# Acodei > Automate your Stripe to QuickBooks integration. Sync payments, invoices, and payouts in real-time with Acodei. ## About Acodei automates the flow of transaction data from Stripe to QuickBooks Online. Sales, refunds, fees, and payouts are synced in real-time with advanced features like multi-product mapping, invoice sync, and class tracking. Multicurrency is available too, enabled by the Acodei team on request rather than self-serve. ## Key Pages - [Homepage](https://www.acodei.com/) - [Pricing](https://www.acodei.com/pricing) - [Blog](https://www.acodei.com/blog) - [FAQ](https://www.acodei.com/faqs) - [Contact](https://www.acodei.com/contact) - [Custom Pricing](https://www.acodei.com/custom-pricing) - [Documentation](https://docs.acodei.com) ## Pricing Acodei offers usage-based plans priced by monthly Stripe transaction volume: - Scale ($12 to $100/mo): For growing businesses, covering 100 to 5,000 synced Stripe transactions per month, with advanced product/fee/tax mapping, invoice and daily-summary sync, and unlimited users and Stripe accounts. - Enterprise ($150 to $350/mo): For high-volume businesses, covering 10,000 to 250,000 synced Stripe transactions per month, with priority support and proactive monitoring. - Custom (negotiable pricing): For accounting firms and multi-entity companies needing hands-on setup, a dedicated account manager, and private Slack support. Scale tiers, monthly and annual: - Up to 100 transactions/month: $12/month, or $120/year billed annually. - Up to 250 transactions/month: $20/month, or $200/year billed annually. - Up to 500 transactions/month: $30/month, or $300/year billed annually. - Up to 1,000 transactions/month: $50/month, or $500/year billed annually. - Up to 2,500 transactions/month: $75/month, or $750/year billed annually. - Up to 5,000 transactions/month: $100/month, or $1,000/year billed annually. Enterprise tiers, monthly and annual: - Up to 10,000 transactions/month: $150/month, or $1,500/year billed annually. - Up to 25,000 transactions/month: $200/month, or $2,000/year billed annually. - Up to 50,000 transactions/month: $250/month, or $2,500/year billed annually. - Up to 100,000 transactions/month: $300/month, or $3,000/year billed annually. - Up to 250,000 transactions/month: $350/month, or $3,500/year billed annually. All paid plans include a 14-day free trial. Starting it requires a credit card, and the first payment is due when the trial ends. Annual billing saves two months (for example, the entry Scale tier is $120/year). Tax mapping needs Stripe Tax switched on in your Stripe account. Stripe calculates and collects the tax, and Acodei carries the amounts into QuickBooks. Multicurrency is enabled by the Acodei team on request rather than being self-serve, and zero-decimal currencies such as JPY are not supported. Full pricing: https://www.acodei.com/pricing ## Features - [All features](https://www.acodei.com/features) - [Stripe to QuickBooks Integration](https://www.acodei.com/features/stripe-quickbooks): Automatically sync Stripe payments, fees, refunds, and payouts to QuickBooks Online. Real-time, accurate, and audit-ready. No manual exports, no spreadsheets. - [Advanced Product Mapping](https://www.acodei.com/features/advanced-product-mapping): Map Stripe products to QuickBooks with rule-based logic on product ID, price ID, metadata, and account. Set rule priority and extend mapping to refunds and fees. - [Automated Invoice Sync](https://www.acodei.com/features/automated-invoice-sync): Bring Stripe invoices into QuickBooks and auto-apply payments and credit memos, with numbering, invoice matching, and quantity tracking to cut double-entry. - [Multi-Currency Mastery](https://www.acodei.com/features/multi-currency-mastery): Sync Stripe transactions across currencies with automatic exchange rate handling and currency-specific customer records. Our team enables multicurrency on request, and zero-decimal currencies such as JPY are not supported. - [Class Mapping](https://www.acodei.com/features/class-mapping): Map Stripe products to QuickBooks classes for scalable categorization and multi-entity reporting. Class tracking requires QuickBooks Online Plus or Advanced. - [Historical Data Import](https://www.acodei.com/features/historical-data-import): Backfill historical Stripe data into QuickBooks by month range. Preview volume and cost before syncing so reporting starts from a complete baseline. - [How to Connect Stripe to QuickBooks Online](https://www.acodei.com/features/connect-stripe-to-quickbooks): Connect Stripe to QuickBooks Online in minutes. Acodei links both accounts with secure OAuth and syncs payments, fees, refunds, and payouts automatically. - [Reconcile Stripe Payments in QuickBooks](https://www.acodei.com/features/stripe-reconciliation): Reconcile Stripe in QuickBooks Online automatically. Acodei splits out fees, matches payouts to deposits, and keeps every charge audit-ready. ## Solutions - [All solutions](https://www.acodei.com/solutions) - [Stripe Accounting for Accountants & Bookkeepers](https://www.acodei.com/solutions/accountants): Acodei helps accounting firms sync Stripe to QuickBooks Online across multiple clients: accurate mappings, unlimited Stripe accounts, firm-grade support. - [Stripe Accounting for SaaS: Sync to QuickBooks](https://www.acodei.com/solutions/saas): Automate SaaS accounting in QuickBooks Online. Acodei syncs Stripe Billing invoices, proration, refunds, fees, and payouts with no manual journal entries. - [High-Volume Stripe to QuickBooks Sync](https://www.acodei.com/solutions/high-volume): Sync and reconcile thousands of Stripe transactions into QuickBooks Online. Transaction-level, traceable, and audit-ready for high-volume businesses. - [Stripe Accounting for Ecommerce](https://www.acodei.com/solutions/ecommerce): Sync Stripe sales, shipping, discounts, and refunds into QuickBooks Online automatically. Built for ecommerce sellers who need accurate, itemized books. ## Comparisons - [All comparisons](https://www.acodei.com/vs) - [Acodei vs Synder](https://www.acodei.com/vs/synder): Compare Acodei and Synder for syncing Stripe to QuickBooks Online. Pricing, product mapping, payout reconciliation, and multi-platform support compared side by side. - [Acodei vs PayTraQer](https://www.acodei.com/vs/paytraqer): Compare Acodei and PayTraQer for syncing Stripe to QuickBooks Online. Rule-based product mapping, subscription billing, and reconciliation compared side by side. - [Acodei vs QuickBooks