E-commerce & DTC Accounting: Inventory, COGS & Sales Tax
Stop guessing your true gross margin. We tie inventory valuations, multi-channel marketplace payouts, and landed freight costs into crystal-clear monthly financial statements.
Inventory & COGS Accuracy
Where standard bookkeeping breaks in this sector
Off-the-shelf bookkeepers treat all transactions the same. Here is what goes wrong when accounting isn't tailored to your operating model:
Multi-Channel Reconciliation Chaos
Impact: Shopify, Amazon Seller Central, Walmart, and TikTok payouts lumped together with opaque fee deductions.
How Finendra solves this:
A2X and custom clearing rules allocating gross sales, marketplace seller fees, promo discounts, and returns accurately.
Distorted COGS & Landed Costs
Impact: Expensing inventory upon purchase rather than sale, producing massive artificial P&L swings month-over-month.
How Finendra solves this:
Accrual inventory accounting with FIFO landed cost capitalization (ocean freight, customs, drayage, 3PL prep).
Multi-State Sales Tax Liability
Impact: Crossing economic nexus thresholds in 20+ states without filing, creating audit and penalty traps.
How Finendra solves this:
Automated nexus monitoring, TaxJar/Avalara configuration, and state-by-state return preparation.
Cash Flow & Reorder Blindspots
Impact: Stockouts during peak seasonality or running out of operational cash to fund production POs.
How Finendra solves this:
13-week rolling cash flow forecasts modeling purchase orders, supplier terms, and working capital cycles.
We operate inside your existing finance stack
No migrations required. We connect directly into your cloud accounts with least-privilege read/write access.
What you receive every month
Clear, scheduled financial deliverables delivered directly to your inbox and data room on a fixed cadence.
Channel-Level P&L (Monthly)
- Gross-to-net sales waterfall by marketplace (Shopify, Amazon, Wholesale)
- True contribution margin after marketing spend (MER/ROAS) and shipping costs
- Automated return, discount, and chargeback reserves
Inventory & Cost Accounting
- FIFO landed cost allocation across SKUs (freight, duties, storage)
- Monthly inventory balance sheet true-up matching physical 3PL count
- Dead stock and slow-moving inventory reserve review
Tax & Cash Management
- State economic nexus threshold monitoring across all 50 states
- Sales tax filing prep and marketplace facilitator exemption auditing
- 13-week cash runway and supplier PO financing modeling
"Bootstrapped to $1.2M GMV. Finendra handles our Shopify COGS, sales tax in 12 states, and monthly close — cheaper than a junior hire."
Predictable monthly pricing
No hourly billing. Fixed retainers based on your operational volume.
Starter
Under $50K/mo GMV • Single channel
- Shopify or Amazon sync
- Monthly reconciliation & P&L
- Basic sales tax tracking
Growth
$50K–$200K/mo GMV • Multi-channel
- Multi-channel A2X setup
- Accrual COGS & landed cost allocation
- Sales tax nexus tracking (5 states)
- 13-week cash flow forecast
Scale
$200K–$500K+/mo GMV • Omnichannel
- Full 3PL/ERP inventory integration
- 15+ state sales tax filings
- Channel-level contribution margins
- Quarterly CFO working capital review
Are you doing under $50K/mo revenue?
Don't pay $3,000+/mo for senior enterprise overhead you don't need yet. Our Starter Plan is just $499/mo. You get monthly bookkeeping, quarterly financial statements, and tax-ready books with zero setup fees and no long-term contracts.
The 27-Point Founder Month-End Close Checklist
The step-by-step operating checklist used by seed-stage startups and VC-backed companies to close their books by the 5th of every month. Reconcile Stripe, clear AP, track deferred revenue, and calculate true cash runway.
- ASC 606 Rev Rec Guidelines
- Runway & Burn Formulas
- Multi-State Payroll Steps
- Audit-Ready Workpapers
Ready for a clean close and institutional-grade numbers?
Schedule a 20-minute scoping diagnostic with our team. We'll review your current setup and hand you an actionable plan.