#e-commerce
Счетоводни решения за онлайн магазини и електронна търговия
As of July 9, 2026, Etsy requires non-US sellers shipping to US buyers to use Delivered Duty Paid (DDP) — prepaying US tariffs and building them into the listing price — or lose Purchase Protection. This guide covers re-pricing by tariff category and why prepaid duties belong in inventory cost and COGS, not overhead.
In September 2025 the FTC fined Temu's parent Whaleco $2 million in the first-ever INFORM Consumers Act enforcement action. The law classifies anyone with 200 sales and $5,000 in revenue on a platform as a high-volume third-party seller — here's what verification, annual recertification, and the $20,000 disclosure trigger mean for Amazon, eBay, Walmart, and Etsy sellers.
Cover Genius's $100M raise at a $1.9B valuation signals how fast embedded insurance is reaching small merchants. Most Shopify-style protection apps make you an agent under ASC 606, so only the 10–30% commission is your revenue — here's how to verify licensing and book the fees correctly.
Спортните карти се облагат като колекционерски предмети с до 28% дългосрочен данък върху капиталовите печалби, по-висок от този върху акции.
On April 1, 2026, Visa's VAMP program cut the merchant fraud-and-dispute threshold from 2.2% to 1.5% in the US, Canada, EU, and Asia-Pacific. Here's how the (TC40 + TC15) ÷ settled transactions ratio works, the 1,500-event monthly floor, the $8-per-transaction penalty, and six concrete steps to stay under the line.
UPS and FedEx raised list rates 5.9% for 2026 and USPS raised Ground Advantage rates 7.8%, but small e-commerce shippers are seeing 10-20% higher bills because USPS cut its DIM divisor from 166 to 139, additional handling and delivery area surcharges rose 6.4-14% by zone, and surcharge eligibility thresholds widened.
AI-driven traffic to US retail sites rose 393% year over year in Q1 2026, and AI-referred shoppers now convert 42% better than other visitors. A practical guide for small retailers on structured product data, the ACP and UCP protocols, llms.txt, detecting AI agent traffic in server logs, and tracking agent-referred revenue by channel.
AI shopping agents evaluate structured product data and checkout protocols like ACP and UCP rather than reading storefront pages, so small retailers need machine-readable catalogs, consistent brand facts across listings, and a system for tagging agent-originated sales to catch fraud and reconcile revenue.
The FTC's Junk Fees Rule, in effect since May 2025, requires live-event ticket sellers and short-term lodging hosts to display all-in total prices upfront, with violations carrying civil penalties of up to $51,744 each and a $10 million StubHub settlement already on the books.
Detailing margins live per job — price per ticket, cost chemicals per job, expense the van via Section 179/bonus, defer coating warranty revenue, and run on revenue per job and net margin after owner labor.
Kentucky HB 757 eliminates the state's 200-transaction economic nexus threshold effective August 1, 2026, leaving a $100,000 revenue-only test — joining Alaska, Utah, and Illinois in a broader multi-state shift away from transaction-count triggers.
A 1099-K from StockX or GOAT reports gross payments, not profit. Here's how sneaker resellers track per-pair cost basis, apply FIFO to cop-and-flip inventory, deduct platform fees that run 10-12% per sale, and meet the restored $20,000/200-transaction reporting threshold with clean books.
