Controller Services for E-Commerce Brands

Channel settlements and inventory need a senior eye

Every channel pays you net of fees, refunds, and reserves, on its own timeline. If those settlements aren't reconciled to gross sales and to the bank, your revenue and your margin are both fiction. A controller owns that monthly reconciliation across channels, so what you sold, what you netted, and what hit the account finally agree.

Inventory is the other place cash hides. COGS has to move with what actually sold and inventory has to be real on the balance sheet — otherwise a 'profitable' month is just cash converted into boxes in a warehouse. A controller keeps both honest.

What a controller adds over a bookkeeper

A bookkeeper records the transactions. A controller makes them right and turns them into a reviewed package: true margin by channel, contribution after ad spend, inventory and COGS discipline, and a close a lender or investor can read.

As you add channels and SKUs, standardized reporting keeps the picture legible instead of a tangle of payout reports — so you scale on real contribution, not gross-of-everything revenue.

How Kaizen runs it

We sit on top of your bookkeeping — ours or yours — and run a documented monthly close on the same date every month. Shopify, Amazon, and Stripe detail gets reconciled to the payouts and the bank so nothing hides between systems.

Then the improvement part we're named for: each month the channel reconciliation tightens and the review catches the fee category that drifted before it becomes a quarter-sized surprise. Controller judgment without the salary.

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