Bookkeeping & Tax Help for Amazon and Shopify Sellers

Generally, yes, once your sales in a given state cross that state's threshold, you can end up with a sales tax collection and filing obligation there, even if you've never set foot in it. The rules vary by state and change often, and marketplace facilitator laws mean Amazon sometimes collects and remits on your behalf in certain states but not others. This is exactly the kind of thing that's too easy to get wrong by guessing, so we look at your actual sales footprint and help you understand where you may have exposure.

We pull sales and inventory data from wherever you sell, whether that's Amazon, Shopify, Etsy, or a combination, and reconcile it against your actual cost of goods so your books reflect what's really happening across every channel, not just one. The goal is a single, accurate picture of your inventory value and turnover, instead of separate numbers in separate dashboards that never quite agree with each other.

It's more than just what you paid your supplier. Shipping the product to you, freight and customs if you import, packaging, and often a portion of fulfillment costs all factor into a true cost of goods sold figure. Get this wrong and your profit numbers look better on paper than they actually are, which makes it hard to price products correctly or know which SKUs are actually worth reordering.

Yes, that's a common setup and one we're used to working with. Each platform reports sales, fees, and payouts differently, so we consolidate everything into one clean set of books instead of leaving you to reconcile two or three separate systems on your own.

Referral fees, FBA storage and fulfillment fees, payment processing fees, and advertising spend should all be broken out and tracked as their own expense categories, not lumped together or netted against revenue without detail. When they're recorded properly, you can actually see how much of each sale is going to the platform versus staying with you.

Yes. The 1099-K a platform sends you reports gross payment volume, which is not the same as your revenue or your profit. We reconcile that form against your actual books so the numbers on your tax return make sense and match what the platform reported, rather than raising questions later.

It's actually the best time. Setting up clean tracking from your first sale, rather than trying to reconstruct a year of transactions later, saves a lot of headache and makes it much easier to understand whether the business is actually profitable as you scale it.