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Cash on delivery, or COD, is a payment method that allows customers to pay in cash when their order is delivered. While not as common today as online payments, enabling COD in Shopify gives merchants added flexibility and caters to customers who prefer paying cash. Offering a cash on delivery option can attract buyers who may not have credit cards or don't wish to make an online payment before receiving an order.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday have become two of the biggest annual shopping events, with billions in sales up for grabs. However, the massive spikes in traffic and orders during these holidays can overwhelm unprepared retailers. Thorough planning and analysis is crucial to fully capitalize on these high-volume sales days. This is an opportunity where you as an accountant can provide invaluable guidance and direction.

Understanding and tracking your e-commerce financial statements is an important aspect in managing your business finances. In this article, we'll explain what each financial statement shows, how they relate to each other, and most importantly, how analyzing them properly can positively impact your business.

Shopify Magic and Sidekick are powerful tools for e-commerce stores. For employees and businesses alike, the dawn of AI chatbots most notably, ChatGPT, is a prevalent topic of discussion for all industries at the moment. Currently businesses are asking themselves the question, how can we apply the use of AI in our business for day to day tasks?

Squarespace’s e-commerce platform offers built-in features to build and customize your own website and also possesses the ability to connect with third-party extensions. This unlocks even more opportunities to aid your business in different areas. By installing extensions, you can automate workflows, access valuable data insights, and provide a smoother experience for customers.

As an e-commerce store owner using WooCommerce, you likely want to offer customers various payment options at checkout. WooCommerce supports many popular payment methods, including credit cards, bank transfers, and digital wallets. However, with more payment options comes additional complexity in your accounting procedures.

In this article, we’ve teamed up with Method to share the how integrations are shaping the future of accounting.

As an e-commerce business owner, you're aware of the responsibility of accounting and bookkeeping. While it is important to have your own understanding of e-commerce accounting and bookkeeping, there comes a time where it’s necessary to engage with an accounting professional or firm to bear some of the load.

As a Shopify store owner, choosing the right finance and accounting apps (otherwise known as plugins or integrations) can save you a tonne of time and energy. However, with thousands of options available, it can be difficult to determine which Shopify accounting apps are most suitable for your specific store needs. It’s important to focus on plugins that will automate manual processes and provide valuable insights.

Forecasting revenue and profit for e-commerce sales is critical in managing your online business. You may have heard the words revenue and profit used when talking about an income a business makes through sales. Even though words are often used the same way, it's important to distinguish the difference between them.

Squarespace, a leading e-commerce and website builder globally, has added Amaka’s Xero and MYOB accounting integrations to its Extensions marketplace.

When looking at your WooCommerce accounting and finances it’s important to have KPIs that act as a litmus for your business’ health. While it may seem intimidating, monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs) is an essential aspect of successfully managing a WooCommerce business. In this article, we will discuss seven important WooCommerce KPIs that have an impact on your finances and accounting:

As an e-commerce store owner, you’re aware of the impact proper e-commerce inventory management has on your finances, COGS, among other areas. Xero is an accessible accounting software that helps business owners to gain control and share insights across their business. Through using accounting software, such as Xero, e-commerce business owners can have a clear picture of inventory and accounts in real-time to guide smart decisions that drive profitability.

Tracking the cost of goods sold (COGS) is vital for your Shopify storefront because of how much it reveals about the underlying financial health and overall profitability of your business. COGS refers to what you pay for the goods you sell—the materials, labor, shipping and other direct costs involved in the production of goods.

By keeping a close eye on COGS in your Shopify store, you’re able to gain insight into your profit margins for each product and can make important decisions around how you price your store items. In this article, we’ll go through how to access the Shopify COGS report and how to maintain best practices in managing the Shopify cost of goods sold.

As an eBay seller based in Australia, reporting your income and expenses to the Australian Tax Office (ATO) is required to stay compliant with your eBay taxes. However, managing your accounting does not have to be a tedious process, especially if you utilize tools that integrate with eBay. Accounting platforms that connect directly to your eBay account can help streamline record keeping and tax reporting obligations.

If you're an e-commerce business owner, you may be familiar with clearing accounts. The clearing account reduces accounting errors and can even prevent fraud in some cases. When you separate funds into a dedicated account, you gain control over your business' transactions. This enables you to make well-informed choices concerning strategies for business growth.

