Bookkeeping for Online business
Hire Remote Bookkeeper, Accountant , Tax return Preparer or Admin Person
Monthly Bookkeeping, Payroll, Financial Statements or Tax returns for Online retailers and E-commerce storefronts
Business Tax return filing by Certified
CPA / Enrolled Agent
(Starts at $350)
Bookkeeping For Online Businesses?
Analyzing highly profitable items is a useful strategy to help clients focus on what products or services are generating the most revenue and increase profitability. This analysis can be done by examining sales data, customer feedback, and market trends to identify high-demand products or services. By identifying and prioritizing these items, businesses can allocate resources more effectively and make strategic decisions to drive growth and increase profitability. Additionally, having a good understanding of online platforms and payment gateways is crucial to ensuring smooth operations and maximizing profits in the online space.
Meru Accounting has vast experience helping clients with their online businesses. As a team of experienced accountants, Meru Accounting is well-versed in various online platforms and payment gateways used in e-commerce businesses.
Our expertise allows us to help our clients maximize their profitability by utilizing these platforms and gateways efficiently. We can provide advice and guidance on selecting the right payment gateway for your business needs, integrating it with your online store, and ensuring that your financial transactions are accurately recorded and reconciled.
We also offer comprehensive bookkeeping and accounting services for online businesses, which include managing and reconciling online payment accounts, tracking sales and expenses, preparing financial statements, and providing advice on tax planning and compliance. With our support, you can focus on growing your online business while we take care of your accounting and financial needs.
There are several issues that can cause problems for online retailers, including:
- Website Design: The design of your website is a critical aspect of your online business. A poorly designed website can turn off potential customers and lead to lost sales.
- Security: Online retailers need to ensure that their customers’ personal and financial information is protected. This includes using SSL encryption, secure payment gateways, and following best practices for data protection.
- Shipping: Shipping can be a logistical nightmare for online retailers. Ensuring that products are shipped in a timely and cost-effective manner is essential for customer satisfaction.
- Customer Service: Online retailers need to provide excellent customer service to maintain customer loyalty and prevent negative reviews. This includes responding promptly to inquiries, providing clear return policies, and resolving issues quickly.
- Inventory Management: Keeping track of inventory can be challenging for online retailers, especially if they have a large number of products. Implementing an inventory management system can help ensure that products are always in stock and prevent overstocking or stock outs.
- Payment Processing: Online retailers need to ensure that payment processing is secure, fast, and reliable. This includes accepting multiple payment methods, such as credit cards and PayPal, and processing payments quickly to avoid delays in shipping.
- Marketing: Online retailers need to have a strong marketing strategy to attract and retain customers. This includes using social media, email marketing, and search engine optimization (SEO) to drive traffic to their website.
- Returns and Refunds: Online retailers need to have a clear and fair returns and refund policy to ensure customer satisfaction. This includes providing easy-to-understand return instructions, offering refunds promptly, and communicating effectively with customers.
How does e-commerce business accounting differ from general accounting?
E-commerce business accounting differs from general accounting in several ways. Some of the key differences include:
- Volume of transactions: E-commerce businesses typically deal with a higher volume of transactions than traditional businesses, which can make accounting more complex.
- Multiple sales channels: E-commerce businesses often sell their products on multiple channels, such as Amazon, eBay, Etsy, and their own website. This can make it difficult to track sales and inventory.
- Payment gateways: E-commerce businesses use payment gateways like PayPal, Stripe, and Square to process transactions. Each payment gateway has its own fees and transaction rules, which can complicate accounting.
- Shipping and handling: E-commerce businesses must account for shipping and handling costs, which are typically not a factor in traditional businesses.
- Sales tax: E-commerce businesses must collect and remit sales tax on transactions, which can vary by state and country.
To manage these complexities, e-commerce businesses often use specialized accounting software and work with experienced accountants who understand the unique needs of online businesses.
We help you integrate your online website with accounting software, which helps in the smooth import of data into online platforms for the accounting system. We specialize in working on various online business platforms, like eBay and Amazon. When using a payment gateway like Paypal, Eway, Stripe, TransFirst, Square N, etc., we help you ensure that you receive timely payment.
Meru Accounting has vast experience when it comes to maintaining accounts for leading online companies and start-ups. We use software like the shopping cart to help you create a platform for your online business and carry out further business operations. These kinds of software handle your sales, bank transactions, paid and unpaid orders, and even customers.
Online businesses are involved in huge traffic and online transactions, as there is no fixed time for a customer’s visit. Therefore, we use software that ensures a high level of security for your online transactions, which is also helpful while importing the data into your accounting software.
We, at Meru Accounting, manage accounting payables and receivables with the help of various add-ons. These add-ons help us track, receive, and pay the due amount. So, you need not worry about getting into the cash-flow trap. We help you switch from your regular traditional accounting software to some of the leading software, like Xero and Quickbooks, and ensure that all your data is synced properly.
Why do we need bookkeeping for online businesses?
Bookkeeping is essential for online businesses for several reasons:
- Tax Compliance: Accurate bookkeeping helps ensure that your business stays compliant with tax laws and regulations. Proper bookkeeping can help you track your income and expenses, which is essential for calculating and paying taxes on time.
- Financial Reporting: Bookkeeping provides a record of all financial transactions, including sales, expenses, and payments received. This information is crucial for generating financial statements, which provide an overview of your business’s financial health and performance.
