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Shopify sales are easy. Tracking the numbers behind them? Not so much.
Our Xero bookkeeping services for U.S.-based Shopify businesses bring order to the chaos—every payout, refund, fee, and inventory cost tracked, reconciled, and reported with precision.
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Most services just import Shopify data and hope for the best. We build custom mapping rules inside Xero to ensure your sales, shipping, taxes, fees, and refunds post exactly where they belong. Whether you’re selling one product or one thousand, your daily payouts are broken down, categorized, and reconciled—without the noise or confusion that comes with generic sync tools.
We don’t fudge your inventory. We track it—correctly. That means COGS tied to actual sales, inventory movements recorded cleanly, and reports that show your margins in real time. Whether you use Shopify’s inventory tool, third-party fulfillment, or hybrid workflows, we’ll make sure what’s in your books reflects what’s in your warehouse. No more mismatched numbers. No more guessing at profitability.
We’ve seen the mess: duplicate payouts, fees buried under “miscellaneous,” and months of unreconciled transactions. We fix it. Fast. Then we build automation that keeps your books clean moving forward. You’ll never have to wonder if your sales match your deposits or if your Shopify fees are quietly eating your margin. Your books will be accurate, current, and audit-ready—always.
We don’t just show top-line revenue—we help you understand what drives it. Our reporting breaks down sales by product, discount type, campaign, or channel, so you know exactly where the money’s coming from and what’s working. You’ll see what products are profitable, what ad campaigns are driving real returns, and where your margins are strongest. It’s not just data. It’s insight you can act on.
Shopify Payments, PayPal, Klarna, Afterpay—if you take it, we track it. We reconcile every transaction, every transfer, and every fee to make sure your deposits match your books. No more gaps between your bank and Shopify. No more wondering if you missed something. Whether it’s one gateway or five, we’ll stitch it all together in Xero with total clarity.
Shopify sellers often come to us with books that look fine on the surface—but fall apart under scrutiny. We’ve cleaned up accounts where revenue was recorded twice, discounts were ignored, and Shopify fees were lumped into generic expense lines.
We’ve corrected misclassified tax entries that triggered compliance issues. We’ve rebuilt reports that showed fake profit because COGS wasn’t tracked at all. Many sellers rely on auto-sync tools without checking if the data is mapped correctly—so their financials are full of noise, not clarity.
Others work with generalist bookkeepers who simply don’t understand how Shopify works across platforms, payment processors, and shipping tools. That disconnect leads to misstatements that quietly hurt growth, taxes, and cash flow. At Ledger Labs, we don’t just fix the books—we build systems that make sure they stay clean, accurate, and actionable going forward.
Hiring Xero bookkeeping experts isn’t just about getting your numbers in order—it’s about turning your financials into a growth tool. For Shopify sellers, clean books mean more than tax prep. They mean knowing your real profit margins, spotting product performance trends, and planning confidently for ad spend, inventory, or expansion. A generic bookkeeper will record your sales.
A specialist will decode your payouts, separate fees, track refunds, and match every dollar back to its source. You’ll spend less time fixing mistakes and more time growing your store. From reconciling Shopify Payments and PayPal to aligning discounts, shipping, and taxes—we make your books accurate, reliable, and truly useful.
Xero gives you the tech. We make it work the way it should. And when your CPA asks for clean reports or your investor wants visibility? You’ll already have it.
We know Shopify inside out—from how the payouts work to how the fees pile up. Your books reflect your store’s reality, not just line items.
We track what you sell, what it cost, and what’s left in stock. No guessing. No inflated profits.
No fire drills at year-end. Just accurate reports, reconciled accounts, and answers before problems even surface.
Most Shopify sellers start with good intentions and messy spreadsheets. At first, tracking sales, expenses, and inventory seems manageable—until it isn’t. One product turns into twenty. One sale becomes hundreds. Refunds, taxes, discounts, and payment gateways pile up. And suddenly, the numbers in your bank account no longer match what Xero says. That’s the moment most sellers realize they’re no longer running a business—they’re reacting to it. That’s exactly when outsourcing your Xero bookkeeping stops being optional and starts being necessary.