Creating purchase orders in Shopify is a process that is essential in managing your storefront effectively. A purchase order (PO) is a key business document used to formally request goods or services from a supplier. As a Shopify merchant, being able to properly create, approve, and manage POs is essential to sustaining your operations.

Managing your WooCommerce accounting is crucial to maintaining best practices in running your business. If you run an online store with WooCommerce, accepting PayPal as a payment method is a great option for many because it is both a trustworthy and secure option, assisting in customer retention among other advantages.

Offering Shopify gift cards is an excellent way for e-commerce stores to boost revenue and enhance customer experience, but managing gift card sales requires careful accounting and planning. As a merchant, you need to keep track of gift card liabilities, address challenges like fraud prevention proactively, charge correct taxes, and streamline bookkeeping processes whenever possible.

DocuSign is a trusted eSignature service used by accounting professionals and businesses for various purposes. DocuSign enables you to request signatures for documents directly within accounting software such as Xero. This way you can seamlessly manage billing, receive legally-compliant tax form signatures, and more.

Squarespace is a powerful tool for e-commerce businesses with its built-in tools for both CRM and accounting to support your business’ growth. However, you may require more to handle accounting and taxes, which is why we have written this complete guide to give you everything you need to know about Squarespace accounting, giving you guidance on software, integrations, and taxes to give you both understanding and tools to set your Squarespace business up for success.

In this article we’ll take you through how to integrate Square with QuickBooks Online (QBO) accounting software to streamline your accounting process. If you’re a business owner, you’re aware of the importance of accounting for  auditing, reporting, and taxation and have likely invested in an accounting software to assist in these processes.

In this article, we’ve teamed up with Syft to share the 5 most important KPIs to track as a Shopify business.

For e-commerce businesses, payment reconciliation is essential in ensuring there are no discrepancies in your accounting. Although e-commerce payment reconciliations can be both tedious and time consuming, especially for businesses with high volumes of transactions, we'll provide an overview of best practices to simplify and streamline payment reconciliation.

As an e-commerce business owner on a platform like Shopify, one of the most important considerations to make is sales tax. Knowing where to start when it comes to learning, understanding, and applying sales tax to your store item can be a tedious task. That’s why in this article, we’ll give you an overview of the different types of sales tax you’ll encounter for your business whether you’re selling in Australia, the US, Canada, the EU or all of the above. We’ll also take you through how to change your Shopify tax settings to make sure sales tax is applied correctly to your products.

We know running a WooCommerce business can get complex, especially in accounting and finance. The platform integrates with hundreds of plugins to help businesses with both their accounting and finance processes. Don’t know where to start? In this article, we’ll be taking you through 5 types of plugins, extensions and apps to help you in your WooCommerce accounting and financial practices.

Working capital and the working capital ratio are some of the lesser known metrics for e-commerce businesses. You've likely heard of e-commerce KPIs like inventory turnover and average customer order. But what is working capital? And how can you make sure you can optimize it for success?

Whether you're a newcomer or a seasoned entrepreneur, managing international sales taxes and adhering to legal requirements can be a challenge for any WooCommerce business. By gaining a comprehensive understanding of these tax obligations, you can ensure your accounting is accurate and compliant.

Autonomate is passionate about making business easier for its customers. Based in the UK, the organisation provides and manages customised Robotic Process Automation (RPA) services to make organisations more cost and time efficient.

Managing the accounting for a WooCommerce store can be a daunting task, but with the right tools and knowledge, it doesn't have to be. In this article, we’ll go through how to choose an accounting software and how to integrate it with your WooCommerce store for automated data entry. After that, we’ll go through interpreting financial statements, preparing for tax time, special considerations for dropshipping, and when and how to hire an accounting professional.

The accounting industry is facing a number of challenges, but by staying up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies, firms can position themselves for success in the future. In this article, we’ve delved into the latest research, surveys and trends, as well as spoken to leaders in the space to give you a summary of what you need to know in 2023.

Business management platform MYOB has partnered with Amaka to roll out added inventory synchronisation capabilities for their existing Shopify + MYOB Business integration.

As the end of the year rolls around, it’s time for e-commerce business owners to start planning their financial goals for 2023. Whether you’re working with an accounting professional or you’re figuring it out on your own, it’s important to create realistic goals that you can measure your performance against in the coming year.

Managing the accounting for a Shopify store isn’t the easiest task but there is a lot of software and automation that you can use to simplify things. In this article, we’ll go through everything you need to know about building an ecosystem of connected apps, tracking your finances, preparing for taxes, dropshipping and accepting payments.

