Shopify + QuickBooks Online integration your bookkeeper will trust
We connect Shopify to QuickBooks Online so sales, fees, refunds, taxes and payouts land in the right accounts, and your bank feed matches what Shopify actually paid you.
- Custom or middleware-based
- Shopify and Shopify Plus
- Built for reliability, not a demo
Test drive our developers. 3 guaranteed hours of free Shopify work.
Hand us a real task and our senior engineers do the first 3 hours on us. No obligation to hire us, just a straight look at how we work.
- Review your integration
- Fix a sync bug
- Plan the data flow
- Check error handling
The month-end problems we are asked to fix
Payouts never match orders
Shopify pays out in batches, net of fees and refunds. The bank shows one number, the orders add up to another.
Sales tax by hand
Tax collected per order has to be tracked against the right tax agency and rate, or filing becomes a project.
A flood of tiny invoices
Posting every order as its own invoice can swamp QuickBooks and your customer list.
Refunds and fees missing
Processing fees, chargebacks and refunds rarely post themselves unless the integration is built to handle them.
A Shopify payout is not a sale
Money reaches your bank as a payout: many orders together, minus processing fees, minus refunds, on a delay. If books treat each order as cash in the bank, they will never match the statement.
A good integration records the sale and the deposit as the two separate events they are.
- 1
Sales and deposits are different events
Record the sale when it happens and the deposit when it lands, tied together by a clearing account.
- 2
Fees and refunds get their own accounts
Otherwise revenue is overstated and the bank rec is off by exactly the fees.
- 3
Tax is not revenue
Collected sales tax belongs in its own liability, tracked by the agency or rate that applies.
- 4
Summary often beats volume
A daily summary entry is often cleaner than an invoice per order, unless you need customer-level detail.
How a sale reaches QuickBooks and reconciles
Shopify sales
Orders and tax
Fees and refunds
Netted out
Payout
Lands in the bank
QuickBooks entries
Right accounts
Bank feed match
Reconciles cleanly
We decide how your books should look before we build anything
How sales are recorded
- Per-order sales receipts or daily summaries
- A customer per buyer, or one Shopify customer
- Products mapped to items or straight to income accounts
Money
- Processor fees account
- Payout clearing account
- Refunds and chargebacks
- Gift cards and store credit
Tax and shipping
- Sales tax mapped by rate or agency
- Shipping income treatment
- Discounts and free shipping
Frequently asked questions
Can you connect Shopify to QuickBooks Online?
Yes. We connect orders, payments, refunds, fees, taxes and payouts so QuickBooks reflects what happened in Shopify and your bank reconciliation works.
Should I just install a ready-made app?
Sometimes that is the right call. If your needs are standard, a ready-made or middleware-based sync can be the most cost-effective. If you have multiple stores, unusual tax, or specific account rules, a custom build is more reliable. We recommend whichever fits.
Does QuickBooks Online handle inventory?
It tracks inventory at a basic level. If you need multi-warehouse logic or serious stock control, an ERP is usually a better source of truth, and we can connect that to Shopify and QuickBooks.
Do you handle sales tax?
We map the tax Shopify collects into the right tax liability accounts and rates in QuickBooks. Filing and tax advice stay with your accountant.
Does this work with Shopify Plus?
Yes, standard Shopify and Shopify Plus, including multiple stores feeding one QuickBooks company.
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