The first sign? You’re spending more time fixing numbers than growing your store. If you’re constantly chasing transactions, guessing COGS, or wondering why your revenue doesn’t match your deposits, you’re not alone. It’s not that you can’t handle the accounting—it’s that your time is too valuable to be buried in it. Every hour you spend trying to untangle fees and refunds is an hour you’re not improving your ads, launching new products, or scaling what’s already working.
And then there’s tax season. If you’re scrambling every March to figure out what you earned, what you spent, and where it all went—something’s broken. A specialist who understands Shopify and Xero won’t just make your books tax-ready. They’ll keep you ready year-round, which means no more late-night number-crunching or last-minute calls to your accountant. Instead, you’ll have clean reports, clear margins, and a direct path to accurate filing—without the panic.
As you scale, the stakes get even higher. Multi-channel selling, expanding product lines, or introducing subscriptions and digital products all add layers of complexity. Most bookkeepers can’t keep up with that—not because they’re bad at math, but because they’ve never dealt with Shopify’s ecosystem. Payment processors like PayPal, Shop Pay, Klarna, and Afterpay all split the numbers differently. Add in inventory management, ad spend tracking, shipping charges, and customer refunds, and suddenly your books are filled with chaos that only looks right on the surface.
Outsourcing at this point gives you back control—not just over your time, but over your decision-making. With expert-managed Xero books tailored to Shopify, you’ll finally understand what products are working, what campaigns are profitable, and what needs to change. You’ll know your margins by SKU. You’ll spot hidden fees dragging down your bottom line. You’ll stop asking “Do these numbers look right?” and start asking, “What can I do with them?”
It’s also about accountability. When your books are managed by someone who understands eCommerce, issues get flagged early. Refund spikes? You’ll see them. Ad spend going up but conversions dropping? You’ll know. Inventory not matching what’s on the shelf? You won’t find out during an audit—you’ll know now.
So when should a Shopify seller outsource their Xero bookkeeping?
The answer isn’t “when things get messy.” It’s before they do. When your growth outpaces your systems. When your questions outnumber your answers. When your time is too valuable to be lost in transactions. That’s the moment you stop doing your books—and start owning your business.
| Feature | Ledger Labs' Xero Bookkeeping for Shopify | Other Services |
|---|---|---|
| Shopify Payout Reconciliation | Each payout is broken down and reconciled—sales, refunds, shipping, and fees—all mapped precisely in Xero. | Generic revenue entries with no reconciliation to actual payouts or platform fees. |
| Inventory & COGS Accuracy | Inventory tracked by SKU with accurate COGS tied to real-time sales, ensuring clean margins and cost visibility. | Inventory often ignored or estimated, leading to misleading profit data and over/understated margins. |
| Monthly Financial Reporting | Detailed P&L by SKU, ad campaign, and channel—so you know what’s profitable and what’s not. | Basic reporting without insight into product-level or campaign-level performance. |
| Sales Tax Tracking | Sales tax monitored across states with integrations like TaxJar or Avalara—keeping you compliant without stress. | Tax liabilities often overlooked or incorrectly reported, risking compliance issues. |
| Multi-Payment Gateway Reconciliation | Shopify Payments, PayPal, Klarna—all reconciled accurately across accounts with no gaps. | Disconnected processors resulting in unreconciled balances and missing data. |
| Xero + Shopify Integration | Smart integration with apps like A2X or Link My Books, customized to fit your Shopify setup and chart of accounts. | Basic syncing that causes misclassification or duplicate entries in your ledger. |
| Onboarding & Historical Cleanup | We review and fix past errors, rebuild accurate books, and create a clean starting point going forward. | Minimal cleanup efforts—often starting fresh and ignoring prior period problems. |
| Tax-Ready Books for Your CPA | We prepare reconciliations, trial balances, and detailed ledgers so your CPA can file without delays or guesswork. | Disorganized records that require time-consuming cleanup before tax prep even begins. |
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My main problem always has been to know my accurate profits & this is precisely what Ledger Labs helped me with. They went through my entire supply chain costs, my monthly operational expenses, and COGS and got me the correct costing of my goods and the cost of running the business. Now I know how much I need to sell & at what price I should sell it to be profitable.
Ariel Robinson CEO & Founder