DoNotInsertIntoMouth Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 I was trying to figure out a better way than manually writing them all down to see what I paid for shipping for each individual transaction (tax and profit calculation reasons). Anyone have a good system, eBay app, etc. they wouldn't mind sharing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akohns Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 As far as I know there isn't a good way, maybe if you have more than a basic ebay store you can. For my taxes the last two years I just went through all my paypal transactions and recorded the amount for each payment to ebay shipping and kept receipts from the PO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coneil21 Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 I know if you go to "manage shipments", you get a list of what you pd for shipping for each transaction. Im not sure if theres a way to print that list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fcbarcelona101 Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 I just do it in Excel as I ship each package...It does not really take that long Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exciter1 Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 I have free shipping on all my listings, so I can easily track my exact shipping cost through Paypal/EBay shipping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadowsk1 Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 I write it down. Knowing the total cost of a listing makes it easy to calculate everything else. Paypal makes reading all the information pretty user friendly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chinothegeeko Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 I use http://www.easyauctionstracker.com/ I used to do the excel spreadsheet deal but it takes up too much time if your selling a decent volume. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wholovesboo Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 Do you print out shipping labels through eBay? I use the Avery labels with my USPS shipments (The ones with 2 labels on an 8.5 x 11" sheet). The top half is the mailing label that gets put on the package. The bottom half is an "Online Label Record" that shows how much postage I paid, as well as the auction item and number. You could save a stack of them, throw them in a file folder or something, until it's time to do your taxes and/or you're ready to deal with them. Then pay a teenager to add them all up for you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justafrog Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 I use an Excel spreadsheet to track our inventory as I list it, move the inventory to a sold tab once I've sold it, and if I were recording shipping per package it would be simple to add a column to that sold sheet and plug the numbers in each day when I printed labels. There is also a good, comprehensive tab-delimited download available on PayPal (I run ours monthly) that you can split shipping out on. I can't remember if the shipping itself get i.d. by transaction, but that's where I get my total shipping paid out per month for tax purposes. You can find that under the "reports" option on PayPal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anakinisvader Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 Outright or now known as Go Daddy Bookkeeping is a free app you can use with ebay. Does a pretty good job so far. Only crashed once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoNotInsertIntoMouth Posted October 18, 2013 Author Share Posted October 18, 2013 Outright or now known as Go Daddy Bookkeeping is a free app you can use with ebay. Does a pretty good job so far. Only crashed once. I was playing with this, but I think I need to probably subscribe to get the reports that I need. Is it worth it for the tax stuff? I move maybe 10 items a day - 30 ish over the weekends. Excel works, but I am a efficiency person. I hate just standing pat when I know there is a quicker way to do something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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