E-COMMERCE ACCOUNTING
E-commerce accounting across your sales channels
Bring together sales, fees, payouts and documents from your channels. Reconcile with KudTax and prepare posting data for the handover.
For online sellers, from a first shop to selling across multiple channels.
Free up to 25 orders a month
- Customer payments
- €5,000
- Refunds
- -€300
- Withheld fees
- -€200
Simplified example with no opening balance or other movements. Not a live account connection.
Why e-commerce accounting works differently
In classic bookkeeping every payment has an invoice behind it. In e-commerce, a payment almost never does.
Marketplaces and payment providers transfer batched amounts: hundreds of sales, less fees, refunds, chargebacks and withheld reserves, in a single credit. The bank statement shows one number that is neither revenue nor profit.
Which part of that payout is revenue, which is cost, and at what tax rate in which country?
That question has to be answered per transaction, not per payout. This is where KudTax starts.
Four steps, the same every month
The sequence does not change with volume. What changes is how long it takes by hand.
- 01
Fetch
Orders, fees, refunds and payouts arrive automatically from the connected portals — no CSV downloads.
- 02
Match
Every payment is matched by ID to the order it belongs to, even when the fee and the order sit in different reports.
- 03
Post
Revenue by tax rate and destination country, expenses by fee type — following rules set once and then applied.
- 04
Export
As a posting batch for DATEV, BMD, Lexware or whichever system your firm works with.
Every channel, one chart of accounts
A sale to France is the same taxable event whether it came through Amazon, your own shop or eBay. The split is by tax rate and country, not by marketplace — the channel is an attribute of the entry, not a separate set of books.
Connected: marketplaces, shop systems, payment providers, invoicing and banking systems. Adding a channel does not add a second process.
What reaches your accountant
The firm does not need access to your seller accounts. It needs a posting batch that imports without questions: accounts from the agreed chart, correct tax keys, a document link per entry and amounts that reconcile to the bank statement.
At high volumes this need not mean thousands of individual entries. Comparable sales are consolidated into summary entries while every underlying transaction stays traceable.
For tax firms
E-commerce mandates rarely fail on expertise and almost always on data volume. When raw data arrives from five sources every month, the preparation is the work — not the posting.
KudTax delivers a checked posting batch per client in the usual format. The reconciliation happens before it reaches the firm.
What it costs
One plan, all features. The price depends solely on orders per month.
- up to 25Free
- up to 100€19
- up to 500€49
- up to 1,000€99
- up to 2,000€129
- up to 3,000€149
All prices exclude VAT, cancellable monthly. Above 3,000 orders on request.
Frequently asked questions
Build your e-commerce accounting workflow
Choose accounting software
Seven checks for a complete test month.
Learn more →Amazon accounting
Connect settlements and payouts for your seller account.
Learn more →Review shops and payment providers
Find the right API or file route for your data sources.
Learn more →Want to discuss your workflow? Request a demo →
Try it for a month, then decide
Free up to 25 orders a month, permanently. No contract, no setup fee.