With more accounting technology that help to simplify specific processes than ever, you’ll find that your accounting/bookkeeping firm will need to shift internal processes in order to adapt. No app will be perfect for your existing processes and creating bespoke software is generally too expensive. Instead, you’ll benefit from specializing in key apps from each vertical.

There’s a growing expectation for accountants to have basic skills in data engineering and business intelligence (BI). Typically, this involves understanding how to pull multiple data points in A to B in real-time and then being able to explain this data to clients. In doing so, accountants help their clients make the most of data apps and integrations.

If you’re creating invoices, quotes and other key documents in Xero, you can automate the document execution process by using DocuSign and Amaka’s 100% free DocuSign + Xero integration. We’ve teamed up with DocuSign on a free webinar to discuss the current challenges associated with agreements and how to overcome them.

Real-time, reliable data allows you to manage your cash flow based on what’s happening in the present. Though historical data and future projections are important, current data gives you an upper hand. Accountants and bookkeepers can take advantage of accounting integrations and software that automate the process of gathering and organizing data.

Amaka continues to assist Square in strengthening their small and medium-sized business offering across new regions, with the Square + Holded integration further adding to the ecosystem of products Square launched in Spain in early 2022.

Amaka and Square have extended their partnership to launch the Square point of sale integration with Sage Accounting.

In this article, we’ve teamed up with Airwallex to break down operational efficiency for small businesses.

Amaka has extended their partnership with leading wholesale food order management platform, Foodbomb, to launch the highly-anticipated official integration with MYOB.

What’s the next big thing in accounting technology and how can we stay on top of it all? With tax law in the US being ever-changing and complex, there’s lots of room for disruption in tax prep and tax planning technology. The complexities have also led to a wave of new information and it’s important for accountants to help clients understand what’s reputable.

As an e-commerce business owner, being able to automate manual processes involved with bookkeeping and accounting by using an integration is absolutely essential. That way, you can use your time where it matters most while having the peace of mind that you can make business decisions based on up-to-date, timely financial information.

Being able to narrow down the types of clients your accounting firm services allows you to have more focus and control. It’s important to have a general understanding of the industries your team works the best with. From there, you can start drilling down on specific business sizes and business types that are most suitable for the level of service you want to provide.

Whether a client comes to you with existing solutions in place or not, it’s important as an accountant to recommend the right apps for their situation. Take the time to compare apps and trust your experience when suggesting an ideal solution. Most importantly, focus on deep integrations that can accurately automate the flow of data between apps.

Business management platform MYOB has partnered with Amaka to build integrations that enable customers to link to a wide selection of e-commerce platforms.

Amaka, the global leader in accounting integrations, is doubling down on its SMB automation offering with the acquisition of InView.

Whether you’re building a tech stack internally for your accounting firm or externally for clients, there are a few key steps to take into consideration. As part of an interview series we’re running with a range of accounting technologists listed on the Amaka Advisor Directory, we spoke to Jamie Smith, Co-Founder and Chief Experience Officer at Amplify Advisors.

When building a tech stack for your accounting firm, the first step is to start at the core with an accounting software and build out from there with add-ons. Add-ons in general are still underrated by the accounting industry. It’s useful to take a step back every quarter, see what administrative tasks are taking up time and do research to find out what apps can automate these processes.

DocuSign, the world's leading way to electronically sign and manage contracts, has announced a partnership with Amaka to build its first official accounting integration with Xero.

Building efficient processes in your accounting firm with technology can help to improve lead conversion. We go through how speaking to clients about accounting technology in their own language can build rapport and better relationships.

Building a plan to transition your accounting firm, including your clients and entire team, to technology can be difficult. It’s important to take things step-by-step and be comfortable with some trial and error. To ensure that your accountants can implement any new software well, there needs to be a variety of training material available to them.

The earlier you invest in the right technology for your accounting firm, the less costs you’ll have to pay in the long run. As part of an interview series we’re running with a range of accounting technologists listed on the Amaka Advisor Directory, we spoke to Jamie Smith, Co-Founder and Chief Experience Officer at Amplify Advisors. She had to learn this lesson the hard way.

The most underrated accounting apps available to SMBs and enterprise-level businesses include optical character recognition (OCR) and reporting tools. As part of an interview series we’re running with a range of accounting technologists listed on the Amaka Advisor Directory, we spoke to Jamie Smith, Co-Founder and Chief Experience Officer at Amplify Advisors.

