Ceendesis Accounting connects your Amazon and Shopify accounts to Xero — syncing settlements, mapping every fee, and posting clean invoices automatically every six hours. You get accurate books without touching a spreadsheet.
| Settlement | Channel | Amount | Health | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMZ-EU-0412 | Amazon UK | £18,240 | 98 | Posted |
| SHO-0410 | Shopify | £8,420 | 100 | Posted |
| AMZ-EU-0401 | Amazon DE | €6,180 | 74 | Pending |
| AMZ-NA-0408 | Amazon US | $11,340 | 95 | Posted |
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Amazon and Shopify don't send you profit — they send you a tangled mix of sales, refunds, fees, taxes, and adjustments. Every month you decode it manually is another month your books are wrong.
47 line items. Referral fees, FBA fees, promotional rebates, Digital Services Tax, withheld VAT. Every one with a different tax treatment. None labelled the way your accountant expects. So it either costs you an hour of their time or it sits in your downloads folder.
You sold £12,400. Shopify paid you £10,850. The difference is refunds, chargeback reserves, and processing fees from last month. Posting the payout as one lump sum gets the bank to balance — but it tells you nothing about what you actually made.
Settlement cycles mean you're perpetually looking at last month. The decisions you're making today — on inventory, ad spend, new products — are based on numbers that don't reflect where you actually are.
New compliance charges. New regulatory fees. New marketplace surcharges. They appear in your next settlement, unmapped, and your auto-post either fails silently or pushes them to the wrong account. Most tools make you find this out after the fact.
Ceendesis Accounting fixes all four. Settlements sync automatically every six hours. Every fee is mapped to the right GL account. Invoices post to Xero validated and correctly taxed. New fee types are caught the moment they appear — before they cause a posting error. Set up in under an hour. Then it runs itself.
Start your free trialLink your Amazon seller account (EU, North America, Far East — all marketplaces at once), your Shopify store, and your Xero organisation. All OAuth flows — click Connect, authorise in a new tab, done. No API keys. No developer. Ceendesis discovers all your Amazon marketplaces automatically and keeps your tokens refreshed in the background.
⏱ Takes about 5 minutes per connection.
Every Amazon fee type and Shopify transaction category maps to a GL account code and tax type in your Xero chart of accounts. Hit "Apply Defaults" and we pre-fill sensible mappings for every common category — Sales Revenue, Referral Fees, FBA Fees, Refunds, Promotional Rebates, Digital Services Tax, and more. Review the preview. Adjust what you want. Approve. Done.
Every settlement from that point uses the same rules. If Amazon introduces a new fee type, we catch it immediately and email you before it causes a posting error.
⏱ Takes 10–15 minutes the first time.
| Fee Description | GL Account | Tax | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Principal | Sales Revenue | ZERORATED | Mapped |
| Referral Fee | Referral Fees | INPUT2 | Mapped |
| FBA Fulfilment Fee | Fulfilment Costs | INPUT2 | Mapped |
| Digital Services Tax | DST Charges | NONE | Mapped |
| PFAS Compliance Fee | — not mapped — | — | Unknown |
Toggle auto-post for any connection. From that point: settlement arrives → parses → validates → posts to Xero. No login required. No approval click. Before every posting, we run six validation checks — math, account codes, tax types, mapping completeness, duplicates. If anything fails, the posting is blocked, Xero stays clean, and you get an email telling you exactly what to fix.
⏱ 30 seconds to toggle. Books update every 6 hours forever.
Before every posting — manual or automatic — Ceendesis runs six checks: mapping completeness, account code existence, tax type validity, settlement math, SKU item mapping, and duplicate detection. If anything fails, the posting is blocked. You see exactly which checks failed and what to fix. Clean books, always.
A2X and Link My Books attempt the posting and report errors after. Ceendesis tells you before you try.
Not every seller needs the same invoice structure. Choose the mode that matches how your business works — and change it any time without affecting historical data.
| SKU | Description | Qty | Unit | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SP-BC-100ML | Beard Cream 100ml | 142 | £11.20 | £1,590.40 |
| SP-SH-250ML | Shampoo 250ml | 98 | £13.80 | £1,352.40 |
| SP-BS-150ML | Beard Serum 150ml | 74 | £16.40 | £1,213.60 |
| Referral Fees (INPUT2) | −£1,841.00 | |||
| FBA Fulfilment Fees (INPUT2) | −£2,204.00 | |||
| Total | £18,240.00 | |||
Every other ecommerce accounting tool posts your Shopify payout as a single weekly invoice. One total for all orders blended together. Ceendesis is the only tool that supports per-order posting — one Xero invoice per order, with customer detail, SKU line items, payment method, and discount breakdown.
