Multi-channel sellers
Businesses selling across several marketplaces and their own store.
Specialist Accounting
E-commerce Accounting
Accounting and bookkeeping for Shopify, Amazon, eBay, Etsy, WooCommerce, Stripe and other online platforms.
Overview
How we help with E-commerce Accounting
Online selling generates a settlement statement, not an invoice. Reconciling gross sales, platform fees, refunds, shipping and VAT back to a net payout is where most e-commerce bookkeeping goes wrong.
We reconcile each platform to your ledgers properly: gross revenue, commission, advertising, fulfilment fees, refunds, chargebacks and currency differences all recorded separately rather than netted into one deposit. That is the only way to see true product margin after fees.
We also deal with the VAT complexity: marketplace deemed-supplier rules, OSS and IOSS for EU sales, import VAT and postponed accounting, and the treatment of overseas stock held in fulfilment centres.
What's included
Everything covered in this service
Scope is agreed in writing before we start, and the fee is fixed against it. If something falls outside, we tell you what it costs before doing it.
- Reconciliation of Shopify, Amazon, eBay, Etsy, WooCommerce and Stripe settlements
- Separation of platform fees, advertising, fulfilment and refunds
- Product-level margin after all platform and shipping costs
- Marketplace VAT, OSS and IOSS for EU sales
- Import VAT, postponed accounting and duty treatment
- Inventory and cost of goods sold reporting
Who it's for
Built around how you actually operate
Amazon FBA sellers
Sellers with fulfilment fees, overseas stock and settlement complexity.
Growing DTC brands
Direct-to-consumer businesses needing real margin visibility.
FAQs
E-commerce Accounting: common questions
Do I charge VAT on marketplace sales?
It depends on where you and the customer are, and whether the marketplace is treated as the deemed supplier. For many overseas sales the platform accounts for the VAT instead of you, but not in every case, which is why the reconciliation matters.
Can you handle sales in multiple currencies?
Yes. Multi-currency settlements, exchange differences and foreign platform fees are all part of the standard reconciliation.
I sell on Amazon FBA with stock held overseas, does that change anything?
Yes. Stock held in an overseas fulfilment centre can create a VAT registration obligation in that country and affects how import VAT and OSS/IOSS apply. We map out where your stock sits and what that means before it becomes an HMRC or overseas tax authority problem.
How do you calculate my actual product margin?
We separate platform commission, advertising spend, fulfilment fees, refunds and chargebacks from the gross settlement figure so the margin you see is per product after every real cost, not the misleading number left after netting everything into one bank deposit.
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Let's talk about E-commerce Accounting
Tell us which platforms you sell on and where your stock is held, and we'll come back with a fixed fee covering the reconciliation and VAT work involved.
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