I work with founder-led e-commerce brands as a strategic finance partner, helping bring clarity to pricing, profitability, cash flow, and growth decisions. I’m not a traditional fractional CFO—and that’s intentional. Most e-commerce founders know their revenue. Far fewer truly understand where they’re making money, where they’re losing it, and what to do next. Before doing this work, I was a brand owner myself. I’ve sat in the same seat, made the same tradeoffs, and felt the same pressure that comes with trying to grow without breaking the business. That experience shapes how I show up for clients. A lot of the value I provide doesn’t live in spreadsheets. It comes from helping founders think through tough, often messy decisions with real numbers behind them—and without feeling like they’re doing it alone. Some of the ways I typically help: • Understanding true contribution margin by product and sales channel • Pricing and unit-economics decisions that actually improve profitability • Setting realistic ROAS and CPA targets that align with cash flow • Forecasting and planning so surprises are minimized • Acting as a sounding board as the business scales and decisions get heavier I don’t replace your bookkeeper or accountant. I help make sure the numbers are structured in a way that’s actually useful—and then help translate them into clear, actionable decisions. I try to be direct, accessible, and generous with my time and perspective. The best work happens when founders feel comfortable asking real questions and having honest conversations. Best fit: founder-led e-commerce brands doing meaningful volume who want clarity, confidence, and a true thought partner—not just reports.
A2X Shopify Setup and Reconciliation Experts
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Freedom Finance is a boutique fractional CFO and accounting firm built exclusively for ecommerce brands. We work with founders who have outgrown basic bookkeeping and need real financial clarity to scale profitably. Our focus is on cash flow, inventory, unit economics, and decision-ready reporting — not just historical financials. We help ecommerce teams: Understand true profitability by product, channel, and offer Manage cash flow and inventory without surprises Build and maintain forecasts and 13-week cash flow models Improve gross margin, contribution margin, and ad efficiency Prepare clean, investor-ready financials We primarily support Shopify brands in the $1M–$50M+ range across DTC, subscription, and omnichannel ecommerce. Engagements are fixed-price and hands-on, with CFO-level ownership — not outsourced bookkeeping. If you’re looking for a financial partner who understands how ecommerce actually works, we’d love to help.
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Where A2X consulting time actually goes
Most A2X work is accounting judgement rather than code, and most of it happens before the first payout posts.
Connection and mapping. Linking the store to the accounting file, then deciding which account each transaction type posts to and which tax rule applies. The connection needs a Shopify user with full store permissions, so a staff login with partial access simply fails.
Clearing accounts. One for each payment gateway other than Shopify Payments, such as a wallet or a buy-now-pay-later provider, plus the monthly journal for fees that A2X can't see. Skip them and month-end stops balancing.
Historical catch-up. Reconciling payouts that sat untouched for months, then correcting deposits someone coded straight to sales. The order matters: fix the mapping first, or the backlog gets reconciled into the wrong accounts.
Cost of goods sold. Turning on COGS postings matched to sales, available from the Basic plan up, and lining the figures up with how the store already tracks inventory cost.
B2B invoices. Tagging wholesale orders so A2X sends them across individually as open invoices, ideally with a Shopify Flow workflow applying the tag so staff don't have to remember.
Moving onto A2X. Switching from another Shopify-to-accounting sync, then auditing the old setup's mappings so its mistakes don't carry over into A2X.
Choosing the product. Core covers payout reconciliation. Subledger handles order-to-cash reconciliation for high-volume brands, and Clarity adds profitability analytics. Good consulting means being told when Core alone is enough.
The gateway test for A2X experts
One question sorts A2X candidates quickly: how would they treat a payment gateway that isn't Shopify Payments? You want to hear four things: its own clearing account, its bank deposits coded to that same account, a monthly fee journal, and a small residual cleared by hand. A vague answer predicts a vague month-end.
Ask who owns month-end. Some firms configure A2X and hand it back. Others reconcile every month for you. Decide which you're buying before the first call.
