# Bookalyze

> Accounting and back office for marketplace sellers: Amazon, Walmart, Noon and eBay settlements in the books, payouts matched to bank deposits, stock and landed cost, cost of goods sold, channel profit and each product's profit after ads, review requests and buyer invoices, for several companies in several countries.

These are Bookalyze's own guides and feature pages, in Markdown. They describe the app as it is: screens are named the way the app names them ("Commerce → Channel profit → By product"). Anything not built yet is said so. Numbers in examples are made up.

Everything in one file: https://bookalyze.com/llms-full.txt

## Getting started

- [How Bookalyze works: the path your money takes](https://bookalyze.com/guides/how-bookalyze-works.md): Orders tell you what sold; settlements and payouts tell you what you were paid. Here's what comes in from each marketplace, what posts to your books and when, and why every payout passes through a clearing account on its way to your bank.
- [Create your company](https://bookalyze.com/guides/create-your-company.md): Name, country, main currency, time zone and financial year, then switch on the parts the business needs. Each company you run is completely separate, with its own books, team and connections.
- [Invite your team and your accountant](https://bookalyze.com/guides/invite-your-team.md): Invite people to one company at a time, as an owner, admin or member. Your accountant can look after one company without seeing the others.
- [Move from Wave (or QuickBooks, Xero, Zoho Books, Sage)](https://bookalyze.com/guides/move-from-wave.md): Bring your history in from one CSV of journal lines, with your customers and vendors and Wave's receipt files. It runs in your browser, can be undone, and the file is never stored.
- [Your first week: from sign-up to the first matched payout](https://bookalyze.com/guides/your-first-week.md): A checklist that gets a selling business fully set up: company, bank, marketplaces, posting, the first matched payout, and stock.

## Marketplaces

- [Connect Amazon: get your Selling Partner API keys](https://bookalyze.com/guides/connect-amazon.md): Create a private Selling Partner API app for your own seller account, give it the roles Bookalyze needs, and paste its client ID, client secret and refresh token. About 15 minutes, plus Amazon's review of a new developer profile.
- [Connect Walmart: create an API key](https://bookalyze.com/guides/connect-walmart.md): Add your Walmart countries, then create a client ID and secret in Walmart's Developer Portal for each one and paste them on the country's channel page. About 10 minutes.
- [Connect Noon: make a service account key file](https://bookalyze.com/guides/connect-noon.md): Create a service account in Noon's partner portal, download its .json key file, and choose it in Bookalyze. One key covers every Noon country.
- [Connect eBay: no keys needed](https://bookalyze.com/guides/connect-ebay.md): eBay is the one marketplace without keys to copy: you agree on eBay's own page, with read-only access, and one connection covers every eBay site you sell on.
- [Channels: switch off, say who ships, remove, disconnect](https://bookalyze.com/guides/channels.md): Every Amazon marketplace, Walmart country, Noon country and eBay site is a channel in its own currency. Switch one off, say who ships its orders, remove one added by mistake, or disconnect an account.
- [Orders: find, filter and read every order](https://bookalyze.com/guides/orders.md): Every order from every marketplace in one list, with tabs, search and badges for refunds, claims and replacements. Orders are for running the business; they don't post to your books.

## Payouts in your books

- [How payouts post to your books](https://bookalyze.com/guides/how-payouts-post.md): Choose an account for each kind of money (sales, refunds, fees, ads, tax, held back) and a clearing or balance account for the payout, pick the day posting starts, then post by hand or automatically. The same idea for Amazon, Walmart, Noon and eBay.
- [Amazon settlements: bring in, upload, post](https://bookalyze.com/guides/amazon-settlements.md): Every Amazon settlement comes in on its own and reads line by line. Upload older ones, or rebuild years of history from one date range transaction report, then post each as one entry.
- [Walmart settlements: bring in, check, post](https://bookalyze.com/guides/walmart-settlements.md): Walmart's settlement reports come in row by row. Bookalyze adds them up to Walmart's payout, posts only the ones that do, and posts a settlement again when Walmart corrects it.
- [Noon: transactions, months and the balance check](https://bookalyze.com/guides/noon-months.md): Noon keeps a balance instead of sending settlements. Bookalyze brings in every row of Noon's transaction view, posts each country's month as one entry, matches each payment to your bank and checks your books agree with Noon.
- [eBay money: months, payouts and the Seller Hub report](https://bookalyze.com/guides/ebay-months.md): eBay's transactions come from its Finances API a month at a time. Each site's month posts as one entry and each payout is matched to your bank. Seller Hub's transaction report fills in history, or stands in where the API can't be used yet.
- [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.

