E-commerce & Retail

Bookkeeping for online stores and retail shops. We handle multi-channel sales, inventory tracking, and the mess of fees from Shopify, Amazon, and payment processors.

The Industry

E-commerce and retail bookkeeping is different because you sell through multiple channels and every platform takes different fees. You have Shopify, Amazon, Etsy, your physical store, maybe a few more. Each one deposits money net of fees and you need to track gross sales, returns, and all those deductions separately.

We work with online stores, brick and mortar retailers, and businesses doing both. We know how to reconcile marketplace deposits, track inventory across channels, calculate cost of goods sold properly, and deal with sales tax nexus issues that come from selling in multiple states.

Who We Serve

Online stores, retail shops, multi-channel sellers, Amazon FBA businesses, Shopify stores, Etsy shops, and any business selling physical products through multiple platforms or locations.

What Makes Us Different

We understand how marketplace accounting works. We know the difference between gross sales and net deposits. We can reconcile Shopify, Amazon, and payment processor reports and make sense of all the fees.

The Services

E-commerce and retail businesses need bookkeeping that handles multiple sales channels, inventory tracking, and the complex fee structures of online marketplaces. Here’s what we handle.

Multi-Channel Sales Tracking

We reconcile sales from every channel you use. Shopify, Amazon, Etsy, your physical store, all tracked separately so you know which channels are profitable and which ones cost too much in fees.

Marketplace Reconciliation

We break down Amazon and other marketplace deposits into gross sales, refunds, fees, and chargebacks. Your books show what you actually sold, not just what hit your bank account.

Inventory Management

We track inventory purchases, cost of goods sold, and inventory value across all your sales channels. You know what products are profitable and what your inventory is actually worth.

Sales Tax Tracking

We track sales by state so you know where you have nexus and what you owe in sales tax. When you hit thresholds that require registration in new states, you know before you get penalty notices.

The Problem

Most e-commerce sellers just record their bank deposits as revenue and call it done. But the deposit is not your revenue. It is revenue minus returns minus fees minus chargebacks minus a dozen other deductions. When your books only show deposits, your financials are completely wrong.

Without proper tracking, you cannot tell which products or channels make money. Amazon fees might eat all your profit on certain items. One sales channel might be subsidizing another. You have no idea because the numbers are mixed together.

Inaccurate Revenue

Recording deposits instead of gross sales means your revenue is understated and your expenses are missing all the fees. You cannot compare months or channels meaningfully because the numbers are wrong from the start.

Mystery Profitability

When fees are not properly allocated, you cannot tell which products or channels actually make money. You might be losing money on Amazon FBA because of storage and fulfillment fees you are not tracking.

Inventory Guesswork

Without proper inventory tracking, cost of goods sold is a guess. You cannot price products correctly or know your true margins. Your balance sheet shows the wrong inventory value.

Sales Tax Nightmares

Selling in multiple states creates nexus obligations most sellers do not track. By the time you realize you should have been collecting sales tax somewhere, you owe back taxes and penalties.

The Outcome

Your books show actual sales, returns, and fees broken out properly. You know which channels and products are profitable after accounting for all the costs. You can make informed decisions about where to focus your efforts.

Sales tax compliance is handled before it becomes a problem. You know where you have nexus and what you owe. Inventory tracking gives you real cost of goods sold numbers so you can price products to actually make money.

Clear Profitability

You can see which products and sales channels actually make money after fees. Stop wasting time on channels that cost more than they generate or products that lose money.