Outsourced E-commerce Accounting UK for Retail Businesses

Yes. Marketplace reconciliation is a core part of what we do for e-commerce clients. Amazon bookkeeping and Shopify bookkeeping sit inside the same monthly workflow - we match platform payouts to bank receipts, reconcile fees and refunds, and keep the ledger clean regardless of transaction volume. We work with Shopify, Amazon Seller Central, eBay, Etsy, and other major platforms.

Yes. Multi-currency books are standard for our e-commerce work, and the multi-channel bookkeeping UK practices need - Shopify, Amazon, eBay and a direct website in one ledger - is the normal shape of the job rather than the exception. We process transactions in the originating currency, apply correct exchange rates, and maintain the functional currency ledger for VAT and reporting purposes. We flag any significant FX exposures as part of the monthly close.

Yes. For UK sellers selling into the EU under the One Stop Shop regime, we track sales by member state, apply the correct local VAT rates, and prepare the OSS return data for your review and submission. E-commerce VAT returns UK practices file for marketplace clients are prepared from reconciled platform data, not from platform summaries. We also maintain the threshold monitoring so clients don't miss registration obligations.

Yes. We provide US sales tax support including nexus monitoring, rate application by state, and return preparation for clients with American sales. We work with your US compliance partners where required, and the US position is reconciled into the same e-commerce accounting UK workflow rather than run as a separate set of books.

E-commerce stock accounting UK sellers need at volume starts with the data your clients provide - purchase orders, goods received notes, or platform reports. We can work with FIFO, weighted average, or specific identification methods depending on the business. Inventory bookkeeping for e-commerce is reconciled to the platform and the ledger at each period end, and the e-commerce cost of goods sold accounting is built from landed cost rather than invoice price, so gross margin means something when your client reads it.

We work with the major e-commerce integrations used in UK practice - A2X, Link My Books, Synder, and Xero's native Shopify connection. If your clients use a different integration we'll assess it during onboarding and confirm whether it fits the e-commerce accounting UK workflow we already run for your other clients.

Yes. Amazon FBA bookkeeping is one of the two workflows this desk was built around. FBA brings problems a general ledger does not anticipate - commingled inventory, stock sitting in a fulfilment centre in another country, storage and long-term storage fees charged in arrears, removal orders, and reimbursements that arrive months after the loss. We reconcile the settlement report rather than the payout, so fees, refunds, reserves and reimbursements land in the right period and the right nominal. Where a client is enrolled in Pan-EU FBA we track the stock movements that create a registration obligation in another member state, because that is the one that gets missed until it is expensive.

Yes. We prepare FRS 102, 102A and 105 statutory accounts and the CT600, and the e-commerce financial statements are built from the reconciled marketplace ledger rather than the bank alone. That matters more here than in most sectors: platform reserves are not cash, refunds and returns need a provision rather than a write-off in the following period, subscription and pre-order revenue is deferred, and stock in transit at the year end is easy to count twice or not at all. Your team reviews and signs; we deliver the working papers behind every figure.

Pricing for e-commerce accounting UK support is per client, per workflow, based on transaction volume, how many sales channels are in play, and whether OSS, IOSS or US sales tax registrations are in the mix. There is no retainer, no minimum volume, and no separate charge for the senior review. Send us one real client and we will price it properly rather than quote a headline rate that changes at month three.