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The data bottleneck that could derail retailers and restaurants

SUMMARY While some sales channels like Amazon and Shopify give access to reporting APIs, the industry overall lacks a standardized data model for sharing fin...
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While some sales channels like Amazon and Shopify give access to reporting APIs, the industry overall lacks a standardized data model for sharing financial summaries. There’s a simple solution: create data exchange standards. Bookkeep CEO, Jason Richelson explains in Forbes why it’s a win-win for owners, accountants, and app developers.

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September 18, 2024

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September 9, 2024

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July 15, 2024

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June 25, 2024

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June 18, 2024

Bookkeep Opens New Office in Victoria, British Columbia To Better Serve Its Growing Canadian Customer Base

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June 15, 2024

Getting Shopify Sales Detail into QuickBooks Online: Best Practices to Strike the Right Balance

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May 30, 2024

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May 10, 2024

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April 23, 2024

Why Automation Should Be Your Number One Priority When Choosing Accounting Apps in 2024

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April 19, 2024

Why You Should Never Delete Items in Shopify

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April 10, 2024

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April 3, 2024

Are You Taking Advantage of Accounting Automation in your E-commerce, Retail, or Restaurant Business?

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March 1, 2024

Shopify Sellers - Are You At Risk of Overpaying Your Sales Tax?

Shopify users who sell via Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok need to be especially careful when filing their sales tax returns to avoid overpayment. This is bec...
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February 23, 2024

Shopify and Amazon Sellers: Are You Inadvertently Mixing Revenue Recognition Methods?

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February 16, 2024

The Challenge That Shopify Reports Can Create for Accurate Revenue Recognition

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February 9, 2024

Are You Getting Paid for All Your Shopify Orders? Are You Sure?

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January 15, 2024

Accounting for Influencer Gifting and Zero-Dollar Orders in Shopify (Danger! Danger!)

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January 10, 2024

2023 Bookkeep Recap: Simplifying Accounting Complexity for Multi-Channel Sellers

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November 28, 2023

Bookkeep and KORONA POS Collaborate to Drive Business Empowerment

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November 6, 2023

Bookkeep Names Accounting Veteran Alison Ball as Vice President of Marketing and Communications

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October 19, 2023

Sales Tax Complexity and the Vanishing Accountant

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August 22, 2023

How to Streamline Your Mindbody Accounting

Accountants often find Mindbody to be a headache, finding issues with clunky, time consuming accounting processes. Often, accountants must run multiple repor...
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August 22, 2023

4 Reasons Accounting for Square Is So Complicated

Accountants often find Square to be a headache, finding issues with: Time-consuming work running reports to capture the entire range of daily activity for bo...
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August 22, 2023

How to Streamline Your Treez Accounting

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August 22, 2023

How to Streamline Your Clover Accounting

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August 22, 2023

7 Reasons Accounting for Shopify & PayPal Is So Complicated

Accountants often find Shopify and PayPal to be a headache, finding issues with: Sales payouts spanning multiple deposits Orders coming from sources beyond y...
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August 18, 2023

Square Capital Loans - Repayments and Initial Disbursement

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August 8, 2023

Artificial Intelligence Isn’t Transforming Retail Accounting, Yet

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July 7, 2023

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June 26, 2023

Bookkeep and Zoho Books Partner to Offer Revenue Automation to Its Growing Community of Accountants and Small Businesses

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April 27, 2023

Autonomy in the Workplace: Boost Employee Productivity and Happiness

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April 26, 2023

Specialization: A Solution for Reducing Burnout & Attrition Among Tax & Accounting Professionals

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March 29, 2023

Client Accounting Services: The Outsourced Solution Every Small Business Needs

Thanks to the pandemic, traditional brick-and-mortar retailers and restaurants are embracing ecommerce and digital payment systems like never before. But whi...
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March 7, 2023

3 Challenges that Tech will Solve for Your Firm in 2023

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March 1, 2023

Bookkeep Introduces New Sales Tax Automation To Provide Retailers Complete Revenue Accounting Services

The Bookkeep and DAVO by Avalara integration will enable clients to automatically set aside sales tax, file and make payments, eliminating tedious manual wor...
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February 1, 2023

Bookkeep in your practice: Sheer Distinction Services

Guest author Maureen Stevens of Sheer Distinction Services, LLC . discusses her business and how she is working smarter with Bookkeep automation. About the b...
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January 25, 2023

The reality of ecommerce and POS automation

SUMMARY There are hundreds of channels to make sales and collect revenue. But fewer businesses integrate these platforms into their accounting systems due to...
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January 3, 2023

Bookkeep in your practice: Titans of Virtual Bookkeeping

Guest author Donna Reade of Titans of Virtual Bookkeeping discusses her business and how she is working smarter with Bookkeep automation. About the business ...
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December 19, 2022

Bookkeep Research Study: Part 3

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December 14, 2022

Why you need revenue accounting automation

SUMMARY Revenue accountants are essential to the financial management of many types of industries- really, just about any field of business that processes sa...
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December 1, 2022

The clearing house standard: Aspirational model for accounting firms and retailers

SUMMARY In his latest column for Reuters, Bookkeep CEO & Founder Jason Richelson explains why accounting firms, especially those that serve the retail indust...
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November 2, 2022

Bookkeep Raises Another $6.6M to Automate Accounting Entries from Any Platform

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October 20, 2022

Bookkeep secures $6.6 Million Investment led by Fin Capital

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September 22, 2022

Bookkeep in your practice: NetDeposited

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August 29, 2022

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August 25, 2022

So, you “don’t do” ecommerce accounting…

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August 10, 2022

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July 12, 2022

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July 7, 2022

Why Bookkeep uses balance accounts

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June 7, 2022

Nearly Half of Accounting Firms Outsource CAS As Ecommerce Reconciliation Becomes More Complex

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June 2, 2022

Lack of data standards driving manual reconciliations

SUMMARY Accounting Today features key findings from Part II of Bookkeep's research study on the economic impacts of manual accounting for retailers and accou...
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Bookkeep Research Study: Part 2

Earlier this year we commissioned a research study with Paradoxes Inc. , to better understand the impact of manual data entry for retailers, restaurants, non...
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May 30, 2022

Bookkeep is rooted in daily summaries by platform for ecommerce. Here's why.

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