Category: E-commerce Accounting

Store valuations aren’t a number you look up — they’re SDE times a range you influence. Here’s how SDE is built, which add-backs survive a buyer’s accountant, and why the same store can carry two very different price tags.

The gateway decision looks like a rate comparison. It’s actually two decisions — what each processor charges, and what each one does to your books. Here’s both, honestly.

Connecting Shopify to QuickBooks Desktop is a short list of real options — Webgility, manual imports, or migrating to Online. Here’s the honest map, from a vendor that doesn’t support Desktop.

Cash-basis books tell inventory businesses a story that isn’t true. Here’s one fictional month shown both ways — $6,000 of profit on one basis, $27,500 on the other — and when switching stops being optional.

Shopify knows how many units you have. Your books need to know what they’re worth. Here’s how the two inventory accounting systems — periodic and perpetual — actually work for an online store, and which one fits yours.

The bank takes the money first and asks questions later. Here’s the dispute lifecycle end to end — and the entries that keep your books honest whether you win or lose.

A Shopify Capital advance isn’t income, and the remittances aren’t an expense. Here’s the liability mechanics, the QuickBooks setup, and the trap that makes funded stores look like their sales fell.

BNPL orders pay you upfront, minus a bigger fee that hides in a different report. How to book Shop Pay Installments, Klarna, and Afterpay correctly in QuickBooks.

A wholesale buyer says they’re tax-exempt and you stop charging tax — but the exemption belongs to a certificate, not a customer. Here’s the paperwork discipline and the bookkeeping structure that keep zero-tax orders defensible.

A wholesale deposit arrives before you’ve earned it — which makes it a debt, not a sale. Here’s the liability-first structure for deposits, partial payments, and progress billing in QuickBooks.