For e-commerce & retail
Revenue is vanity. Ask about your margin.
Fees, shipping, returns — the gap between the top line and what you keep hides across a dozen expense lines. Ollie Books plugs Claude into your QuickBooks Online so you can ask what you’re actually keeping and get a live answer in plain English. Nothing stored, disconnect anytime.
Your books, between drops
A great sales month can still lose money — the difference lives in fees, shipping, and returns, scattered across lines a top-line dashboard never shows. Ollie Books lets you ask your live QuickBooks numbers for the number that’s actually yours.
Margin questions
Ask what you’re actually keeping.
These aren’t taglines — they’re real prompts. Type them into Claude exactly as written.
Prompt
“What’s my real margin after fees and shipping?”
Top line minus the quiet lines — the number the storefront dashboard doesn’t show.
Prompt
“How does this quarter compare to last year’s?”
Season against season, not against last month’s anomaly.
Prompt
“What did returns cost me this month?”
Refunds add up in the shadows. Drag them into one number.
How it fits the store
Built for margins that hide in the fees.
Ollie Books reads whatever settles into your QuickBooks Online — channel payouts, processor fees, shipping bills, refunds. If it posts to your books, you can ask about it.
Fees, out of the fog
Marketplace fees, payment processing, shipping labels — ask what they added up to, by month or by channel, however they’re categorized in your books.
Inventory is cash
Ask what you’ve spent on stock this year and how the bank balance moved around your big buys — inventory is where e-commerce cash goes to hide.
Honest about the source
Claude reads your QuickBooks Online — not Shopify or Amazon directly. If your channels sync orders and payouts into QuickBooks (most setups do), those numbers are one question away.
Take-home truth
The number that's actually yours, on demand.
Storefront dashboards celebrate revenue. Your books know what you kept. Ollie Books makes them answer in seconds.
Every storefront dashboard is designed to celebrate the top line. Your books are the only place where fees, shipping, and returns all land in one ledger — and now that ledger answers in plain English.
Margin after everything
Not gross, not “before fees” — what's left after the ledger has its say.
Compare like a retailer
This Q4 vs last Q4. This launch vs the one before. Seasonality respected, honestly.
Returns, priced
Refunds and the fees that ride along with them, pulled into one number you can act on.
Launch pricing
One plan, everything included: $59 $29/month for a limited time at launch.
Connect your QuickBooks, ask away — every account starts with a 14-day free trial, no credit card, and nothing auto-charges until you add payment details. Cancel anytime, one click. For scale: an hour of bookkeeper time costs more than two months of Ollie.
FAQ
What store owners ask before connecting
The honest answers, before you connect the books.
Something we didn't cover? Talk to our team
Does it connect to Shopify or Amazon?
No — Ollie Books reads QuickBooks Online. If your channels sync orders, payouts, and fees into QuickBooks (most e-commerce setups do), you can ask about all of it. SKU-level analytics stay in your channel dashboards, and we won't pretend otherwise.
Can it work out my real margin?
From whatever's categorized in your books — revenue, cost of goods, fees, shipping, refunds — yes, for any period you name. If everything's lumped into one expense account, you'll get answers at that grain, and Claude can tell you exactly what's lumped where.
Do you store my financial data?
No. Ollie Books is a pass-through connector — numbers are fetched live from QuickBooks the moment you ask, returned to your Claude session, and never stored on our servers. You can revoke access anytime, and our security page has the full picture.
I sell on several channels — can it compare them?
If each channel posts to your books distinctly — separate income accounts, classes, or customers — you can compare them in one question. Ollie Books reads whatever structure your bookkeeping already has.
What does it cost?
One plan, everything included — $29/month for a limited time at launch (regularly $59), with a 14-day free trial, no card needed. Nothing auto-charges until you add payment details, and you can cancel anytime in one click. For scale: an hour of bookkeeper time costs more than two months of Ollie.