Link My Books vs A2X Pricing: 2026 Cost by Order Volume

Link My Books is cheaper than A2X at every volume where both vendors publish a comparable figure, and the gap widens as you add sales channels. At 200 orders on one channel it is $24 against $29. At 5,000 combined orders across four channels it is $90 against $169. At 100,000 orders it is $564 against $1,299. The reason is structural rather than promotional: A2X meters sales channels and Link My Books folds them into the plan. What A2X sells for the premium is NetSuite support, deeper Amazon handling, and the fact that most ecommerce bookkeepers already run it.

Both products do one job. A marketplace batches two weeks of sales, refunds, referral fees, fulfillment fees, sales tax and reserve movements into a single deposit. That deposit hits your bank feed at some figure like $6,904.62 and matches nothing in your books. A2X and Link My Books both take the settlement apart and post one summarized journal entry into QuickBooks Online or Xero that reconciles against the deposit exactly. Neither is an accounting system. Both sit next to one.

Every price below was read off each vendor's own pricing pages on September 9, 2026, in USD. For A2X that meant the per-channel pages at a2xaccounting.com rather than the overview, which only shows a starting figure. For Link My Books it meant the pricing calculator itself, which turns out to publish a good deal more than people think.

How much does Link My Books cost?

Link My Books costs $20 a month at up to 15 orders on one sales channel, $24 at 200 orders, $47 at 1,000, $112 at 10,000 and $239 at 25,000. Above 25,000 orders everything is priced on the ten-channel Premium plan, which runs from $350 up to $1,375 at 750,000 orders.

You will read on a lot of pages, including several we wrote ourselves before this month, that Link My Books does not publish prices. That is not accurate. linkmybooks.com/pricing is a calculator rather than a price list, but the full ladder is right there in the page: 31 order bands, four channel counts, three currencies. Here is the whole thing in dollars.

The plan names describe channel count and history depth, not features. Starter is one channel with 3 months of history, Plus is two with 12, Pro is five with 18, Premium is ten with 24. Order volume then moves you up and down inside whichever one you are on, which is why quoting "the Starter plan" as a single price collapses thirteen different numbers into one.

One warning about the dollar figures you will find elsewhere. Link My Books is a UK company, and the USD list is not a live conversion. It is a fixed internal rate of roughly 1.33 applied to the pound price, and it does not move when the exchange rate does. Most circulating dollar figures were produced by converting the pound ladder at a market rate near 1.18, so they land 11 to 13 percent low. The GBP 149 top published tier turns up on several sites as "$149" when the vendor's own dollar price for that band is $198. Our full Link My Books pricing breakdown has the pound and dollar ladders side by side.

How much does A2X cost?

A2X prices per sales channel, and each channel has its own ladder. On Amazon it is Mini $29 for up to 200 orders, Starter $59 for 1,000, Standard $79 for 5,000, Standard 10k $159 for 10,000, Premium 15k $229 for 15,000 and Premium 20k $289 for 20,000. Shopify is a different ladder with the same entry point: Mini $29 for 200 orders, Basic $45 for 500, Professional $79 for 2,000, Premium 5k $115 for 5,000. Walmart has no $29 plan at all and starts at $79.

The part that most comparisons skip, and the part you should actually price against, is the multi-channel bundle. It is charged on combined orders across everything you connect: $89 at 1,000 orders, $115 at 2,000, $169 at 5,000, $229 at 10,000, $289 at 15,000, $359 at 20,000, $499 at 30,000, $649 at 40,000, $719 at 50,000, $1,149 at 75,000 and $1,299 at 100,000. Comparing four stacked single-channel plans against a Link My Books Pro plan is the wrong comparison and it makes A2X look worse than it is. The complete per-channel tables are on our A2X pricing page.

Which is cheaper, Link My Books or A2X?

Link My Books, at every point we could match, using A2X's multi-channel bundles rather than stacked plans so the comparison is fair to A2X.

