Guides, not overviews.

Structured, end-to-end walkthroughs you can work through with your own orders and settlements — from the event map of an order through to posting in Tally, SAP or Zoho.

Ecommerce Accounting

Ecommerce 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.

  1. Why an order is not a sale
  2. The event map of an order
  3. Order-wise accounting
  4. GST-wise accounting
  5. Warehouse-wise accounting
Foundational · 10 min read · 7 chapters
Reconciliation

Reconciling marketplace payments and payouts

From expected to received: how to match orders, settlements and bank deposits, find the residue, and reach a position where nothing is unexplained.

  1. The three numbers that must agree
  2. Expected — from orders
  3. Received — settlements and payouts
  4. Matching orders to settlements
  5. Matching settlements to bank
Intermediate · 9 min read · 7 chapters
GST

GST for ecommerce marketplaces

Taxable value, rates, TCS, TDS, refunds and return data — how GST behaves in marketplace selling and what that means for your accounting and your returns.

  1. GST events in a marketplace sale
  2. Taxable value and rates
  3. GST on marketplace charges
  4. TCS on ecommerce sales
  5. TDS on marketplace payments
Foundational · 9 min read · 7 chapters
Profitability

Measuring true marketplace profitability

Sales minus product cost is not profit. How to reach order-level and product-level margin after platform charges, GST, returns and fulfilment.

  1. Where margin actually disappears
  2. The true profitability formula
  3. Order-level profitability
  4. Product and SKU profitability
  5. Marketplace channel views
Intermediate · 8 min read · 7 chapters
ERP

Making your ERP ecommerce-ready

Why ERP posting fails with raw marketplace data, what detail the ERP actually needs, and how order-wise, GST-wise, warehouse-wise entries get posted into Tally, SAP and Zoho.

  1. The ERP's language versus the marketplace's
  2. What the ERP needs from ecommerce
  3. Preparing order-wise entries
  4. GST-wise and tax-ready posting
  5. Warehouse and inventory masters
Intermediate · 10 min read · 7 chapters

Suggested order

A sensible reading path

If you are new to ecommerce accounting, start with the foundation guide and follow the arrows. Each guide builds on the one before it.

  1. Ecommerce accounting for marketplacesStart here
  2. Reconciling marketplace payments and payoutsThen
  3. GST for ecommerce marketplacesThen
  4. Measuring true marketplace profitabilityThen
  5. Making your ERP ecommerce-readyFinish

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