DashVue — A Link My Books Alternative

The Best Alternative to Link My Books

Link My Books is excellent at its job — posting your eBay payouts into Xero or QuickBooks. DashVue answers a different question: what did each order actually make? No ledger software required.

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DashVueAsk DashVueAIOVERVIEWShipDashboardCalendarSTOCKStockSELLINGOrdersOffers3ReturnsMessagesFeedbackFINANCEReportsTax centreExpensesCost of GoodsInsightsDashboardSynced 2m agoToday7D30DMonthYearAllAsk DashVueTOTAL SALES£24,847ex. VATCOST OF GOODS-£9,74230 daysSELLING FEES-£2,512eBay + PaypalSHIPPING-£1,184Royal Mail + P2GEXPENSES-£798Office + toolsNET PROFIT£10,61142.7% marginSales BreakdownSales · COGS · Fees · Shipping · Expenses · ProfitBarLine£1.4K£700£01 Jun7 Jun14 Jun21 Jun28 JunSalesCOGSFeesShippingExpensesProfitToday's jobs8orders to ship today3offers need a reply2items to restockQuick actionsPick listPrint today's pick runInvoicesPrint or bulk exportNew listingAI listing helperShipping walletTop up balanceNext payout£3,847£2,158 ready · £1,689 processingThis week vs last£6,294+22.4%42 orders · £5,145 last weekJuly 2026View calendar →MTWTFSS12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031ProfitLossBreakevenRecent ordersView all2h agoSamsung Galaxy S21 128GB Phantom Grey£239.00SHIPPED5h agoNike Air Force 1 '07 White UK 9£67.64SHIPPED1d agoUSB-C charging cable 1m£8.99SHIPPED2d agoClear case iPhone 13£6.49SHIPPED3d agoHDMI cable 2m braided£9.99SHIPPEDTop items by revenueSamsung Galaxy S21 128GB£7173 unitsNike Air Force 1 '07 White£4066 unitsHDMI cable 2m braided£12012 unitsUSB-C charging cable 1m£10812 units

Representative views. Link My Books reconciles payouts into your accounting software; DashVue is the dashboard you look at every day — different questions, so neither is simply "better".

Profit per order, not per payout

A payout summary tells you what eBay paid you. DashVue tells you what each order made — fees, postage and cost of goods deducted live.

No Xero or QuickBooks required

DashVue is the whole view, standalone. One subscription instead of a bridge plus the ledger it posts into.

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Every feature on every tier, 7-day free trial, no card required. From £8.99/month.

Bridge or dashboard?

Do you want books — or answers?

Link My Books is a bridge: it turns each eBay payout into a clean summary invoice inside Xero or QuickBooks, VAT handled properly. If you (or your accountant) live in Xero, that's exactly what you want.

But a bridge needs a ledger on the other side, and a payout summary can't tell you which order lost money on postage. DashVue is the other shape: one standalone dashboard where every order shows its own net profit — no ledger subscription underneath it.

What the bridge route costs

A bridge needs a ledger on the other side — you pay for both.

Link My BooksPosts eBay payouts into your ledger£18.00/mofrom £15 + VAT
XeroThe ledger it posts into (cheapest UK plan)£19.20/mo£16 + VAT
Bridge route, per month≈ £37.20
DashVue, standaloneper-order profit, no ledger requiredfrom £8.99

Standard prices from linkmybooks.com and xero.com/uk (16 July 2026), shown inc. 20% VAT; intro discounts not shown. QuickBooks (from £10 + VAT) is the cheaper ledger option.

It needs Xero or QuickBooks

There's no standalone mode — output is summary invoices posted into Xero or QuickBooks Online, which you also pay for. DashVue needs neither.

Source: linkmybooks.com, 16 Jul 2026

Payout summaries, not per-order profit

The model is one clean summary per payout plus channel-level P&L — deliberately. DashVue's unit is the order: every sale shows fees, postage, COGS and what's left.

Source: linkmybooks.com product pages, 16 Jul 2026

The meter follows your order count

Pricing runs from £15/month on a rolling average of your orders across channels, with automatic plan upgrades as you grow. DashVue's tiers go by store size, and every tier has every feature.

Source: linkmybooks.com/pricing, 16 Jul 2026

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Full credit where due: Link My Books is UK-made and superbly rated by its own users — 5/5 across 510+ reviews on the Xero App Store and 4.9 on Capterra (their published figures, 16 July 2026). If double-entry books in Xero are what you want, take both free trials and keep the one that fits.

DashVue is built for the UK

Built for UK eBay — not localised for it

A tool that serves every country has to stay generic. DashVue only does eBay UK — so the UK details are the product.

All three UK VAT schemesStandard, Flat Rate or Margin — pick once, every profit figure recalculates. This order is on the Margin scheme.
£90k VAT threshold trackerWatch the registration threshold approach before it's an emergency conversation with an accountant.
The right eBay fee, per categoryeBay UK publishes 16 Final Value Fee rates (Feb 2026). A Cameras sale pays 6.5% — not an averaged 11% guess.
Royal Mail Simple Delivery presetsPostage comes off profit at the service you actually ship with.

And your data sits with a UK-registered ICO data controller — answerable under English law.

VAT threshold£61,240 / £90,000
Canon EOS 600D bodyCameras & Photography · order #12-4087SOLD
Sale price£140.00
eBay fee — Cameras & Photography (6.5% + 30p)−£9.40
Royal Mail Tracked 48 — preset−£3.39
Cost of goods−£85.00
VAT — Margin scheme, due on margin only−£9.17
Net profit£33.04
StandardFlat Rate✓ MarginVAT scheme

And switching is three steps, not a migration

Connect your eBay account

Sign in through eBay's official connection — it takes a couple of minutes, and connecting changes nothing on your store. We confirm your store size here too.

Watch the dashboard fill itself

Orders, fees, postage and listings flow in on their own. Add your cost of goods when you're ready and the profit numbers go from good to exact.

Cancel the old bills when you're sure

Keep Link My Books and Xero running alongside for the whole 7-day trial — no card needed. If DashVue answers the daily questions on its own, the bridge route becomes optional.

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One subscription, not five

Choose DashVue,OrChoose separately.

Bookkeeping is one job. This is the whole stack DashVue replaces — tool by tool, bill by bill.

Buying it separately

Link My Books + Xero+ XeroPayout bookkeeping — bridge plus the ledger it needsfrom £37/mo
3DSellerseBay listing tools — templates, bulk listing, feedbackfrom $19/mo
Zoho InventoryInventory and order managementfrom £34.80/mo
Repricer.comAutomated marketplace repricingfrom £109/mo
ChatGPTChatGPT PlusAI assistant for titles and descriptions£20/mo
Total, separatelyfive entry plans (one of them double)≈ £216/mo

With DashVue

DashVue
Listing softwareTemplates, SEO-checked titles, AI drafts Included
Inventory managementStock and cost of goods on every SKU Included
RepricerAutomatic, with a margin floor Included
Accounting & taxLive net profit, HMRC-ready P&L Included
AI tools250 free AI actions every month Included
Total, with DashVueone bill, in GBP — every feature on every tierfrom £8.99/mo

You keep ≈ £207 every month

That's over £2,400 a year vs buying the stack above separately.

Entry prices from each provider's public pricing page (16 July 2026), billed monthly, inc. 20% UK VAT where charged; intro discounts not shown; Link My Books from £15 + VAT plus Xero Ignite £16 + VAT ≈ £37; $19 ≈ £15. DashVue covers these jobs for eBay UK selling, not every feature of every tool. Logos belong to their owners.

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