## Banking

- [Connect Wise: make a read-only API token](https://bookalyze.com/guides/connect-wise.md): Create a read-only token in Wise, paste it into Bookalyze, and every Wise balance syncs to your books each day, in every currency, with fees split out.
- [Upload bank statements from any bank](https://bookalyze.com/guides/upload-bank-statements.md): For banks without a live connection: upload the statement CSV, match its columns once, and every later upload reuses them. The same file twice adds nothing twice.
- [Bank rules: categorise the routine automatically](https://bookalyze.com/guides/bank-rules.md): A rule puts every bank line whose description contains some words into a category, as it arrives. Bookalyze also suggests rules for payees you keep categorising the same way.
- [Possible duplicates and transfers between your accounts](https://bookalyze.com/guides/duplicates-and-transfers.md): A bank line that looks like a transaction already in your books is flagged, never merged on its own. Money out of one of your accounts and into another is suggested as a transfer.
- [Reconcile an account against its statement](https://bookalyze.com/guides/reconcile.md): Enter the statement's date and ending balance, tick what's on it, and finish when the difference is zero. Reconciled transactions are locked until you undo.

## Invoices

- [Create a buyer's invoice and send it through Amazon](https://bookalyze.com/guides/buyer-invoices.md): A tax invoice (or a plain invoice when you're not registered) drawn from the order in seconds, in English and Arabic, and sent to the buyer through Amazon without leaving Bookalyze.
- [Invoice requests: buyers asking for an invoice](https://bookalyze.com/guides/invoice-requests.md): Amazon sends buyers' invoice requests to your email, not to any API. Forward them to your company's own address and each one appears on its order, waiting for you.
- [Your brand and invoice numbers](https://bookalyze.com/guides/brand-and-invoice-numbers.md): Your logo, colour, Arabic name, footer and letterhead on every invoice, with a live preview, and invoice numbers in the format you want.

## Reviews and listings

- [Automatic review requests: ask every buyer, at the right time](https://bookalyze.com/guides/automatic-review-requests.md): Switch it on once and Bookalyze asks every eligible Amazon buyer for a review on the day you choose after delivery, skipping refunds, claims and anyone you leave out. It's Amazon's own Request a Review, so it's within Amazon's rules.
- [Ask for reviews by hand or in bulk](https://bookalyze.com/guides/review-requests.md): See every Amazon order you can ask for a review, ask one, a selection, or every ready order at once, and leave out the ones you'd rather not ask.
- [Listing watch: know when a listing changes](https://bookalyze.com/guides/listing-watch.md): Watch any ASIN on a connected Amazon marketplace: price, featured offer, sellers, best seller rank, title, description, photos and what reviewers mention. One email digest when something changes.
- [Amazon prices beside cost and fees](https://bookalyze.com/guides/amazon-prices.md): Every linked SKU's Amazon price next to what a unit costs you. Change a price and see Amazon's fees, your profit and margin before you send it, then whether Amazon applied it.

## Accounting

- [Transactions: review, categorise, split, copy, remove](https://bookalyze.com/guides/transactions.md): Every line that moves money in or out of a bank, card or cash account, in one list. Categorise straight on the list, split across categories, copy one that repeats, and tick it reviewed.
- [Receipts: upload, email in, attach](https://bookalyze.com/guides/receipts.md): Drop receipts into the inbox, or email them to your company's receipts address, then attach each to its transaction. PDFs and photos up to 20 MB.
- [Customers and vendors](https://bookalyze.com/guides/customers-and-vendors.md): Keep the people you're paid by and pay, and see what you've received from or paid to each one, this year and all time.
- [Journal entries](https://bookalyze.com/guides/journal-entries.md): For anything that isn't money in or out of a bank: depreciation, accruals, corrections. Debits and credits with a live balance check; entries can mix currencies.
- [Your chart of accounts](https://bookalyze.com/guides/chart-of-accounts.md): Every company starts with a ready-made chart. Add, rename and archive accounts; Bookalyze adds the marketplace accounts it needs when you set up posting.
- [Sales tax: rates, registrations, tax on transactions](https://bookalyze.com/guides/sales-tax.md): Start with your country's rates in one click (Canada's GST/HST, QST and PST, or UAE VAT), add your registration, and pick the tax on each category. Amounts include tax, as on a receipt.
- [Currencies, exchange rates and transfers between currencies](https://bookalyze.com/guides/currencies.md): Your books are kept in one main currency. Accounts, marketplaces and entries in other currencies are converted at each day's rate, and a transfer between currencies records what the bank really gave you.
- [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.

