Tracking revenue by sales channel without spending hours in spreadsheets every week is this possible.

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Tool

QuickBooks, A2X, Divvy, Relay, MyWorks, Shopify Marketplace Connect, Reaktion

Issue

Multi-channel seller (Amazon, Shopify, Etsy) spends 3 hours weekly manually reconciling revenue by channel due to staggered payouts, fee deductions, and payment splits across platforms; cannot determine which channel is profitable without half-day reconciliation effort.

Cost

3 hours/week (156 hours/year); A2X Multi quoted at $115/month ($1,380/year); bookkeeper alternative $200/month ($2,400/year)

Recommendation

A2X Multi + QuickBooks (class-based tracking); separate bank accounts per channel (Divvy/Relay); or hire part-time bookkeeper

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anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5 · 2026-05-08

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I sell on Amazon, Shopify, and Etsy and tracking which channel is actually profitable is becoming a nightmare, all the money just goes into one bank account and I have to manually pull reports from each platform then match them up with bank deposits and it takes me like three hours every week just to figure out basic numbers. The problem is each platform pays on different schedules and sometimes splits payments, so a single Shopify payout might cover 50 orders but shows up as one deposit, Amazon does weekly payouts but they deduct fees first so the amount never matches what I expect, Etsy is even weirder because they hold some funds for cases and disputes, by the time I reconcile everything I've lost half a day and I'm still not totally sure if my Amazon business is subsidizing my Etsy losses or the other way around. I tried using QuickBooks to categorize everything but you still have to manually assign each deposit to the right channel and if you mess it up once your whole month is off, I also looked at A2X for Amazon which helps with reconciliation but it's another subscription and only works for one channel, I'd need three different tools to solve this properly and that seems excessive. How are other multi channel sellers handling this? Is there a banking solution or accounting tool that automatically separates income by channel or do I just need to accept that this is part of running an ecommerce business? I feel like I'm spending more time on bookkeeping than actual business growth which can't be sustainable.

Top comments (7)

[score=7] Immediate-Olive-357

Personally what worked was giving each channel its own bank account with different routing numbers, changed payout settings once and now Amazon money goes to Amazon account automatically, I set this up with relay and Divvy might work too but I think they charge fees.

[score=3] Away-Egg-2977

Honestly consider hiring a part time bookkeeper, they can handle all this for like 200 bucks a month and you can focus on growing sales instead of drowning in admin work.

[score=3] TheSellerCPA

You can easily track this using QBO + A2X. Use QBO Plus. Create a class for Shopify, Amazon, and Etsy. Sign up for A2X multi-plan - A2X Multi 2K for 3 sales channels. Map each A2X connection to the classes in QBO and boom, you have sales by channel. Is $115/month for A2X worth it vs hours in a spreadsheet? Easily. If executed correctly, you could turn on auto posting from A2X, run your P&L by class in QBO and you'll see sales, less returns, less fees, and COGS by channel automatically. No reason to struggle with spreadsheets when A2X was built for this.

[score=3] NumbersGame7836

Yep, we sell on Amazon as well as on Shopify. It took a while for us to find something that worked well for us, but we got it pretty dialed in now! 1. Firstly, we got Amazon connected to Shopify. There's a ton of apps that do this, but Shopify Marketplace connect did it perfectly, and it's built by Shopify. (You could do the same here with Etsy) 2. Then, we connected Shopify to QuickBooks, and not just for a simple sales sync - but it was important for us that products, inventory levels, refunds, gift cards, store credit, and the "extra" stuff synced correctly. We're using MyWorks for that, and it's been really solid. It's great because even the Amazon orders will get pulled into Shopify, and it syncs them to QuickBooks - and same with inventory, it syncs from QuickBooks to Shopify, which then gets pushed to Amazon as well. We realized that using Shopify as a "hub" has been really helpful - even just mentally. 3. And, in QuickBooks, we have the payments going to different "clearing" accounts based on how it was paid. This way, Shopify payments go to their own clearing, and get reconciled perfectly, and then same with Amazon - it goes to a separate clearing account, which makes it so easy for us to reconcile separately. I'd say we spend like 2-3 hours a month max on the actual bookkeeping part of it in QuickBooks - and that's just doing stuff like simple matching in our Bank Transactions, then a quick reconcile.

[score=2] iGrowJazzCigarettes

Reaktion.com Shows you all you need. ROAS, POAS, per campaign if you want. Not sure if it works with Etsy or Amazon. The 75$ it costs is worth it imo

[score=1] External_Spread_3979

depends on your scale, if you think it too much pool around all these type of task and hire a executive assitant.

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