eCommerce Bookkeeping Services
Marketplace fees, shipping, advertising, and returns silently chip away at margins. Your reports might look fine, but without granular tracking, the money disappearing from each sale goes unnoticed until it’s too late.
Peach BPO unpacks every payout, matches it to your records, and separates every fee and adjustment. With everything clearly tracked, you gain a complete view of cash flow, margins, and revenue performance, ready to act on immediately.
What Are the Challenges with eCommerce Bookkeeping?
With high volumes of SKUs and transactions flowing daily, even small errors can ripple across your cash flow. Staying on top of these details is critical to make informed decisions and keep growth on track.
1. Hidden Inventory Costs Distort Margins
Tracking the true cost of inventory is tricky in ecommerce. The supplier price is just the start; freight, customs, packaging, and warehouse prep all add up.
A product that costs $6 from the supplier might actually cost $8–$9 once all expenses are included.
If only the supplier invoice is recorded, margins look inflated, and profitability per SKU becomes unclear.
Without seeing the full cost, you risk underpricing products, misjudging profitability, and making growth decisions based on misleading numbers.
THE PEACH SOLUTION
Peach BPO records every vendor bill related to inventory, including supplier invoices, freight, duties, and prep services. Each bill is categorized accurately and matched to its corresponding payment, giving you a complete view of the true cost of every product and the impact on your margins.
At month-end, Peach reviews all recorded transactions to confirm they align with actual financial activity. This process catches missing or misclassified inventory costs, so your reports reflect accurate product costs and real margins.
2. Marketplace Sales Data Is Fragmented Across Multiple Platforms
Many ecommerce businesses sell through multiple channels at the same time, such as Shopify, Amazon, Etsy, Walmart Marketplace, and sometimes their own website.
Each platform produces its own:
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sales reports
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payout summaries
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fees
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refund adjustments
Because these systems operate independently, financial data becomes fragmented. Even when individual platforms show strong sales, it can be difficult to determine total revenue, compare channel performance, or reconcile deposits with recorded income.
Timing differences, platform fees, and refunds can further obscure the true financial picture.
THE PEACH SOLUTION
Peach BPO brings all marketplace activity into one consolidated financial record. Instead of recording deposits at face value, the team captures underlying sales data from each platform and reconciles it against payouts, fees, and refunds.
Our custom-built income recording tools structure this data at a granular level: mapping sales, separating revenue streams, and attaching clear descriptions to every entry. The result is a clean, traceable record that shows exactly how much was sold, where it came from, and how it translates into actual cash.
Each month, Peach BPO compiles your financial data into a structured reporting package that highlights key changes, unusual activity, and emerging trends. This report helps translate fragmented sales data into consolidated financial insights, making it easier to understand overall performance and spot issues early.
Furthermore, your reports are customizable to the KPIs you care most about. Think total sales by platform, average order value (AOV), refund and return rates, and so on.
3. Ecommerce Fees Are Complex and Often Misclassified
Ecommerce platforms charge many different types of fees, and they often get lumped together in bookkeeping.
Common examples include:
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marketplace referral fees
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payment processing fees
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fulfillment fees (FBA or 3PL)
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listing fees
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advertising spend
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storage fees
Many of these are deducted directly from payouts, vary frequently, and follow different billing structures.
Because of this, fees are often recorded under broad categories like “merchant fees” or “marketing,” without clear separation.
When costs are grouped this way, business owners lose visibility into what’s actually affecting their margins.
THE PEACH SOLUTION
Peach BPO builds a structured Chart of Accounts that separates ecommerce expenses into clear categories aligned with the business’s operations.
Instead of grouping everything under broad labels like “merchant fees,” the COA allows different platform costs, such as referral fees, fulfillment charges, and storage fees, to be tracked separately.
Using our custom-built tools, Peach BPO carefully reviews and categorizes each transaction according to your Chart of Accounts. This approach ensures that ecommerce fees are recorded in the correct categories, while also flagging anomalies or uncategorized entries.
Some ecommerce platforms deduct fees directly from payouts, which means certain costs may not appear as separate transactions in the bank account.
During the revenue recording process, Peach BPO reviews detailed payout reports to identify these deductions and records them properly in the books. This brings visibility to fees that would otherwise remain buried within net deposits.
For businesses with high platform or vendor-related costs, Full AP provides closer oversight of outgoing payments. With more frequent tracking and reporting, you gain a clearer view of recurring charges, spot inconsistencies faster, and keep spending aligned with expectations.
4. Rapid SKU Creates Inconsistent Product Records
As ecommerce businesses grow, they often introduce new product variations, bundles, seasonal SKUs, and limited releases. Over time, this expands the product catalog and increases the complexity of tracking sales activity.
Without a structured product and service item list, the same product can be recorded in multiple ways depending on how it appears across platforms, promotions, or bundles.
For example, an item listed as “Organic Coffee Beans – 1lb” may later appear as part of a “Coffee Lovers Bundle,” creating separate entries for what is essentially the same product.
When this happens, records become inconsistent, and product-level reporting breaks down. It becomes difficult to track performance, compare sales across periods, or understand how individual products are actually contributing to revenue.
THE PEACH SOLUTION
Peach BPO maintains a structured mapping of your sales items within the accounting system. As sales data come in from ecommerce platforms,
we record item descriptions, organize them into consistent categories, and align them with the correct product records.
This prevents the same product from appearing under multiple names and keeps product-related data consistent.
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Simplify Your Books, Amplify Your Growth
Bookkeeping shouldn’t slow down your growth.
With Peach BPO’s eCommerce bookkeeping services, you get accurate, detailed, and fully reconciled financial records. We cover every sale, fee, and payment that goes through.
Don’t let the “difficult parts” hold you back. Partner with Peach BPO to streamline your bookkeeping.