E-commerce businesses
Bookkeeping, VAT and tax for online sellers on Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Shopify and TikTok Shop, with platform fees, refunds and stock reconciled properly.
Who it's for
- Amazon and eBay sellers
- Shopify and Etsy shops
- TikTok Shop and social sellers
- Dropshippers and importers
What's included
- Platform payouts matched to sales, fees and refunds
- Stock and cost of sales tracked
- VAT registration and schemes reviewed
- Import VAT and postponed VAT accounting
- Guidance on selling to EU customers
- MTD quarterly updates
Key rules
- 30 sales
- Or about £1,700 a year: platforms report your sales to HMRC above this
- £90,000
- VAT threshold, counted on your sales over any 12 months
- £135
- Imported goods up to this value have VAT charged at the point of sale, often by the marketplace
- Postponed VAT
- Lets you account for import VAT on your VAT return instead of paying at the border
Your platform payout isn't your income. Record the full sale, then the fees and refunds separately.
Worth knowing
Common questions
If you buy to resell, or make things to sell, that's trading, and you pay tax on the profit once your trading income is over £1,000 a year. Selling your own unwanted things usually isn't taxable.
Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Shopify, Vinted, TikTok Shop and others. We work from each platform's sales and payout reports.
Sometimes. For overseas sellers, and imported goods of £135 or less, marketplaces may charge the UK VAT. If you're UK-based and VAT-registered, you usually account for VAT yourself.
We track what you buy and what's left at the year end, so you only claim the cost of the stock you actually sold.
General information only, not personal advice. Correct as of October 2026.
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