Growing an ecommerce business is exciting.
But once your business crosses the $1M mark, sales alone are no longer enough to tell you how the business is doing.
You need to know what is happening behind those sales.
Your Bank Deposit Isn’t Your Amazon Revenue
An Amazon seller might see $82,000 deposited into the bank and assume that is revenue.
It may not be.
Refunds, returns, Amazon fees, advertising costs, promotions, reserves and other adjustments can significantly change the amount that actually reaches your bank account.
That is why Amazon accounting and ecommerce bookkeeping need to go beyond simply matching deposits to sales.
Why Shopify and QuickBooks Don’t Always Match
It is also common for an ecommerce business to see different numbers across platforms.
For example:
Shopify: $2M
QuickBooks: $1.72M
Which one is correct?
The answer requires proper ecommerce reconciliation.
Different systems record transactions differently and may use different timing, adjustments and accounting treatments. Simply looking at the headline sales number can hide what is really happening.
The 5 Numbers Ecommerce Founders Should Watch
For a $1M+ ecommerce business, we recommend keeping a close eye on:
- Net Sales
- Gross Profit & Gross Margin
- Ad Spend & ROAS
- Cash Position
- Inventory Value & Inventory Days
These numbers tell a much more useful story than revenue alone.
You can have rapidly increasing sales and still have declining margins, excessive inventory or tightening cash flow.
From More Sales to Profitable Growth
The objective isn’t simply to sell more.
It is to build an ecommerce business that generates healthy margins, predictable cash flow and sustainable growth.
That requires visibility into your:
- Ecommerce accounting
- Profit margins
- Unit economics
- Advertising performance
- Inventory
- Cash flow
- Taxes and financial obligations
When your numbers are accurate, reconciled and easy to understand, you can make better decisions about pricing, marketing, inventory and growth.
The Bottom Line
Revenue tells you what you sold.
Financial visibility tells you what you actually made and where you’re going next.
At Myriad Finance, we help ecommerce businesses turn scattered financial data into clear, actionable numbers.
Want us to take a look at your numbers? Book an Ecommerce Finance Health Check.
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