Comparisons
Three jobs. One subscription.
Most sellers shortlist a settlement connector, a cloud ledger, or a profit dashboard. Each does one of three jobs. Nexus does all three — connector, double-entry ledger, and weighted-average inventory — with GCC VAT native. This page is an honest map of what each tool optimises for, so you can decide whether all-in-one fits you.
An Amazon settlement assembles into a balanced double-entry journal entry: sales, fees, refunds and weighted-average cost of goods sold, with debits equal to credits and the entry left in draft for human approval.
FIG 1 — One Amazon settlement → one balanced entry
Amazon settlement · Mar 1–14
- Settlement connector
- Double-entry ledger
- Weighted-average COGS inventory
- KSA 15% / UAE 5% VAT
- USD → SAR / AED at settlement-date FX
- Prepare → check → approve, nothing auto-posts
- Bilingual EN / AR books
The three jobs
Connectors and dashboards each cover one. Nexus covers all three.
A settlement connector moves cash into a ledger. A dashboard estimates profit. A general ledger keeps the books. None of them does the other two — so the seller pays for, and reconciles across, three tools. Nexus is one engine for the whole loop.
Connect
Pull every settlement, automatically
Read-only marketplace connection streams each payout in full — sales, referral and fulfilment fees, refunds, reserves — instead of one lump-sum deposit you unpick by hand.
- Multi-marketplace, multi-currency
- Every line traceable to its source transaction
Compute
Balance the books and value the stock
Each settlement decomposes into a double-entry journal that balances to the cent, with weighted-average cost relieved as units ship — real books, not an estimate, and a trial balance that ties.
- Debits equal credits, enforced
- Weighted-average COGS per unit shipped
Control
You approve every entry
Nothing auto-posts. Prepare → check → approve, with segregation-of-duties blocking self-approval, GCC VAT computed per line, and a filed-ready return — so the books survive an audit.
- KSA 15% / UAE 5% VAT per line
- Append-only audit trail, 10-year retention
Category by category
Where each tool fits — and where all-in-one fits better
We respect every tool here. The honest framing is what each optimises for, and which seller that fits — not a scoreboard. Pick a category to see the trade-off.
A2X
The established Amazon-to-ledger settlement connector.
What it does well
- Accurate, trusted settlement-to-ledger postings.
- Broad marketplace and sales-channel coverage.
- Clean accrual summaries your accountant already understands.
Where it fits best
Sellers who already run a cloud ledger with an accountant and only need clean settlement postings into those existing books.
Where all-in-one fits better
Sellers who want the connector AND the books AND weighted-average-cost inventory in one place — plus KSA / UAE VAT — instead of paying for and reconciling across three separate tools. A connector stops at posting the cash; it is not your ledger and it does not value your stock.
The proof is the product
What all-in-one actually puts on screen
Not a feature checklist — the real artefacts a connector or dashboard cannot show you: a trial balance whose debits tie to credits, a VAT return ready to file, and an approval queue where nothing auto-posts.
| Account | Debit | Credit |
|---|---|---|
| 1100Amazon clearing | 19,100.00 | — |
| 1330Inventory — FBA (WAC) | 9,360.00 | — |
| 4000Amazon sales — US | — | 24,800.00 |
| 5000Cost of goods sold (WAC) | 9,360.00 | — |
| 2200VAT payable | — | 13,020.00 |
| Totals | 37,820.00 | 37,820.00 |
| Account | Base | Rate | VAT |
|---|---|---|---|
| Output VAT — KSA | 86,800.00 | 15% | 13,020.00 |
| Input VAT — KSA | 24,200.00 | 15% | 3,630.00 |
| Net VAT payable | 9,390.00 | ||
- 24,800.00JE-1042Prepared
Mar settlement · sales, fees, refunds
- 9,360.00JE-1043Checked
WAC COGS relief · units shipped
- 9,390.00JE-1044Approved
VAT return · period close
Before you buy
The traps we see most when sellers compare
Buying the wrong stack is expensive — and independent of which vendor a seller eventually picks. These are the questions to ask before you commit.
- 01
A connector is not your books.
A settlement connector posts your payouts into a ledger — it does not act as the ledger. You still pay for the ledger, and you still track inventory and COGS somewhere else. Nexus is the connector, the ledger, and the inventory subledger in one — one subscription, one login.
- 02
A profit dashboard is not double-entry books.
Dashboards estimate profit beautifully, but a bank, an auditor, or a tax authority wants double-entry books and a VAT return. A dashboard is not that. Nexus gives you both: profit by SKU sits on top of real, balanced, drillable books.
- 03
A generic ledger treats a payout as a mystery deposit.
Without Amazon-native logic, a settlement lands as one lump-sum deposit with sales, fees, refunds and reserves blended together. Reconstructing them by hand is where the spreadsheet begins. Nexus decomposes every settlement into a balanced entry automatically, each line traceable to source.
- 04
GCC VAT and multi-currency bolted on later is fragile.
A GCC seller sells in USD, reports in SAR or AED, and owes KSA 15% or UAE 5% VAT. Tools built for one home market add these as plug-ins. Nexus encodes multi-currency FX and GCC VAT into the schema from the first entry.
- 05
AI without controls is a liability, not a feature.
Auto-posting journal entries from AI extraction without a named human approval creates audit risk. We require prepare → check → approve before any entry posts, with segregation-of-duties blocking self-approval, and a heightened-review window on every new workspace.
The moat
The one thing no connector ships: real bilingual books
Saudi company law expects books in Arabic. Every account, every journal narrative, and every statement exists in English and Arabic at once — the same balanced entry, mirrored. Flip it and watch.
| 1100 | Amazon clearing | 19,100.00 | — |
| 5210 | Referral & selling fees | 5,000.00 | — |
| 4000 | Amazon sales — US | — | 24,100.00 |
The same entry, the same figures — mirrored start-to-end under right-to-left. No settlement connector ships this.
See it on a real settlement of yours
Connect your Amazon account read-only, or send us one recent settlement. We will turn it into a balanced, drilled-down journal entry and walk you through it against whatever connector and ledger you are evaluating us against.