eBay accountants who turn your payouts and fees into real, VAT-safe profit
As specialist eBay accountants, we reconcile your Managed Payments payouts, account for every final value and regulatory fee, get your VAT right, and show you the profit your listings actually make.
- Fixed monthly fee
- A named accountant
- UK-wide, fully online
Everything you need
One team, one fixed fee
- Bookkeeping Services. Managed Payments payouts reconciled properly — every fee, ad cost and refund accounted for.
- VAT returns. UK and EU OSS VAT handled across your sales, fully MTD-compliant.
- Accounts & Corporation Tax. Year-end accounts and Corporation Tax filed, with your tax kept as low as legitimately possible.
- Management accounts & Virtual FD. Real profit and margin by listing, so you double down on what actually sells well.
The bits no one warns you about
Your eBay payout is never your sales total. By the time Managed Payments pays out, eBay has deducted final value fees, the per-order charge, the regulatory operating fee, ad fees and refunds — and added VAT to all of it.
Reconciling that against your orders by hand is where the hours and the errors pile up — and it’s how business sellers lose track of their real margin or get caught out by a VAT bill.
- Managed Payments payouts netted of fees, ad costs and refunds
- Final value fees that vary by category, plus the 30p per-order charge
- The 0.35% regulatory operating fee and 20% VAT on fees
- Knowing when private selling becomes a taxable business
- VAT on UK and cross-border (EU OSS) sales
- Promoted Listings spend eating into margin
Everything handled, under one roof
eBay’s fees are easy to underestimate and hard to reconcile: a final value fee on the whole sale, a 30p fixed charge per order, a 0.35% regulatory operating fee and 20% VAT on top — all netted off your Managed Payments payout before it reaches your bank.
We’re specialist eBay accountants. We connect your account to cloud software, reconcile every payout properly, handle UK and cross-border VAT, and show you the profit you’re really making — by listing and by category.
Bookkeeping Services
Managed Payments payouts reconciled properly — every fee, ad cost and refund accounted for.
Learn moreVAT returns
UK and EU OSS VAT handled across your sales, fully MTD-compliant.
Learn moreAccounts & Corporation Tax
Year-end accounts and Corporation Tax filed, with your tax kept as low as legitimately possible.
Learn moreManagement accounts & Virtual FD
Real profit and margin by listing, so you double down on what actually sells well.
Learn moreWho we work with
If any of these sound like you, you’re exactly who we set this up for. Not sure where you fit? A quick, free call will tell you.
Book a free consultation- eBay business sellers (registered as a business on eBay)
- High-volume private sellers crossing into trading
- Resellers, refurbishers and arbitrage sellers
- Sellers running eBay alongside Amazon or Shopify
- Sellers using Promoted Listings and eBay Shops
- Sellers shipping internationally from the UK
More money kept, less stress carried
Profit by listing, not guesswork
Once final value fees, ad costs, refunds and cost-of-goods are stripped out, you see which listings make money and which quietly lose it.
VAT done right
UK and EU OSS VAT handled correctly, with the VAT eBay charges on your fees reclaimed where you can.
Payouts reconciled cleanly
We connect eBay Managed Payments to cloud software so your payouts reconcile automatically — no manual CSV wrangling.
Trading status sorted
We help you tell hobby selling from a taxable business, so you register and declare correctly before HMRC asks.
Deadlines we keep you ahead of
Know the price before we start
A fixed monthly fee based on your eBay sales volume and VAT footprint — agreed up front, with no hourly billing.
- A fixed quote, agreed before any work
- No hourly billing, no year-end surprises
- Cancel any time — no long tie-ins
A team that does the work — and picks up the phone
Specialist eBay accountants
We understand eBay, Managed Payments and the fee data it throws off — online sellers are what we do.
Cross-border VAT
UK, EU OSS and marketplace VAT handled correctly, with fee VAT reclaimed.
Automated reconciliation
eBay connected to cloud software, so your payouts reconcile without the manual slog.
The honest answers to what you’re thinking
How much does an eBay accountant cost?
We agree a fixed monthly fee based on your sales volume and VAT footprint. For most sellers it’s comfortably less than the margin we recover once your payouts and VAT are actually reconciled.
When does eBay selling become a taxable business?
If you’re buying or making things to sell on for a profit, HMRC generally treats you as trading — and you may need to register and declare the income, even below the VAT threshold. We help you work out which side of the line you’re on and get registered correctly.
Do I need to register for VAT to sell on eBay?
Not until your taxable turnover passes £90,000 in a rolling 12-month period. Once you do, you charge UK VAT, can reclaim the VAT eBay charges on its fees, and we handle the quarterly returns.
Do private eBay sellers pay any fees or tax?
Since October 2024 UK private sellers pay no eBay selling fees on standard categories — but if your activity amounts to trading, the profit can still be taxable. The fees and the tax are two separate questions, and we help with both.
Getting started is easy
- 01
Connect your eBay account
We link eBay Managed Payments to the right cloud software and pull your payout history.
- 02
We reconcile the data
Every fee, ad cost and refund reconciled, VAT handled, and real profit-by-listing reporting set up.
- 03
You scale with clarity
You see which listings win, stay VAT-compliant, and grow on numbers you can trust.
Free tool: eBay fee & profit calculator
Work out your eBay.co.uk final value, fixed and regulatory fees, then see your net profit and margin.
eBay sellers: your questions answered
What does an eBay accountant do?
How much does an accountant cost for an eBay business?
Is my eBay payout the same as my profit?
How does VAT work for eBay sellers?
Do I have to declare my eBay income to HMRC?
Can you take over from my current accountant?
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Book a free, no-obligation consultation and we’ll show you exactly how we can help — and what it would cost.