The 16 Best ZipHQ Accounting Software Integrations [2026 Updated]

Choosing the right accounting software is just the first step; unlocking its true power comes from connecting it to the other tools you use every day. ZipHQ's flexible platform shines when paired with integrations that automate data entry, streamline workflows, and give you a complete picture of your business's financial health. This post provides a detailed breakdown of the 16 best ZipHQ integrations for 2026 that can help you save time and improve accuracy.

1. Stripe Payments Integration

For any business selling online, the native Stripe integration for ZipHQ is a must-have. It automates the entire process of recording sales, processing fees, and refunds from your Stripe account directly into your general ledger. This connection eliminates manual data entry, reduces the risk of errors, and ensures that your revenue numbers are always up-to-date. It handles complex transaction details, including recurring billing for subscription services and sales tax calculations, making it an indispensable tool for eCommerce and SaaS companies.

• Pros:
  • Real-time syncing provides an accurate, moment-to-moment view of revenue.
  • Automatically maps transaction types (sales, refunds, fees) to the correct accounts.
  • Supports recurring payments and subscription billing models.
• Cons:
  • Setup can be tricky if you have complex or non-standard transaction types.
  • Certain international transactions may require manual review and an additional layer of reconciliation.
• Pricing:
  • The integration itself is free.
  • Stripe’s standard processing fees apply (typically 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction).

Who it's best for: eCommerce businesses and subscription-based service providers that need automatic and accurate revenue reconciliation.

2. Shopify Integration

If you run your online store on Shopify, this integration is non-negotiable. It creates a direct link between your sales platform and your accounting software, syncing sales orders, inventory levels, customer information, and payment data. By automating this data flow, you don't just save hours of work; you also ensure your inventory counts, cost of goods sold, and revenue reports in ZipHQ reflect what's actually happening in your store moment-to-moment.

• Pros:
  • Automates the import of order details, taxes, and shipping fees.
  • Keeps inventory levels in ZipHQ aligned with your Shopify store.
  • Reduces the risk of errors associated with manual data transfers from sales reports.
• Cons:
  • The native connector has limited customization for unique or complex order workflows.
  • May not always properly sync orders with multiple payment methods or split payments without adjustment.
• Pricing:
  • The connector is typically available for free via the ZipHQ marketplace.
  • Requires an active Shopify plan (starting at $29/month).

Who it's best for: Retailers and product-based eCommerce businesses powered by the Shopify platform.

3. PayPal Integration

For small businesses and freelancers who rely on PayPal for receiving payments, this integration is a simple way to keep your books organized. It connects your PayPal account to ZipHQ, automatically importing transaction details so you can quickly match payments to invoices. This closes the loop on your accounts receivable workflow, reduces unclaimed payments, and simplifies bank reconciliation by treating your PayPal account like any other bank feed.

• Pros:
  • Extremely easy and fast setup process.
  • Streamlines the matching of PayPal payments to open invoices in ZipHQ.
  • Pulls in transaction data and fees separately for clear reporting.
• Cons:
  • The data sync can sometimes experience a slight lag.
  • Disputes, chargebacks, and holds may require manual categorization within ZipHQ.
• Pricing:
  • The integration is free to use.
  • Standard PayPal transaction fees apply.

Who it's best for: Small businesses, contractors, and merchants who accept a high volume of payments through PayPal.

4. Gusto Payroll Integration

Managing payroll is complex, but integrating Gusto with ZipHQ simplifies the accounting side of it significantly. Once you run payroll in Gusto, the integration automatically creates a detailed journal entry in ZipHQ, categorizing gross wages, employee and employer taxes, and benefit deductions. This automation ensures accuracy in your payroll expense reporting and keeps your compliance records tidy, saving valuable time and preventing costly errors during tax season.

• Pros:
  • Automatically syncs detailed payroll data after each pay run.
  • Breaks down payroll expenses into the correct expense accounts.
  • Helps maintain compliance by ensuring payroll liabilities are recorded correctly.
• Cons:
  • Advanced job costing or department-based payroll tracking requires higher-tier plans.
  • Initially mapping Gusto's payroll items to your ZipHQ chart of accounts takes careful setup.
• Pricing:
  • The integration is free.
  • Gusto's plans start at $40/month plus $6 per person.

