---
title: "Step 4: Accounts and taxes"
description: "How to choose accounts and tax mappings in Taxomate Quick Setup (formerly Step 3: Choose Accounts and Payment Settings)."
url: https://docs.taxomate.com/en/articles/8546877-step-4-accounts-and-taxes
collection: "Quick Setup"
updated: 2026-10-28
language: en
---

# Step 4: Accounts and taxes

How to choose accounts and tax mappings in Taxomate Quick Setup (formerly Step 3: Choose Accounts and Payment Settings).

## Video: Set up Xero accounts for Amazon

## Video: Set up QuickBooks Online accounts for Amazon

(Old title: Step 3: Choose Accounts and Payment Settings. This is phase 4 of 5 in the app. The article keeps its old URL.)

Taxomate matches each kind of Amazon money, such as sales, fees and refunds, to one account in QuickBooks, Xero, or Wave. This step sets that up so Taxomate can send your payouts correctly.

The step is **Where should Amazon money go?** You choose one of two ways.

## Option A. Use recommended accounts (recommended)

Select **Use recommended accounts**. Taxomate creates the missing accounts, a default sales item and tax records in QuickBooks, and maps every transaction type. Existing accounts are not changed. The preview table shows each transaction type and its account. **New** means the account is not in your books yet. Nothing is sent to your books at this step.

![Where should Amazon money go? with Use recommended accounts selected](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/p68a7b1342e2424396e93973d/rlZwiehvbdQGsF7mwFljwbCEuGah3u0H1tCk52eXsyXLDfV99ontuVX9FVU1MPnL8S22PoMQ3r7.png)

If you already saved choices for a marketplace, Taxomate asks first: **Replace your saved account choices?** The box says that this resets the accounts for those marketplaces to the recommended ones. It also says that nothing in your books is deleted or changed, and that Taxomate only adds what is missing. Select **What exactly is replaced** to see the full lists. For QuickBooks, the replaced list has the account for each transaction type, the default sales item and tax code, the Undeposited Funds, accounts receivable and carried balance accounts, the COGS and inventory asset accounts, and the Tax code mappings setting. The kept list has your invoice customer, payout bank and card accounts, class, and time zone. Select **Use recommended accounts** to continue, or **Keep my current choices** to change nothing.

![Replace your saved account choices? confirmation box](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/p68a7b1342e2424396e93973d/oEq6j4TOZdwm9AW0c9g6R7NvVIKanFq2yLA7SqZhb4AJ7vVjRzBsZ9ou67NWyG7qPewLo3nFONB.png)

When setup finishes, you see **Done. Sales, fees and refunds each go to a {books} account.** {books} is QuickBooks, Xero, or Wave. The message says that you can change any of these in **Accounts and taxes**. If sales tax, Canadian sales tax, or VAT is on, or **Automatic sending** is on, a second line tells you to check the accounts or tax codes before the first send. Select **Review mappings** (or **Review mappings for** a marketplace) and check them before you send anything. Then select **Continue**. Continue skips any step that is already done, so you may go straight to the next step that needs you.

![Done message with the Review mappings link and a Continue button](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/p68a7b1342e2424396e93973d/RnHUjbAlGjnyPoHWLxMm2q3WzMgmF3fGZu0HdZNU58ch9JfH5w2MQLQL0xJbeZQel4FXPiKW45o.png)

## Option B. Choose my own accounts

Select **Choose my own accounts** if your accountant already set up a chart of accounts. Taxomate saves your choice and creates nothing yet. On the next step, called **{marketplace} accounts** (for example **amazon.com accounts**), each row starts on the recommended account. Pick the account you want for each transaction type. If you keep a recommended account that is not in your books yet, Taxomate creates it when you save. Select **Review and save mappings**, read the review, and confirm.

![Choose my own accounts selected, with a note about the next step](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/p68a7b1342e2424396e93973d/2vtzlSznx8ArPVLFngx67v05qSUA8p3vRdcttUu09aSmMuIW3UJAZJUiwHexWuZWe3KAg7qR2Xx.png)

If you connect more than one Amazon marketplace, you can copy mappings from one marketplace to another.

## Payment settings

_(SOURCE ONLY. Not rendered. Check each name in the live app before you publish.)_ If you use QuickBooks, the **Payment settings** step asks for the **Payout bank account** where Amazon pays you, and the **Negative payout bank or credit card account** to use when you owe Amazon money. Choose them for each marketplace. A strip shows how many required settings are set. You also see **Invoice customer** (we recommend leaving it as it is) and **QuickBooks class (Optional)** to track each marketplace in QuickBooks reports. Xero uses tracking categories instead of classes. Wave needs the invoice customer.

You do not see the bank account settings if you use Xero or Wave.

## Change these later

Use **Accounts and taxes** (sidebar) for account and tax mappings: change a row, then select **Review and save**. Use **Settings > Connections > Manage marketplace mappings** for the bank accounts, invoice customer and class.

[GO TO STEP 5](https://docs.taxomate.com/en/articles/8554386-step-4-send-settlements-payouts-to-accounting-software.md)