How do you do account reconciliation when departments are split up?
When account tasks are siloed across teams like AP, AR, and treasury, it is hard to figure out what the actual end-to-end reconciliation process looks like. This leaves people guessing whether they should be checking numbers monthly or just trusting the platform, which creates blind spots like unverified gaps between order totals and bank deposits.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Relying entirely on automated system exports or assuming other specialized teams handle their own account checks independently.
- 2Manually match payout reports to order and payment records and bank deposits
- 3Hire a bookkeeper to handle reconciliation
- 4Assume the platform's numbers are correct
- 5Using automated connectors like the Stripe Connector by QuickBooks, though it tends to cause duplicate transactions.
- 6manually reconciling sales and fees by setting up each platform as a separate bank account
- 7uploading CSV files
- 8trying third party integrations between Amazon and accounting software
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I’m setting up a new POS integration with QuickBooks Online and trying to determine the cleanest workflow for Stripe payments without double-counting revenue.”source ↗
“Since the POS has already created the Sales Receipt, this appears to duplicate the sale.”source ↗
“I can't seem to get anything to match properly.”source ↗
“Like what does reconciliation even look like if all such accounts are managed/owned by various departments like chargeback/AR/AP/treasury team? How do you guys perform reconciliation? What's the process like?”source ↗
“Last quarter I found a gap between what our order total said and what actually landed in the bank.”source ↗
“Now I'm not sure whether this is something everyone checks monthly, or something most people just trust the platform on.”source ↗
“Trying to reconcile Amazon transactions in Xero has been a nightmare. I’ve even tried uploading CSV files, but I still end up spending way too much time trying to match everything up.”source ↗
“When you guys mention Recons I kinda scratch my head.”source ↗
Where this came up
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