Linqer vs. outsourcing to your accountant
An accountant is indispensable for VAT returns, annual accounts and advice. But payout reconciliation at order level — recalculating every fee, return and deduction per marketplace — is specialist manual work that falls outside most bookkeeping engagements. This comparison shows where each approach is strong.
Il verdetto
An accountant remains essential for your books and filings, but for order-level control of marketplace payouts, specialised software is faster, more complete and cheaper at volume.
Il confronto
Otto criteri fianco a fianco
Time per month
You or your accountant only review the detected discrepancies; the matching itself is already done.
Delivering files, explaining context and waiting for processing — turnaround quickly adds up to days per cycle.
Error detection
Hunts specifically for 40+ marketplace error types, from overcharged commission to returns deducted twice.
Focused on accurate books, not on recalculating every fee per order — that falls outside the engagement.
Claim deadlines
Claim deadlines are monitored per marketplace, with alerts before a window closes.
Bookkeeping works per period; by the time the numbers are processed, short claim windows have often already passed.
Multi-marketplace
All channels in one dashboard, with the same error categories and reports per marketplace.
Requires detailed knowledge of every settlement format; not every accountant knows Bol, Amazon and Zalando inside out.
VAT corrections
VAT on fees, returns and corrections split out automatically per line type, ready for the return.
Strong on VAT returns and OSS rules — on tax matters your accountant remains the specialist.
Scalability
More orders means no extra work; processing stays fully automated.
More volume means more hours, and those hours come back on the invoice.
Cost
A fixed monthly fee, independent of your order volume or number of channels.
Hourly rate times manual work: outsourcing order-level checks quickly becomes more expensive than software at volume.
Audit trail
Every discrepancy backed by amount, cause and source document at order level.
Reliable records at journal level, but rarely traceable down to individual orders and fees.
Onestamente
Quando è sufficiente Outsourcing to your accountant?
Your marketplace revenue is a small side channel and discrepancies are financially negligible.
You want one party handling your entire administration and accept that order-level control falls outside it.
Your questions are mainly tax-related — VAT, OSS, annual accounts — not a reconciliation problem.
Your accountant already spot-checks your payouts and you consider that sufficient risk coverage.
FAQ
Domande frequenti
Does Linqer replace my accountant?
No. Your accountant remains responsible for filings, annual accounts and advice. Linqer complements that with order-level control of your marketplace payouts — including exportable reports your accountant can process directly.
Can my accountant work with Linqer themselves?
Yes. Many accountants and agencies use Linqer precisely for their clients: multiple administrations in one workflow, with white-label reports per client.
Which is cheaper: outsourcing or Linqer?
It depends on your volume. With a few dozen orders a month, a spot check by your accountant may be enough. Beyond that, manual recalculation at an hourly rate quickly becomes more expensive than a fixed monthly fee — and spot checks miss structural errors.
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