Bird

Moneybird bookkeeping for Craft Commerce 5. Paid orders become invoices with the right VAT on them, contacts stay in sync, payments land against the invoice, and refunds come back off as credit notes.

Bird takes the position that Commerce decides what to charge and Bird decides where to book it. Commerce's tax engine already knows your zones, your rates and your VAT-number validators; re-deriving all of that would give your shop two answers that drift apart, and the one the customer actually paid is Commerce's. What Moneybird needs on top of the number is the reason — 0% reverse-charged, 0% exported and 0% zero-rated are three different rates over there, and they land in three different boxes on a VAT return.

Bird is an independent plugin. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Moneybird. "Moneybird" is a trademark of its respective owner.

Requirements

Craft CMS 5.3+
Craft Commerce 5.0+
PHP 8.2+
A Moneybird administration and an API token

Installation

composer require justinholtweb/craft-bird
php craft plugin/install bird

Then open Settings → Plugins → Bird:

Paste an API token (create one at moneybird.com → your profile → Applications) and the administration id — the number in Moneybird's own URLs. Both accept $ENV_VAR references, and a token is as powerful as your password, so use one.
Test connection, then Suggest a mapping to fill in the VAT table from the rates your administration already has.
Pick the 0% rate that prints btw verlegd as the reverse-charge rate, and the 0% export rate.

php craft bird/sync/status says the same things from a terminal.

Editions

	Lite (free)	Pro
Price	Free	$99, $49/year renewal
Sales invoices or external sales invoices	✅	✅
Automatic push on paid / completed / a status	✅	✅
Contact create, match and update	✅	✅
Domestic, reverse-charge and export VAT	✅	✅
Payment registration	✅	✅
Rounding reconciliation	✅	✅
Panel on Commerce's order screen, with a byte-exact preview	✅	✅
Documents index, `craft.bird.*` Twig API, console commands	✅	✅
One Stop Shop — per-country EU consumer rates	—	✅
Credit notes for Commerce refunds	—	✅
Send the invoice from Moneybird	—	✅
Paid-invoice webhook, signature-verified	—	✅
Per-product-type ledger accounts	—	✅
Connection log with request and response payloads	—	✅

Two ways to book an order

Sales invoice. Moneybird owns the invoice number, produces the PDF, and can email it. Use this when Moneybird is where your invoices come from.

External sales invoice. The order number is the invoice number, and Moneybird just books the revenue and the VAT — no PDF, no sending. Use this when your shop already issues its own invoices and you only need the bookkeeping.

Both are one setting apart, and everything else in Bird works the same either way.

How the VAT engine decides

Situation	Treatment	Rate used
Customer in your home country	Domestic	The mapped percentage
EU business, VAT number matching its country, no tax charged	Reverse charge	Your btw verlegd rate
EU consumer, OSS on	OSS	That country's mapped rate
EU consumer, OSS off	Home rate	The mapped percentage
Outside the EU	Export	Your export rate

A VAT number on an order that still paid 21% is not reverse charge — it is a shop that never turned Commerce's VAT-number validator on, and booking it as reverse-charged would understate the return by exactly what the customer paid. Bird books what happened.

Rates are matched on the money, not on a derived percentage. Commerce rounds tax to the cent per line, so €10.10 at 21% records €2.12 — which divides back out as 20.99%, a rate no shop has ever configured. Bird looks for the mapped rate whose arithmetic lands within a cent, and puts the remainder on a rounding line so the invoice total always equals what the customer paid.

The order screen

Every Commerce order gets a Moneybird panel: what has been booked, the VAT treatment and number Bird read off the address, Send to Moneybird, Credit refunds, and Preview invoice — which runs the same Invoices::buildPayload() the push does, so the JSON you are shown is the JSON that gets sent, tax rate ids and all.

Twig

{% set document = craft.bird.documentForOrder(order) %}

{% if document and document.getIsBooked() %}
    <p>Invoice {{ document.getLabel() }} — {{ document.getStateLabel() }}</p>

    {# A capability URL: only ever render it to the customer whose order it is. #}
    {% if document.publicUrl %}
        <a href="{{ document.publicUrl }}">View your invoice</a>
    {% endif %}
{% endif %}

{% set vat = craft.bird.vatTreatment(order) %}
{% if vat.reverseCharge %}
    <p>VAT reverse-charged — {{ vat.vatNumber }}</p>
{% endif %}

Console

craft bird/sync/status                    # connection, edition, document counts
craft bird/sync/order 1042                # book one order, by reference, number or id
craft bird/sync/backfill --since=2026-01-01 --dry-run
craft bird/sync/retry                     # the pushes that failed and have attempts left
craft bird/sync/refunds 1042              # credit an order's refunds

craft bird/inspect/preview 1042           # the exact JSON, without sending it
craft bird/inspect/tax-rates              # ids for the VAT mapping
craft bird/inspect/ledger-accounts
craft bird/inspect/financial-accounts
craft bird/inspect/administrations

craft bird/webhooks/install
craft bird/webhooks/info
craft bird/webhooks/remove

craft bird/log/prune --days=30

The webhook

Bird pushes invoices; Moneybird is where they get paid — matched against a bank feed, or marked paid by hand. Without the webhook, your site's idea of "paid" is whatever the payment gateway said at checkout, which misses every bank transfer.

Install webhook registers it and stores the signing secret Moneybird shows exactly once. Every delivery is verified against Moneybird-Signature — HMAC-SHA256 over {timestamp}.{raw body}, rejected if the timestamp is more than five minutes out. No secret, no signature, no stale timestamp, no request: it fails closed.

Safety

Nothing Bird does can stop a customer paying. Every trigger swallows its own failures; the push runs in the queue by default.
The document table is unique on (order, kind, source). A retried job, a double-clicked button and a webhook racing the queue cannot book the same revenue twice.
If a push dies between "Moneybird created the invoice" and "Bird wrote the row", the next attempt finds the invoice by reference and adopts it rather than booking a second one.
An unmapped VAT rate refuses the order and says which percentage is missing. An invoice booked against the wrong tax rate is worse than one that did not get booked, because nobody goes looking for it.
Tokens and webhook secrets are redacted out of stored payloads.

Languages

The control panel is translated into the languages Moneybird itself publishes in:


English	`en`
Nederlands	`nl`
Nederlands (België)	`nl-BE`
Deutsch	`de`
Français (Belgique)	`fr-BE`

Craft picks the catalogue from the user's language, so a Dutch bookkeeper and an English developer can share an install and each see their own. A string with no translation falls back to English rather than to a blank.

The documentation at justinholt.com/plugins/craft-bird is published in the same five.

Support

justin@justinholt.com

Trademarks

Bird is an independent plugin and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Moneybird. "Moneybird" is a trademark of its respective owner, used here only to describe what this plugin connects to.

Bird

Version 5.0.1

Fixed