Stripe Connector](https://www.acodei.com/vs/quickbooks-stripe-connector): Compare Acodei to the free QuickBooks Stripe Connector (native Intuit app). See where the free tool falls short for growing Stripe businesses and when it is worth upgrading. - [Acodei vs Webgility](https://www.acodei.com/vs/webgility): Acodei vs Webgility for syncing Stripe to QuickBooks: compare pricing, Stripe reconciliation depth, and order-based vs transaction-based sync. - [Acodei vs Commerce Sync](https://www.acodei.com/vs/commerce-sync): Compare Acodei and Commerce Sync for syncing Stripe to QuickBooks. Daily summary vs transaction-level sync, pricing, Desktop and Xero support, and reconciliation depth compared side by side. - [Acodei vs Make](https://www.acodei.com/vs/make): Compare Acodei and Make (formerly Integromat) for syncing Stripe to QuickBooks Online. Purpose-built bookkeeping versus a build-it-yourself automation scenario. - [Acodei vs Bookkeep](https://www.acodei.com/vs/bookkeep): Compare Acodei and Bookkeep for Stripe to QuickBooks. Transaction-level sync vs summarized payout journal entries, pricing models, and platform support compared. - [Acodei vs Dext Commerce](https://www.acodei.com/vs/dext-commerce): Compare Acodei and Dext Commerce for getting Stripe data into QuickBooks Online. Dedicated transaction-level sync vs a sales summary module inside the Dext bookkeeping suite. - [Acodei vs sush.io](https://www.acodei.com/vs/sushio): Compare Acodei and sush.io for syncing Stripe to QuickBooks Online. Annual pricing, payout-grouped vs transaction-level sync, invoices, multicurrency, and reconciliation depth compared side by side. - [Acodei vs Zapier](https://www.acodei.com/vs/zapier): Compare Acodei and Zapier for getting Stripe into QuickBooks Online. Task pricing, what Zapier's Stripe triggers cover, and why payout reconciliation is the dividing line. - [Acodei vs A2X](https://www.acodei.com/vs/a2x): Compare Acodei and A2X for getting Stripe revenue into QuickBooks Online. Direct Stripe sync vs marketplace settlement summaries, pricing, and when to use each. ## Blog - [All articles](https://www.acodei.com/blog) - [Stripe Meter Events That Never Billed: How to Find Them](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-invalid-meter-events-quickbooks): A usage event Stripe rejects is never metered, so it never reaches an invoice and never reaches QuickBooks. The revenue is missing from both systems at... - [Stripe MRR vs QuickBooks Revenue: Why They Disagree](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-mrr-vs-quickbooks-revenue): Your Stripe dashboard says $40,850 MRR and your profit and loss says $42,676 for the same month. Both are right. Here is the bridge between them, line by... - [Five Stripe Sigma Queries for Your Month-End Close](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-sigma-queries-month-end-close): Stripe Sigma is SQL over your own Stripe data. Five queries that answer the questions a Stripe month end actually asks, with every column checked against... - [Stripe Updates Expired Cards, and Your Books Never Say So](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-automatic-card-updater-quickbooks): Stripe works with the card networks to repair saved cards when a bank reissues them, and you cannot find out which of your customers are covered. What the... - [Enter a Service Date for the Revenue Recognition Line Item](https://www.acodei.com/blog/quickbooks-revenue-recognition-service-date-error): QuickBooks refuses a synced Stripe sale because a line uses an item carrying a revenue recognition template and no service date. What the error means, and... - [Stripe to QuickBooks Journal Entries: The One Exception](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-quickbooks-journal-entries): There is no setting that turns Stripe sales into QuickBooks journal entries. The full map of which record each event becomes, and the one real exception. - [Changing Your Stripe Payout Deposit Account in QuickBooks](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-deposit-account-change-quickbooks): Changing the deposit account applies to payouts that have not synced yet. The ones already in QuickBooks are not stale records waiting to be corrected,... - [Splitting Stripe Payouts by Product in QuickBooks](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-payout-split-by-product-quickbooks): A Stripe payout is one settlement of a netted balance, so it carries no product detail. The product-level revenue split happens at the charge, where... - [QuickBooks Class Tracking for Stripe Revenue](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-class-tracking-quickbooks): Stripe has no class field, so a class reaches QuickBooks only through the product your transaction maps to. That one fact explains blank fee classes,... - [Stripe and Your Billing Platform in QuickBooks](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-billing-platform-quickbooks): Two systems with a QuickBooks connection is an unassigned ownership question. Which one writes the invoice, which one writes the money, and why duplicate... - [The QuickBooks Chart of Accounts a Stripe Business Needs](https://www.acodei.com/blog/quickbooks-chart-of-accounts-stripe): Stripe does not send you revenue. It sends you a balance made of about forty kinds of movement, only one of which is a sale. Which QuickBooks accounts... - [Changing Your Stripe Holding Account in QuickBooks](https://www.acodei.com/blog/change-stripe-holding-account-quickbooks): The holding account you picked in onboarding decided how you reconcile, not just how records look. Here is what changing it later actually involves. - [Stripe, PayPal and Square in One QuickBooks File](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-paypal-square-quickbooks-multiple-processors): One clearing account and one fee account per payment processor. Why the multi-processor chart of accounts is structural, not cosmetic. - [When a Negative Stripe Payout Reverses in QuickBooks](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-negative-payout-reversal-quickbooks): A negative Stripe payout puts a Transfer in your books. When a later payout covers the same activity, that record is removed so the refunds are not... - [Resyncing a Stripe Payout in QuickBooks](https://www.acodei.com/blog/resync-stripe-payout-quickbooks): A Stripe payout can arrive in QuickBooks as one Transfer or as a Deposit with many lines, and resync rebuilds only what you selected. Here