A2X vs Webgility Pricing and Features Compared for Shopify and Amazon Sellers on QuickBooks

The short answer: A2X and Webgility both push ecommerce orders into QuickBooks or Xero, but they charge on opposite axes and that is what decides the bill. A2X charges per sales channel, from US$29 a month each, and climbs with order volume inside every channel you connect. Webgility charges one plan price with a hard order cap and a channel count baked in, from $69 a month billed annually for 300 orders and 2 channels. A2X is the cleaner fit for a seller on one or two channels who wants summarized payout entries. Webgility is the better fit for multichannel retail, especially anyone still on QuickBooks Desktop, which A2X does not support. Neither one reconciles a bank or credit card statement.

Last updated August 2026. Every price, order cap and channel limit below was read off each vendor's own pricing page on August 29, 2026. Both companies repackage tiers, so check the live page before you commit.

A2X vs Webgility at a glance

How much does A2X cost?

A2X publishes a starting price of US$29 per month for Amazon, Shopify, Etsy, eBay and PayPal, and US$79 for Walmart. That figure is per sales channel, and inside each channel the price climbs in tiers as your monthly order count rises. Two multipliers run at once: connect a second storefront and you start a second ladder, grow inside a storefront and you move up the one you are on.

This is the part sellers most often get wrong when budgeting. The headline is a single-channel, low-volume number. If you sell on Shopify, Amazon and eBay, you are looking at three subscriptions, each priced at that channel's own peak monthly order volume. Work out your busiest month per channel, price each ladder separately, then add them up. That total is what you should carry into any comparison.

A2X does offer a free trial, so you can confirm which tier your real volume lands in before committing. Use a busy month rather than a quiet one.

How much does Webgility cost?

Webgility publishes two separate ladders because QuickBooks Desktop and QuickBooks Online are genuinely different integrations. Read the one that matches your ledger.

QuickBooks Online and Xero

QuickBooks Desktop

Annual billing saves roughly 15 percent against monthly. Two line items sit outside the table and both matter: going over your order cap bills at about $10 per month per additional 500 orders on most plans, and an extra sales channel beyond your tier's allowance runs about $20 per month. A seller who is consistently 40 percent over cap is usually better off moving up a tier than paying overages every month.

Which one is cheaper for your business?

Neither, until you describe the business. The crossover is driven by channel count far more than by order volume, because that is the axis the two vendors disagree about.

• One channel, any volume. A2X almost always wins. You pay one ladder, and Webgility's entry plan is charging you for a second channel you are not using.
• Two channels, low to moderate volume. Close. Two A2X connectors start around US$58 combined against Webgility Pro at $69 annually, and the winner flips as soon as either channel climbs a volume tier.
• Three or more channels. Webgility's shape usually costs less. Every channel you add to A2X starts a fresh subscription, while Webgility folds three channels into Complete and five into Complete Enterprise.
• QuickBooks Desktop. Not a price question at all. A2X does not support it, so Webgility is the only one of the two in the running.
• Seasonal spikes. The two behave differently and this is worth modeling. A November spike moves you up an A2X tier per channel, but on Webgility it shows up as overage billing you can absorb for a month or two without changing plan.

What does Webgility do that A2X does not?

Three things, and only one of them is about accounting. Webgility syncs inventory and pricing between your storefronts and QuickBooks, so stock levels and price changes propagate rather than being reconciled after the fact. It supports QuickBooks Desktop, which still runs a great deal of established multichannel retail and which A2X does not connect to. And it supports WooCommerce, which is not on A2X's published channel list.

The inventory sync is the one people most often misread. Keeping stock counts aligned across channels is not the same as knowing what to reorder, and neither tool does the second one. Webgility will tell you that you sold 40 units on Amazon and adjust the count. Deciding how many to buy next is still a forecasting job, and a general ledger is a poor place to read demand from.

What does A2X do that Webgility does not?

A2X is more opinionated about the ledger, and accountants tend to prefer it for exactly that reason. Every payout becomes one summarized journal entry, already split across sales, fees, refunds and tax accounts, whose net equals the deposit landing in the bank. The ledger stays small, and every figure traces back to a specific settlement document. If your books are kept by an outside accountant, that is a real gift: there is far less to unpick at month end.

A2X also connects to Sage and NetSuite, which Webgility's published ladder does not cover. For a seller who has outgrown QuickBooks and moved to NetSuite, that narrows the choice quickly.

Does A2X or Webgility do bank reconciliation?

Neither, in the sense an accountant means it. Both make a single bank line easier to clear: A2X builds an entry that equals the payout deposit, and Webgility posts the order and fee detail behind it. That is genuinely useful and it is the hardest line on an ecommerce bank statement. It is also one line among many.

Open the actual statement and count what is left. ACH batches to suppliers, wires, transfers between your own accounts, corporate card spend, loan payments, payroll, refunds processed outside the storefront, bank fees. None of it came through a sales channel, so neither tool has any view on it. That gap is not a flaw in either product, it is the boundary of the category. Sellers whose bank only issues PDF statements often start by converting the statement into a spreadsheet just to see the scale of what is left over, which is usually the moment the reconciliation question becomes concrete.

Proving that a populated ledger agrees with the bank, the cards and the processors, line by line and with a reason attached to every match, is a different category of software. It reads both sides read-only rather than writing to either. If your payouts already post correctly and month end still takes a week, that is the purchase you are actually looking for, and no amount of better payout posting will substitute for it.

Which should an ecommerce seller pick?

Answer first: choose A2X if you sell on one or two channels, want summarized entries your accountant can close fast, or run Sage or NetSuite. Choose Webgility if you sell on three or more channels, run QuickBooks Desktop, sell through WooCommerce, or need inventory and pricing to sync rather than just the accounting.

Two questions settle it faster than any feature list. First, how many channels will you be running twelve months from now, not today, because that is the number A2X bills against. Second, who reads the ledger? An outside accountant nearly always prefers A2X's summaries. An owner doing margin analysis inside QuickBooks usually wants the order-level detail Webgility preserves.

Then price the real month. Take your busiest month of the last year, count orders per channel, and run it through both ladders including A2X's per-channel stacking and Webgility's overage rates. The gap between the two is frequently the opposite of what the headline prices suggest, and it is a ten minute exercise that decides a multi-year subscription.

Whichever you choose, treat it as the sales side of the problem only. Getting orders into the books correctly and proving the books agree with the bank are two different jobs, and buying well on the first one does not close the second. If you are weighing tools for the second job, the ecommerce payment reconciliation comparison covers what each option actually matches, and the A2X alternatives breakdown goes deeper on where A2X's per-channel pricing lands for multichannel sellers. Webgility pricing and alternatives gets the same treatment, including the separate QuickBooks Desktop ladder.