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Vexo Accounting is a team of ecommerce accountants working with UK ecommerce businesses that sell on Amazon, Shopify, eBay, and beyond. Some people search for ecommerce accountants, others search for e-commerce accountants, and some still call it e-commerce accounting rather than ecommerce accounting. It is the same job to us, and it is the only job we do.

As ecommerce accountants, we act as dedicated online accountants for online sellers and UK ecommerce businesses right across the country, from your first sale through to seven figures. Our accounting services are built just for ecommerce, not adapted from a general practice that also does plumbers and hairdressers. Our ecommerce services cover everything from day-to-day bookkeeping through to strategic planning.

Ecommerce accounting is not the same as accounting for a shop on the high street. Your money moves through platforms, payment gateways and marketplace payouts before it ever reaches your business bank account, and that gap is where most tax bills and messy books come from. That is the gap our ecommerce accounting services are built to close.

More than 28% of all UK retail sales now happen online, and online spending made up 50.5% of total card spending by September 2025, up from 43.7% a few years earlier. Ecommerce is the main channel for a growing number of ecommerce businesses now, not a side channel, and your accountant needs to keep up with that shift.

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Why UK Ecommerce Businesses Need Specialist Accountants, Not a Generalist Accountant

An accountant who has never worked in ecommerce is used to a business that raises an invoice and gets paid in full a month later. That is not how ecommerce works. You might sell on three or four sales channels at once, get paid in batches through marketplace payouts, and lose a chunk of every sale to marketplace fees before you see a penny.

A non-specialist can still file your tax returns. But they often miss the detail that actually matters for ecommerce sellers, like which platform fees are deductible, how to value stock correctly, or when VAT applies to a sale made through a marketplace instead of your own site.

That is why Vexo Accounting is built around specialist ecommerce accountants and specialist accountants in nothing else. Most ecommerce businesses do not realise how different this is until something goes wrong.

What Makes Ecommerce Accounting Different From Traditional Accounting

Traditional accounting assumes clean, simple transactions. Ecommerce accounting has to deal with hundreds or thousands of small sales a month, refunds, currency conversion, and fees taken before the money ever lands in your bank accounts.

Our expert ecommerce accountants build your books around this reality from day one, using cloud accounting software and cloud accounting more broadly, pulling data straight from your sales channels instead of you typing it in by hand. Good ecommerce accounting software should save you time, not create more admin. Most ecommerce accountants will tell you the same thing: the numbers only make sense once you understand the platforms behind them.

The Risk of Sticking With a Previous Accountant Who Does Not Know Ecommerce

If your previous accountant has never worked with an Amazon seller or a Shopify store, you are the one paying for their learning curve. Missed VAT registration deadlines, wrong stock valuations, and messy reconciliation all cost real money, and they show up as an unexpected tax bill.

Switching to a dedicated ecommerce accountant is usually simple. We handle professional clearance with your existing accountant and move your accounting needs over with as little disruption to your business as possible.

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How Our Ecommerce Accounting Services Cover Every Sales Channel You Sell On

How Our Ecommerce Accounting Services Cover Every Sales Channel You Sell On

Whether you sell through one store or ten, we build your accounting services around the way your business actually trades. Good ecommerce accountants do not treat Amazon, Shopify, and eBay as one single sales channel, because each one behaves differently, and that is exactly what growing ecommerce businesses need.

Shopify, Amazon and eBay Accounting and Bookkeeping

We provide Shopify accounting, Amazon seller accounting, and eBay accounting under one roof, so you are not juggling different bookkeeping services or advisers for different ecommerce platforms. Amazon sellers in particular benefit from an expert ecommerce accountant who understands FBA fees, storage charges, and settlement reports.

Multi-Channel Sales Reconciliation and Payment Processor Matching

If you sell across multiple sales channels or several ecommerce platforms, reconciling everything by hand is close to impossible. We match every marketplace payout, Stripe and PayPal transaction against your actual sales, so your figures are accurate rather than a rough guess.

This includes tracking marketplace fees separately from revenue, so you can see your real margin per order rather than a gross sales figure that hides what you actually keep, and it should save you time every single month. Seamless integration between each platform and your books is what makes this possible without hours of manual work every week.

Accounting Built Around Your Ecommerce Business

Let Vexo Accounting handle your online sales, bookkeeping, VAT, tax and financial reporting, with specialist support for fast-moving ecommerce businesses.

How We Handle VAT on Online Sales for UK and International Ecommerce Sellers

VAT is one of the biggest risk areas for online sellers, and one of the easiest things to get wrong for an accountant who is not one of the specialist ecommerce accountants working in this space every day. It is one of the main reasons ecommerce businesses come to us instead of a general practice, and one of the main reasons ecommerce accountants exist as a specialism at all.

