Ecommerce accounting, in full.
An order is not a sale. This hub walks through every event an order creates — charges, taxes, refunds, settlements, inventory — and how each one becomes accounting you can post into an ERP and actually reconcile.
The event map
One order, many accounting events
Every component below is its own economic fact. Each has to be captured, categorised and posted — without ever losing the link back to the order.
The pipeline
From marketplace order to ERP posting
Five stages. Marketplace events in, clean ERP-ready entries out.
Order-wise
Each order keeps its own books
Order-wise accounting means the entries for an order — revenue, charges, GST, settlement receivable, COGS — all trace to the marketplace order ID. Nothing bridges through a monthly total.
| Event | Accounting effect |
|---|---|
| Order and sale | Revenue at selling price |
| Commission, fees, logistics | Selling or operating expense |
| GST on sale and charges | Output / input tax per head |
| TCS / TDS | Tax collected / tax deducted positions |
| Refund and return | Reversal of revenue, charges and tax |
| Settlement | Receivable movement against orders |
| Payout | Bank matched to settlement receivable |
| Inventory out / transfer | COGS and warehouse-wise stock moves |
Charges
The platform's cost, line by line
A marketplace remittance is a net number. DeepEcom decomposes it back into the charges that produced it and attaches each one to the order that generated it — so platform cost becomes part of profitability, not a month-end surprise.
| Charge | What it is |
|---|---|
| Commission / referral fee | Percentage or flat fee per order |
| Collection / payment handling | Fee for collecting and remitting |
| Shipping and logistics | Fulfilment cost on the order |
| Advertising | Order-attributable ad spend |
| Returns-related | Reversals and return logistics |
| Adjustments | Corrections and clawbacks |
GST-wise & warehouse-wise
Accounting structured the way GST and inventory actually work
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Related resources
Ecommerce Accounting
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Ecommerce AccountingEcommerce accounting for marketplaces
A practical foundation: how orders, charges, GST, refunds, settlements and inventory each become accounting events — and how they land in an ERP.
AccountingWhy ecommerce accounting is different from regular accounting
An ecommerce order is never just a sale. It carries fees, taxes, returns, settlements and inventory events. Here is how one order becomes many accounting events.
One order creates a sale, a set of marketplace charges, GST events, settlement and payouts, and inventory movements — each with its own accounting treatment.
AccountingOrder-wise accounting, explained in plain words
What it means to account every ecommerce order as its own set of journal entries — and why it beats daily sales summaries.
Instead of a daily sales total, each order produces its own revenue, charge, tax and settlement entries that can be traced back to the marketplace order.
InventoryWarehouse-wise accounting: why inventory must be tracked where it moves
Stock transfers and multi-warehouse fulfilment create accounting events that are not sales. Here is how warehouse-wise movement stays traceable.
A stock transfer is not revenue and not a cost — it is a movement between locations that still must land accurately in the books and the ERP warehouse masters.
See order-wise accounting on your own orders.
Book a demo — connect a marketplace and watch each order become structure, reconciled, GST-wise accounting.