Better Than Spreadsheets

Tired of maintaining your seller spreadsheets? Wouldn’t it be great if they updated themselves?

Turns out, there’s a better way.

Spreadsheets: Simple to create, free to use.

For as long as people have been selling online, there have been spreadsheets used to track those sales and profits. There aren’t that many key columns needed, and you have total control over what data goes where. Best of all, they are very affordable – often free.

A Cottage Industry

Over the years, lots of sellers, accountants, and industry experts have produced and offered specialized spreadsheets for free or for sale.

They do a great job providing the layout, explaining the different fields and values, and even creating formulas for you.

Check out some of the more popular ones we found, in no particular order:

Spreadsheet Creators

Mark Tew Daily Refinement Hustle and Slow Rad Resells Clothes Live On Thrifty Threads & Needles KayWayShop Ginger Marvin

The Hidden Costs

Spreadsheets, including those linked over, come with some obvious trade-offs. The biggest are: one, the amount of time it takes you to keep your spreadsheet up-to-date; and two, the possibility of mistakes from mis-typed or missed information.

Time to Maintain

Having to look up sale date, sale price, shipping costs, marketplace fees and then updating each row in your spreadsheet takes a LOT of time. Is your time worth more than that?

Missing/wrong data

Not only do errors happen when copying and pasting, but with each platform providing many different types of related fees and discounts, there is a STRONG likelihood that you miss some.

The Better Way

Seller Ledger automatically connects to your marketplace and grabs the data that is hardest to maintain. We pull in the sale date, the sales price, any and all marketplace fees (including commissions, listing fees, even advertising fees), as well as shipping and handling costs. We then link that back to the original item cost and show you your net profit.