Check programme status yourself. A2X runs a free partner programme for accounting and bookkeeping firms, with a directory of expert accountants and its own A2X expert badge for firms that graduate. If A2X's own expert badge matters to you, ask for the firm's entry in that directory. It's A2X's record to confirm, not ours.
Red flags. Anyone keen to start before seeing your chart of accounts, or who still describes A2X as just a sync app. A2X now sells three products, and Clarity only launched in December 2025.
Pay for one month first. A small paid task works well: reconcile a single month of payouts, including one gateway that isn't Shopify Payments. You see how they document mapping decisions before the backlog changes hands.
A2X Shopify setup: gateways, B2B tags and plan limits
Shopify Payments is the easy part. Its payouts post as a single batch that always matches the corresponding deposit from Shopify. The trouble starts with everything else.
Gateway fees are invisible. Other gateways deduct their fees before the payout data reaches Shopify, so A2X never sees the exact amount. Someone journals those fees by hand from the clearing account.
Deposits belong in the clearing account. When money from those gateways lands in the bank, it gets coded to the matching clearing account, not to sales. Coding it to sales counts the same revenue twice. Expect a small leftover in each clearing account that needs a manual entry.
B2B runs on tags. A2X's B2B handling works from order tags: tagged orders go to the accounting system one by one as open invoices. A2X documents a Shopify Flow workflow that applies the tag automatically.
Recent changes to check. In January 2026 A2X started pulling the Shopify Reconciliation Report automatically. Multi-entity support for Shopify stores followed in April 2026, which matters for groups trading through more than one company.
Plans follow order volume. Mini, Basic, Professional and Advanced are set by monthly orders, and the App Store lists a 30-day free trial on all of them. COGS posting starts at Basic, so a Mini store that wants cost of goods in its books needs to move up.
Services listed by the 3 A2X badge holders
Every expert with the A2X badge here lists finance, tax and compliance work. Past that, they differ in how far beyond the ledger they go.
Finance, taxes and compliance
All 3 list it: account mapping, tax rules and payout reconciliation
Consulting and strategy
2 of 3 list it, the fit for choosing between Core, Subledger and Clarity
Operations, logistics and fulfilment
1 lists it, useful when COGS has to agree with inventory costs
Historical catch-up
Backlogs of unreconciled payouts brought up to date against bank deposits
B2B invoice workflows
Wholesale orders tagged, by hand or with Shopify Flow, and posted as open invoices
A2X integration audit
Mis-coded deposits and missing clearing accounts found and corrected
What merchants ask about A2X integrations
A bookkeeper or accountant, almost every time. A2X runs on settings: account mapping, tax rules and clearing accounts. There is no theme code to touch. The nearest thing to build work is a Shopify Flow workflow that tags B2B orders, and that is a short job rather than a project. All 3 badge holders here list finance, tax and compliance work, which is the right starting point.
Not for normal retail sales. A2X posts summarised entries per payout so the books tie to bank deposits instead of filling up with order lines. B2B is the exception: tagged orders go across individually as open invoices, which suits wholesale customers paying later. If your accountant wants order-to-cash detail at high volume, ask whether Subledger fits better than Core.
A2X added multi-entity support for Shopify stores in April 2026, and one account already handles accounting for several sales channels. Raise your structure on the first call. A group with separate legal entities needs different mapping decisions from one company with two storefronts, and you want someone who has configured the multi-entity feature since it arrived.
It helps more than you'd think, because every transaction type gets a tax rule and those rules follow your country's sales tax or VAT. The 3 A2X badge holders on shopexperts are all in the United States. If you trade elsewhere, ask how many non-US stores they've mapped, or bring in one of the sales tax and VAT specialists linked below.
Your accounting system, a copy of the chart of accounts, every payment gateway on the store, the last month that was properly reconciled and roughly how many orders you take a month, since A2X plans follow order volume. If you sell wholesale, explain how B2B orders are tagged today. That is enough for a scoped quote rather than a guess.
Run it with the person who will own the mapping, not before them. The 30-day trial is long enough to reconcile one real month under their settings, which is the best test you'll get. A trial run on mappings nobody has checked can post entries to the wrong accounts, and undoing that is exactly the clean-up you were trying to avoid.


