Comparison
Looking for a Link My Books alternative?
Link My Books turns your Amazon settlements into clean accounting entries, and posts a COGS entry from per-SKU costs you upload — into a cloud ledger you pay for separately. Nexus Ledger is the connector, the ledger, the bank reconciliation and the monthly close in one subscription, with cost of goods from the same kind of per-SKU unit cost.
What each one costs, monthly
| Line | Monthly |
|---|---|
| Link My Books — settlement connector | $41–$47 |
| Xero Established — the ledger it posts into | $90 |
| Link My Books + Xero — together | ≈ $131–$137 |
| Seller Growth — Nexus Ledger — connector, ledger, bank reconciliation and close in one | $59 |
Seller Growth carries the same order volume the connector leg above is quoted at (up to 1,000 Amazon orders / mo), so this is like for like: 55–57% less per month, and it replaces both lines rather than sitting beside them.
Link My Books raised prices on 1 July 2026 and withdrew annual billing for new customers; $41 is the legacy rate the published band was built on, $47 is the vendor’s own current quote for one store at 1,000 orders/mo.
Priced on: 1 Amazon store, up to 1,000 orders / mo, multi-currency books. Multi-currency is what forces the Established tier; a seller who bills in one currency can buy Xero Early ($25) or Growing ($55) instead, which lowers this column.
Incumbent stack prices verified 2026-08-13; re-checked quarterly. These are the vendors’ own published list prices and change without notice — check them before you decide. Both cloud ledgers also run heavy introductory discounts, so a first-year invoice can be materially lower than the table; the gap this page describes is the steady-state one.
What Link My Books gets right
It is a well-built tool with a loyal following, and the comparison is more useful if we are straight about that.
- Its settlement breakdowns are careful and it is explicit about how each fee type is treated — that transparency is genuinely hard to match.
- It fits into a ledger you may already be committed to, which is the right answer when your accountant works in that ledger every day.
- Setup is quick, because it is doing one job rather than becoming your system of record.
- It benchmarks you against an anonymised cohort of comparable sellers — sales growth, refund ratio, fee ratios — which we do not offer at all. If peer comparison is what you want, that is a real reason to prefer it.
Where the two genuinely differ
This is a difference in shape, not a scorecard. A connector is designed to feed someone else’s ledger; we are designed to be the ledger.
The seam disappears
When the connector and the ledger are the same system, a settlement does not get handed across a boundary — it posts. There is one system to reconcile to the bank rather than two to keep in step with each other.
Same cost method, one book
Link My Books posts a balanced COGS entry from a per-SKU cost you enter or upload. Nexus uses the same kind of input — a unit cost per SKU you set at onboarding — and posts cost of goods automatically when its settlement sale is posted. Same method; the difference is that the entry lands in the ledger it belongs to, not across a seam.
Controls a reviewer recognises
One-click approval of each settlement and its bank match, with cost of goods following the sale automatically; dual control from the second user, and a sole-approver attestation when you work alone; corrections by reversal rather than edit; and a trial-balance row that drills to its journal entry and on to the settlement, bank line or document behind it. Built in, not a process you run around the tool.
One subscription
The table above compares a connector plus a ledger against a single subscription that includes both, at each vendor’s published list price on the stated date.
Two tools
Link My Books + Xero, kept in step by you.
Link My Books
Reads settlements and posts a summary entry.
Xero
Receives those entries as a separate system of record.
One platform
The connector and the ledger are the same system.
- Settlements post directly as balanced double-entry journal entries.
- Cost of goods uses the same kind of input a connector does — units sold × the unit cost you set per SKU — and posts automatically when its sale is posted, inside the same ledger.
- The payout is matched to the bank deposit and the month is closed in the same system, so there is no seam to reconcile.
Moving across
You do not rebuild your history by hand. We anchor on opening balances and rebuild forward from recent settlements, and you approve each settlement before it posts.
- 1
Bring your trial balance
Export the trial balance from Xero and upload it. An export that carries an account-code column is read automatically; one without needs that column added before upload.
- 2
Connect Amazon
One click, read-only, finance access only. Settlements, fees, refunds, reserves and reimbursements come across on their own.
- 3
Review, then post
You approve each settlement and its bank match with one click; its cost of goods follows automatically when you post the sale.
- No long-term lock-in · export your data anytime
Questions sellers ask
A connector reads your Amazon settlements and posts a summary entry into an accounting package you subscribe to separately. Nexus includes that connector and is also the accounting package — a full double-entry ledger, with the bank reconciliation and the monthly close in the same place. One subscription, one system of record, and no reconciliation between the tool that reads Amazon and the tool that keeps the books.
Because the vendor repriced. The lower figure is the legacy rate our published savings band was originally built on; the upper figure is the vendor’s own current quote for a comparable configuration. A new customer cannot buy the lower one, so showing it alone as a current price would be misleading. The as-of date is on the table.
Yes, and that is the trade being offered: one platform instead of two. You bring an opening trial balance exported from your current ledger, we rebuild forward from recent settlements, and you approve each settlement before it posts. If you are committed to your existing ledger, a connector that feeds it is the more natural fit and we would say so.
Amazon US, Canada and Mexico today; other marketplaces are coming soon. If your main marketplace is not one of those yet, Nexus is not the right fit today, and we would rather say so than sell it.
From the unit cost you set for each SKU — entered at onboarding, editable any time. Cost of goods is units sold × that cost, which is the same basic method Link My Books uses with the landed product costs per SKU you upload. The difference is that Nexus posts it automatically when the sale posts, inside the same ledger, so cost of goods appears in the trial balance without a hand-off between tools.
See a settlement become a balanced entry
The live demo is a synthetic walkthrough: settlements decomposed into fees, refunds and COGS, balanced to the cent, and a trial balance that ties. Invented figures, no signup, no card.