Accounting for your online retail business

Accounting For Your
Online Retail Business

Accounting for your online retail business

This client is an online retailer and wholesaler with B2B, direct-to-consumer and affiliate sales. Sales orders were received from three main channels. The first, directly from their own online retail storefront, hosted on Shopify. Secondly, B2B and wholesale sales were received via the Unleased ecommerce platform and the third channel was via Amazon.

With a network of global suppliers, purchase invoices had to be recorded and payments made in multiple currencies. Alongside an extensive payroll list, the internal accounts department was under pressure to keep up with demands and the existing hardware-based accounting platform was no longer fit for purpose.

Linking sales
and purchasing assets

By moving this client over to Xero cloud accounting we enabled the business to link every aspect of their sales and purchasing system. Shopify pushed sales information into Unleashed which collated all sales and pushed the data through to the clients Xero account.

Stock managed via Unleased, and the overall stock journal, is posted automatically into Xero for each sale.

Amazon sales orders and costs were linked into Xero through A2X. A2X is like a financial housekeeper that sits between amazon and your accounting system, tidying, sorting and summarizing your transactions.

Incoming expenses
and purchase Invoices

For incoming expenses and purchase invoices, we advised the client set up ReceiptBank. With pinpoint accuracy, ReceiptBank scans all the information on-the-go — from your mobile, laptop or email inbox — storing and organising the data using a mix of AI and human sorting. The extracted information is then posted them into Xero, cutting down on manual data entry.

To automate supplier payments and deal with issues of multi-currencies, we helped the client set up TransferWise which allows you to pay invoices, buy inventory, and handle payroll with the real exchange rate in over 50 currencies.

Finally, Xero Payroll posted all payroll costs directly into the client’s Xero accounting package.

The resulting automatic reconciliation of payments and spending across multiple channels saw a significant reduction in manual data input and reconciliation tasks. With human input error taken out of the equation, customer and supplier invoicing inquiries were reduced.

Direct Peak specialise
in accounting for your online
retail business.

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