Quickbooks
If you use the QuickBooks online accounting platform to manage your business's accounts, you can connect your QuickBooks account to your ShopWired account so that orders placed on your website will be automatically exported to QuickBooks as invoices.
To connect your QuickBooks account to your ShopWired account, you must first install the QuickBooks app:
- Navigate to Apps
- Locate the QuickBooks app
- Select
install this app
Connecting your QuickBooks account
Connecting your QuickBooks account
Once you've installed the QuickBooks app, navigate to Apps > Manage > QuickBooks from your ShopWired account to connect it to QuickBooks by selecting connect to QuickBooks
.
You will be redirected to the Intuit website (the parent company of QuickBooks) to log in to your QuickBooks account (if not already logged in):

Once logged in, authenticate the ShopWired app to connect to your QuickBooks account by selecting the connect option:

Once access has been granted, you will be returned to your ShopWired account to configure the app’s settings.
QuickBooks settings
QuickBooks settings
In the app configuration page, configure each of the available settings.

Income account
Select the account that corresponds with the account on QuickBooks where the product portion of sales invoices should be allocated.
Partial payments account
Select the account that corresponds with the account on QuickBooks that partial payments should be allocated to. Partial payments appear on an order when a customer places an order and, at least in part, makes payment using a gift voucher.
VAT rate
Where VAT applies to a line item in an order, select the VAT rate from the list that corresponds with the VAT rate on QuickBooks. This is the default VAT rate; products with a custom VAT rate will export with that specific rate.
VAT exclusive rate
Where a line item in an order does not attract VAT, select the VAT rate from the list that corresponds with the VAT rate on QuickBooks.
Set the invoice number in QuickBooks with the website order reference
Select this setting to populate the invoice number on QuickBooks with the order reference from ShopWired. If this setting is not selected, QuickBooks will generate the invoice number.
Payment account settings
Payment account settings
When payment is made for an order on your website, ShopWired can automatically create the payment in the appropriate QuickBooks that corresponds with the payment gateway used to place the order.
Orders placed using the offline payment method will never be exported with payment information and will always show as awaiting payment.
When not selected, all invoices will be created on QuickBooks as awaiting payment.
To export payments to QuickBooks:
- Select the
export payments
setting - Select a Default payment account from the list of QuickBooks bank accounts - payments will be exported to this account if you have not configured an account specifically for the payment gateway
- From the Payment method name select each of the payment gateways in use on your ShopWired website and the corresponding Bank account on QuickBooks that the payment should be exported to
You can add as many payment methods as you need.
Exporting orders
Exporting orders
Exporter settings
To enable the QuickBooks app to begin exporting orders from ShopWired, select the enable the exporter
setting.

and select save changes.
Export on demand
Export on demand

Use the Export on demand section to manually export a set of or all of your orders. Orders can either be exported by date range or order reference range.
- Enter an order reference (into the From reference option) or start date (into the From date option) to select the first order to export
- Enter an order reference (into the To reference option) or end date (into the To date option) to select the last order to export
- Select the
skip already exported
option to choose not to export orders the app has already exported - Select the
skip errored
option to choose not to export orders that have previously failed to export due to an error
Export errors
Export errors
From time to time, the app when trying to export an order to QuickBooks.
The app provides a list of orders that have failed to export in the export errors section.

For each order that fails to export, the error returned by the QuickBooks system will be displayed. You can then attempt to fix the error on the order (e.g. by editing the order, or editing the QuickBooks app settings) and retrying the export.
You can use the Error notification email settings setting to choose to receive an email when an order fails to export due to an export error.
