Start Selling on Amazon. Get the Accounting Right From Day One.
Amazon is the world's largest marketplace — and one of the most complex platforms to account for correctly. This guide covers everything you need to start selling, plus how to keep your Amazon financials clean in QuickBooks from your very first order.
Five Steps to Your First Amazon Sale
Choose between Individual (no monthly fee, $0.99/sale) or Professional ($39.99/month, required for most categories). For any serious volume, start with Professional.
List products by finding existing ASINs (for products already on Amazon) or creating new ones. Optimize titles, bullet points, descriptions, and images for discoverability.
FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon) gives you Prime eligibility and hands off shipping, storage, and returns. FBM (Fulfillment by Merchant) gives you more control and lower fees for some products.
Research competitor pricing and understand your total cost of sale including Amazon fees. Factor in FBA fees, referral fees, and your COGS to set prices that are competitive and profitable.
Before you receive your first settlement, connect Amazon to QuickBooks with Webgility. Get settlement reconciliation, FBA fee tracking, and inventory sync set up from day one.
Amazon Pays You Every Two Weeks. The Settlement Is Complex.
Amazon doesn't pay you per order. It holds your funds and pays out every two weeks in a settlement that includes gross sales minus FBA fees, referral fees, returns, storage charges, and advertising costs. The settlement report is dense — and reconciling it to QuickBooks manually is time-consuming and error-prone.
Webgility automates the entire process — posting orders, reconciling settlements, capturing fees, and syncing inventory — so your Amazon books are clean without you spending hours on settlement reports.
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Our team of experts will help surface your operations and finance concerns. In 30 minutes, we will discuss your channels, accounting setup, leakages, inventory inconsistencies, and close process.