It's becoming more and more clear that technology underpins the majority of accounting firms who've experienced massive growth in recent years. We've dubbed the term Accounting Technologist to describe the people who are driving this change through their understanding of tech stacks, integrations, automation and other accounting technology.

Bookkeeping and accounting is an inevitable part of running an e-commerce business but when should you start to find professional help? The right accounting professional can significantly improve your profitability and longevity. However, you have to weigh up time and money, as well as when external expertise will become most valuable to you.

Product catalog management is at the core of multiple parts of your e-commerce business. Not only will it help to streamline user experience on your site, it will also make your operations and finances run smoother. The earlier you start focusing on your product catalog management, the easier it will be to scale your store and the better your business insights will be.

Amaka recently teamed up with Practice Ignition, Karbon and POP Business to host a webinar on how to unlock better margins and work-life balance with accounting technology. In this article, we break down the key points shared by our incredible panelists, Rebecca Mihalic, Omer Khan and Sidney Cachuela, on how accountants can leverage technology to increase margins.

It's pretty much expected that Shopify stores offer multiple payment methods (otherwise known as payment processors or payment gateways), everything from Shopify Payments, AfterPay, PayPal and more. With a bit of groundwork, you can automate the majority of your Shopify accounting and bookkeeping, even with multiple payment methods.

E-commerce businesses will typically see the cost of goods sold or COGS in their income statement, but what exactly is it? For product-based businesses, it's essential to understand, track and manage your COGS. As your catalogue grows and becomes more complex, so does staying on top of COGS.

One of the key reasons why e-commerce businesses fail to grow is the lack of understanding surrounding break-even points and break-even analyses. Doing a break-even analysis is a key part of your accounting and finances. Once you know your break-even point, you can better map out the strategies that can help you surpass it and make a profit.

Fintech giants Square and Xero have expanded their global partnership, with Square choosing Amaka to deliver their official accounting integration in all relevant global markets, including the US, Canada and Ireland.

Multichannel has been a buzzword in the retail space for the past few years but taking this approach has unique implications for your accounting processes. At a high level, multichannel stores are those that use multiple channels to sell the same or similar products. Omnichannel stores do the same, however, put unified communication at the forefront of their strategy.

E-commerce automation is the key to making your business work for you rather than the other way around. With competition only getting larger by the day, finding ways to stay ahead is a necessity. Automation involves using software that does manual tasks for you in the background. It allows you to save time and spend it on what actually matters.

A major part of making sure your financial statements come back positive after the quarter ends is making sure your pricing strategy is right for your e-commerce business. Of course, there's no one size fits all for every product or store. Hence, it's important that you take the time to understand your unique business.

One part of accounting that e-commerce business owners tend to leave behind is expense tracking and management. Staying on top of your expenses is integral to your profitability, cash flow management and more. Being consistent with this part of your bookkeeping will help save a bunch of time when tax season comes or when you need to analyse financial data.

The income statement, also known as the profit and loss statement or P&L statement, is a key financial statement for e-commerce businesses, and really all business owners in general. In this article, we'll go through what's on the income statement as well as what numbers are specifically relevant to e-commerce.

Amaka has partnered with leading wholesale order management platform for food service venues, Foodbomb, to launch their official integration to Xero.

The cash flow statement is often seen as the less straightforward financial statement for e-commerce businesses, especially when compared to the balance sheet and the income statement. However, just like its counterparts, understanding the cash flow statement is absolutely essential to keeping your business afloat.

The balance sheet is one of the many financial statements that is useful for e-commerce business owners to understand. In this article, we'll go through what's on the balance sheet, how to analyse it and the ratios you'll want to track. Please not, this isn't intended to be financial advice. We recommend reaching out to an accounting professional for further guidance.

If you're using Shopify Payments as your main payment gateway and you're looking to understand how to manage your accounting and bookkeeping, this article is for you. We'll go through what Shopify Payments is, how to make sure you've set it up correctly, the fees involved and how to properly manage your books when using it.

Though gift cards, otherwise known as gift vouchers or gift certificates, are a key cash generator for many e-commerce businesses, not everyone is doing the bookkeeping for gift cards correctly. To ensure you're making the most of the benefits, you'll want to be aware of how to properly account for them.

Inventory management for e-commerce businesses can be hard enough on its own and trying to figure out how to make sure numbers are correct in your accounting system can be even harder. In this article, we've teamed up with Unleashed Software, an inventory management software, to break these processes down and make them easier to manage.