When do you know your real holiday profit?
Returns, chargebacks and late bills keep changing holiday profit into the spring. When each one settles, and how to close the season per order.
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Is Amazon Vendor Central better than Seller Central?
Seller Central takes a published fee, shipping included. Vendor Central takes its share through terms nobody publishes. How to work out which leaves you more per unit.
Where do I find my Shopify bills?
Your Shopify bills are in Settings, Billing, one PDF at a time. What each charge is, why there are so many, and how to get them all into the books.
Why don't your clients' 1099-Ks match their books? They run on different calendars
A client's 1099-Ks are gross by design and each processor dates a late December sale differently, so reconcile each form to its own export before the return.
Does Shopify collect and remit sales tax? It collects, and new stores file their own
Shopify collects US sales tax but no longer files it for new stores. Who does, what Shopify Tax and Avalara cost, and how to choose.
How long does Amazon hold your money? Deferred transactions and the account level reserve
How long Amazon holds your money, how deferred transactions differ from the account level reserve, and how to forecast when the money reaches your bank.
How much does Shopify take per sale? More than your plan rate says
What Shopify really takes on each order, why it is more than your plan rate, and where to find the fee it actually charged.
Why your Shopify payout doesn't match your sales, and how to reconcile it
What a Shopify payout actually contains, and how to tie one back to the orders that produced it.
Why AI projects fail, and how to actually ship one that sticks
What actually makes AI projects fail, and the engineering that makes one stick.
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