- Business Planning: Bookkeeping helps you understand your business’s financial position, which is essential for making informed decisions about investments, growth, and future planning.
- Cash Flow Management: Bookkeeping helps you track your cash inflows and outflows, which is essential for managing your business’s cash flow effectively.
In short, bookkeeping helps online businesses stay organized, compliant, and financially healthy, which is crucial for long-term success.
Here are some tips and procedures for running an online or e-commerce business:
- Develop a clear business plan: Before starting an online business, create a solid business plan that outlines your objectives, target audience, and marketing strategy. This will help you stay focused on your goals and make informed decisions.
- Choose the right ecommerce platform: Select a reliable and user-friendly ecommerce platform that meets your business requirements. Some popular ecommerce platforms include Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, and Magento.
- Build a responsive and visually appealing website: Ensure that your website is user-friendly, mobile-friendly, and visually attractive. Use high-quality images and videos to showcase your products or services.
- Optimize your website for search engines: Use relevant keywords and phrases to optimize your website for search engines. This will help your website rank higher on search engine results pages, resulting in increased traffic and sales.
- Invest in social media marketing: Social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are powerful marketing tools for online businesses. Develop a social media marketing strategy and regularly engage with your audience.
- Offer excellent customer service: Provide excellent customer service by promptly responding to customer inquiries and complaints. This will help build customer loyalty and increase repeat business.
- Monitor and analyze your business performance: Use analytics tools to monitor and analyze your website traffic, sales, and customer behavior. This will help you identify areas of improvement and optimize your business strategy.
- Maintain accurate financial records: Ensure that you maintain accurate financial records by regularly updating your bookkeeping and accounting records. This will help you make informed financial decisions and meet your tax obligations.
Meru Accounting provides world-class services that cater to all the needs of cloud accounting and bookkeeping of your business.
We work on the best accounting software like Xero and Quickbooks, as well as add-ons that will make sure all your work is up-to-date.
Help you with switching from your traditional software to Xero and Quickbooks.
We also manage VAT, BAS, Sales Tax and Indirect taxes for you so you are always ready at the end of the financial year.
When you choose to outsource your accounting work with us, it benefits you in the following ways:
- 1. Cost-saving
- 2. Access to skilled and experienced professionals
- 3. Better management of books of accounts
- 4. Decreased chances of errors
- 5. Improve business efficiency
- 6. De-burdens in-office employee’s dependency
- 7. Better turnaround time
We work on virtual technologies like Team Viewer, Virtual Private Network (VPN) to share and access data from your system.
You have to share your accounting software login details.
Through that, we complete all of your work and update it on the cloud, so you can have access to your data from anywhere and at any time.
Software is not a barrier for us. Due to our strong and professional accounting knowledge, we can prepare your books in almost any of the accounting software.
Our experts are always all ears to listen to your queries regarding bookkeeping and accounting or our services. You can contact us anytime by visiting: Contact Us page.
We provide our bookkeeping services at the rate of US $10 per hour. So, you only need to pay for the amount of time actual work is done.
We take certain preventive measures to secure your data, like:
- Cyberoam Firewall to prevent any kind of foreign threat.
- Dual-step authentication
- Implement anti-virus
- Limit user access so that login details are with a few people.
Meru Accounting work on some of the best accounting software’s like:
- Xero
- Quickbooks
- Netsuite
- Saasu
- Wave
- Odoo
Along with that, we also work with many add-ons like Workflow Max, Receipt Bank, Slack, TradeGecko etc., to extend your software’s capacity and improved work experience.
To book for trial, call us on our numbers or Please fill out the form here.
We have combined team of Professionals. Seniors are generally Certified Chartered Accountants. Junior Bookkeepers are having Qualifications like Bachelors of Commerce, Masters of Commerce, Masters in Business Administration in the subject of Accounts and Finance, Intermediate level Qualification of Chartered Accountancy, etc.
For information visit our work methodology page.
We prepare a checklist of information required for bookkeeping and send you at timely intervals so as to ensure that we can do bookkeeping faster.
We can provide to you once we move ahead in our interview.
We serve clients on MYOB and have expertise working in Essentials, Account Rights Plus, etc.
Yes, We are presently processing Payroll for Number of clients in US , UK and Australia and take care of complete payroll activities.
Goods and Service tax (GST) is levied on sales of all the goods and services in Australia. GST is generally chargeable at 10% of value of sales.
Business Activity Statement is a predefined form to be submitted to the Australian Tax office by all the business persons in order to report on their all the tax obligations during the period covered.
BAS is generally required to be filed quarterly by various businesses.
Yes, Owner of the business can prepare sign and lodge the tax return on his own. Its not mandatory that the Tax return needs to be signed by an EA or CPA.
No , its not mandatory that it should be prepared by only CPA or EA. It can be prepared by anyone who has PTIN.
We have Enrolled Agent who has the Authority to sign the documents for our clients after completing the through professional check.
Meru Accounting has its operational centre in India and hence the prices are quite less as compared to US based CPA’s and Enrolled Agents.
Meru Accounting has a team of Tax experts. Each Tax expert prepares around 300-400 Tax returns every year for various CPA’s in United States and Individual Businesses like yours. Due to this vast Experience and Robust Quality Check processes in place we can ensure you about correct Tax planning for your firm.
