If you’ve ever reviewed an A2X settlement summary, you’ll know Amazon has some very creative ways to charge Amazon sellers money – ShippingChargeback, GiftwrapChargeback, SalesTaxServiceFee – what do all these Amazon fees mean, and how do you reconcile them to the Amazon reports in the Reports > Payments section of Seller Central? Great question! In…
Signing up for A2X just got easier
We’ve just released a new look signup for A2X, its now easier to get logged in with Google and connect your Amazon and Xero accounting system. You’ll find detailed steps to get your Amazon accounting imported into Xero over on our new look A2X support center. Once connected with Google, the new look dashboard will…
Amazon Reserve amounts: what to do when Amazon withholds your settlement payment
In this post we want to cover two often confusing transactions you will see in your Amazon settlement files that A2X imports. The first is the Current Reserve Amount and the second is the Previous Reserve Amount Balance. Firstly, a bit of background to these transactions. Why does Amazon withhold payment? Sometimes Amazon withholds some…
A2X Setup and Mapping – A real-world guide from Catching Clouds
Catching Clouds is honored to be A2X’s first guest blogger. As an accounting firm specializing in ecommerce accounting, we have dozens of clients using A2X’s services and use it for all of our Amazon clients. We LOVE it. Since we use this tool so much, A2X asked if we could give their readers some pointers…
Delays processing Amazon.fr settlements in A2X
This is just a quick note to advise we’re experiencing delays receiving Amazon.fr settlement data from Amazon. We have escalated the issue to Amazon tech support and will update this post as we determine the causes for the delays. In the meantime, the Amazon.fr financial data is not lost, it will be available in your…
Amazon Promotion and Sponsored Products Accounts
Specific Amazon codes in Xero The other day I was going through my amazon seller fees for the month. I recently launched my first effective Amazon promotion and wanted to see what it looked like in my accounting software. Mostly, I wanted an overview of how much I have given away in order to create…