# Know what you actually make selling on Marketplace, eBay and Etsy

> SuperBooks puts a seller's money in one list. Connect the bank account your payouts and e-Transfers land in, read-only through Plaid, bring in anything else as a CSV, and tag each sale with where it sold. Supplies, materials, postage and fees sit beside the sales, and the profit and loss report shows what is left. It has no link to Facebook, eBay, Amazon or Etsy: it works from your bank and your own exports.

Canonical page: https://superbooks.io/marketplace-sellers/

## Who this is for

- **Home bakers, cooks and crafters.** You buy flour, butter, yarn or resin at the grocery or craft store, sell locally for cash or an e-Transfer, and maybe ship a few orders from Etsy. The question is whether the price covers the ingredients and your evenings.
- **Resellers and flippers.** You buy at thrift stores, garage sales and liquidation, then resell on Marketplace, eBay, Poshmark or Kijiji. The question is how much the stock cost you against what came back.
- **Multichannel sellers.** You list the same products on Amazon, eBay and the Walmart or Best Buy marketplaces, and each one pays out on its own schedule with its fees already taken off. The question is which channel is worth the work.

## Set it up

1. **Create a free SuperBooks account.** The Free plan needs no card and includes 1 bank connection, which is enough if your selling money goes through one account.
2. **Connect the account your sales money lands in.** Pick the chequing or checking account that receives your marketplace payouts, e-Transfers and Zelle payments. SuperBooks connects to it read-only through Plaid, which covers 9,900+ banks and credit unions in the US and Canada, and new transactions arrive about every four hours.
3. **Bring in what the bank does not show.** Older history, a second card or a marketplace's own payout report comes in as a CSV under Transactions › Import: the file needs a date and an amount, the import suggests which column is which, and you pick the account the rows go into or create one right there. Cash sales go in with Create transaction.
4. **Check that every sale is a sale.** When the AI is confident it fills in a category, and when it is not it leaves the row blank for you. Make sure each payout and e-Transfer from a buyer reads Product Sales: the profit and loss report counts only revenue categories as income, so a payout left under Payouts or Transfer does not count as a sale.
5. **Tag each sale with where it sold.** Create one tag per channel (fbm, ebay, etsy, amazon, kijiji, poshmark) and add it to each sale and to any cost that belongs to one channel only, such as postage for Etsy orders. Filtering the transaction list by a tag then shows that channel on its own.
6. **Upload receipts and attach them.** Upload a photo or PDF of a receipt to the Inbox (on a phone, add it from Camera or Photos through the picker), then attach it to the card or bank transaction it belongs to. It stays linked to that transaction.
7. **Read the profit and loss report once a month.** Profit is your sales, less cost of goods sold, less your other expenses, month by month. Ten minutes on the first of the month to fix blank categories and missing tags keeps it honest.

## Where each kind of money goes

| Transaction | Category |
| --- | --- |
| A marketplace payout, an e-Transfer or Zelle payment from a buyer, a cash sale | Product Sales |
| A refund you send a buyer | Customer Refunds |
| Stock you buy to resell, ingredients, materials, boxes and labels that leave with the product | Inventory (Cost of Goods Sold) |
| Shipping you pay to receive stock or supplies | Shipping (Inbound) (Cost of Goods Sold) |
| Postage and labels for orders you send | Shipping |
| A marketplace's selling or payment fee, when it shows up as its own line | Processor Fees |
| Boosted listings and ads | Advertising |
| A tool or a mixer that lasts for years | Equipment |
| Money moved between your own accounts | Internal Transfer |

## One month for a home baker (an invented example)

| Line | Tag | Category | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Marketplace e-Transfers and cash | fbm | Product Sales | +$1,240.00 |
| Etsy deposits (fees already taken off) | etsy | Product Sales | +$412.50 |
| Flour, butter, sugar, eggs | — | Inventory | −$386.20 |
| Cake boxes and labels | — | Inventory | −$58.90 |
| Postage for Etsy orders | etsy | Shipping | −$96.40 |
| Boosted Marketplace listing | fbm | Advertising | −$20.00 |
| Profit for the month | | | +$1,091.00 |

## Copy and paste

### Channel tags

Short, lower-case tags are quick to type on a phone. Create the ones you use and leave the rest.

```
fbm
ebay
etsy
amazon
kijiji
poshmark
walmart
bestbuy
cash
```

### Cash sales log (CSV)

Keep this in a notes app or a spreadsheet as you sell, then import it once a month into an account named Cash. Only cash belongs here: an e-Transfer or a payout already arrives through the bank, and logging it again counts it twice.

```
Date,Description,Amount
2026-11-02,fbm cash - 2 dozen lemon cookies,48.00
2026-11-02,fbm cash - birthday cake deposit,40.00
2026-11-05,kijiji cash - oak side table,85.00
```

### First-of-the-month checklist

Paste it into your reminders and tick it off in about ten minutes.

```
[ ] Set a category on every row that is still blank
[ ] Check every payout and buyer payment reads Product Sales
[ ] Add the channel tag to new sales
[ ] Import last month's cash log into the Cash account
[ ] Attach receipts still sitting in the Inbox
[ ] Read the profit and loss report for last month
```

## Payouts arrive with the fees already gone

eBay, Etsy and Amazon deposit what is left after their fees, so the bank only ever sees the net payout. The simple way is to record that payout as Product Sales and stop there: your profit is still right, because the fee never reached you. You just do not see the fee as its own line.

