Industries

E-commerce & Retail

Inventory, sales tax, and margin clarity for online and omni-channel sellers.

Industry

E-commerce & Retail, in depth

Selling across multiple channels and, often, multiple countries turns bookkeeping into a genuinely technical problem — inventory that needs to be valued correctly, sales tax and VAT obligations that shift with every state or country you ship to, and margins that are easy to misread if platform fees and returns aren't accounted for properly. We build bookkeeping that reconciles cleanly across every channel you sell on, so you know your real margin, not just your revenue.

Sector expertise

What we handle

Multi-channel bookkeeping (Shopify, Amazon, Etsy, and direct) reconciled into one clean set of books
US sales tax nexus tracking and multi-state registration and filing
UK and EU VAT registration, returns, and OSS/IOSS compliance
Inventory accounting and cost-of-goods-sold tracking
True margin analysis after platform fees, returns, and shipping costs
Seasonal cash flow forecasting for inventory-heavy businesses

Pitfalls

Common pitfalls we help you avoid

Triggering sales tax nexus in a new state without realising it
Inventory valuation errors that quietly distort your real margin
Treating gross revenue as a proxy for profitability across channels with very different fee structures

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Whatever your tax, accounting or advisory question — let's talk.

Tell us about your business and we'll show you how Meridian can move it forward — in the US, the UK, or across borders.

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