#e-commerce
Счетоводни решения за онлайн магазини и електронна търговия
Don't carry dead stock at full cost — GAAP's lower of cost or NRV rule requires writing obsolete and slow-moving inventory down to what you can actually realize, with a repeatable month-end workflow.
One missing resale certificate can reprice years of sales as taxable — collect the right form at checkout, validate it on receipt, renew 60 days before expiry, and tie every certificate to its invoices.
Loyalty points are a separate performance obligation under ASC 606 — allocate revenue to points at standalone value, hold it as deferred revenue, and recognize it (plus proportional breakage) only on redemption or expiry.
BNPL providers pay merchants the full sale price minus a fee, then report gross volume on a 1099-K — so recording only the net deposit understates revenue and triggers IRS underreporter notices. Record gross sales through per-provider clearing accounts to keep fees, reserves, and 1099-K totals reconciled.
California SB 478, the FTC Junk Fees Rule, and new Minnesota, Massachusetts, and Connecticut statutes require all-in pricing across hotels, tickets, restaurants, and subscriptions in 2026. A practical compliance checklist covering pricing engines, third-party feeds, frontline scripts, and the accounting reclassification work that follows.
A practical guide for Shopify and Amazon FBA sellers on rebuilding landed cost, pricing, and bookkeeping after the May and August 2025 suspensions of the Section 321 de minimis exemption, with line-by-line duty math, entry-type tradeoffs, and cash-flow tactics.
Twenty-one US states run sales tax holidays in 2026, with seven converging on August 7–9. Here is how Shopify, Amazon, Walmart, and Etsy sellers should configure product taxability, plan inventory, and avoid the per-item cap, bundled-sale, and excluded-venue mistakes that drive audit losses.
Twenty US states have comprehensive consumer privacy laws in effect by 2026, twelve require Global Privacy Control recognition, and cure periods are sunsetting in Connecticut, Delaware, Kentucky, Minnesota, and Montana. Here is the minimum viable compliance program for SaaS, e-commerce, and professional service operators.
A bookkeeping framework for course creators on Teachable, Kajabi, and Thinkific covering ASC 606 recognition for cohorts and lifetime offers, state economic nexus after Wayfair, Stripe and PayPal reserve accounting, affiliate commission classification, and Section 179 studio capitalization.
A 2026 field guide to the Streamlined Sales Tax Project — the 24 member states, how the free SSTRS portal works, who qualifies as a CSP-compensated seller for free Avalara, TaxCloud, Sovos, or AccurateTax service, and when SST is the wrong choice for multistate online and SaaS sellers.
A payment processor payout bundles gross sales, fees, refunds, chargebacks, sales tax, and rolling reserves into one net deposit. Route every piece through a clearing account so your books tie out to the penny and match the gross volume on your 1099-K.
Gift card breakage is the value customers never redeem. Under ASC 606, the proportionate method recognizes breakage revenue alongside redemptions—but state escheatment laws can override your right to keep the money.