If you want to see fees, import the marketplace's own transactions or payout report as a CSV into an account named after the marketplace, so each sale, fee and shipping label is its own row with its own category. Then open the matching payout in your bank account and switch on Exclude from reports, so the same money is not counted twice.

## Stock counts the month you buy it

SuperBooks counts a cost in the month you pay for it, not the month the item sells. A month you stock up at a liquidation sale looks thin, and the month you sell it all looks rich. Read profit across a quarter before deciding a channel is not working.

It does not track items or stock counts, so what one flip made lives in your own notes or listing history. What it gives you is the total: everything you paid for stock against everything that came back.

## Custom orders and deposits

For a cake, a commission or a bulk order, send a proper invoice with your name, the items and the due date; the Free plan includes 5 invoices a month. The buyer pays the way you already get paid, and once a day SuperBooks marks the invoice paid when exactly one deposit with its amount and currency lands in your bank.

## Records for tax time, US and Canada

- **United States.** Payment apps and online marketplaces send a Form 1099-K when a seller's payments exceed $20,000 in more than 200 transactions in a year, and may send one below that. The form shows the gross amount paid to you, not what the goods cost you, so the cost side has to come from your own records. Source: [IRS: Understanding your Form 1099-K](https://www.irs.gov/businesses/understanding-your-form-1099-k)
- **Canada.** Since the 2024 calendar year, digital platforms that let people sell goods in Canada report each reportable seller's identification and activity to the CRA, with the first returns due by January 31, 2025. Source: [CRA: Operating a digital platform? Reporting Rules for Digital Platform Operators](https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/news/newsroom/tax-tips/tax-tips-2024/operating-digital-platform.html)

SuperBooks does not work out or file your taxes. It keeps the record of what came in and what went out, by category and channel, and exports your transactions as a CSV for you or your accountant.

- [Profit margin calculator](https://superbooks.io/tools/profit-margin-calculator/): price a batch or a flip from what it cost you
- [Break-even calculator](https://superbooks.io/tools/break-even-calculator/): how many sales cover a new mixer, a table or a booth fee
- [Mileage calculator](https://superbooks.io/tools/mileage-calculator/): IRS and CRA rates for the trips to buy stock or meet buyers
- [GST/HST calculator](https://superbooks.io/tools/gst-hst-calculator/): the sales tax on a price in any Canadian province
- [Self-employment tax calculator](https://superbooks.io/tools/self-employment-tax-calculator/): the US self-employment tax on a year's net profit

## What SuperBooks does not do

- It has no connection to Facebook Marketplace, eBay, Amazon, Etsy, Kijiji, Poshmark, Walmart or Best Buy. It cannot read your orders, listings, messages or fees from them; money reaches it through your bank, a CSV or a transaction you type in.
- It does not track items, stock counts or the cost of each piece you sell.
- Its reports are not split by tag. You see a channel by filtering the transaction list by its tag.
- It does not read receipts. You upload them and attach each one to its transaction yourself.
- It does not log trips or mileage. The free mileage calculator gives the IRS and CRA rates.
- It does not work out, collect or file income tax or sales tax.

## Frequently asked questions

### Does SuperBooks link to Facebook Marketplace, eBay, Etsy or Amazon?

No. SuperBooks has no link to any marketplace: it cannot see your listings, orders or messages. It reads the bank account your payouts and e-Transfers land in, read-only through Plaid, and anything you import as a CSV, such as a marketplace's payout report.

### How do I see what each marketplace made me?

Give every sale a tag for the channel it came from, and give the same tag to costs that belong to that channel only, such as postage for Etsy orders. Filtering the transaction list by the tag shows that channel's rows; select them and export them as a CSV if you want the totals in a spreadsheet. The profit and loss report itself covers the whole business, not one tag.

### My payout already has the fees taken off. Is my profit wrong?

No. If you record the payout as Product Sales, the fee was simply never income, so profit is right; you just do not see the fee as a line. To see it, import the marketplace's payout report as a CSV into its own account and switch on Exclude from reports for the matching bank deposit, so the money is not counted twice.

### Most of my Marketplace sales are cash. How do they get in?

Add each one with Create transaction, or keep a simple Date, Description, Amount list as you sell and import it once a month into an account named Cash. Do not log an e-Transfer or a payout this way: those already arrive through your bank.

### Will this help at tax time in the US or Canada?

It gives you the record: every sale and every cost, by category and by channel, exportable as a CSV for you or your accountant. In the US a marketplace's Form 1099-K shows what you were paid, not what the goods cost, and in Canada platforms now report sellers to the CRA, so the cost side is what your own records add. SuperBooks does not work out or file your taxes.

### What does it cost?

The Free plan is US$0 with no card and covers 1 bank connection and 5 invoices a month. If your sales and your supply purchases go through different accounts, Starter at US$19 a month covers 3 bank connections. Prices are in US dollars.

### I only sell some old things now and then. Do I need this?

Probably not. Clearing out a closet is easy to keep track of on its own. It starts to matter once you buy things to resell, make things to sell, or sell on more than one site, because then the costs and the channels are what you lose track of.

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Checked on November 11, 2026. Facebook and Facebook Marketplace are trademarks of Meta Platforms, Inc. eBay, Amazon, Etsy, Kijiji, Poshmark, Walmart and Best Buy are trademarks of their respective owners. Their logos appear here only to name the marketplaces this page is about. SuperBooks has no connection to any of them and is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.