Automate your Stripe bookkeeping in e-conomic in 5 minutes

Automating your Stripe bookkeeping in e-conomic sounds like the kind of project you keep putting off. It isn't. With BookSyncer the whole setup takes about five minutes, and this tutorial walks through every step — plus exactly what access you're granting, because that part matters.

What you'll need

• A Stripe account that's taking payments.
• An e-conomic agreement you can authorize apps on.
• About five minutes.

No developer, no API keys to copy, no webhook URLs to paste.

Step 1 — Create your BookSyncer account

Sign up at app.booksyncer.com. You start on the free plan, which syncs up to 25 events a month — enough to run the whole flow end to end before you decide to upgrade.

Step 2 — Connect Stripe (read-only)

Click Connect Stripe and authorize through Stripe Connect. This is the step people worry about, so let's be precise about what BookSyncer can and can't do:

• Access is read-only — enough to see your invoices, charges, refunds and payouts, and nothing that can move money or change your Stripe settings.
• Events arrive on a single secure platform webhook, so there's no webhook URL to configure and no signing secret to paste.
• You can revoke access from Stripe at any time.

Step 3 — Connect e-conomic

Click Connect e-conomic. You'll be sent to e-conomic's official grant screen, where you approve BookSyncer for your agreement. e-conomic hands back an agreement grant token, which is encrypted at rest and used together with our own app secret for every API call. We never see your e-conomic username or password.

Step 4 — Pick your accounts

BookSyncer reads your e-conomic agreement and shows live dropdowns so you can map the journal, debtor account, Stripe clearing account, fee account, FX gain/loss accounts and bank account. If you want, you can also set customer group, payment terms, invoice layout, and product mappings here.

Step 5 — Review VAT and go live

BookSyncer proposes VAT zones and codes based on your setup. Review them, then run a test on your last invoice — a dry-run preview that shows exactly what would be booked without touching your ledger. When it looks right, enable the sync. You can also set a historical start date to catch up past invoices, and choose auto-book or draft-only.

The security story, in plain terms

Because BookSyncer sits between your payment data and your accounting system, it's worth being clear about how it's built:

• Read-only Stripe access via Stripe Connect — we can read, never move or modify.
• Encrypted e-conomic grant tokens, stored encrypted at rest; no passwords, ever.
• We don't store your customers' data as a product feature — BookSyncer is a relay. Once an event is booked successfully, the raw customer payload is purged and only a non-personal audit trail (types, statuses, external references) is kept.
• EU-hosted, encrypted in transit and at rest.

There's more in our FAQ and privacy policy.

What happens after you switch it on

From that point, every Stripe event is booked in e-conomic the moment it happens — invoices, payments, fees, FX differences, refunds and payouts. Each event has a drill-down showing the exact actions BookSyncer took, with deep links to the resulting invoice or voucher. If a sync ever fails, it's retried automatically and, if it still can't complete, surfaced with the error and a one-click retry. Nothing is silently dropped.

That's the whole thing. If you want the deeper reference on what gets booked where, see the complete integration guide, or just start free.