is how to tell... - [A Missing Stripe Daily Summary, and How to Find It](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-missing-daily-summary-quickbooks): "My daily summary is missing" is three different questions, and two of them usually turn out not to be a fault at all. How to tell an empty day from a... - [The Stripe Reporting API, and a Close You Can Repeat](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-reporting-api-quickbooks): The Stripe Reporting API runs the same reports as the Dashboard, with two boundary rules that differ: the interval end is exclusive, and the time zone you... - [The Stripe Fees Report, and the Month a Fee Belongs To](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-fees-report-quickbooks): Stripe's Fees report is the third reconciliation report, and the one that says what the deductions were for. It ships in two versions pivoted on two... - [Stripe Balance Report vs Payout Reconciliation Report](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-balance-report-vs-payout-reconciliation-quickbooks): Stripe ships two cash reconciliation reports and documents them as alternatives. Which one is right for you was decided by one QuickBooks setup choice:... - [Stripe Payout Schedule and Your Clearing Account](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-payout-schedule-clearing-account-quickbooks): Same volume, same fees, wildly different clearing account balances. Your Stripe payout schedule and settlement timing are two separate settings, and... - [Stripe Managed Payments in QuickBooks: Who Owes the Tax](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-managed-payments-quickbooks): Managed Payments makes Stripe the merchant of record for digital sales. Three things move at once: which figure Stripe reports as a fee, whose liability... - [Stripe Prebilling in QuickBooks: One Invoice, Many Months](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-prebilling-quickbooks): Stripe prebilling collects payment now for future service periods, and the invoice it raises reaches QuickBooks looking entirely ordinary. What... - [Stripe Historical Import to QuickBooks: How It Works](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-historical-import-quickbooks): A historical import is two processes, not one. Stripe counts your history by category, then Acodei runs it through the same sync jobs as live traffic on a... - [Should You Build Your Own Stripe QuickBooks Integration?](https://www.acodei.com/blog/build-your-own-stripe-quickbooks-integration): Claude Code can write a Stripe to QuickBooks sync in an afternoon. The cost lives in the second year: edge cases, the queue, and keeping up with the... - [Stripe Balance Transaction Mapping in QuickBooks](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-balance-transaction-mapping-quickbooks): Balance Transaction Mapping is not where every uncommon Stripe type lands. The four fates of a balance transaction type, and which ones the screen governs. - [Refunding a Stripe Connect Charge in QuickBooks](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-connect-refund-quickbooks): A refund on a Connect platform is up to four separate money movements, not one. Which balance pays, which two parameters decide the rest, and what each... - [Thinkific and Kajabi Payments in QuickBooks](https://www.acodei.com/blog/thinkific-kajabi-quickbooks): Course platforms run checkout on Stripe, but the balance and payout are theirs to report. Here is what actually lands in QuickBooks Online, which records... - [Stripe Tax Thresholds: What Changes in QuickBooks](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-tax-registration-threshold-quickbooks): Stripe Tax flags where you may have crossed a registration threshold. What the monitor is actually counting, what the registration date does to your... - [Stripe Dispute Prevention: A Refund, Not a Chargeback](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-dispute-prevention-quickbooks): Stripe's Verifi and Ethoca integrations can resolve a dispute as a refund before a chargeback opens. Same lost revenue, an opposite QuickBooks record, and... - [Stripe Smart Disputes and QuickBooks: What a Win Costs](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-smart-disputes-quickbooks): Stripe charges a Smart Disputes fee of 30% of the disputed amount, and only when you win. Here is the arithmetic, and what a recovered dispute is worth... - [Stripe Adaptive Pricing in QuickBooks: What Actually Syncs](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-adaptive-pricing-quickbooks): Adaptive Pricing is always on for Payment Links. It bills your buyer in their currency and leaves your charge, payout and QuickBooks records in yours.... - [Stripe Link Payments in QuickBooks](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-link-payments-quickbooks): Stripe Link is a wallet, and a wallet is a container. Which integration shape your checkout uses decides whether you can see the card behind a Link sale,... - [Late Fees on Overdue Stripe Invoices in QuickBooks](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-invoice-late-fee-quickbooks): QuickBooks applies a late fee as a line on the overdue invoice. When that invoice came from Stripe, the fee lands on a record Stripe cannot collect. - [Stripe Usage Billing When the Price Changes Mid-Period](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-usage-billing-price-change-quickbooks): Raise the price of a metered product mid-period and Stripe either bills the usage already reported at its old price or does not bill it at all. Which one... - [Stripe Billing Cycle Anchors and the Day Revenue Lands](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-billing-cycle-anchor-quickbooks): The billing cycle anchor decides which day of the month every Stripe subscription bills. Here is how to set it, what resets it without asking, and what... - [Stripe Radar Reviews and the Sale Already in QuickBooks](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-radar-review-queue-quickbooks): A payment sitting in your Stripe Radar review queue has already succeeded, so the sale is already in your books. What each of the eight review outcomes... - [Stripe Level 3 Data, and the QuickBooks Fee It Changes](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-level-3-data-quickbooks): Level 2 and Level 3 card data change what Stripe charges you to process a commercial card, but only on interchange-plus pricing. What