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Welcome to TrueBooks

TrueBooks turns your Amazon Seller Central settlements into accurate, posted invoices in Xero — without the manual reconciliation.

What TrueBooks does

Every fortnight (or so) Amazon disburses your earnings and produces a settlement report — a long file listing every sale, refund, fee, VAT charge, advertising spend and adjustment that made up the payout. TrueBooks pulls that file in, classifies every line into the right Xero account and tax category, and writes a single tidy invoice into Xero that reconciles cleanly against the deposit hitting your bank.

The result: instead of sifting through a fifty-thousand-line spreadsheet each fortnight, you open Xero and see the settlement already posted, broken out by sales, refunds, FBA fees, advertising, storage, marketplace VAT and inventory reimbursements, with the right tax codes applied.

What you need before you start

An Amazon Seller Central account in good standing on at least one supported marketplace (UK, EU, NA, Japan or Australia).
A Xero organisation you can authorise — TrueBooks needs read/write to invoices and accounts, plus access to your tax types.
A web browser. There's no app to install.

You don't need a developer account, an SP-API key, or anything technical. The Amazon and Xero connections are both standard "click to authorise" flows.

Your first 5 minutes

Sign up at app.truebooks.co.uk/register. Verify your email and you'll land on an empty Settlements dashboard — that's expected on day one.
Connect Amazon. Open Settings → Account and click Connect Amazon. Pick the right region (Europe / North America / Far East), accept the SP-API authorisation in Seller Central, and you'll be returned to TrueBooks with the connection live.
Connect Xero. Same screen, click Connect Xero. Pick which Xero organisation to link, and TrueBooks will sync your chart of accounts so you can map categories to the right ledger codes.
Confirm your mappings. Open Accounts & Taxes. TrueBooks pre-fills sensible UK defaults; if you're not on a UK marketplace you'll want to adjust them. The wizard walks you through it.
Wait for your next settlement — or backfill the last 90 days from Settings → Settlement Settings → Automation. New settlements appear in your list as Amazon publishes them.
Turn on Auto Import (optional). The toggle on the Settlements page header switches on automatic settlement detection — TrueBooks polls Amazon every couple of minutes and imports new reports the moment they appear. If you'd rather review before importing, leave it off and import manually whenever you're ready. Either way, the first settlement usually appears within 24 hours of your next Amazon disbursement.

What happens automatically

Once your connections are live and Auto Import is on, TrueBooks works in the background without you needing to do anything:

Amazon publishes a settlement report every ~14 days. TrueBooks picks it up, parses every transaction line, and adds the settlement to your list — usually within a few minutes of it becoming available.
Each settlement is classified into accounting categories automatically. When you open it, the Xero invoice preview is already waiting.
If you've also enabled Auto Post (the second toggle on the Settlements page), TrueBooks sends the invoice to Xero straight after import — no manual step required. This is the fully hands-off path. Most sellers start with Auto Post off until they've reviewed the first few settlements and are confident in the mappings.

What to read next

If you've just landed on this page, the next two articles cover the connection flows step by step:

Need a hand?

Email support@truebooks.co.uk and we'll get back to you. UK office hours, but most messages get a reply the same working day.