Notice the shape of it. On a single channel the gap is $5 to $12 a month, which is nothing, and you should pick on fit rather than price. The moment you add channels it becomes structural. At four channels and 5,000 orders the difference is $79 a month, or $948 a year, for two tools that both post a summarized settlement entry into the same two accounting systems.

The channel cap almost nobody mentions

This is the finding worth more than any single price on the page, and we have not seen it written down anywhere else. A2X's multi-channel bundles cap at five sales channels, and they stay capped at five from the $169 tier all the way up through $1,149. Only the top $1,299 plan, sized for 100,000 combined orders a month, raises the limit to ten. Link My Books gives you ten channels on Premium at $45 a month if your volume is low.

So a seller running Amazon, Shopify, eBay, Etsy, Walmart and a second Amazon region has six channels and modest volume on each. On Link My Books that is Premium, and at 2,000 combined orders it is $114 a month. On A2X the published multi-channel ladder does not have a plan that fits: the tiers that cover that order volume are capped at three or four channels, and the tiers with more channels are sized for volumes twenty times larger. That is a conversation with sales, not a checkout.

There is a genuine wrinkle here in A2X's favor that cuts the other way, and it deserves saying. A2X does not always count a storefront as a channel. The Amazon Premium tiers include five Amazon Merchant IDs on one plan, and the Shopify Premium 5k plan at $115 includes five Shopify stores. If your six storefronts are really five Amazon regions plus one Shopify store, A2X may treat that as two channels while another vendor treats it as six. Before you take either price at face value, ask each vendor how they count your specific setup, because the answer moves the bill more than the tier does.

Where A2X earns the extra money

It would be lazy to run those numbers and stop, because plenty of sellers see both prices and pick A2X without being foolish.

NetSuite is the first and it is often the end of the discussion. A2X posts into QuickBooks Online, Xero and NetSuite. Link My Books posts into QuickBooks Online and Xero. If your business has outgrown QuickBooks and moved to NetSuite, price is irrelevant because only one of these products can do the job at all.

The second is your bookkeeper. A2X was Xero's 2025 US Small Business App of the Year and holds roughly 4.9 out of 5 across more than 300 G2 reviews. Ecommerce accountants ask for it by name and have templates built around its entry format. If you pay a bookkeeper $200 to $400 a month, a few hours of unfamiliarity costs more than several months of the price difference. That argument is honest, and it is also finite. It applies to the first quarter, not the fifth year.

The third is Amazon depth. A2X's Amazon plans list FBA inventory locations, which matters if you are working out sales tax nexus from where your stock physically sits, and Amazon Pay reconciliation as a separate line from marketplace settlements. Every A2X plan also includes a 1:1 onboarding session, 30 minutes on the general plans and 60 on Premium. Cost of goods sold tracking, worth noting, is on both products, so that is not a differentiator whatever a comparison table tells you.

Two Link My Books mechanics that change the bill

Your order count is not this month. Link My Books calculates it as a rolling twelve month average, which cuts both ways: a single Black Friday will not jump you a tier on its own, but a strong quarter keeps pulling the average up for a year afterwards. When that average passes your plan limit, the vendor emails you and upgrades the plan automatically seven days later. It is disclosed plainly and seven days is fair notice, but the bill moves without you touching anything. Price yourself off your trailing twelve month average, not off last month, or you will compare the wrong row.

The second is the add-on channel. The calculator only prices 1, 2, 5 and 10 channels. If you need one more than your plan covers, the vendor help center puts an extra channel at $17 a month. At the boundaries that is worth arithmetic: a Plus customer adding a third channel pays $17, but anyone heading for four channels is better off on Pro, where the step from two to five channels costs $13 a month at 200 orders and buys three slots instead of one.

