E-commerce Accounting Services for Growing Online Businesses

E-commerce accounting involves multi-platform revenue reconciliation, inventory costing across fulfillment networks, landed cost calculations, returns and refund accounting, and multi-state sales tax compliance. These disciplines require platform-specific expertise and inventory accounting knowledge that generalist accounting firms typically do not have.

Multi-platform revenue reconciliation is the process of matching each platform’s settlement reports to your accounting records, breaking down gross revenue, fees, refunds, and adjustments by channel. Without it, your revenue and margin reporting reflects settlement totals rather than what the business actually earned.

Outsourced e-commerce accounting means engaging a specialized external firm to manage part or all of your accounting and finance function rather than building that capability in-house. It gives e-commerce businesses access to platform-specific expertise at a lower cost than hiring and managing an internal team.

We provide general accounting and bookkeeping, multi-platform revenue reconciliation, inventory and COGS accounting, accounts receivable, accounts payable, sales tax compliance, and financial planning and analysis, all structured specifically for e-commerce businesses.

We monitor economic nexus exposure across states based on your revenue and transaction volume, ensure sales tax is being collected and remitted correctly in every state where you have an obligation, and keep compliance current as your business grows into new markets.

Yes. We reconcile inventory balances across all warehouses and fulfillment partners, calculate landed costs, track COGS at the product level, and investigate and resolve inventory variances between your accounting system and warehouse or platform records.

Yes. We structure financial reporting by platform and channel across Amazon, Shopify, Walmart Marketplace, and other sales channels, providing revenue, gross margin, and fee visibility at the channel and product level.

An e-commerce brand should review a monthly income statement, balance sheet, cash flow statement, gross margin report by SKU and channel, AR aging report, platform reconciliation summary, and sales tax liability report at minimum.

Yes. We prepare the clean, current financial records, gross margin analyses, and structured reporting packages that investors and acquirers require during due diligence. We also support the financial modeling and scenario analysis needed for fundraising conversations.

We work with Shopify, Amazon Seller Central, Walmart Marketplace, QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop, NetSuite, Xero, Sage, A2X, and Microsoft Dynamics, among others.

Yes. We provide financial planning and analysis services specifically structured for e-commerce brands, including channel-level margin forecasting, inventory investment planning, and revenue planning by volume, price, and product mix.

Yes. Most Expertise Accelerated e-commerce accounting engagements are structured as monthly fixed fees, which provides budget predictability as your business grows.

We support e-commerce businesses across the United States, including brands based in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Miami, and Austin, as well as businesses selling nationally across all U.S. retail and direct-to-consumer channels.

Most engagements begin within two to four weeks of the initial agreement, depending on the number of platforms, the complexity of the inventory setup, and the current state of the brand’s financial records.