Amazon + KudTax
Connect your Amazon seller account with KudTax to automatically reconcile platform fees, marketplace commissions, payouts and VAT rates across all EU countries into DATEV-ready entries.
Amazon is the biggest channel for most German online sellers, and the one with the messiest numbers. Between an order and a payout sit FBA fees, advertising costs, storage charges, refunds and reserves, all of which Amazon nets into a single figure. Book only that figure and every expense line and every VAT rate disappears with it. KudTax reads the settlement line by line and ties each entry back to the order it came from.
How Amazon works with KudTax
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Connect Amazon via API
Authorise KudTax to connect directly to your Amazon seller account via official API.
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Automated settlement & fee import
KudTax automatically fetches settlements, sales orders, platform fees, refunds and advertising costs from Amazon.
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AI order-level reconciliation
KudTax matches net payouts line-by-line with gross sales and itemised fees, ensuring zero missing expenses.
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Export to DATEV & accounting
Export clean EXTF posting batches with linked settlement documents to DATEV or your tax advisor.
What KudTax reads from Amazon
- Where the export lives
- Amazon SP-API interface (automated sync) or Seller Central → Reports → Payments → Statements
- What the portal calls the file
- Settlement Report (V2)
- Formats
- CSVTXTXLSX
Line-item types recognised
- Orders including the shipping share
- FBA fees and storage charges
- Referral fees per category
- Advertising spend (Sponsored Products)
- Refunds and chargebacks
- Withheld reserves
What to watch for with Amazon
The payout is not revenue
Amazon transfers a net amount in which sales, fees, refunds and reserves have already been offset against one another. Booking that amount as revenue leaves every expense line out of the P&L and computes VAT on the wrong base. Sales and fees belong in separate gross entries.
Settlement periods cut across the month
Amazon settles every fourteen days, with no regard for the calendar month, so a settlement period routinely straddles a month end. Assigning the whole report to one month shifts revenue across the period boundary, and both the VAT return and the year-end accounts will show it.
Several marketplaces, several VAT rates
Selling through Amazon Pan-EU creates dispatches from several warehouse countries. Movements between Amazon warehouses are not sales but do trigger reporting duties, and the settlement report alone does not show which country a delivery left from — that needs the order data alongside it.
Why connect Amazon with KudTax
Gross vs net fee splitting
Automatically splits net payouts into gross revenues, commissions, and shipping fees so expense accounts stay accurate.
EU-wide dispatch & OSS compliance
Tracks dispatches across EU warehouses and assigns correct country VAT rates for OSS filings.
Period boundary reconciliation
Accurately splits settlements that cut across month-ends into correct calendar accounting months.
DATEV EXTF & document links
Generates audit-proof posting batches with digital document attachments for 100% GoBD compliance.
Amazon integration – FAQ
KudTax automatically fetches your Amazon data via the Amazon SP-API interface. For manual transfers, the Settlement Report (V2) from Seller Central is supported.
Yes. Storage, fulfilment and advertising costs are recognised as separate expense lines and posted to their own accounts instead of disappearing into the payout figure.
Yes. Sales are kept separate per marketplace and warehouse country, so OSS-reportable turnover and locally taxable deliveries do not end up in one bucket.
KudTax breaks down net payouts from Amazon into individual gross sales, fees, and refunds, matching every line item.
Yes. KudTax categorises VAT rates and warehouse dispatches by country to keep OSS returns accurate.
Automate your Amazon accounting today
Join the online sellers who let KudTax handle the numbers. Create a free account and connect Amazon in minutes.