qualifies, what Visa... - [Stripe Tips and Gratuities in QuickBooks Online](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-tips-gratuities-quickbooks): A tip rides inside the Stripe charge and lands as revenue by default. Where Stripe exposes the tip amount, when it is a liability rather than income, and... - [Stripe Invoice Overpayments in QuickBooks Online](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-invoice-overpayment-quickbooks): An overpaid Stripe invoice still settles clean. The excess becomes customer credit, a liability your QuickBooks file does not name, and it reappears later... - [Stripe Terminal and Card-Present Payments in QuickBooks](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-terminal-card-present-quickbooks): A card-present Stripe charge is the same object as an online one, which is why the sync needs no special path. The fee, the customer name and offline... - [How Far Back the Stripe Dispute Window Reaches](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-dispute-window-quickbooks): Stripe says card networks typically allow 120 days to dispute a payment, but when a customer pays for a future event or service the window starts on the... - [Stripe Dispute Inquiries and Three QuickBooks Outcomes](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-dispute-inquiry-quickbooks): An inquiry is the pre-chargeback stage you can still answer, and Stripe documents two exits that cost nothing. What each of the three endings writes in... - [Stripe Mixed Interval Subscriptions in QuickBooks](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-mixed-interval-subscription-quickbooks): Flexible billing mode lets one Stripe subscription carry items on different clocks. The invoice that results covers two service periods at once, and the... - [Backdating a Stripe Subscription: The QuickBooks Side](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-backdate-subscription-quickbooks): Stripe can start a subscription in the past. The invoice it writes is dated now, covers then, and its shape depends on a billing mode most people never... - [The QuickBooks Bank Rule That Recategorizes Stripe Deposits](https://www.acodei.com/blog/quickbooks-bank-rule-stripe-deposits): Every guide tells you to write a bank rule for your Stripe deposits. On a file where a sync is already recording the sales, that rule books the same money... - [QuickBooks Reconciliation Discrepancy on a Stripe Account](https://www.acodei.com/blog/quickbooks-reconciliation-discrepancy-stripe): A reconciled month that stops reconciling is always an edit to history, not new activity. What moves a reconciled record in a Stripe-fed QuickBooks file,... - [QuickBooks Customer Statements for Stripe Invoices](https://www.acodei.com/blog/quickbooks-customer-statement-stripe-invoices): Stripe collects one invoice at a time. A QuickBooks statement is the document that shows a customer everything they owe. Which of the three types to send,... - [Stripe Early Fraud Warnings and Your QuickBooks Records](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-early-fraud-warning-quickbooks): An early fraud warning arrives after the charge succeeded and before any dispute exists. Stripe publishes the conversion rate, the refund threshold, and... - [The Stripe Customer Portal and Your QuickBooks Records](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-customer-portal-quickbooks): Your customers can change their own Stripe subscriptions through the customer portal. Which permissions produce billable events, and how those self-serve... - [Pausing a Stripe Subscription: What QuickBooks Sees](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-pause-subscription-quickbooks): Stripe offers three ways to handle invoices while payment collection is paused, and they produce three different sets of QuickBooks records for one... - [Your Own Tax ID on Stripe Invoices and QuickBooks](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-account-tax-id-quickbooks): Your own registration number on a Stripe invoice is a different field from your customer's, with different rules. Where it lives, which of several numbers... - [Stripe Invoice Numbering and the Number QuickBooks Shows](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-invoice-number-quickbooks): Stripe guarantees invoice numbers are unique inside Stripe. That guarantee does not travel to QuickBooks, which keeps its own numbering and its own... - [Stripe Invoice Custom Fields and QuickBooks: Where the PO Number Goes](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-invoice-custom-fields-quickbooks): A PO number on a Stripe invoice is a custom field: four maximum, header only, frozen once the invoice finalizes. What crosses into QuickBooks, what does... - [Stripe Billing Credits (Credit Grants) and QuickBooks](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-billing-credits-quickbooks): Stripe has three unrelated things called a credit. Billing credits, issued as credit grants, are the only one that reduces the invoice before tax is... - [Stripe Customer Tax IDs and QuickBooks](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-customer-tax-id-quickbooks): A customer tax ID sometimes decides whether tax is charged at all, and sometimes does nothing. Which is which, what Stripe validates, and what reaches... - [Partially Paid Stripe Invoices in QuickBooks](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-partial-payment-invoice-quickbooks): A customer pays half. Stripe still says open, the Dashboard says Partially Paid, and your accounts receivable has to be right either way. - [Stripe Quotes That Become Invoices, and What QuickBooks Receives](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-quote-to-invoice-quickbooks): Accepting a Stripe quote creates an invoice, subscription or schedule. Only one of them bills itself. What reaches QuickBooks Online, and exactly when. - [Stripe Invoice Not Finalizing? Stripe Tax Is Often Why](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-invoice-finalization-failed-tax-quickbooks): A Stripe invoice that fails to finalize is never billed, so the sale never reaches QuickBooks. On a subscription, Stripe finalizes it anyway with no tax... - [Stripe Transactions Stuck in For Review in QuickBooks](https://www.acodei.com/blog/stripe-transactions-stuck-for-review-quickbooks): A growing For review queue is how the free Stripe Connector is designed. How to clear the backlog, the mass-confirm trap, and the