Shopify can’t do bookkeeping. It tracks sales, payments, and payouts but doesn’t record transactions in accounting terms.

You are selling on Shopify, Amazon, and eBay. Each channel processes hundreds of orders monthly, but your accounting system treats them as separate universes.

Your ecommerce business just expanded to Amazon, eBay, and Walmart. Orders are flooding in from four different channels, but your Xero file still looks like it did when you only had a Shopify store.

Your bank account shows a $47,832 deposit from Shopify. Your books show $51,200 in sales. The difference? Fees, refunds, and taxes are buried somewhere between your dashboard and your ledger.

Why connect Clover POS with Xero in 2025? Manually entering Clover sales into Xero at the end of each day? It's exhausting just to think about it. OneReddit user in r/Bookkeeping described spending 16 hours a week on manual accounting tasks. That's […]

Key Takeaway: A disconnected Shopify tech stack creates manual work and inaccurate data, blocking your store's growth You need dedicated accounting software because Shopify's reports show revenue, not true profitability Accounting sync tools like […]