Category: E-commerce Accounting

Most store owners price their bookkeeping at zero or at the bookkeeper’s invoice. The real number is four line items, and it compounds every month.

Stores don’t buy insurance when a blog says to — they buy it the week a counterparty demands a certificate. Here’s the coverage map: what each policy actually does, the trigger events that tell you when you need it, and…

An LLC is a legal entity. An S corp is a tax election. This post untangles the vocabulary, shows what an election changes in your payroll and your books, and builds the list of questions to bring to your CPA…

Card marketing sells rewards. Your store needs something else: a limit that survives Q4, spend controls that keep vendors contained, and transactions that land in your books already explained. An honest, no-affiliate guide to the card classes and when a…

Your SKU is the join key every system in your business relies on — the platform, the warehouse, the inventory tool, the books. A practical guide to designing a scheme that survives growth, and to fixing a messy one without…

Every BFCM checklist covers ads and inventory. Almost none cover the books. Here’s the finance prep that decides whether your biggest weekend actually makes you money.

You don’t need demand-science software to stop stocking out. Inventory forecasting for a DTC store is five inputs and one piece of arithmetic — here’s the whole method, worked through with real numbers, plus the three ways it predictably fails.

A return isn’t a shipment in reverse — it’s a value-recovery decision. Here are your four processing options, the five disposition paths, and the math for when getting the item back costs more than letting it go.

The rate card prices a good month. The contract prices the bad ones. Eight clauses that quietly cost stores real money — why each one bites, and what to ask for before you sign.

Owner’s draw, salary through payroll, distributions — the mechanics of each, what they look like in your books, and why the same cash produces two very different P&Ls. Plus the questions that belong to your CPA.