Industry expertise
Retail and e-commerce sellers live and die by inventory and margin, where cash is tied up in stock and a few points of cost or fees decide profitability. Whether you sell through a storefront, Shopify, Amazon, or all three, Laya turns messy multi-channel sales into clean, timely books — with the COGS and margin visibility to actually run the business.
Your business
Inventory is usually your biggest balance-sheet asset, yet COGS gets booked late, lumped together, or estimated. Without accurate cost of goods, your margins and net income are guesswork — and you can't tell a profitable product from one quietly losing money on every sale.
Revenue arrives through Shopify, Amazon, Stripe, and an in-store POS, each with its own processing fees, refunds, chargebacks, and payout timing. Net deposits rarely match gross sales, so reconciling every channel back to the bank is tedious and easy to get wrong.
Selling online means you can trigger economic nexus the moment your sales or transaction count crosses a state's threshold — often without a physical presence. Each new state adds a registration and filing obligation, and missed deadlines invite penalties and interest.
Top-line revenue hides what matters: which SKUs and which channels actually make money after product cost, shipping, and platform fees. Without that breakdown, pricing, promotion, and purchasing decisions get made on gut feel instead of contribution margin.
Our approach
We structure your chart of accounts so cost of goods, freight-in, and inventory adjustments are booked correctly each month, and your inventory asset ties to reality. Every close shows gross margin as a true percentage of sales — so you're managing on real product economics, not estimates.
We reconcile Shopify, Amazon, Stripe, and POS payouts against your bank, separating gross sales from processing fees, refunds, and chargebacks. Each channel's revenue and fees land in the right accounts, so your books reflect what actually hit the bank — net of every deduction the platforms take.
We monitor where your sales create economic nexus, register you in states once you cross the threshold, and file returns on each state's schedule. As you scale into new markets, your filing obligations stay current and penalty-free instead of piling up as a surprise.
We build reporting that breaks profitability down by channel — and by product category or SKU where your data supports it — so you can see contribution margin after product cost, shipping, and fees. That visibility turns pricing, promotion, and purchasing into decisions backed by numbers.
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We’ll talk through your business, your books, and where you could use a hand.
