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Bookkeeping Cleanup for E-commerce & Online Sellers
Selling across Shopify, Amazon, and Etsy means deposits that never match your sales, fees buried inside payouts, and sales tax piling up in states you've never set foot in. We untangle the channels, rebuild COGS, and deliver financials clean enough for a lender, a buyer, or an investor.
Fixed-price, from $2,500 · Most cleanups done in 2–6 weeks
Why this industry
Why E-commerce (Shopify, Amazon, Etsy) books get messy.
E-commerce books get messy because the money you see in your bank account is almost never the money you actually earned. Each platform nets out its own fees, refunds, and chargebacks before depositing a lump sum on its own schedule, so a single bank deposit can blend a week of sales across hundreds of orders. Inventory purchases get expensed the day you buy them instead of when they sell, so gross margin is invisible and the P&L lies. Layer on sales-tax nexus that quietly triggers in new states as you grow, and most sellers don't realize their books are broken until an investor, lender, or accountant asks for numbers that hold up. The growth is real — the bookkeeping system just never scaled with the channels.
The challenges
What trips up E-commerce (Shopify, Amazon, Etsy).
Bank deposits that never match your sales
Platform payouts arrive net of fees, refunds, and reserves on their own schedule, so a single deposit blends days of orders. Without channel-level reconciliation your revenue is a guess.
Payment-processor fees buried in payouts
Stripe, PayPal, Shopify Payments, and Amazon all skim fees before they pay you. Booked as a single net deposit, your real revenue and your real fee expense both disappear.
Sales-tax nexus you didn't know you had
Economic nexus can trigger in a dozen states as you scale. Tax collected through the platforms but never verified against remittance is a quiet compliance time bomb.
Inventory and COGS that hide your true margin
When inventory purchases are expensed on the day you buy them, gross margin is invisible and your P&L swings wildly month to month for no real reason.
Refunds and chargebacks muddying revenue
Returns, partial refunds, and chargebacks booked inconsistently inflate or deflate revenue and leave reconciliation gaps that never close.
How we help
What we handle for E-commerce (Shopify, Amazon, Etsy).
Every cleanup is led by Elizabeth Olsen — a West Point graduate and QuickBooks Advanced Certified ProAdvisor — built around how your industry actually earns and spends.
- Reconcile every sales channel — Shopify, Amazon, Etsy, wholesale — to actual bank deposits, separating fees, refunds, and reserves
- Break out payment-processor fees so your true revenue and true cost of selling are both visible
- Rebuild inventory and COGS tracking so gross margin is accurate and consistent month to month
- Review sales-tax collection against remittance across every state where you have nexus and flag discrepancies for your CPA
- Untangle refunds, returns, and chargebacks so revenue reflects what you actually kept
- Deliver channel-level P&Ls and investor- or lender-ready financial statements
Common questions
E-commerce (Shopify, Amazon, Etsy) bookkeeping questions.
Ready to clean up your E-commerce (Shopify, Amazon, Etsy) books?
Every engagement starts with a conversation and a fixed-price quote — no hourly billing, no monthly retainer, no surprises. Projects start at $2,500.