Who it's best for: Small to medium-sized businesses looking for a fully integrated system to manage both payroll and accounting.

5. Amazon Seller Central Integration

Selling on Amazon introduces a layer of accounting complexity with its unique fees, refund policies, and payout schedules. This integration, usually managed through a third-party connector, untangles that complexity by pulling summary settlement reports from Seller Central and translating them into organized journal entries in ZipHQ. It properly allocates sales, shipping costs, FBA fees, advertising expenses, and other line items, turning a difficult reconciliation process into an automated one.

• Pros:
  • Reconciles Amazon's bi-weekly payout reports with pinpoint accuracy.
  • Categorizes the dozen-plus types of Amazon fees automatically.
  • Provides a clear view of profitability from your Amazon sales channel.
• Cons:
  • Often requires a paid third-party connector app to function.
  • The initial setup to map all transaction types can be complex and time-consuming.
• Pricing:
  • Price depends on the third-party connector, often ranging from $20-$100/month.

Who it's best for: Any business selling products on Amazon that needs to simplify their bookkeeping process for sales and fees.

6. Square POS Integration

For brick-and-mortar retailers, cafes, and service providers using Square's point-of-sale system, this integration bridges the gap between your front-of-house sales and your back-office accounting. It syncs daily sales totals, tips, refunds, taxes, and payment processing fees directly into ZipHQ. The integration can consolidate transactions into a single daily summary entry, making reconciliation straightforward while keeping your chart of accounts clean.

• Pros:
  • Provides near real-time syncing of daily sales data from Square.
  • Supports multiple business locations, posting sales data to the corresponding entity.
  • Automates the recording of sales, tender types, and processing fees.
• Cons:
  • Limited ability to sync SKU-level inventory data natively.
  • Custom payment types or complex tips-out procedures may require manual journal entries.
• Pricing:
  • The connector app is typically free.
  • Standard Square transaction processing fees apply.

Who it's best for: Retail businesses, restaurants, and service providers using Square POS to process customer payments.

7. HubSpot CRM Integration

Connecting your sales and accounting systems provides a complete view of the customer lifecycle. The HubSpot integration syncs customer contact information and invoicing activities between the two platforms. When your sales team closes a deal in HubSpot, an invoice can be automatically generated in ZipHQ and linked back to the customer record. This alignment improves communication between sales and finance and accelerates the billing cycle.

• Pros:
  • Creates a two-way sync for customer data, reducing duplicate entries.
  • Allows for automated invoice creation from deals closed in HubSpot.
  • Gives the sales team visibility into a customer's payment status without needing to access ZipHQ.
• Cons:
  • The native integration is limited to basic contact and invoice syncing.
  • More advanced workflow automation (e.g., triggering actions based on payment) may require Zapier.
• Pricing:
  • A connector is included with paid HubSpot and ZipHQ plans.
  • HubSpot offers subscription tiers with advanced automation features at a higher cost.

Who it's best for: Service-based businesses and B2B companies that manage their sales pipeline in HubSpot.

8. Expensify Expense Management Integration

If your team racks up business expenses, the Expensify integration is key to taming the chaos of receipts and reports. Employees can capture receipts on the go, and once a manager approves an expense report, all the data—including vendor names, amounts, and expense categories—is automatically synced to ZipHQ as a bill or journal entry, ready for payment and reconciliation. It even syncs corporate credit card feeds for faster coding.

• Pros:
  • Powerful OCR technology automatically reads receipt data, reducing manual entry.
  • Enables creation of custom approval workflows and spending policies.
  • Syncs expenses to specific projects or customers for accurate job costing.
• Cons:
  • Data sync is very reliable but not always instantaneous, sometimes having a slight delay.
  • Per-user pricing can become expensive for larger teams.
• Pricing:
  • Expensify plans start at around $5 per user per month.

