TidyNotes on tidy books.
Short, practical reads on marketplace payouts, fees and bookkeeping — the things we learn while tidying deposits for Amazon, Shopify, eBay, Etsy and Walmart sellers, written down so you don’t have to learn them the hard way.
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Each one stands alone.
Five-minute reads, written for sellers
and the bookkeepers who help them.
Why your Amazon deposit doesn’t match your sales
In an illustrative example, sales are $10,240 and the deposit is $8,425.20. The settlement report explains the difference. Here’s what sits in the gap, and how to book it so the bank feed matches to the penny.
Read the post → FEES · ALL CHANNELSEvery fee hiding inside a marketplace payout
Referral, fulfillment, storage, final value, Offsite Ads, processing — a channel-by-channel list of what gets taken out before the money reaches you, and where to find the real numbers.
Read the post → CASH FLOW · PAYOUTSWhen does each marketplace pay you?
Amazon, Shopify, eBay, Etsy and Walmart all pay on their own clock. How each schedule works, why the settlement date isn’t the bank date, and how to plan cash thirteen weeks out.
Read the post →Free tools,
no sign-up.
Little calculators we built while tidying payouts.
They run entirely in your browser.
Marketplace fee comparison
One product, seven channels. Fees, margin, ROI and break-even, side by side.
Compare fees →Amazon settlement analyzer
Drop in a settlement report and see every dollar inside the deposit — verified.
Decode a settlement →Payout date forecaster
When will Amazon, eBay and Etsy pay you? A 13-week cash-in view.
Forecast payouts →Let’s get your
payouts in a good place.
Everything in these posts, done for you — reviewed before it reaches your books.
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