TidyRead the settlement, not the order feed
A marketplace deposit is sales, minus fees, refunds, reserves, shipping labels and advertising, plus or minus adjustments. A tool that only imports orders leaves you explaining the difference later.
A2X
alternatives.
If you sell on Amazon, Shopify, eBay, Etsy or Walmart and want payouts in your books, the realistic A2X alternatives are Link My Books, Synder, Bookkeep, Webgility, TidyPayouts, or a documented manual workflow. They differ in what they summarise, which accounting software they connect to, and whether a human reviews the entry before it posts.
REVIEWED OCTOBER 2026✓ Alphabetical, not ranked✓ Provider sources linked
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START WITH THE JOB.What an A2X
What an A2X
alternative must do.
Tool names are easy to compare.
The work is not.
Land in the books you actually use
QuickBooks Online, Xero, QuickBooks Desktop or NetSuite each have different limits. Confirm your accounting platform and your marketplace region, not just the channel name.
Decide who reviews before posting
Some tools summarise a settlement and post it. Others hold unmapped lines for a person to resolve first. Pick the workflow you can defend at month end.
SIX OPTIONS.
At a glance.
Positioning from each provider’s
public pages, October 2026.
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| Option | What it is | Accounting software | Choose it when | Check first |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bookkeep | Bookkeeping automation for commerce and payment platforms, often run on a bookkeeper’s behalf. | QuickBooks Online and Xero; check the current list. | An accountant or bookkeeper owns your close and wants one repeatable process. | Whether it fits a single small store, and who signs off the monthly review. |
| Link My Books | Payout-to-ledger automation built around marketplace settlements. | Xero and QuickBooks Online. | You sell across Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Shopify, Walmart (US), TikTok Shop, WooCommerce or Square and want one tool for all of it. | Order-volume pricing at your numbers, and whether your channel and region are in scope. |
| Manual workflow | Marketplace reports, a journal-entry template and a monthly checklist. | Any accounting system. | You post a handful of payouts a month and already know the fee structure. | Hours per close, and how you will prove each entry ties to the bank deposit. |
| Synder | Multi-channel sales and payment sync, including processor-funded revenue. | QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop and Xero. | Money also arrives through payment processors, not only marketplaces. | How settlements are grouped into entries, and what transaction-based pricing costs at your volume. |
| TidyPayouts | Payout review before anything posts, with the source settlement attached. | QuickBooks Online (beta). Xero is not available yet. | You want to see every settlement line, match the bank deposit, and keep the review step. | Beta availability for your channel; five channels only today. |
| Webgility | Commerce operations and accounting automation across orders, inventory and shipping. | QuickBooks Online and Desktop; check the current list. | You need inventory and order operations alongside the ledger, not only payouts. | Whether you want payout-level reconciliation or operational reporting. |
Alphabetical, not a ranking. Provider features, channels and prices change; confirm current terms on the provider’s own site before you decide.
ALTERNATIVE ONE.Is Link My Books
Is Link My Books
the closest match?
Channel breadth, priced
by order volume.
For most sellers asking this question, Link My Books is the closest like-for-like swap: it is built around marketplace settlements rather than order imports, and it supports both Xero and QuickBooks Online. It covers a wider channel list than TidyPayouts, including TikTok Shop, WooCommerce and Square, and prices by order volume and channel count.
- ↳Where it fitsYou sell on several marketplaces, you are not on QuickBooks Online alone, and you want one tool to cover all of them.
- ↳Where to look closelyVolume pricing moves with your orders, so compare the calculator at your busiest quarter, not your quietest month.
- ↳Our own comparisonWe compared TidyPayouts with Link My Books on pricing model, channels and accounting software, including where it is ahead.
Read the Link My Books comparison → · Check Link My Books pricing ↗
ALTERNATIVE TWO.When does Synder
When does Synder
beat A2X?
Processor revenue and
desktop books.
Synder makes most sense when your money does not arrive only from marketplaces. It syncs sales channels and payment processors — Shopify, Stripe, PayPal, Amazon and others — into QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop or Xero, which covers the mixed storefront-and-processor pattern that payout-only tools handle awkwardly.
- ↳Where it fitsYou take payments directly as well as through marketplaces, or your books still live in QuickBooks Desktop.
- ↳Where to look closelyTransaction-level pricing and how individual sales are grouped into entries, so month-end totals still tie to the bank.
- ↳The trade-offA broader ingestion surface usually means more configuration before the first clean post.
ALTERNATIVE THREE.When is Bookkeep
When is Bookkeep
the better call?
Built for the person
who closes the books.
Bookkeep is aimed at bookkeepers and accounting firms running a repeatable close across several clients, connecting commerce and payment platforms into QuickBooks Online or Xero. If you are a single seller doing your own books, the value depends on whether someone else performs your monthly close and wants a standard process.
- ↳Where it fitsYour accountant or bookkeeper already manages the close and prefers one process across clients.
- ↳Where to look closelyWhether the per-client model and the review responsibilities match a store of your size.