## Stock and cost of goods

- [Products and SKUs: link every listing to what it holds](https://bookalyze.com/guides/products-and-skus.md): A product is the thing you buy and sell. Each marketplace SKU links to one, with how many units a listing holds, so a 2-pack or a bundle counts the right stock.
- [Purchase orders and deliveries](https://bookalyze.com/guides/purchase-orders.md): Draft an order to your supplier, send it, and record each delivery as it arrives. Fill one in from an Alibaba.com receipt, and type the cost of one, the line total or the order total.
- [Paying suppliers, and purchases in your books](https://bookalyze.com/guides/supplier-payments.md): Record what you pay against each order, with an optional payment plan. Switch on purchases in the books and payments wait on Supplier deposits until the stock arrives.
- [Landed cost and FIFO stock lots](https://bookalyze.com/guides/landed-cost-and-lots.md): What a unit really cost you: the supplier's price plus its share of freight, duty, brokerage and prep. Each delivery becomes stock lots, and sales use the oldest first.
- [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.
- [Amazon's FBA inventory ledger: returns, losses and write-offs](https://bookalyze.com/guides/fba-inventory-ledger.md): Amazon's own record of every unit it shipped, got back, lost or found. Bookalyze brings it in daily so cost of goods sold counts returns and losses.
- [Noon FBN stock: the ledger, the summary and the check](https://bookalyze.com/guides/noon-fbn-stock.md): Noon's FBN inventory ledger feeds cost of goods sold like Amazon's. Its summary shows what Noon holds, and Bookalyze checks the two reports agree.
- [Stock in one place: your books against Amazon, Noon, Walmart and your count](https://bookalyze.com/guides/stock-overview.md): One row per product: units in your books, what Amazon, Noon and Walmart hold, what you counted yourself, and the difference.
- [Take stock out by hand, move it, or put it back](https://bookalyze.com/guides/stock-taken-out.md): For units no marketplace accounts for: samples, gifts, the owner's own use, breakages. Take them out to a category, or move them to the right product.
- [Reorder: when to order and how many](https://bookalyze.com/guides/reorder.md): For each product: how many it sells a day, when it runs out, the last day to order, and how many to order, with Order now and Order soon.

## Reports and views

- [Home: what needs your attention](https://bookalyze.com/guides/home-needs-attention.md): One list of everything waiting on you, each line opening the page where it's done. When it's empty, you're caught up.
- [Channel profit: what each marketplace really makes](https://bookalyze.com/guides/channel-profit.md): A column per marketplace, in its own currency, from sales down to profit after fees, ads, cost of goods and your own costs. All channels together in your main currency.
- [Profit and loss, balance sheet, trial balance](https://bookalyze.com/guides/financial-reports.md): The standard reports for any period of your financial year, ready to print or hand to your accountant, plus the general ledger and every transaction.
- [Your stake: what you put in, took out, and the company is worth](https://bookalyze.com/guides/your-stake.md): The owner's view: money you put in, money you took out, what the company is worth today, and whether you're up or down overall, year by year.
- [The sales tax report](https://bookalyze.com/guides/sales-tax-report.md): Tax collected, tax you can claim back, and what you owe or get back, for each filing period your registration sets.

