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 and a perpetual inventory subledger in one book of record.
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 and ledger 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.
Where the cost figure comes from
Link My Books posts a balanced COGS entry from a per-SKU cost you enter or upload — held static until you change it. Nexus layers purchase costs in on receipt, revalues weighted-average cost as it does, and posts the monthly COGS run against that balance. Both produce an entry; only one derives the cost from the purchases themselves.
Controls a reviewer recognises
Prepare, check and approve on every entry, with nothing posting without a human action; corrections by reversal rather than edit; and a trial-balance row that drills to its general-ledger detail, with each journal entry linked to the document it came from. 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.
Your own cost file
Both connectors DO post a COGS entry — computed, by their own documentation, from unit costs you supply and keep up to date. The file of costs is the thing you maintain.
One platform
The connector and the ledger are the same system.
- Settlements post directly as balanced double-entry journal entries.
- Inventory is a perpetual subledger inside the books: purchase costs layer in on receipt, weighted-average cost is revalued as they do, and the monthly COGS run posts relief against it — so gross profit is a ledger balance, not a figure assembled from a cost file.
- VAT, FX and the approval chain run on the same entry, 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 every entry 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
Read-only. Settlements, fees, refunds, reserves and reimbursements come across on their own.
- 3
Review, then post
Drafts route through prepare, check, approve. Nothing posts without a person.
- 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 IFRS ledger. 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 every entry 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.
VAT is computed per line on the same entry as the sale, not bolted on afterwards. KSA 15% and UAE 5% are built in for sellers who need them, and US marketplace-facilitator tax is handled on the settlement side. It is one book, so the VAT position and the ledger cannot disagree.
It is a perpetual subledger. Purchase costs layer in when stock is received, weighted-average cost is revalued as they do, and the monthly COGS run posts relief against that balance — so COGS and inventory are ledger balances that appear in the trial balance rather than figures derived from a cost list held to one side.
See a settlement become a balanced entry
The live demo is a synthetic walkthrough: settlements decomposed into fees, refunds and COGS, inventory at weighted-average cost, and a trial balance that ties. Invented figures, no signup, no card.