Ebay records

Hi @galleksa

You should treat both eBay and Amazon as a merchant account to help log the fees etc. There’s a useful guide on this here. Effectively, you have 3 transactions for every sale - Money in, fees out and money out.

There’s a previous post on these forums which explains this in relation to eBay, which could be useful:

To clarify the labels:

  • Receipt number - this is the auto-generated ID used for QuickFile, you can generally leave this as it is
  • Supplier reference - this would be the invoice number that eBay/Amazon provides
  • Category - Sales commission should be fine
  • Description - I normally recommend to replicate what’s shown on the invoice to help you identify it. Otherwise, something along the lines of “ebay fees, xx/xx/xxxx - xx/xx/xxxx” should be OK

You don’t need to raise an invoice for every customer. In essence, you’d treat it like any other shop, and can log the income daily. There’s a guide to this here. Some users find it easier to do this on a weekly basis, but the important thing is to make sure your invoices don’t cross periods (e.g. into two different tax years).

I hope that helps :slight_smile: