Shopify's reported sales almost never match what lands in your bank account. Here's why — and how to reconcile the gap properly.
Most ecommerce founders look at Shopify's dashboard, see $50k in sales, then check the bank and see $42k in deposits — and assume something is wrong.
Almost always, nothing is wrong: the gap is fees, refunds, chargebacks, currency conversion, and the timing of payouts. The trick is reconciling that gap inside your books, not chasing it outside them.
We do ecommerce bookkeeping for online brands. Multi-channel, accurate COGS, BAS lodgements you can trust.
Generic bookkeepers can keep a clean ledger — but they'll often miss the things that matter most for an online brand.
If your COGS is wrong, every margin number on every dashboard is wrong. Here's the operating model we use with our clients.