Who it's best for: Companies with employees who frequently incur travel costs or other reimbursable expenses.

9. Toggl Time Tracking Integration

For service businesses that bill by the hour—like consultants, agencies, and law firms—accuracy in time tracking is directly tied to revenue. The Toggl integration makes turning billable hours into invoices simple. It syncs time entries logged against specific projects and clients directly into ZipHQ, allowing you to generate precise, detailed invoices with just a few clicks. This process removes the possibility of lost billable hours and manual billing errors.

• Pros:
  • Directly links tracked hours to clients and projects for easy invoicing.
  • Greatly improves the accuracy of project profitability calculations.
  • Simple and intuitive interface for team members to log time.
• Cons:
  • Direct sync requires a paid Toggl plan.
  • Some setups may require a manual export and import process instead of a live sync.
• Pricing:
  • Toggl offers a free plan, but integrations typically require a paid plan starting at $10/month per user.

Who it's best for: Freelancers, consultants, and project-based businesses that need to convert billable hours into accurate invoices.

10. Stripe Connect for Payment Processing

Unlike the standard Stripe integration, Stripe Connect is designed for platforms and marketplaces that facilitate payments between buyers and sellers. This integration helps you automate the complex accounting involved with multi-party transactions. It syncs the entire transaction flow into ZipHQ, properly recording gross sales, your platform's commission or fees, and the net payout owed to the vendor or service provider.

• Pros:
  • Automates the reconciliation of complex multi-vendor payment flows.
  • Accurately tracks your platform's revenue share and vendor liabilities.
  • Provides a clear audit trail for every transaction processed through your platform.
• Cons:
  • Requires an experienced developer or accountant to set up the mapping correctly.
  • Misconfiguration can lead to significant reconciliation challenges down the line.
• Pricing:
  • No extra fee for the integration itself, but Stripe Connect has its own transaction-based pricing structure.

Who it's best for: SaaS platforms, online marketplaces, and businesses that manage payments and payouts for third-party sellers.

11. TradeGecko Inventory Integration

For businesses managing inventory across multiple sales channels, TradeGecko (now part of QuickBooks Commerce) offers a powerful solution. Integrating it with ZipHQ provides a centralized hub for inventory management that aligns with your financial records. When a sale is made on a platform like Shopify or Amazon, TradeGecko syncs the updated stock levels and costs of goods sold to ZipHQ, ensuring both operational and financial reports are accurate.

• Pros:
  • Delivers robust, multi-channel inventory control and order management.
  • Syncs sales orders and purchase orders to keep financial data up-to-date.
  • Automates the calculation of one of the trickiest parts of accounting — cost of goods sold (COGS).
• Cons:
  • As part of the QuickBooks ecosystem, continued standalone support for other accounting platforms could be a concern long-term.
  • The setup process can be complex for businesses with large and varied product catalogs.
• Pricing:
  • Included with a subscription to QuickBooks Commerce, which has its own tiered pricing.

Who it's best for: eCommerce businesses and wholesalers that need detailed multi-channel inventory management.

12. Avalara Tax Automation

Sales tax compliance is a growing headache for businesses selling across different states and countries. Avalara automates this entire process by calculating the correct sales tax on every transaction in real time, based on up-to-date regional rules and product taxability. The integration then syncs this data to ZipHQ, accurately tracking tax liability and simplifying the remittance and filing process.

• Pros:
  • Automatically applies the most current tax rates for thousands of jurisdictions.
  • Handles complex rules around product taxability, tax holidays, and exemptions.
  • Generates signature-ready returns to simplify filing.
• Cons:
  • Pricing can quickly become expensive for businesses with high transaction volumes.
  • Initial configuration to map all of your products and nexus states demands careful attention to detail.
• Pricing:
  • Subscription plans generally start around $50/month and scale up based on transaction volume.

Who it's best for: Businesses with a multi-state or international presence that need fully automated sales tax compliance.

