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Bookkeep
What Bookkeep is
Bookkeep automates accounting tasks for ecommerce and retail businesses, including daily journal entries, revenue recognition, sales tax, and payout reconciliation. It creates accrual-based entries mapped to a customer’s accounting structure and can track order fulfillment so revenue is recognized when earned rather than when payment is collected. Sales data from channels such as Shopify, Amazon, PayPal, and Square can be consolidated into daily entries. Listed integrations also include Toast, Stripe, QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, Sage Intacct, and Zoho Books. A managed U.S. sales tax filing service is available to Shopify and Square POS merchants who enroll. Its payout-splitting service transfers deposits across bank accounts by store, franchise, or fulfillment location. Lite costs $19 a month and includes one sales channel, category-level mapping, and email support. A 14-day trial is available, but historical journal entries cannot be posted during the trial; those entries cost $0.35 each. Bookkeep is available through web and API. The company says it began as a bookkeeping firm in Brooklyn in 2018 and launched its first app in December 2019.
Who it suits
Bookkeep suits ecommerce and retail companies, Shopify brands, and the accountants who support them. It may be useful for teams consolidating multichannel sales and reconciling payouts or handling sales tax.
What it does well
- Creates daily accrual-based journal entries.
- Tracks fulfillment for revenue recognition.
- Consolidates data from multiple sales channels.
- Offers payout splitting across bank accounts.
What to know first
- No free plan is available.
- The 14-day trial excludes historical journal entries.
- Historical entries cost $0.35 each.
- Managed sales tax filing requires enrollment.
Limits
The 14-day trial does not allow posting historical journal entries; those are billed at $0.35 per entry. Lite costs $19 a month and covers up to $200k annual revenue and one sales channel.
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Unlimited | monthly · unlimited sales channels · BOPIS journal entries and reporting · unlimited payout-splitting transfers | $1,199 a month |
| Lite | monthly · up to $200,000 annual revenue · 1 sales channel · email support with 1-business-day response | $19 a month |
| Pro | monthly · up to $5M annual revenue · 5 segmented sales channels · unlimited users | $199 a month |
| Payout Splitting | per transfer · Pro plan or higher required · $100/month minimum · volume discounts | $3.99, paid once |
| Starter | monthly · sub-category mapping · manual journal editing · tax-rate mapping · same-day live chat | $49 a month |
| Advanced | monthly · fulfillment-based Shopify revenue recognition · dedicated account manager · priority live support | $499 a month |
| Sales Tax Filing Service | per filing · first filing free with Pro plan · calculations and registrations available | $75, paid once |
| Advanced Reporting Add-On | monthly · fulfilled/unfulfilled line items · AR aging and movement · Shopify Payments order-to-cash reports | $99 a month |
The first 8 of 9 plans, as bookkeep.com lists them, read 15 Oct 2026. The maker's own page has the final word. Every plan
Getting started
- Go to the Bookkeep website.
- Choose a plan or start the 14-day trial.
- Connect a sales channel such as Shopify, Amazon, PayPal, or Square.
- Map daily entries to your accounting structure and use a listed accounting integration.
- Enroll in managed U.S. sales tax filing if eligible and needed.
Verdict
Bookkeep brings daily accounting entries, multichannel sales data, revenue recognition, and payout services together for ecommerce and retail operations. Review the plan limits and trial restriction if historical entries or several sales channels matter to your workflow.
Questions
Does Bookkeep have a free plan?
No. It is a paid product, with Lite listed at $19 a month. A 14-day trial is available.
What does Lite include?
Lite covers up to $200k annual revenue and one sales channel, with category-level mapping and email support.
Which platforms can I use?
Bookkeep lists web and API access. Its site links to API documentation in its knowledge base.
Which accounting integrations are listed?
Listed accounting integrations include QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, Sage Intacct, and Zoho Books.
How does the trial handle historical entries?
The 14-day trial does not allow posting historical journal entries. Historical entries cost $0.35 per entry.
Who can use the managed sales tax service?
The service is for Shopify and Square POS merchants, and enrollment is required.
Facts from Bookkeep's own pages
- Accounting integrations
- Listed accounting destinations include BK Books, Intuit Enterprise Suite, NetSuite, QuickBooks, Sage Intacct, Xero and Zoho Books. · bookkeep.com, 15 Oct 2026
- API
- Bookkeep exposes a version-one REST API with resource URLs, form-encoded requests and JSON responses. · bookkeep.com, 15 Oct 2026
- API authentication
- API calls use HTTPS and HTTP Basic authentication with Bookkeep API keys managed in a developer dashboard. · bookkeep.com, 15 Oct 2026
- BOPIS transfers
- The product supports journal entries and transfers for buy-online-pickup-in-store transactions. · bookkeep.com, 15 Oct 2026
- COGS limitation
- Bookkeep documentation says a full inventory system is more suitable for changing landed costs, FIFO/LIFO or weighted-average valuation and warehouse quantities. · bookkeep.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Company facts
- LinkedIn lists Bookkeep as a privately held Brooklyn, New York accounting company founded in 2018 with 11–50 employees. · linkedin.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Company history
- Bookkeep says it was founded in 2018 as a bookkeeping firm in Brooklyn and launched its first app in December 2019. · bookkeep.com, 8 Oct 2026
- Daily accounting
- It creates daily accrual-based journal entries and maps them to the customer’s accounting structure. · bookkeep.com, 8 Oct 2026
- Developer extensibility
- Public documentation lists entities, connections, locations, sales-tax entries, notifications, chart-of-accounts, journal-entry and schema endpoints. · bookkeep.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation depth
- The help center contains setup, integration, posting, inventory, troubleshooting and dated product-update articles through October 2026. · bookkeep.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2018 · bookkeep.com, 23 Sept 2026
- Funding
- Bookkeep announced a $6.6 million 2022 investment led by Fin Capital and said total funding reached $10 million including its 2021 round. · bookkeep.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Listed integrations include Shopify, Amazon, Toast, Square, PayPal, Stripe, QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, Sage Intacct, and Zoho Books. · bookkeep.com, 8 Oct 2026
- Legal name
- The terms identify the contracting entity as Bookkeep.com Inc. · bookkeep.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Licence
- Terms prohibit copying, modification, reverse engineering and source discovery, while noting that third-party open-source components may exist. · bookkeep.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: G2 pricing
- G2 review commentary describes pricing as high for growing ecommerce businesses. · g2.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: G2 purchase orders
- A G2 reviewer reported that Bookkeep lacks a connection for bringing purchase orders into QuickBooks. · g2.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: G2 reporting
- A G2 reviewer wanted more detailed reporting showing product codes and general-ledger accounts for each line. · g2.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: Software Advice
- Software Advice reviews mention a learning curve, incomplete platform coverage and occasional QuickBooks double-entry confusion. · softwareadvice.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Managed COGS
- Managed COGS maintains product and variant costs for Shopify, Amazon and Walmart without a full inventory system. · bookkeep.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Multichannel sales
- It consolidates sales data from channels including Shopify, Amazon, PayPal, and Square into daily entries. · bookkeep.com, 8 Oct 2026
- News: Canadian office
- Bookkeep announced a Victoria, British Columbia office on June 18, 2024 to support Canadian customers and GST/HST workflows. · bookkeep.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Payouts
- Its payout splitting service transfers deposits across bank accounts by store, franchise, or fulfillment location. · bookkeep.com, 8 Oct 2026
- Payout splitting
- The payout engine can split Shopify deposits by store, franchisee or channel and transfer funds to bank accounts. · bookkeep.com, 15 Oct 2026
Where Bookkeep stands on Freedom251
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