Bookkeeping for E-commerce sellers
Online sellers rarely see a sale as one clean number. Platform fees, refunds, shipping and payout timing mean your bank shows something very different from your sales.
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Bookkeeping for E-commerce sellers
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4.5 hours at £15
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The short answer
What does bookkeeping for E-commerce sellers involve?
Bookkeeping for E-commerce sellers means keeping settlement and payout reports from each marketplace, fees, advertising and fulfilment charges, stock purchases and supplier invoices and the rest of your records accurate and reconciled. At £15 an hour, a typical shopify and amazon seller (about 300 transactions a month) needs about 11.5 hours a month, which is around £172.50.
What makes these books different.
Every sector has its own records and rules. These are the ones that matter for E-commerce sellers.
Payouts do not equal sales
Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Shopify and PayPal pay out net of fees, refunds and reserves. Each payout has to be split back into sales, fees and adjustments.
Stock and cost of sales
Profit depends on what you paid for the goods you actually sold, so stock purchases and closing stock need tracking.
VAT across channels
Marketplace rules, imports and sales to EU consumers each carry VAT consequences, and the treatment differs by channel.
Platform reporting to HMRC
Under digital platform reporting rules, marketplaces report sellers' income to HMRC, so your records need to agree with what they report.
£15
an hour, flat
£172.50
a month for a typical shopify and amazon seller
11.5h
of bookkeeping a month, about 300 transactions a month
0
contract, stop whenever you like
Records we keep for you.
- Settlement and payout reports from each marketplace
- Fees, advertising and fulfilment charges
- Stock purchases and supplier invoices
- Returns and refunds
- Courier and packaging costs
- Import VAT and customs documents
Rules worth knowing.
Import VAT
Goods imported into the UK carry import VAT, which VAT-registered sellers can often account for on their return using postponed VAT accounting.
Sales to EU customers
Selling to consumers in the EU can create EU VAT obligations, which many sellers handle through the One Stop Shop scheme.
Trading allowance
Casual sellers with gross trading income up to £1,000 a year may not need to declare it, but regular sellers usually do.
General information, not tax advice. Rules change, so check GOV.UK or ask your accountant. Last reviewed November 2026.
A typical month.
A shopify and amazon seller with about 300 transactions a month, VAT registered. Here is the time it takes and what it costs.
- Core bookkeeping (251 - 500)10h
- E-commerce / Amazon / Shopify extras1h
- VAT-ready books (MTD)0.5h
Each month
£172.50
Where this sector is most common.
Using ONS business counts for 2026, manufacturing is the biggest share of local businesses in these places. We serve all of them online.
- Hull7% of local businesses, 1.6 times the UK share, about 480 firms
- Stoke-on-Trent7% of local businesses, 1.5 times the UK share, about 460 firms
- Leicester6% of local businesses, 1.4 times the UK share, about 885 firms
- Bradford6% of local businesses, 1.4 times the UK share, about 1,100 firms
- Sheffield6% of local businesses, 1.4 times the UK share, about 1,070 firms
- Wolverhampton6% of local businesses, 1.3 times the UK share, about 495 firms
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E-commerce sellers: your questions.
Can you handle Amazon and Shopify together?
Yes. We reconcile each channel's payouts separately and consolidate them, so you can see profit by channel as well as overall.
Do platforms tell HMRC about my sales?
Under the UK's digital platform reporting rules, platforms collect seller details and report income to HMRC. Keeping accurate records makes any query simple to answer.
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