Industry focus
Ecommerce Accountant for Amazon Sellers
Amazon FBA, Shopify, eBay, Etsy, and multi-channel sellers: selling in 20 states? We navigate multi-state sales tax nexus, inventory COGS, and platform fees so you scale without a tax disaster waiting at the finish line.
How we work with this industry
Online sellers have two accounting problems the storefront hides: inventory and sales tax. Marketplace settlement reports net fees, refunds and shipping into a single deposit that tells you almost nothing, and selling into other states can create obligations there without you doing anything differently. We unpack the settlements into real numbers and map where you have actually created a filing duty.
Inventory is the second problem and the quieter one. A unit is generally an asset until it sells, and its real cost includes freight, duty and prep, not just what you paid the supplier. When purchases get expensed on the way in, a heavy restock month looks like a loss and a strong sell-through month looks like a windfall. We carry inventory properly, so gross margin by product means something when you set a price.
Sales tax is the part that follows you. Where your inventory physically sits and where your customers are can each create a filing duty, and marketplace collection does not cover the sales you make through your own store. We map where you have registered and where you may need to, handle the Florida return on your assigned filing frequency, and keep collected tax visible in the books as money held rather than money earned.
What We Do
What We Handle for Online Sellers
The work that turns platform payouts into books you can price from and file from.
Settlements Broken Into Parts
Amazon, Shopify, eBay and Etsy payouts split into gross sales, referral and fulfillment fees, refunds, shipping and tax collected, so every piece lands in the account it belongs to.
Inventory and Cost of Goods Sold
Units carried as an asset until they sell, with freight, duty and prep folded into unit cost, so margin by product is a number rather than an impression.
Florida Sales Tax and the DR-15
Registration, the return on your assigned filing frequency, and a reconciliation between what your own storefront collected and what actually gets remitted to the state.
Nexus Review Across States
A look at where your inventory is stored, which channels collect on your behalf and where you are shipping, so registration questions surface while they are still small.
Processor and Bank Reconciliation
Stripe, PayPal and card processor activity tied back to the bank, with payout timing separated from sale timing so month end stops drifting away from the deposits.
QuickBooks Setup and Catch-Up
A chart of accounts built for multichannel selling, set up by a ProAdvisor, plus back months entered and reconciled when the file has fallen behind.
Common Problems
Where E-Commerce Books Go Wrong
Four failures that make an otherwise healthy store unreadable.
The Payout Booked as Revenue
One deposit standing in for gross sales, fees, refunds and tax collected erases every number you would use to make a decision, starting with what each channel actually costs to sell through.
Inventory Expensed at Purchase
Coding a supplier invoice straight to expense makes a restock look like a bad month and a sell-through look like a great one. Neither picture is true, and depending on the inventory method you are on, the tax result can follow the wrong one too.
Landed Cost Left Out
A unit cost that ignores freight, duty and prep flatters your margin on exactly the products where those costs weigh most, which tends to be where you are pricing most aggressively.
Nexus Assumed Rather Than Checked
Assuming the marketplace covers everything, or that only Florida matters, leaves obligations sitting undiscovered until a state finds them first. The exposure grows quietly with volume.
Services we offer in this industry
The services most often used by businesses in this industry. Each one is led by an Enrolled Agent.
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Questions we hear in this industry
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