A2X × Settle: Fast, Accurate Landed Costs for Ecommerce
Growing ecommerce sellers, and the accounting professionals that support them, often reach a crossroads: they’ve outgrown best-guess Cost of Goods Sold (COGS), yet a full inventory management suite still feels like overkill.
A2X already bridges much of that gap with lightweight COGS functionality: upload a CSV, link a spreadsheet, or sync Shopify item costs, then post clean entries to QuickBooks Online or Xero. Helpful, but still manual, and none of those options capture freight, duties, or other landed costs.
Enter Settle — a platform that automates inventory, procurement, and payments (with built-in working capital) for modern DTC brands.
Settle records every inbound cost – supplier price, freight, tariffs, and more – then recalculates true landed cost for every SKU each night. A2X now pulls that data automatically, matches it to your sales, and posts balanced COGS entries to QuickBooks, Xero, Sage, or NetSuite for audit-ready margins.
Why landed cost accuracy matters
- Margin clarity – Landed cost includes the charges that really eat into profit; unit price alone does not.
- Reliable inventory value – Ignoring inbound charges skews inventory on the balance sheet.
- Clean tax & reporting – When real costs land in the same period as revenue, sales tax and board reporting tighten up.
What Settle does
- Centralizes purchase orders, freight, duty, and tariff bills in one workspace
- Automates vendor payments or finances deposits to smooth cash flow
- Tracks stock across multiple 3PLs and flags reorder points
Thousands of consumer brands already rely on Settle to manage millions of SKUs and billions in payments.
Want to see where A2X and Settle fit in a step-by-step inventory accounting workflow, including roles and responsibilities, recommended tech, and more? Get access to our customizable inventory accounting workflow for ecommerce.
How A2X and Settle work together
- Capture costs in Settle as you raise POs and log freight, duty, and tariff bills.
- Refresh landed costs nightly within Settle.
- Import to A2X at 1 a.m. UTC no buttons to press.
- Match costs with sales from Shopify, Amazon, Walmart, Etsy, eBay, and more.
- Post balanced journal entries to QuickBooks Online, Xero, Sage, or NetSuite for one-click reconciliation.
With A2X and Settle, you’ll skip CSV uploads and spreadsheet wrangling, get enterprise-grade landed cost accuracy, and see sales and COGS hit the same period, reducing year-end adjustments – saving you time and giving you more financial visibility.
“Settle’s A2X integration solves one of the great problems in inventory and COGS accounting: correlating sales to landed product costs. Using this integration, companies will automatically have accurate sales and Cost of Goods Sold for corresponding periods.”
Stephen Brown, LedgerGurus
Ready to save time and get real landed costs?
You can try the A2X and Settle integration today. We’ve put together a detailed how-to article to help you get started. But if you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to the A2X team by starting a chat or the Settle support team.
And if you’re not yet using Settle? Try Settle today.
Frequently asked questions
Do I have to use purchase orders in Settle?
No, bills alone can drive landed cost.
How often do costs sync?
Settle updates at 6 p.m. ET; A2X pulls at 1 a.m. UTC nightly.
Can I test before going all-in?
Yes. Start with a few SKUs, review the entries, then scale.
Any extra fees?
None, the integration is included if you use both platforms.
Which ledgers are supported?
QuickBooks Online, Xero, Sage, and NetSuite.
