E-commerce
Marketplace reconciliations, TCS credits, multi-state GST and inventory-model advisory for online sellers.
An online seller's accounting problem is a reconciliation problem. The marketplace reports a settlement, the bank reports a credit, the tax collected at source appears in a government portal, and the books have to agree with all three — at scale, across states, every month.
Where we help
- Marketplace settlement reconciliation
- GST TCS (Section 52) credit matching
- Multi-state registration strategy
- Returns and cancellation accounting
What actually comes up in this sector
Marketplace settlement reconciliation
Gross sale, commission, logistics, promotion cost, returns and cancellations net down to a settlement that rarely maps line-by-line to anything. We build a reconciliation that ties the marketplace report to the settlement, the settlement to the bank, and the whole to the books.
Tax collected at source and credit matching
Amounts collected by operators appear against the seller's registration and must be matched, claimed and reconciled. Unclaimed credits accumulate quietly and are frequently discovered only during an annual return.
Multi-state registration strategy
Whether to register in a state is driven by where stock is held and where supply originates, not by where customers are. Fulfilment-centre arrangements change the answer, sometimes at short notice.
Returns, cancellations and credit notes
High return rates make the credit-note discipline central rather than incidental. The timing rules governing when a reduction may be given effect are the constraint most often missed.
How the engagement runs
Understand
A scoping discussion with a partner covering the facts of your business, the records that already exist and the positions previously taken.
Agree
Written scope and fee, a document checklist and a named team member responsible for the sector work.
Deliver
Execution against tracked deadlines with partner review, and working papers retained for every position taken.
Stand behind
If a filing or position is later questioned, the same team that made it defends it.
Questions we are asked
We sell across several marketplaces. Can the reconciliations be unified?
Yes. We normalise each marketplace's report into a common structure so that the reconciliation, the credit position and the books are prepared once rather than platform by platform.
Do we need registration in every state we deliver to?
Generally no — the driver is where stock is held and supply originates. We map your fulfilment arrangement and advise state by state.
Frequently paired services
Talk to the sector team
Describe your business in one call — we will map the compliance and advisory picture end to end.
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