
Groups with several entities
09Questions

What buyers ask before they start

If yours is not here, ask us directly. The first conversation is free and useful whether or not we work together.

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On Shopify, a custom app with read access to orders, refunds and payment payouts. It does not need to change anything in the store. In the accounting system, an API connection authorized by an administrator and limited to creating invoices, journals and payments. Your accounting plan must include API access, which we check against the vendor's current documentation. No banking credentials are involved at any point.

Not necessarily. Posting each order gives full detail but can flood a ledger and reach the accounting system's limits at volume. A daily summary journal per sales channel, with the order detail kept in the integration for drill-down, is often cleaner. We set out both with their consequences for reporting and tax, and your accountant makes the decision. The choice can differ by channel.

Because they measure different moments. A payout contains payments captured on certain days, less refunds, fees, chargebacks and reserves, and arrives later. Sales reports count orders by the date placed. Orders paid through other providers are not in the payout at all. The integration posts sales to a clearing account and clears it as each payout lands, so the difference is always explained.

For a simple store, frequently yes, and we will tell you if one covers your case. They tend to struggle with several currencies, tax across many regions, more than one payment provider, wholesale invoicing or a group with several legal entities. Custom integration is justified when finance spends real time correcting what a standard connector posts, or cannot trace a deposit to its orders.

No. We build the mechanism and your accountant sets the rules. How revenue is recognized, which tax applies in each region and how gift cards or deposits are treated are professional judgments that belong to your finance team or advisers. Our role is to implement those decisions precisely, document them in the mapping table and make every posted figure traceable to its source.

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