One honest caveat on our own table. The Link My Books help center documents a price increase effective July 1, 2026 with a worked example of a UK Starter 200 plan moving from GBP 29 to GBP 36 a month, while the live calculator quotes GBP 18 for that same band. Those cannot both describe the same customer. The likely explanation is that the help center describes legacy named plans held by existing subscribers while the calculator quotes the current band structure to new ones, but the vendor has not said so and we will not state it as fact. If you already pay for this product and your invoice does not match the table above, your invoice is right and you are on a legacy plan. Ask which structure you are on before you renew.

Do you need either one yet?

Quite possibly not, and it is worth thirty seconds before you spend anything. Intuit publishes first-party connectors for Amazon, Shopify, eBay and Etsy that are included with any paid QuickBooks Online plan at no extra charge. Below roughly a few hundred orders a month per channel they cover the work.

Their limit is specific rather than vague. They post at order level, and a bank deposit is a settlement, so as volume climbs you are matching several hundred order entries against one batched deposit. The point where that review turns into a rubber stamp is the honest trigger for buying a settlement tool, and it is a volume threshold, not a missing feature. Two traps are worth knowing: the Etsy connector is not available on QuickBooks Online Solopreneur at $20 a month, so an Etsy seller who chose Solopreneur on price has to move up to Simple Start at $38 before the free option even appears; and the Amazon connector replaced an older settlement-report integration, so sellers who migrated lost settlement-level reconciliation and got one undifferentiated adjustment line instead. Our ecommerce accounting software comparison covers where each free route stops.

Check the category too. If what you actually need is inventory quantities kept straight across three storefronts, neither tool does that, and you are shopping a much more expensive shelf. Our Webgility pricing breakdown covers what that costs.

What neither tool answers

Both products answer an accounting question: what journal entry represents this deposit. Neither answers the business question underneath it, which is which channel is worth the hours. A ledger reports what happened after somebody classified it, one settlement at a time, and it is a poor place to notice that Etsy netted you 71% of gross last quarter while Amazon netted 62%.

That is a reporting tool, not a bookkeeping one. An income tracker puts every payout from every platform on one board as gross, then fees, then take-home, with a payout calendar and a next-month forecast marked clearly as an estimate. It keeps no books and posts no journal entries, so it replaces neither product here. It answers the question most sellers ask first, at $12 a month flat with no order metering and no per-channel charge. Our multi-platform income tracker page walks through how it works.

There is one more gap on the far side of the ledger. Once the settlement entries are posted correctly, somebody still has to turn the trial balance into the P&L, balance sheet and cash flow statement a lender or an investor will actually read, and neither settlement tool does that either. If your books are clean and what you need is the statements, a tool that turns a bookkeeping export into GAAP-style financial statements is a shorter route than another month of your accountant's time. Sellers often discover they have paid for immaculate reconciliation and still cannot produce the three documents anybody outside the business asks for.

Which should you buy?

Buy Link My Books if you are on QuickBooks Online or Xero, you sell across more than one channel, and you would rather not be metered on channel count. Below 25,000 orders a month it is cheaper at every combination we tested, and the more storefronts you run the less close it is. The trial is 14 days with no card and includes 90 days of historical data.

Buy A2X if you are on NetSuite, if your accountant has already built their process around it, or if you sell heavily on Amazon and want FBA inventory locations and multiple merchant IDs handled on one plan. Do not buy it because a comparison table stacked four single-channel plans against one bundle; ask about the multi-channel plan first, because it changes the number substantially.

And if the reconciliation you are actually stuck on is the bank side rather than the marketplace side, that is a third problem again, covered platform by platform in our payout reconciliation guide.

All prices in this article were read off linkmybooks.com and a2xaccounting.com on September 9, 2026, in USD. Link My Books prices per organization on a rolling twelve month order average and converts USD at a fixed internal rate rather than a live one. A2X prices per sales channel with separate ladders per marketplace. Both vendors change prices, so confirm the current figure on each vendor's own page before you commit.