## Advertising and profit

- [Profit by product, after ads: what every product really makes](https://bookalyze.com/guides/profit-after-ads.md): Each product's profit after the marketplace's fees, what it cost you and its ads, per marketplace. The products losing money come first, each with how far its ads can go before they stop paying.
- [Profit and loss by product, line by line](https://bookalyze.com/guides/sku-profit-and-loss.md): For any period, every product's exact profit and loss: units sold and returned, sales, promotions, refunds, each marketplace fee, storage, cost of goods and ads, from the marketplaces' own rows. Each amount is marked when it's estimated.
- [Connect Amazon Ads](https://bookalyze.com/guides/connect-amazon-ads.md): Give Bookalyze read access to your Amazon Ads reports on Amazon's own page, once per region. Ad spend per product then comes in every day, 60 days back to start.
- [ACOS, TACOS, break-even ACOS and cost per click, with an example](https://bookalyze.com/guides/acos-tacos-break-even.md): The five numbers that say whether ads make or lose money, how each is worked out, and one product's month worked through from sales to profit after ads.
- [Ad spend in your books and in the ads reports: why they differ, and why nothing counts twice](https://bookalyze.com/guides/ads-in-your-books.md): Amazon charges ads from your payouts or your card; the ads reports say what was spent each day. How Channel profit and Profit by product use each, and how to make your books complete.
- [Advertising data in Bookalyze: what's read, what's kept, and the edge cases](https://bookalyze.com/guides/ads-data-and-limits.md): Every field Bookalyze keeps about your ads, which marketplaces are covered, and how it handles time zones, currencies, attribution, bundles, missing costs and the rest.

## Your company

- [Company profile, registration numbers, people and documents](https://bookalyze.com/guides/company-profile-and-documents.md): Everything about the company in one place: its details, registration numbers and licences, the people and owners, and a vault for its documents with expiry dates.
- [The compliance calendar and reminders](https://bookalyze.com/guides/compliance-calendar.md): Filing dates worked out from your country, year end, registrations and documents, with email reminders 30, 7 and 1 days before, and on the day.

## Worked examples

- [Find and fix the products losing money, once a month](https://bookalyze.com/guides/fix-products-losing-money.md): A 30-minute monthly routine on Profit by product: which products lose money after ads, why, and what to change for each verdict.
- [Are you losing money? Find the channel or product that is](https://bookalyze.com/guides/are-you-losing-money.md): A marketplace can look busy and still lose money once fees, ads, refunds and the real cost of each unit are counted. Here's how to find where, in about half an hour.
- [Month end for marketplace sellers, in order](https://bookalyze.com/guides/month-end-for-sellers.md): 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.
- [An Amazon.ae payout in dirhams, deposited in Canadian dollars](https://bookalyze.com/guides/amazon-ae-payout-into-cad.md): A Canadian company selling on Amazon.ae: the settlement posts in AED, the payout lands in a CAD bank account at the bank's rate, and the small difference is an exchange loss or gain.
- [From an Alibaba order to FBA sales and cost of goods sold](https://bookalyze.com/guides/alibaba-to-fba.md): The whole path of a batch of stock: the purchase order from the Alibaba receipt, the freight paid to a forwarder, the delivery's landed cost, and the cost of the units that sold.
- [Approaching the UAE VAT threshold](https://bookalyze.com/guides/uae-vat-threshold.md): Registration becomes required once taxable sales pass AED 375,000 over 12 months. Bookalyze tells you when you're close; here's what changes when you register.
- [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.

## Features

- [Amazon review requests](https://bookalyze.com/features/review-requests.md): Ask every Amazon buyer for a review at the right time, automatically.
- [Amazon invoices](https://bookalyze.com/features/amazon-invoices.md): Tax invoices from the order in seconds, in English and Arabic, sent through Amazon.
- [Settlements and payouts](https://bookalyze.com/features/settlements-and-payouts.md): Every marketplace payout posted line by line and matched to your bank.
- [Banking and reconciliation](https://bookalyze.com/features/bank-reconciliation.md): Every bank account in one place, agreeing with its statement.
- [Stock and cost of goods sold](https://bookalyze.com/features/stock-and-cost-of-goods.md): What each sale really cost, down to freight and duties.
- [Reorder planning](https://bookalyze.com/features/reorder.md): When each product runs out, and how many to order.
- [Channel profit](https://bookalyze.com/features/channel-profit.md): What each marketplace really makes, after every fee and cost.
- [Profit after ads](https://bookalyze.com/features/profit-after-ads.md): Every product's real profit after fees, cost and ads. Find the ones losing money.
- [Listing watch](https://bookalyze.com/features/listing-watch.md): An email when an Amazon listing's price, featured offer or rank changes.
- [Bookkeeping](https://bookalyze.com/features/bookkeeping.md): Real double-entry books, without having to think in debits and credits.
- [Every company you run](https://bookalyze.com/features/multi-company.md): One login for all of your businesses, each completely separate.

## Optional

- [Pricing](https://bookalyze.com/pricing): plans and what each includes
- [Help](https://bookalyze.com/help): contact and support