WooCommerce Accounting Integration by Alpha Expansion
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WooCommerce Accounting Integration

SALES, FEESAND TAX,RECONCILED

We connect WooCommerce and its payment gateways to your accounting system, so sales, refunds, tax and fees post automatically and every provider settlement can be matched to the bank.

Gateway fees capturedTax by regionSettlements matched

WooCommerce AccountingWhat we build

01Gateway fees captured
02Tax by region
03Settlements matched
01Our Approach

WooCommerce records the sale, the payment gateway holds the money, and the ledger has to tell one true story from both.

02Overview

WooCommerce sales posted and reconciled

  • 01Gateway fees captured
  • 02Tax by region
  • 03Settlements matched

WooCommerce accounting integration reads orders, refunds, taxes, shipping income and coupons from your store and posts them to your accounting system under rules your accountant approves. Because WooCommerce does not process payments itself, fees and settlement dates come from each gateway you use. We read both sources, the store through its REST API and the gateways through theirs, and reconcile them before posting.

It suits stores whose bookkeeping is rebuilt from exports, who take payment through more than one provider or who sell across tax regions with a tax plugin. Bank transfers, cash on delivery and manual orders add entries no gateway report contains. We agree a treatment for each payment method, so the clearing accounts empty as money arrives and anything left over is a real question.

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03What We Do

Capabilities, End to End

01
Accounts and tax mapping

Product categories, shipping, discounts, each tax rate and each payment method are mapped to ledger accounts and tax codes in a table finance signs off.

02
Two sources, one direction

Order facts come from the store and settlement facts from each gateway. Both flow only into the ledger, and nothing in accounting writes back to WooCommerce.

03
Restricted credentials

Store keys are read-only, gateway keys are restricted to reporting data and the accounting connection may create entries but cannot change settings or approve payments.

04
Settlement reconciliation

Every gateway settlement is split into payments, refunds, fees and disputes, matched to orders and to the bank line, with unmatched items listed.

05
Rejected entry queue

Entries the ledger refuses, such as an unknown tax code, wait with their reason. A unique reference on each entry makes retrying safe.

06
Daily balance checks

Store totals, gateway totals and posted totals are compared each day, and finance is alerted to a difference while it is still easy to explain.

04In Production

What It Looks Like When It Ships

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WORKSPACE
Accounts
Payments
Cards
Invoices
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Reports
Team
Settings
Usage
72% of plan
Overview
Updated 2m ago
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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
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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
Gateway fees captured
Tax by region
Settlements matched
Method treatmentSettlement viewThree-way checkRejected entries
05What You Receive

Handed Over, Ready to Run

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01
Account and tax mapping table
02
Treatment for each payment method
03
Integration service with source code
04
Gateway settlement reconciliation
05
Queue of rejected entries
06
Daily three-way comparison
07
Historical period load option
08
Runbook and handover session
06How It Runs

From Kickoff to Launch

01
Set the rules
02
Connect the sources
03
Run in parallel
04
Start a period
01
Set the rules

With your accountant we choose invoice or summary posting, define revenue timing and tax handling, and decide how each payment method, including offline ones, clears through the ledger.

02
Connect the sources

The service is built against a staging site, gateway test accounts and a sandbox ledger, and fed with past orders covering refunds, disputes, coupons and mixed tax rates.

03
Run in parallel

For one full accounting period the integration posts to a test company while your current process continues, and finance then reviews the differences between the two.

04
Start a period

Live posting begins on the first day of a period. We support the first close, clear the exception queue with finance and hand over reports and the runbook.

07Technology

The Stack We Use

SourcesWooCommerce REST APIStripe reportingPayPal reportingTax plugin dataIntegration serviceNode.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQLScheduled jobsSourcesWooCommerce REST APIStripe reportingPayPal reportingTax plugin dataIntegration serviceNode.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQLScheduled jobs
Accounting sideXero APIQuickBooks Online APIZoho Books APIOdoo accountingControlsThree-way comparisonAudit trailAlertingPeriod locksAccounting sideXero APIQuickBooks Online APIZoho Books APIOdoo accountingControlsThree-way comparisonAudit trailAlertingPeriod locks
08Who It Is For

Built for Teams Like Yours

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Your bookkeeper rebuilds sales from exports every period

Orders are exported, gateway reports are downloaded and someone joins them in a spreadsheet to produce journals. Fees are estimated. Tax by region is reconstructed after the fact. When the bank and the books disagree, nobody can say which order caused it.

Several payment gateways
Cash on delivery orders
Tax across many regions
Subscription renewal payments
Selling in several currencies
Manual and phone orders
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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Read-only REST API keys on the store. For each payment gateway, a restricted key or reporting permission that exposes payments, refunds, fees and settlements. In the accounting system, an API connection that an administrator authorizes, on a plan that includes API access. We verify each against the provider's current documentation and write the permissions down. Bank logins and card data are never requested.

Because WooCommerce knows that an order was paid but not what the provider charged or when it sent the money. Fees, disputes, currency conversion and settlement dates live in the gateway. Without them, fees are guessed and deposits cannot be matched. Reading the gateway directly lets the integration post exact fees and clear each settlement against the orders it contains.

Each gets its own clearing account and its own rule. A cash on delivery order is posted as a receivable from the courier until the courier's remittance arrives, when the batch is matched. A bank transfer stays open until finance confirms receipt, in the store or in the ledger. These methods cause most unexplained balances, so we design them with particular care.

Some do part of it well. Plugins for popular accounting packages can create an invoice per order. They are weaker on gateway fees, multiple providers, settlement matching and summary posting, and they work inside WordPress. If a plugin already suits you, we say so. Custom work is justified when finance still spends significant time correcting or reconciling what the plugin produced.

Yes. Tax plugins and tax services write their calculations onto each order, and we read the result they stored instead of recalculating it. Each rate or jurisdiction is mapped to a tax code in the ledger. Which tax applies and how it is reported are decisions for your accountant. Our part is to carry those figures across without rounding differences.

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