{"id":30996,"date":"2026-08-21T03:30:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T01:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.accountable.eu\/help-center\/%f0%9f%87%a9%f0%9f%87%aahow-to-encode-your-transactions-if-am-an-e-commerce-trader-gewerbetreibender\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T03:30:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T01:30:41","slug":"%f0%9f%87%a9%f0%9f%87%aahow-to-encode-your-transactions-if-am-an-e-commerce-trader-gewerbetreibender","status":"publish","type":"help_center","link":"https:\/\/www.accountable.eu\/en-be\/help-center\/%f0%9f%87%a9%f0%9f%87%aahow-to-encode-your-transactions-if-am-an-e-commerce-trader-gewerbetreibender\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddeaHow to encode your transactions if am an e-commerce trader (Gewerbetreibender)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">Selling through online platforms gives you a huge outreach: you can now even sell in other countries. If you\u2019ve sold via <a href=\"http:\/\/bol.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link font-inter\">Bol.com<\/a>, Etsy or Amazon before, you\u2019ll probably have noticed that you don\u2019t get a regular invoice. In this article, we will therefore explain how to enter such <b>online revenue<\/b> into Accountable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">\n<h1 class=\"font-degular\" id=\"h_e9dcbbdea8\"><b>What do you need to understand about VAT charge?<\/b><\/h1>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">At the end of the month, you will receive an overview of what you have earned and which costs have been deducted. These commissions are subject to the reverse charge regime, but this is not the case for your revenue. The price that the platform charges already includes the local VAT that your customers have to pay. <b>So it\u2019s not 0% VAT, but the VAT percentage of the buyer\u2019s country! German private individuals<\/b><br \/>\u200b<\/p>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">\n<h1 class=\"font-degular\" id=\"h_fa1acc432e\"><b>What to do if your clients are German?<\/b><\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"font-degular\" id=\"h_eed37149a0\">Regarding your sales to German private individuals, it\u2019s quite simple:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"font-inter\">\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">Create a private customer called \u2018German private clients\u2019: this groups your customers<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"font-inter\">\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">Create an invoice for this client in Accountable<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"font-inter\">\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">Give as total amount (incl. VAT) the amount that you have sold to German customers via the platform<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">For these earnings, you will have to submit a regular German VAT return in the next quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">\n<h1 class=\"font-degular\" id=\"h_16e82c52f6\"><b>What to do if your clients are foreign private individuals?<\/b><\/h1>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">For your customers outside of Germany, the situation is slightly different: the VAT rate will not be the German rate, but the VAT of that country. For these customers, you should proceed as followed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"font-inter\">\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">Create an invoice per country outside of Accountable with the total amount incl. the foreign VAT. <i>It doesn\u2019t need to be pretty, it\u2019s just to have the numbers.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"font-inter\">\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">Create a private individual client in Accountable that you call \u201cDutch private clients\u201d for example<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"font-inter\">\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">Import the invoice in Accountable, but attention: <b>select 0% VAT.<\/b> Even though it has a VAT-amount on it, you only add the amount excl. VAT in Accountable, which will be calculated for the income tax.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">The VAT on these invoices will afterwards be declared via the OSS portal. Read <a href=\"https:\/\/help.accountable.eu\/en\/articles\/5923082-how-to-manage-vat-on-your-european-sales-invoices-with-the-oss-portal\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link font-inter\">this article<\/a> to find out how.<\/p>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">\n<h1 class=\"font-degular\" id=\"h_10126af395\"><b>What about the commissions and bank transactions?<\/b><\/h1>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">The document with the commission charges can be added to your expenses as \u201cOffice and administrative fees\u201d. The various transactions that appear in your account can be linked to the respective invoice. The amounts won\u2019t fully correspond to the invoice amount, as the commission costs have already been deducted from it, but this should not be an issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outlines general problems faced by e-commerce traders while encoding their revenues and provides customised solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","help_label":[],"class_list":["post-30996","help_center","type-help_center","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddeaHow to encode your transactions if am an e-commerce trader (Gewerbetreibender) - Accountable<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.accountable.eu\/en-be\/help-center\/%f0%9f%87%a9%f0%9f%87%aahow-to-encode-your-transactions-if-am-an-e-commerce-trader-gewerbetreibender\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddeaHow to encode your transactions if am an e-commerce trader (Gewerbetreibender) - 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