automatic alternative. - [QuickBooks Stripe Connector Not Importing ACH Payments](https://www.acodei.com/blog/quickbooks-stripe-connector-ach-payments-missing): ACH revenue missing from QuickBooks after connecting the free Stripe Connector? It's a known gap. How to confirm it, work around it, and fix it for good. The 60 most recent articles are listed above, newest first. All 183 articles with full text: https://www.acodei.com/llms-full.txt ## Glossary - [All terms](https://www.acodei.com/glossary) - [Undeposited Funds](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/undeposited-funds): Undeposited Funds is where QuickBooks parks payments until you record the deposit. What it is, why Stripe makes the choice consequential, and when to skip it. - [Stripe Balance Transaction](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-balance-transaction): A Stripe balance transaction records money moving through your Stripe balance. What the fields mean, the types you meet, and how they reach QuickBooks. - [Available vs Pending Balance](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-available-vs-pending-balance): Stripe splits your balance into pending and available funds. What each one means, when money moves between them, and why the split shows up at month end. - [Stripe Dispute](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-dispute): A Stripe dispute, or chargeback, reverses a payment at the card network. What Stripe debits and when, what the fee costs, and how it lands in QuickBooks. - [Stripe Dispute Evidence](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-dispute-evidence): Stripe dispute evidence is a set of named fields, not a folder of files. Which fields apply to your claim, the one-submission rule, and the QuickBooks effect. - [Stripe Fee](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-fee): A Stripe fee is what Stripe deducts from your balance for processing and services. The types, when each is charged, and how they reach QuickBooks. - [Stripe Balance Adjustment](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-balance-adjustment): A Stripe balance adjustment is a credit or debit outside the normal charge and refund flow, usually a dispute or failed refund. Why it has no entry of its own. - [QuickBooks Credit Memo](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/quickbooks-credit-memo): A QuickBooks credit memo reduces what a customer owes without moving cash. How it differs from a refund receipt and a delayed credit, and where Stripe fits. - [Stripe Tax](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-tax): Stripe Tax calculates sales tax, VAT, and GST on your transactions and tracks registration thresholds. What it covers, and how the tax reaches QuickBooks. - [QuickBooks Tax Code](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/quickbooks-tax-code): A QuickBooks tax code is what a tax amount attaches to on a line item. How codes, rates, and combined rates differ, and why US and non-US setups diverge. - [Stripe Reserve](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-reserve): A Stripe reserve is a temporary hold on part of your funds. What triggers one, the difference between fixed and rolling, and when the money comes back. - [Stripe Tax Rate](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-tax-rate): A Stripe tax rate is an object with a txr_ ID, a fixed percentage, and an inclusive flag. Why the numbers cannot be edited, and how the ID maps to QuickBooks. - [Stripe Fee Credit](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-fee-credit): A Stripe fee credit offsets Stripe fees you were already charged. Why fee_credit_funding arrives as a positive line, and how it posts to QuickBooks. - [Stripe Credit Note](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-credit-note): A Stripe credit note reduces a finalized invoice without voiding it. What pre_payment and post_payment mean, and how it becomes a QuickBooks credit memo. - [QuickBooks Product/Service Item](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/quickbooks-product-service): A QuickBooks product/service item is the thing that carries the account a sale posts to. Why every Stripe sync ultimately resolves to one, and what breaks. - [Stripe Payout](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-payout): A Stripe payout moves money from your Stripe balance to your bank. What it contains, what its statuses mean, and why it is never the place revenue is recorded. - [QuickBooks Sales Receipt](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/quickbooks-sales-receipt): A QuickBooks sales receipt records a sale that was paid for on the spot. When to use one instead of an invoice, and what it posts behind the scenes. - [QuickBooks Bank Deposit](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/quickbooks-bank-deposit): A QuickBooks bank deposit combines payments waiting in Undeposited Funds into the one lump sum your bank shows. What it posts, and how Stripe payouts use it. - [QuickBooks Transfer](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/quickbooks-transfer): A QuickBooks transfer moves money between two accounts you already own. What it posts, what it cannot carry, and why Stripe payouts land on it. - [Stripe Authorization Hold](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-authorization-hold): An authorization hold reserves money on a card without moving it. How long holds last by card brand, what happens when they expire, and why they are not sales. - [QuickBooks Refund Receipt](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/quickbooks-refund-receipt): A QuickBooks refund receipt moves real money back to a customer. What it posts, the account it draws from, and the one case where it is the wrong form. - [QuickBooks Payment](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/quickbooks-payment): A QuickBooks payment moves cash without recognizing income. What Receive payment posts, why applying it to the right invoice is the whole job, and what breaks. - [QuickBooks Expense](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/quickbooks-expense): A QuickBooks expense records a cost you have already paid, with no payable in between. What the form asks, how it differs from a bill, and where Stripe fees go. - [QuickBooks Journal Entry](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/quickbooks-journal-entry): A journal entry records accounting directly, with no invoice or bill behind it. What QuickBooks