Amazon quietly introduces new charge categories. PFAS compliance surcharges. New marketplace fees. Regulatory charges for new product types. When they appear in a settlement, Ceendesis detects them immediately — flags them in your dashboard, blocks the auto-post, and sends you an email with the fee name and the amount at stake.
You map it once. Every future settlement handles it correctly. Automatically. No "set it and forget it" caveat — it genuinely is set it and forget it.
A2X users in reviews: "Amazon constantly adds new classifications so the app requires regular maintenance. You can't set it and forget it." — Ceendesis solves this.
Every connection gets its own settings — posting mode, fee grouping, Xero contact name, invoice prefix, and invoice status. Go one level deeper and configure per-marketplace overrides: different contact names, different tax treatment, different invoice prefixes for Amazon.co.uk vs Amazon.de vs Amazon.com.
No other ecommerce accounting tool offers per-marketplace overrides within a single Amazon seller account.
See full Amazon feature detail →Six checks run before every posting. Nothing incorrect ever reaches Xero.
Group SKUs into custom categories with regex rules. Unique to Ceendesis.
One invoice per order with customer detail and SKU lines. No competitor has this.
Different Xero contacts, prefixes, and tax rules per Amazon marketplace.
New Amazon fee types caught the moment they appear — before auto-post runs.
Full line-item breakdown attached to every Xero invoice. Your accountant never needs to ask for data.
Auto-post Amazon EU but manually review Shopify. Each connection is independent.
Shopify PayPal, Stripe, and other gateways route to separate Xero bank accounts.
A2X and Link My Books are solid products. Here is exactly where Ceendesis goes further — and where they're comparable.
| Ceendesis | A2X | Link My Books | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Integrations | |||
| Amazon — all regions & marketplaces | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Shopify | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Xero | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Posting & Accounting | |||
| Summary posting mode | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SKU-level posting mode | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Product Type posting mode | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shopify per-order posting | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Payment gateway routing (Shopify) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Holding account support | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Combined fee grouping (by account + tax) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Audit CSV attached to every invoice | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Automation & Reliability | |||
| Pre-flight validation before every posting | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Unknown fee auto-detection + email alert | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Per-connection auto-post toggle | ✓ | Org-level only | Org-level only |
| Settlement health score before posting | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Per-marketplace overrides | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Pricing & Support | |||
| COGS tracking — all plans | ✓ | ✗ on $29 plan | ✓ |
| 1:1 onboarding support — all plans | ✓ | $159/mo+ only | ✓ |
| Per-channel pricing penalty | None | High | Medium |
| 14-day free trial, no card required | ✓ | 3 settlements only | ✓ |
| Setup time (reported) | < 1 hour | Weeks (user reviews) | ~1 hour |
Under an hour for most sellers. Connect Amazon (~5 min), Shopify (~5 min), Xero (~2 min), run the Apply Defaults mapping wizard (~15 min), enable auto-post (30 seconds). That's it.
No. The Apply Defaults wizard pre-fills correct mappings for every common category. If you know your Xero chart of accounts you can set this up yourself. If you work with an accountant, they can handle setup and hand the account back to you.
All of them. EU (18 marketplaces including UK, DE, FR, IT, ES, NL, SE, PL, TR, AE, IN, and more), North America (US, Canada, Mexico), Far East (Australia, Japan, Singapore). All 18 EU marketplaces connect with a single Amazon EU authorisation.
We detect it immediately the next time it appears in a settlement. We flag it in your dashboard and send you an email with the amount at stake. The settlement won't auto-post until you map it — protecting you from an incorrect posting going through.
Six things: (1) every non-zero amount has a mapped account, (2) those accounts exist in your Xero org, (3) all tax types are valid, (4) settlement total matches sum of line items, (5) all SKUs are mapped (in SKU mode), (6) no duplicate posting exists. Posting is blocked if any check fails.
A2X charges per channel — Amazon + Shopify together easily exceeds £150/mo. They gate 1:1 onboarding at $159+/mo. They don't support Product Type posting, per-order Shopify posting, per-marketplace overrides, pre-flight validation, or audit CSV on invoices. Ceendesis does all of these.
Yes — up to 12 months of Amazon settlement history and 12 months of Shopify payouts on first connect. You can also manually upload historical settlement files by drag-and-drop, with no limit on manual uploads.
Yes. Connect multiple Amazon seller accounts — each with its own settings, auto-post rules, and Xero routing. Useful for sellers operating under multiple entities or accounting practices managing multiple clients.
If the answer is "sort of" or "I'll get to it this weekend" — this is what Ceendesis Accounting is for. Connect in minutes. Map your fees once. Your books stay current. Your accountant stays happy. You stop dreading settlement day.
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