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PayPal + QuickBooks Reconciliation

A PayPal Payout Almost Never Matches One Invoice. That's Why Reconciliation Breaks.

PayPal doesn't pay out one deposit per sale. It bundles multiple transactions into one payout, takes its fee out before the money ever hits your bank, and handles refunds and disputes as separate events that still need to land on the right account. A basic sync that imports a transaction list doesn't solve any of that.

What reconciliation actually requires

Matching a clean, one-to-one PayPal transaction to an invoice is the easy part. The real friction is the bundled payout: a single bank deposit covering a dozen sales, with PayPal's fee already deducted, so the deposit amount never matches any single invoice on its own.

We build the layer that breaks that payout back apart, matches it to the orders and fees that actually make it up, so reconciliation becomes a confirmation instead of a forensic exercise every period.

One of our recent projects

Shopify retailer

Shopify to QuickBooks sync

The problemShopify sales landed in QuickBooks as one number a day. Every month somebody spent half a day working out why a payout didn't match.

A retailer's Shopify sales synced into QuickBooks as one number a day, and every month someone spent half a day working out why a payout didn't match. We rebuilt the sync to itemize by product category, use real product costs, and match each payout to the orders, fees and refunds behind it. The half-day reconciliation became a five-minute check.

What We Connect

01

Payouts broken apart automatically

A PayPal payout covering multiple sales gets matched back to the right invoices individually, instead of landing as one unexplained lump sum.

02

Fees accounted for separately

PayPal's fee gets posted to its own line, so your revenue and margin numbers reflect what you actually received, not the gross transaction amount.

03

Refunds and disputes handled correctly

A refund or chargeback posts to the right account and updates the original invoice, instead of leaving your books out of sync with what actually happened.

04

Exceptions flagged, not force-matched

A payout that doesn't cleanly reconcile gets flagged for a person to check, instead of forced into a close match that's actually wrong.

The result isn't just a faster import. It's books that match what actually happened in PayPal, fees and all, without someone reconciling it by hand every period.

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Questions people ask

Doesn't PayPal already sync with QuickBooks?

There's a basic connector for simple cases, importing a transaction list. It doesn't break batched payouts apart, handle fees separately, or match refunds correctly, which is where most of the actual manual reconciliation work is.

Does this work with Xero instead of QuickBooks?

Yes, the same reconciliation logic applies, PayPal transactions matched against your books correctly, fees and payouts included, whichever accounting system you run.

What about PayPal disputes and chargebacks?

Those get posted to the right account and matched back to the original transaction, instead of leaving your books showing a sale that didn't actually go through.

Is the quote really free with no obligation?

Yes. Tell us what you need, we'll tell you what it takes and what it costs. You decide from there.

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