Case studies
Illustrative: a Shopify store a year behind on its books
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- Challenge
- An online store selling through Shopify and Amazon had recorded a year of marketplace payouts as single deposits. Revenue, fees and refunds could not be separated, and the owner needed reliable figures for a tax preparer.
- Approach
- Rebuild each month from marketplace settlement reports using a settlement connector, reconcile every processor and bank account in order, and record each correction in an adjustments log.
- Outcome
- The deliverable in an engagement like this is a reconciled ledger for the backlog period, monthly profit and loss statements that show sales, fees and refunds separately, and a written adjustments log for the tax preparer.
This is an illustrative example based on a common engagement type. It does not describe a real client, and no results are claimed.
Where to go next
- Ecommerce (Amazon and Shopify)Bookkeeping for online sellers on Amazon, Shopify, Etsy and their own storefronts, built around clean payout and sales tax data.
- Books, reconciled every weekBookkeepingMonthly bookkeeping in QuickBooks Online, Xero or the platform you already run: every transaction sorted into categories, every bank and card account reconciled, and a clean set of reports each month.
- Filing-ready, prepared by people who already know your booksTax preparation supportReturn preparation and filing support across US federal and state, UK, Australian, Canadian, Hong Kong and EU obligations, built from books we already reconcile and reviewed by a credentialed signer or registered filing partner before anything is filed.
- For the books that do not fit a monthly closeSpecial situationsBookkeeping for the situations a standard monthly close does not cover: years of backlog, missing records, a platform shutdown, a dormant entity, a wind-down, or several locations that need one consolidated view.
Next step
Talk to the team that would run your books
A short call covers your setup, your software and what a first month would look like. You get a written scope and price after it.