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Set up your sync settings

The setup steps

  1. Connect — confirms your QuickBooks and store connections.
  2. Customer — choose the QuickBooks customer every order from this store maps to. TruSync uses a single customer per store rather than creating a QuickBooks customer per shopper.
  3. Accounts — map order line items (income, shipping, discounts) to your QuickBooks chart of accounts.
  4. Payments — map each payment method your store offers to a QuickBooks payment method. Shown only for stores where payment methods apply (skipped for marketplace stores like Amazon and eBay, since Invoices don’t carry a payment method).
  5. Sales Tax — map the tax jurisdictions your store collects for to QuickBooks tax rates. Shown only when your store handles its own sales tax (skipped for marketplace stores, since the marketplace already remits it).
  6. Settings — general sync behavior: whether refunds auto-sync, Alert Recipients, and related preferences. Order sync and inventory sync themselves run automatically once a store is connected — there’s nothing to turn on here. Sync inventory adjustments is ticked by default; untick it only if you don’t want TruSync writing quantities to this store. This step won’t move on until at least one person is listed under Alert Recipients; it’s a list, so add the person who runs the storefront as well as your accountant.
  7. Deposits — confirms how TruSync should group settled orders into Bank Deposits for your store’s payment model.
  8. Products — map your store’s products to QuickBooks items, or set up how new products should be handled.
  9. Backfill — optionally sync historical orders from before you connected the store, if you want them in QuickBooks too.

You can jump back to any step you’ve already completed using the setup bar at the top of the page.

Unmapped orders block, they don’t guess

If an order arrives with a payment method or tax jurisdiction you haven’t mapped yet, TruSync doesn’t guess — it creates an order exception and waits for you to map it. This is deliberate: auto-mapping to a default account just creates rework later when you have to go back and fix orders that landed in the wrong place.

FAQ

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Do I have to complete every step before orders start syncing?

Connect, Customer, and Accounts are required, and Settings needs at least one person under Alert Recipients so TruSync has someone to tell when an order is held. Payments and Tax only appear when relevant to your store’s payment model. Deposits and Products have sensible defaults you can adjust later.

What happens to orders placed while I’m still setting up?

They’re held, not lost. An order that arrives before you finish setup is recorded in Sync History straight away with the reason “Waiting for setup to finish — this order syncs once onboarding is complete”. Nothing is sent to QuickBooks yet, because the accounts and mappings it would need aren’t settled. When you finish setup, TruSync posts those held orders automatically — you don’t need to re-send them or run a Backfill to pick them up. See Order sync.

Who should I put under Alert Recipients?

Everyone who’d need to act on a held order — typically the person who runs the storefront and whoever reconciles QuickBooks. It’s a list, so add both. See Sync settings.

What happens if I skip mapping a payment method?

Orders using that payment method create an order exception instead of syncing, until you map it.

Can I change these settings after finishing setup?

Yes — every step is revisitable from Settings.
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