Category: E-commerce Accounting

If you price off the supplier invoice, your margins are fiction. Here’s what actually goes into landed cost, how to allocate freight and duty across a mixed container without distorting your numbers, and a worked example you can copy.

Bank marketing sells perks. Your store needs something else entirely: the right account architecture, a clean bank feed in QuickBooks, and records a lender can read later. An honest, no-affiliate guide to fintech accounts, traditional banks, and processor balances.

App-stack listicles are written for hobby stores. This one is staged by revenue — what operators actually run at $1M and $5M, why the app count should fall as you grow, and the one number (your app tax) worth tracking.

Most inventory software roundups are affiliate rankings. This one isn’t — we sell accounting software, not inventory tools. A guide organized by what your operation actually needs, from built-in stock tracking to full IMS.

The per-order fee comparison between 3PL, FBA, and self-fulfillment is the wrong math. Here’s how each model’s total cost actually behaves, which one fits your channel mix and stage, and why most growing stores end up running two.

Everyone wants the magic order count that means it’s time to outsource fulfillment. It doesn’t exist. Here are the five signals that actually decide it — and the honest list of stores that shouldn’t switch yet.

Your P&L shows one blended margin. Your catalog contains winners quietly subsidizing losers. Here’s how contribution margin actually works for a store — per SKU, per channel — and how to compute it without a data team.

Every capital source underwrites a different slice of your records — platform data, tax returns, AR aging, or your raw bank feed. Here’s what each one actually checks, the three failure modes that kill applications, and the 90-day cleanup runway.