# Month end for marketplace sellers, in order

> The monthly close for a selling business, step by step, with the check after each. Most months it takes under an hour once automatic posting is on.

Category: Worked examples · Web page: https://bookalyze.com/guides/month-end-for-sellers

## The steps

1. **Bring everything in.** Bank lines (Wise syncs daily; upload other banks' statements), settlements, Noon and eBay months, and the stock ledgers.
2. **Post the money.** Every settlement and marketplace month that ended in the month. Check: none left **Ready to post**.
3. **Match the payouts.** Each payout to its bank deposit. Check: the clearing and balance accounts hold only payouts still on their way.
4. **Categorise and review.** Every bank line categorised and ticked. Settle possible duplicates and transfers. Check: Transactions shows nothing uncategorised.
5. **Receipts.** Attach what's in the receipts inbox. Check: the inbox is empty.
6. **Stock.** Record deliveries and their landed costs, link new SKUs, then post the month's cost of goods sold. Check: the month is **Posted** for each marketplace.
7. **Reconcile.** Each bank, card and cash account against its statement. Check: the difference is 0.00.
8. **Read the month.** Channel profit and Profit and loss. Check: nothing surprising you can't explain.
9. **Close.** At a filing period or year end, run the sales tax report and close the books through the last day.

## Done when

What you should see:
- [ ] Home says **You're all caught up**

## Related guides

- [Prove your books agree with the marketplaces and the bank](https://bookalyze.com/guides/books-agree-with-marketplaces.md): Every check Bookalyze offers, in one list: settlements that balance, marketplace balances, stock compared, bank against books, and reconciliation.
- [Close the books](https://bookalyze.com/guides/close-the-books.md): Lock everything up to a date so nothing can be posted, changed or removed in a finished period. Usually the end of a financial year or tax filing period.
- [Match each payout to its bank deposit](https://bookalyze.com/guides/match-payouts.md): Matching pairs a marketplace payout with the deposit in your bank and moves that deposit to the clearing or balance account, so your sales are counted once. Works in any bank account and any currency.
- [Cost of goods sold, month by month](https://bookalyze.com/guides/cost-of-goods-sold.md): Add your opening stock once, then post each month's cost of goods sold per marketplace at FIFO cost. Returns come back into stock; losses are written off.