requires, when it is the wrong tool, and where Acodei uses one. - [Stripe Financial Account](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-financial-account): A Stripe financial account is a second balance that acts like a bank account, separate from your payments balance. What it holds and how it maps to QuickBooks. - [Holding Account](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/holding-account): A holding account is the QuickBooks account that stands in for your Stripe balance. What fills the slot, and what every downstream record inherits from it. - [Accounts Receivable](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/accounts-receivable): Accounts receivable is what customers owe you for sales already on your books. Why a Stripe business can run for years without one, then acquire one overnight. - [Bank Feed](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/quickbooks-bank-feed): A QuickBooks bank feed downloads what your bank saw. For a Stripe business that is the payout, which is why Match and Add are not interchangeable. - [Deferred Revenue](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/deferred-revenue): Deferred revenue is cash collected before the work is done, which makes it a liability rather than income. What that means for Stripe billing in QuickBooks. - [Stripe PaymentIntent](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-payment-intent): A Stripe PaymentIntent tracks an attempt to collect money, not the money itself. Why it is not a bookkeeping event, and what triggers a QuickBooks record. - [Stripe Checkout Session](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-checkout-session): A Stripe Checkout Session is a hosted payment page with an expiry date, not a payment. Why an abandoned one is not a sale, and what it changes in QuickBooks. - [Stripe SetupIntent](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-setup-intent): A SetupIntent saves a payment method without charging it. Why it never creates a QuickBooks record, and why a succeeded one is not a sale. - [Stripe PaymentMethod](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-payment-method): A PaymentMethod is the stored instrument a customer pays with. Why its type predicts settlement timing and fee shape, and what reaches QuickBooks. - [Stripe Charge](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-charge): A Stripe charge records an attempt to move money, not money moved. What its status, paid and captured fields mean, and which QuickBooks record it becomes. - [Stripe Refund](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-refund): A Stripe refund is its own object with its own status and its own balance transaction. Why issuing one is not the same as the customer receiving money. - [QuickBooks Invoice](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/quickbooks-invoice): A QuickBooks invoice is a request for payment that creates a receivable. How it differs from a sales receipt, and why that choice changes your books. - [QuickBooks Class Tracking](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/quickbooks-class-tracking): Class tracking labels QuickBooks transactions by department or product line so one chart of accounts reports by segment. How it differs from locations. - [QuickBooks Location Tracking](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/quickbooks-location-tracking): Location tracking tags a whole QuickBooks transaction with a place, so one company file reports by site. The plan limits and the one-per-transaction rule. - [QuickBooks Project](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/quickbooks-project): A QuickBooks project collects income and costs for one piece of work, so you get profit per job rather than per segment. How it differs from a class. - [QuickBooks Closing Date](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/quickbooks-closing-date): The QuickBooks closing date locks prior periods, but it is a soft lock: it warns, it can ask for a password, and it records what got through anyway. - [Stripe Invoice Line Item](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-invoice-line-item): A Stripe invoice line item carries its own amount, quantity, pricing and service period. What each field means, and how the QuickBooks line model differs. - [Stripe Proration](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-proration): A Stripe proration is an adjustment line that restates a period you already billed. Why it cannot be discounted, and why its period differs from its neighbour. - [Stripe Invoice Status](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-invoice-status): Draft, open, paid, void and uncollectible: what each Stripe invoice status means, which transitions Stripe allows, and what each one writes into QuickBooks. - [Stripe Shipping Rate](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-shipping-rate): A Stripe shipping rate is a reusable priced object an invoice points at, not a line on it. What it carries, its own tax code, and where the money sits. - [Stripe Transfer](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-transfer): A Stripe transfer moves money from a platform balance to a connected account. No bank is involved, which is why it means the opposite of a QuickBooks transfer. - [Stripe Mandate](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-mandate): A Stripe mandate is the customer’s recorded permission to debit their bank account. Why it is separate from the payment method, and what makes it inactive. - [Stripe on_behalf_of](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-on-behalf-of): Stripe’s on_behalf_of names the connected account a payment is really for. What it changes about settlement, fees, branding and tax, and what it leaves alone. - [Stripe Invoice Item](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-invoice-item): A Stripe invoice item is a charge waiting for an invoice. What the pending queue holds, which invoice sweeps it up, and why standalone invoices skip it. - [QuickBooks Estimate](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/quickbooks-estimate): A QuickBooks estimate is the quote that stays out of your books. What it is, the statuses it moves through, and how converting one to an invoice works. - [Stripe Invoice Payment](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-invoice-payment): A Stripe InvoicePayment records which payment settled which invoice, and for how much. What it holds, and why