Ecommerce Bookkeeping: Why Your Amazon and Shopify Numbers Never Seem to Add Up

Selling online was supposed to be simpler than running a store. Then came multi-channel fees, sales tax across 40 states, and a bank feed that makes no sense. Here's how sellers are finally getting their books under control. If you sell online, you already know the strange math of it. Revenue hits your dashboard the moment an order comes in, but the actual money that lands in your bank account weeks later is smaller, delayed, and split up in ways that never quite match what you expected. Add a payment processor fee here, a returned order there, inventory sitting in three different warehouses, and sales tax rules that change depending on which state your customer happens to live in and suddenly "just check your bank balance" stops being useful advice. This is the exact mess ecommerce bookkeeping exists to untangle. It isn't traditional bookkeeping with a different label stuck on it. Selling on Amazon, Shopify, eBay, or Walmart creates a genuinely different kind of...