13. Workato Automation Platform

When basic point-to-point integrations are not enough, Workato steps in. It's an enterprise-grade automation platform that lets you build deep, custom workflows between ZipHQ and other business applications (like Salesforce, NetSuite, or proprietary systems). With Workato, you can create conditional logic and multi-step automations—for example, automatically creating a project, purchase order, and customer record across three different systems based on a single trigger event.

• Pros:
  • Offers immense flexibility to build highly customized, multi-app workflows.
  • Can handle complex business logic that simpler connectors cannot.
  • Gives technology teams the power to automate almost any financial process.
• Cons:
  • Requires technical expertise to build and maintain the automation "recipes."
  • The enterprise-level pricing makes it unsuitable for most small businesses.
• Pricing:
  • Pricing is quote-based and tailored to the needs of each business.

Who it's best for: Larger businesses and enterprises that have custom applications or need to automate complex, non-standard financial workflows.

14. QuickBooks Online Integration (via Third-Party)

There isn't a direct ZipHQ-to-QuickBooks Sync, but third-party tools can bridge the gap, which is particularly useful for companies migrating from QBO to ZipHQ or for accounting firms that use one tool internally while clients use another. These services help extract, transform, and load historical data or sync ongoing transactions, ensuring data consistency across both platforms during a transition period.

• Pros:
  • Greatly simplifies the otherwise painful process of migrating financial data from QuickBooks.
  • Ensures data integrity during the transition to a new accounting system.
  • Can be used for ongoing syncs in hybrid accounting setups.
• Cons:
  • Relies entirely on external platforms, which come with their own costs and potential points of failure.
  • Not a native integration, meaning it may lack the full reliability of a direct connection.
• Pricing:
  • Costs vary by a third-party application, such as Datamolino or SaasAnt, with plans based on document or transaction volume.

Who it's best for: Businesses switching from QuickBooks to ZipHQ, or accounting firms that need to manage clients on different platforms.

15. Custom API Integration

When off-the-shelf solutions don’t fit your business's unique processes, ZipHQ's comprehensive API offers an escape hatch. With a development resource, you can build a completely custom integration to connect ZipHQ to proprietary software, specialized industry tools, or any application without a native connector. This gives you complete control over the data flow between systems, tailoring it precisely to your operational needs.

• Pros:
  • Provides total control over how data is synced and mapped between systems.
  • Solves for unique or industry-specific workflow challenges that generic integrations can't address.
  • Can create significant efficiency gains by automating bespoke internal processes.
• Cons:
  • Requires hiring or contracting with a software developer, making it the most expensive option.
  • The business is responsible for maintaining the integration over time as APIs change.
• Pricing:
  • API access is included with your ZipHQ plan, but development costs will vary significantly based on project scope.

Who it's best for: Fast-growing companies and enterprises with unique operational software or complex workflow automation needs.

16. Zapier Integration Platform

Zapier acts as a universal adapter, connecting ZipHQ to thousands of other web applications without writing a single line of code. You can create simple "If This, Then That" workflows (Zaps). For example, "if a new row is added to a Google Sheet, then create a new invoice in ZipHQ," or "if a Trello card is moved to the 'Done' column, then create a new customer record in ZipHQ." It is an incredibly powerful tool for automating smaller, connecting tasks across your entire software stack.

• Pros:
  • Links ZipHQ with over 5,000 other apps, enabling near-limitless automation possibilities.
  • No coding knowledge is required; the setup is visual and user-friendly.
  • Allows for multi-step Zaps that can perform several actions from a single trigger.
• Cons:
  • Polling triggers can have a 5-15 minute delay on lower-tier plans.
  • Monthly costs can add up if you run a high volume of tasks.
• Pricing:
  • Zapier has a free plan with limited functionality; paid plans starting from $19.99/month.

Who it's best for: Small and medium-sized businesses that want to automate tasks between ZipHQ and apps that have no native integration, without needing a developer.

Final Thoughts

Integrating ZipHQ with your other business tools is key to building an efficient, automated financial workflow. The right connections, from payment processors and eCommerce platforms to payroll and expense management, eliminate manual work, reduce human error, and provide a clearer, more timely view of your company’s performance.

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