one payment can cover several invoices. - [Stripe Invoice Payment Settings](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-payment-settings): Payment settings decide what an invoice can be paid with. Why the list changes the fee, the settlement timing, and whether the invoice finalizes at all. - [Stripe Billing Meter](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-billing-meter): A meter decides how usage events become one number on an invoice line. Why sum, count and last bill differently, and why the setting cannot be changed. - [Stripe Invoice Template](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-invoice-template): An invoice template holds memo, footer and custom field defaults for groups of customers, and only a template can group line items. How inheritance resolves. - [Stripe Price](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-price): A Price is the rule that turns a quantity into an amount. Per-unit against tiered, graduated against volume, and why the invoice line never says which ran. - [Stripe Subscription Schedule](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-subscription-schedule): A subscription schedule is the plan for a subscription: ordered phases that change price, quantity or coupon on a set date. Statuses, releasing and the books. - [Stripe Subscription Item](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-subscription-item): A Stripe subscription item joins one price to one subscription with its own quantity. Why it, not the subscription, is the unit every change belongs to. - [QuickBooks Recurring Transaction](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/quickbooks-recurring-transaction): A QuickBooks recurring transaction is a saved template that creates the same transaction on a schedule. The three types, and why Stripe billing changes it. - [QuickBooks Sub-Customer](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/quickbooks-sub-customer): A QuickBooks sub-customer sits under a parent customer and keeps its own balance. What Bill with parent changes on invoices, statements and projects. - [QuickBooks Audit Log](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/quickbooks-audit-log): The QuickBooks audit log records who changed what and when, and keeps it two years. What it captures, why synced records show a system user, and its limits. - [QuickBooks Bank Rule](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/quickbooks-bank-rule): A QuickBooks bank rule categorizes downloaded transactions automatically. What it matches on, how priority decides which rule wins, and what auto-confirm does. - [Stripe Subscription Status](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-subscription-status): A Stripe subscription status says whether billing is still running. What each of the eight values means for your books, and which ones still invoice. - [Stripe Mixed Interval Subscription](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-mixed-interval-subscription): A Stripe mixed interval subscription bills items on different clocks. How the periods work, when you get one invoice, and when you get several. - [Stripe Trial Settings](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-trial-settings): Stripe trial settings decide what happens when a trial ends with no payment method: invoice, pause, or cancel. Each one leaves different books behind. - [QuickBooks Payment Terms](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/quickbooks-payment-terms): Payment terms in QuickBooks are a named record that computes a due date, not a date you type. What that means when a Stripe invoice arrives with a date. - [Stripe Pending Update](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-pending-update): A Stripe pending update is a subscription change held back until its invoice is paid. What it holds, when it expires, and what QuickBooks sees meanwhile. - [QuickBooks Tags](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/quickbooks-tags): Tags are the QuickBooks labels that never touch the general ledger, and Intuit is retiring them. What they track, the dates, and what replaces them. - [QuickBooks Credit Card Credit](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/quickbooks-credit-card-credit): The QuickBooks form for money a vendor puts back on your card. Why it is the wrong record for a Stripe refund, and which record is the right one. - [QuickBooks Vendor Credit](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/quickbooks-vendor-credit): The QuickBooks record that lowers what you owe a vendor without moving any cash. How to apply one through Pay bills, and what happens if you never do. - [QuickBooks Bill](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/quickbooks-bill): A QuickBooks bill records a cost you will pay later and leaves a payable standing until a separate bill payment settles it. What it asks and where it shows up. - [QuickBooks Delayed Charge](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/quickbooks-delayed-charge): A QuickBooks delayed charge records work to bill later without posting anything. What it does not do to your books, and how it reaches an invoice. - [Stripe Billing Mode](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-billing-mode): Stripe billing mode is set per subscription, not per account. What classic and flexible change, where the mode comes from, and why migration runs one way. - [QuickBooks Billable Expense](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/quickbooks-billable-expense): A billable expense is a cost you flag to recharge to a customer, then pull onto their invoice. What the checkbox does, the settings it needs, and the tier. - [Stripe Customer Cash Balance](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-cash-balance): A Stripe cash balance holds real funds a customer sent by bank transfer, waiting to be matched. How it differs from the invoice balance, and what moves it. - [QuickBooks Purchase Order](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/quickbooks-purchase-order): A QuickBooks purchase order records what you committed to buy without posting anything. Which plans have it, how it closes, and what it never touches. - [QuickBooks Opening Balance](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/quickbooks-opening-balance): An opening balance is a journal entry QuickBooks writes for you, and the other half lands in Opening Balance Equity. When to enter one, and when zero is right. - [QuickBooks