- ↳RelatedOur bookkeeper workflow page describes what a payout review should hand off.
ALTERNATIVE FOUR.What about
What about
Webgility?
Operations first,
ledgers second.
Webgility connects multichannel sales, inventory and shipping into QuickBooks, so it is worth considering when your problem is operational — stock, fulfilment, order accuracy — rather than only getting a settlement into the ledger. If your requirement is strictly payout-level reconciliation, a payout-focused tool is a smaller thing to configure.
- ↳Where it fitsYou need inventory and shipping data in the accounting stack, not only deposits.
- ↳Where to look closelyWhether the settlement detail you need for a payout review is exposed, or whether reporting stops at order level.
ALTERNATIVE FIVE.Why pick
Why pick
TidyPayouts?
Small, reviewed,
and honest about limits.
TidyPayouts is the alternative for sellers who want to review a settlement before it reaches the books. It breaks a payout into sales, fees and refunds, matches the net figure to your bank deposit, holds unmapped lines instead of guessing, and prepares the entry for QuickBooks Online. It is free during beta, and it is narrower than the tools above: five channels, QuickBooks Online only, and no Xero yet.
- ↳Where it fitsYou are on QuickBooks Online, you sell on Amazon, Shopify, eBay, Etsy or Walmart, and you want the difference explained before anything posts.
- ↳Where to look closelyBeta access rolls out by account and channel. Confirm your workspace connection status before relying on a live post.
- ↳Price after betaPlanned at $7/month for one channel or $13.50/month for several. These are planned rates, not current charges; the beta is free.
Compare TidyPayouts with A2X → · Check channel availability →
ALTERNATIVE SIX.Can a spreadsheet
Can a spreadsheet
replace A2X?
Yes, for a while.
Then it stops scaling.
A documented spreadsheet workflow — settlement report, a journal-entry template, and a checklist that ties the entry to the bank deposit — genuinely works for a seller posting a few payouts a month. It stops working when channels multiply, currencies differ, or the person who understood the spreadsheet leaves. The honest test is hours per close, not tool cost.
- ↳Make it defensibleKeep the source report beside the entry, name the accounts once, and note the convention for refunds, reserve releases and adjustments.
- ↳Know the failure modeA spreadsheet never tells you a fee line went unmapped. It just balances to the wrong total.
Download the comparison and cutover checklist ↓ · Payout reconciliation calculator →
CHOOSE, THEN CUT OVER.Which one
Which one
should you pick?
Four questions,
in this order.
Which accounting software do you actually use?
Xero, NetSuite or QuickBooks Desktop narrows the list immediately. TidyPayouts supports QuickBooks Online only for now.
Does your money arrive from marketplaces only?
If payments also arrive through processors, you need a tool built for that ingestion, not a payout-only one.
Who reviews the entry before it posts?
If nobody does, choose the tool that summarises a settlement conservatively. If somebody does, choose the one that shows them the evidence.
What is your busiest quarter worth?
Compare volume-priced plans at your peak, not your average. A flat planned rate and a per-order rate diverge quickly at scale.
And one honest option the listicles leave out: if A2X already matches your books, your channels and your accounting software, staying is a valid answer. Switching costs a close cycle and a reconciliation, and only earns that back if something below the line is actually wrong.
What is the cheapest A2X alternative?+
It depends on your order volume and channel count, so compare at your own numbers rather than a headline price. Dedicated tools price by monthly orders, transaction volume or channels, while a manual workflow costs hours rather than a subscription. TidyPayouts is free during beta and plans a flat $7 or $13.50 per month after beta, but it is QuickBooks Online only and still in beta.
Do any A2X alternatives support Xero?+
Several do. Link My Books, Synder and Bookkeep all connect to Xero alongside QuickBooks Online, so they cover sellers whose books are not in QuickBooks. TidyPayouts does not support Xero yet; it posts to QuickBooks Online only. Confirm the current platform list on each provider’s site, because integrations change.
Can I run two tools during the switch?+
Yes, and it is a sensible way to cut over. Run one closed payout through both, compare totals, account mappings and tax lines, then set a cutover point: the last payout handled by the old tool and the first handled by the new one. Avoid leaving both posting the same period.
Will switching re-post my old payouts?+
It should not, if you define the cutover point before the first new post. Keep your source reports and existing entries, and check any automatic posting setting in the new tool so it does not reach back into a period the old tool already covered.
Is TidyPayouts a full A2X replacement today?+
No. A2X covers more channels, Xero and NetSuite, and years of production use. TidyPayouts covers Amazon, Shopify, eBay, Etsy and Walmart into QuickBooks Online during beta. For sellers on QuickBooks Online, it is a reviewed alternative; for everyone else, it is not there yet.
Reviewed . Sources: A2X, Link My Books, Synder, Bookkeep, Webgility and TidyPayouts integration availability. Descriptions are positioning taken from public pages at that date, not endorsements or measured test results; provider features and prices change.
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