Shopify payouts, Amazon fees, Etsy deposits, multi-channel revenue, COGS tracking, and sales tax compliance. We handle the accounting complexity so you can focus on selling.
If you sell online, you already know this: your bank deposits never match your sales totals. Every platform takes its cut — marketplace fees, payment processing fees, refund deductions, shipping label costs, advertising charges. A single Shopify payout might represent dozens of individual transactions, each with different fee structures.
Add multi-channel selling into the mix — Shopify plus Amazon plus Etsy — and you are dealing with three different payout schedules, three different fee structures, and three different reporting formats. Most general bookkeepers look at this and either oversimplify it (lumping everything into one revenue line) or get overwhelmed and make errors that cascade through your entire P&L.
Then there is sales tax. If you sell to customers in multiple provinces, you may have GST and PST obligations in jurisdictions you have never even visited. If you sell into the United States, marketplace facilitator laws add another layer. Getting this wrong does not just mean inaccurate books — it means potential CRA assessments and penalties.
And inventory? Tracking cost of goods sold accurately — including landed costs like duties and freight for imported products — is the difference between knowing your real margins and guessing. Too many e-commerce businesses think they are profitable because they look at revenue without accounting for the true cost of getting products to customers.
We have built our e-commerce bookkeeping process specifically for the way online businesses work. We do not treat your Shopify payouts like simple bank deposits. We break them down, reconcile them properly, and give you books that reflect reality.
Every e-commerce platform bundles multiple transactions into a single payout. We unbundle them. For Shopify, we reconcile each payout against the individual orders it contains — separating gross sales, discounts, refunds, shipping charges, transaction fees, and Shopify subscription charges. For Amazon, we work with the Settlement Reports to properly account for FBA fees, referral fees, and advertising costs. The result is a set of books where every dollar is accounted for and you can see exactly where your money goes.
If you sell on multiple platforms, you need to know which channels are actually profitable — not just which ones generate the most revenue. We set up your chart of accounts to track revenue and expenses by channel so your monthly P&L shows you the real margin on Shopify versus Amazon versus Etsy. This is information you need to make smart decisions about where to invest your time and advertising budget.
BC e-commerce sellers collecting GST and PST need accurate tracking across all channels. We reconcile the tax collected by each platform against what was actually remitted and ensure your GST/PST filings are based on clean, verified data. If you are selling across provincial borders or internationally, we help you understand your obligations and set up proper tracking from the start.
Knowing your true cost of goods sold is the foundation of profitability analysis. We track product costs including purchase price, shipping to your warehouse, customs duties, and any other landed costs. For businesses using FBA, we account for Amazon's storage and fulfilment fees as part of your cost structure. The goal is a P&L that shows your real gross margin — not an inflated number that ignores half your costs.
Common tools we integrate with: Shopify, Amazon Seller Central, Etsy, WooCommerce, Stripe, PayPal, Square, Dext, Hubdoc, QuickBooks Online, and Zoho Books. If you use a platform we have not listed, chances are we have worked with it before — just ask.
Book a free 30-minute call. We will review your setup and recommend the right plan for your e-commerce business.