UK VAT Registration and Threshold Planning

The UK VAT registration threshold is currently £90,000 of taxable turnover in any rolling 12-month accounting period, with a deregistration threshold of £88,000. Cross that line and registration is not optional, so we monitor your turnover and plan your VAT registration before it becomes a problem rather than after.

We also help UK ecommerce businesses decide whether voluntary VAT registration makes sense earlier, since it can improve tax efficiency and make you more tax efficient for sellers who mostly deal with other VAT-registered businesses.

International Ecommerce VAT, IOSS, Import VAT and Sales Tax Abroad

Selling outside the UK brings its own VAT complications, and if you sell into the United States you may also need to think about local sales tax rules on top of UK VAT. The Import One Stop Shop scheme covers certain low-value imports into the UK, and the rules around IOSS intermediary registrations are changing again in 2026, so this is not something to leave until your annual accounts are due.

Import VAT is not simply a cost that disappears. If you are VAT registered and you have overpaid import VAT, it usually needs correcting through your VAT return, exactly the kind of detail that keeps up with sales tax and cross-border rules for you. Some ecommerce businesses only find this out once HMRC writes to them, which is exactly what an ecommerce specialist is there to prevent.

How We Handle VAT on Online Sales for UK and International Ecommerce Sellers
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What We Do Behind the Scenes to Keep Your Numbers Accurate Every Month

What We Do Behind the Scenes to Keep Your Numbers Accurate Every Month

Good ecommerce accounting is mostly quiet work that stops small errors from turning into a big surprise at year-end, and it relies on solid financial data rather than guesswork.

  • Inventory tracking and stock valuation, so your balance sheet reflects what your business actually holds
  • Cost of goods sold and landed cost calculations, including shipping and duty on stock bought abroad
  • Gross margin by product and by SKU, so you know which lines are actually worth selling
  • Currency conversion and FX tracking for anything bought or sold outside sterling
  • Refunds, returns and chargebacks matched back to the original sale rather than left as a gap in your own accounts

This is where seamless integration between your sales channels and your accounting software saves you real time, and why picking the right ecommerce accounting software matters as much as picking the right accountant. Once it is set up properly, most of this updates itself instead of needing a spreadsheet at 11 pm, and financial analysis that used to take a full day takes an hour.

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How Much Does an Ecommerce Accountant Cost in the UK?

Monthly accounting costs for ecommerce sellers typically run from around £60 a month for a small, single-channel business up to £300 or more a month once you add VAT returns, corporation tax, multi-channel bookkeeping and monthly reporting. Larger, more complex ecommerce businesses selling internationally or across several marketplaces often pay somewhere between £300 and £500 a month for a fuller service, and accounting costs tend to rise with transaction volume rather than turnover alone.

That is our actual rough price based on recent projects, not a number pulled from thin air. Ecommerce accountants who understand marketplaces, VAT, and stock all at once tend to sit in the middle of that range rather than the bottom.

The price is a rough guide, and the actual cost varies depending on your turnover, transaction volume, number of sales channels, and whether you need international VAT support on top of core compliance. Tell us about your business, and we will give you a proper fixed quote, not a vague range.

How Much Does an Ecommerce Accountant Cost in the UK
How We Help You Plan Ahead Instead of Just Filing Your Accounts

How We Help You Plan Ahead Instead of Just Filing Your Accounts

Filing your tax returns and yearly accounts on time is the minimum. The real value of a dedicated accountant is in what happens between filings, and it comes down to strategic planning as much as compliance.

Cash Flow Forecasting for Stock and Peak Season Spending

Buying stock ahead of Black Friday or the Christmas peak can drain your business bank account fast if you have not planned for it. We build cash flow forecasts around your buying cycles, so you know how much working capital your business actually needs before you commit to a big order.

This kind of cash flow management is what stops rapid growth from turning into a cash crisis, and steady cash flow matters more than rapid growth on its own. Good cash flow management is what turns a strong month into money you can actually reinvest.

Profitability by Channel, by Product and Against Ad Spend

We help you see profitability by sales channel and by product, not just for the business as a whole. That includes comparing advertising spend against contribution margin, so you can tell the difference between a channel that is growing your business and one that is quietly losing you money.

Monthly reporting and simple KPI dashboards, backed by real financial analysis, mean you are not waiting until year-end to find this out.

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How We Support You as Your Ecommerce Business Grows and Changes

The right business structure at £40,000 turnover is often the wrong business structure at £140,000, and getting it right protects your tax liability as your business scales. We also help you separate business and personal bank accounts properly, which sole traders in particular often skip.