Account Type](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/quickbooks-account-type): Account type decides how QuickBooks tracks the money and which report shows it. Detail type does not affect the accounting. What that means for Stripe. - [QuickBooks Sales Tax Center](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/quickbooks-sales-tax-center): The QuickBooks Sales Tax Center is where QuickBooks tracks what it calculated, filed and paid. Why Stripe tax often shows up as zero owed there. - [Stripe Webhook](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-webhook): A Stripe webhook is an HTTPS endpoint Stripe posts events to. What the Event object holds, how delivery and retries work, and why order is never guaranteed. - [Stripe Metadata](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-metadata): Stripe metadata is a key-value store you attach to Stripe objects. The 50-key limit, why Stripe ignores it, and which QuickBooks mapping it can drive. - [Stripe Outbound Payment](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-outbound-payment): A Stripe outbound payment sends money from your financial account to someone else. Why it books as an expense in QuickBooks and not as a transfer. - [Stripe Received Credit](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-received-credit): A Stripe received credit is money arriving in your financial account. Where the money came from decides which QuickBooks account the transfer leaves. - [Stripe Outbound Transfer](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-outbound-transfer): A Stripe outbound transfer moves your own money from a financial account to your own bank. Why it books as a QuickBooks Transfer and not an expense. - [Stripe Inbound Transfer](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-inbound-transfer): A Stripe inbound transfer pulls money from your own bank into a financial account by ACH debit. How it books in QuickBooks, and what a return does to it. - [Stripe Received Debit](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-received-debit): A Stripe received debit records money pulled out of your financial account by something else. What creates one, and how card spend books in QuickBooks. - [Stripe Payout Method](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-payout-method): A Stripe payout method is where money is sent. The phrase covers two different things in Stripe’s API, and mixing them up sends you to the wrong screen. - [Stripe Financial Account Transaction](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-financial-account-transaction): Every move into or out of a Stripe financial account writes a transaction. What balance impact, open, posted and void mean for your period cutoff. - [Stripe Financial Address](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-financial-address): A Stripe financial address is the bank details people send money to so it lands in your financial account. What the statuses and two currency fields mean. - [Stripe Application Fee](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-application-fee): An application fee is the cut a Connect platform takes from a connected account’s charge. Why it is often the only part of that sale your own books ever see. - [Stripe Connected Account](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-connected-account): A Stripe connected account takes payments on a Connect platform. Two controller properties decide who pays the processing fees and who absorbs the losses. - [Stripe Destination Charge](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-destination-charge): A destination charge is created on the platform and transferred straight to the connected account. What decides the split, the statement name and the liability. - [Stripe Separate Charges and Transfers](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-separate-charges-and-transfers): The Connect flow where the charge is decoupled from the transfer. The five cases Stripe says justify it, and what the decoupling costs you at month end. - [Stripe Direct Charge](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-direct-charge): A direct charge is created on the connected account, so the sale never lands in your platform balance. What that changes for fees, refunds and reporting. - [Stripe Payment Method Configuration](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-payment-method-configuration): A payment method configuration is the named set of payment methods Stripe offers at checkout. What it controls, and which one applies on a Connect platform. - [Stripe Dynamic Payment Methods](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-dynamic-payment-methods): Dynamic payment methods let Stripe choose which payment methods each customer sees. What decides eligibility, and why the list changes without you touching it. - [Stripe Payment Method Rules](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-payment-method-rules): Payment method rules are Dashboard conditions that show or hide a non-card payment method by amount or country. What they cover, and where they stop. - [QuickBooks Bundle](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/quickbooks-bundle): A QuickBooks bundle sells several products and services as one line. What it can hold, the two limits Intuit sets, and where the revenue lands. - [Stripe Account Capability](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-account-capability): A Stripe capability is the permission a connected account needs before it can take payments or receive transfers. The four statuses and what each one blocks. - [Stripe Merchant of Record](https://www.acodei.com/glossary/stripe-merchant-of-record): In a Stripe Connect integration the merchant of record is either your platform or the connected account. 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What multi-currency Stripe to QuickBooks sync requires, and the two settings you cannot undo later. - [Switching from another sync tool](https://www.acodei.com/use-cases/switching-stripe-quickbooks-tools): Moving from another Stripe to QuickBooks tool? What happens to the records it already wrote, and which setup choices are expensive to revisit later. ## Legal - [Privacy Policy](https://www.acodei.com/privacy) - [Terms and Conditions](https://www.acodei.com/terms) - [Data Processing Addendum](https://www.acodei.com/data-processing) ## Optional - [Full content version](https://www.acodei.com/llms-full.txt)