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Commerce finance · Reconciliation
Connect Shopify + QuickBooks Online
Automate sales, payment processing fees, refunds and returns, payout / deposit, tax amounts collected between Shopify and QuickBooks Online — with monitoring and managed support from APIWORX.
APIWORX connects the systems your business already uses and takes responsibility for the agreed integration workflows after go-live. The exact objects, direction and cadence are fixed in writing during scoping.
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APIWORX Provides the Service
Yes. APIWORX connects Shopify and QuickBooks Online.
But connecting the applications is only the beginning. The work that costs you time sits in the process running between them.
APIWORX automates that process end to end — the objects moving between Shopify and QuickBooks Online, the ownership rules that decide which system wins, the exceptions when a record will not post, and the monitoring that tells someone before your team finds out from a customer.
How it works
From requirements to a managed integration
We Design the Integration
APIWORX recommends the integration architecture, mappings and implementation approach.
We Build, Monitor & Support It
APIWORX implements the integration and provides ongoing monitoring and support as applicable.
Who this is for
This page is for finance teams who can see Shopify revenue and a bank deposit but cannot explain the difference between them without a spreadsheet.
What needs to be in place
- A Shopify store, with payout reporting available for the payment methods you use.
- QuickBooks Online with a chart of accounts your finance team is willing to map to.
- An agreed level of detail — summarised by day or itemised by order.
- A named finance owner for account mapping and cut-off decisions.
When you may not need this
A low-volume single-currency store using one payment method can often be handled with an app or manual journal. Managed integration earns its place with multiple payment methods, several channels, refund and chargeback volume, or multi-entity reporting.
What is out of scope
- APIWORX does not act as your accountant and does not decide your accounting treatment; your finance team sets the mapping and we automate it.
- Which settlement or payout report is used as the source is confirmed in scoping, because it varies by account and region.
- Tax determination stays in the systems that own it; we move the values those systems produce.
- Historic back-posting of prior periods is a separate, scoped exercise rather than part of the standing workflow.
What actually moves, and who owns it
A representative scope. Which payout report is used, and how detailed the postings are, is confirmed before build.
ShopifyAPIWORX (mapping, retries, exception queue)QuickBooks Online
| Object | From | To | System of record | Trigger | If it fails | Owner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sales | Shopify | QuickBooks Online | Shopify | Agreed period close or order event | Held in exception queue with the period and reason | APIWORX |
| Payment processing fees | Shopify payout report | QuickBooks Online | Payout report | Payout published | Batch held for finance review | APIWORX |
| Refunds and returns | Shopify | QuickBooks Online | Shopify | Refund processed | Queued with the order reference | APIWORX |
| Payout / deposit | Shopify payout report | QuickBooks Online | Payout report | Payout published | Held so the bank line is not part-matched | APIWORX |
| Tax amounts collected | Shopify | QuickBooks Online | Shopify | With the sales posting | Held for review | APIWORX with your finance team |
| Customer or item detail | Shopify | QuickBooks Online | Agreed in scoping | Where itemised posting is in scope | Unmapped values reported | APIWORX |
Three decisions that make or break this integration
The deposit never matches the sales total
It should not: fees, refunds, chargebacks and timing all sit between them. Each component is posted separately against the payout reference, so the bank line reconciles as a whole instead of being forced.
- Payout treated as a set of components, not one number.
- Every component carries the payout reference.
- Unexplained residuals held rather than plugged to a suspense account.
Payouts and orders fall in different periods
A sale at the end of the month often pays out in the next one. Cut-off behaviour is agreed once with your finance team and applied consistently, so the close is repeatable.
- Agreed cut-off and period rules.
- Cross-period payouts reported before close.
- No retrospective edits to closed periods without approval.
Other payment methods and channels are in play
Where you take payment outside Shopify Payments or sell on other channels, each settlement source is mapped separately, because they publish different data at different times.
- Per-source mapping, per-source cadence.
- Which report is authoritative confirmed in scoping.
- Sources with no usable report flagged instead of estimated.
Reliability and ownership
The operating rules that apply to this workflow after go-live.
- Every run is logged with the source record reference so a document can be traced end to end.
- Failed messages are retried on a defined schedule; anything still failing lands in an exception queue rather than being dropped silently.
- Duplicate prevention keys on the source system's own identifier so a replayed message does not create a second record.
- Exceptions are worked by the APIWORX team and escalated to your named contacts when a business decision is needed.
- Mapping changes — new SKUs, new accounts, new locations, new partner requirements — are handled inside the ongoing engagement.
- Support windows and response commitments live in your agreement; this page does not state an SLA.
How a payout is traced
Illustrative — not customer data
An illustrative reference trace from Shopify payout to QuickBooks Online postings.
| Shopify payout id | QuickBooks Online deposit reference |
|---|---|
| Shopify order number | Sales posting line |
| Fee lines on the payout | Fee expense account |
| Refund reference | Credit posting |
Scope and questions
- Do you post every order individually?
- Only if that is what your finance team wants. Summary-by-day and itemised-by-order are both workable; the choice is made in scoping.
- Which payout data do you use?
- The payout report available on your account for the payment methods you use. We confirm the source rather than assume one.
- Do you handle chargebacks?
- Where they appear in the payout data, yes, mapped to the account your finance team nominates.
- Who owns the account mapping?
- Your finance team decides the mapping. APIWORX automates it and maintains it as accounts change.
Your integration plan
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Next step
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