Moving From Sole Trader to Limited Company

Many new ecommerce business owners start as a sole trader, which makes sense while you are testing the market. As profit grows, moving to a limited company can improve tax efficiency and lower your personal tax liability, though the right timing depends on your own numbers rather than a generic rule, and staying tax efficient matters more once turnover climbs.

We handle company formation, director remuneration planning and the move itself, so you are not left guessing, and so your business stays on top of its tax obligations throughout.

Making Tax Digital and Staying Ahead of Your Tax Obligations

Making Tax Digital for Income Tax started in April 2026 for eligible sole traders with qualifying income above £50,000, dropping to £30,000 in April 2027 and £20,000 in April 2028. If that includes you, digital record-keeping through proper accounting software is not optional anymore, and it is one more reason tax compliance needs to sit with an accountant who understands ecommerce. Many ecommerce businesses are still filing under Self Assessment today, but that is changing fast, and good tax compliance should feel boring, not stressful.

We also handle your corporation tax, including your corporation tax return, annual accounts filed with Companies House, and self assessment, so your tax compliance sits in one place instead of scattered across different advisers.

If you are further down the road and thinking about preparing your ecommerce business for sale, clean management accounts and a clear financial history make that process far smoother. It is worth starting that groundwork years before you plan to exit, and it is one of the areas where tailored advice makes the biggest difference to what you eventually walk away with.

How We Support You as Your Ecommerce Business Grows and Changes
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Why Choose Vexo Accounting as Your Dedicated Ecommerce Accountant

Why Choose Vexo Accounting as Your Dedicated Ecommerce Accountant

We are chartered accountants who chose to specialise in ecommerce rather than treat it as one more account on a generalist list. Every client gets a dedicated accountant and a dedicated bookkeeper who already understands online retail, not someone learning on your account, and every plan comes with proper accounting software included as standard. Working with an ecommerce specialist from day one avoids a lot of the mess we get asked to fix later, and talking to an expert ecommerce accountant before a big stock decision is always cheaper than fixing it afterwards. As an accountancy firm specialising in ecommerce, we understand the financial challenges that online businesses face.

We work entirely through cloud accounting software, so you can see your numbers whenever you want rather than waiting for a year-end report. A video call with your accountant is always available when you need to talk something through, not just when your accounts are due.

Plenty of ecommerce accountants can file a tax return. Fewer can explain why last month's Amazon payout does not match your sales report, and that gap is exactly what we are built around.

That mix of financial clarity, strategic planning, and tailored advice is what keeps ecommerce sellers with us as their business grows, rather than switching accountants every couple of years. We work with ecommerce businesses at every stage, from side hustle to full-time, and it is why so many online sellers move their accounts to us once they outgrow their first accountant.

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If you want ecommerce accountants who already understand marketplace fees, multi-channel VAT, and stock accounting, Vexo Accounting is ready to help your business. Tell us about your business, your sales channels, and where you are struggling right now, and we will come back with tailored advice and a clear, fixed price built around your business, not a generic package.

Ecommerce businesses that switch to us usually wish they had done it sooner. Vexo Accounting: ecommerce accountants for ecommerce businesses, nothing else. Get in touch with Vexo Accounting today for your free quote and find out what specialist ecommerce accountants can save your business this year.

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What does an ecommerce accountant do?

An ecommerce accountant manages the accounting needs of online sellers, including bookkeeping, marketplace payouts, fees, stock, VAT, and financial reporting. Ecommerce accountants also help with cash flow, profitability, and tax planning as the business grows.

Why do I need an ecommerce accountant instead of a general accountant?

Ecommerce accounting deals with marketplace fees, batch payouts, multiple sales channels, stock valuation, refunds, and platform-specific VAT issues that a general accountant may not routinely handle.

How much does an ecommerce accountant cost in the UK?

Ecommerce accounting typically costs around £60 a month for a small single-channel business and £300 or more for businesses needing VAT, corporation tax, multi-channel bookkeeping and reporting.

Can an ecommerce accountant help with VAT?

An ecommerce accountant can help monitor taxable turnover, plan VAT registration and manage VAT returns, as well as deal with international VAT and import VAT issues where relevant.

Can an ecommerce accountant reconcile Amazon payouts?

An ecommerce accountant can match Amazon settlement reports and marketplace payouts against sales, fees and other transactions so your accounts show what your business actually earned.

How do I change to a specialist ecommerce accountant?

Switching to a specialist ecommerce accountant can be handled through professional clearance with your existing accountant, with the new accountant taking over your accounting needs with minimal disruption.
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