Reconciling What Your E-Commerce Platform Shows vs. What Actually Deposits

Reconciling What Your E-Commerce Platform Shows vs. What Actually Deposits

Emily K Vu
Published on: 05/08/2026

Your platform dashboard and your bank deposit are supposed to differ. What sits between gross sales and net deposits, what gets lost when it isn't tracked, and what proper reconciliation looks like.

E-Commerce
Inventory and COGS: Why Your E-Commerce Margins Might Be Wrong

Inventory and COGS: Why Your E-Commerce Margins Might Be Wrong

Emily K Vu
Published on: 31/07/2026

A record sales month doesn't mean a record margin month. Where e-commerce COGS quietly goes wrong: freight and customs left out of landed cost, and platform dashboards treated as accounting systems.

E-Commerce