Fees you never see
Final value fees, per-order fees, ad fees, international fees and VAT on fees are spread across different reports. Copying them into a sheet order by order is slow, and the totals rarely match your payouts.
Free comparison
Spreadsheet vs ProfitClerk: what your bookkeeping really costs
A spreadsheet is free until you count the evenings spent copying in fees, postage and costs. Work out what yours really costs, then compare.
- Free, no sign-up
- Updates as you type
- Share or bookmark the result
Time spent in the spreadsheet
7.5 hours a month
90 hours a year, about 11.3 working days
Your time, at your rate
£112.50
£1,350.00 a year
ProfitClerk
from $14.99 a month
Feature by feature
| Spreadsheet | ProfitClerk | |
|---|---|---|
| Orders and real eBay fees brought in for you | By hand | |
| Fees matched to each order, including ads | By hand | |
| Stock cost by FIFO or average, with job lots | By hand, with formulas | |
| Expenses with receipts, and a mileage log | Separate sheets | |
| Profit and loss for any period | If you build it | |
| Tax figures laid out for your country's forms | If you build it | |
| Phone app and sale notifications | No |
Guide
Where spreadsheets fall short
Stock costs that drift
Job lots, restocks at different prices and returns make the cost of each sale hard to pin down by hand. One wrong cell and every profit figure after it is off.
Tax time panic
At the end of the year you need sales, costs, expenses, mileage and VAT laid out for your tax return. A spreadsheet holds the data, but you still have to build the answer.
What ProfitClerk does instead
- Brings in orders and their real eBay fees every 15 minutes.
- Costs each sale by FIFO or average, including job lots.
- Keeps expenses with receipts and a mileage log.
- Lays out your figures for your country's tax forms.
How ProfitClerk works this out for you
- What ProfitClerk does and who it is forProfitClerk brings in your eBay orders, real fees, refunds and postage, matches them to what your stock cost, and shows the true profit on every sale.
- Import item costs from a spreadsheet or CSVAlready track what your items cost in a spreadsheet? Import it into ProfitClerk to fill in the item cost of past eBay sales, check every match, and undo if needed.
- Your first-day set-up checklistGet ProfitClerk ready in one sitting: choose a plan, connect eBay, set your country and tax profile, and add item costs so every sale shows real profit.
Questions
Is a spreadsheet good enough for a small reseller?
It can be when you sell a few items a month. Once you are copying in dozens of orders, tracking job lots and preparing a tax return, the time and the errors add up.
Can I import my spreadsheet into ProfitClerk?
Yes. You can import your stock costs from a spreadsheet, and ProfitClerk brings in up to two years of past eBay orders on plans that include the history import.
Does ProfitClerk change anything on my eBay account?
No. It asks for read-only access: it reads your orders and finances and never lists, edits or messages.
How much time does it really save?
Use the calculator with your own numbers. Most of the time in a spreadsheet goes on copying fees and costs per order, which ProfitClerk does by itself.
Close the spreadsheet for good
ProfitClerk brings in your eBay orders with their real fees, keeps your stock costs, expenses and mileage, and prepares your tax figures.
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