SalesImporter reads your marketplace orders, fees and payouts, and records each one as a proper double-entry journal entry. From those entries it produces the reports an accountant expects: an Income Statement, a Balance Sheet, a Trial Balance, a General Ledger, and A/R and A/P aging.
The short version: it is bookkeeping software, not a sales dashboard.
What that means in practice
Most seller tools show you a total: sales this month, fees this month, profit. SalesImporter records both sides of every transaction, the way bookkeeping actually works. When eBay takes a final value fee out of a sale, that is not one number in a "fees" column — it is money leaving the amount eBay owes you and arriving in an expense account. Both halves get written down, and they always balance.
That is why the reports can be trusted. A Balance Sheet that balances is not a formatting choice; it is the arithmetic proving nothing was dropped on the way in.
What it does not do
- It does not file anything. No tax returns, no sales tax remittance. It records what happened so you or your accountant can file from it.
- It does not give tax advice. Where an article here touches a tax rule, it names its source and the date. Your situation may differ, and your accountant is the person to ask.
- It does not replace your accountant. It replaces the evening you spend re-typing settlement reports into a spreadsheet.
What you need to start
An eBay seller account, and a bank account you can nominate as the one eBay pays into. That second part matters more than it sounds: payouts have to land somewhere in your books, and telling SalesImporter which account that is up front means your bank balance and your books agree from day one instead of being reconciled later.
Amazon is on the way, and the Connect screen says where it stands — so you can see how far away it is rather than guessing.