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The Best Way to Merge Squarespace and TikTok Shop Data for Cash Flow Tracking
If you're doing cash flow tracking by hand right now, here's the fastest path from "two exports" to "one usable sheet," and why the manual version keeps breaking.
Step by step
- Decide your target columns once. Most people settle on Date, Channel, Order ID, and Total — set that up in CSV Experts and you won't redo it.
- Import the Squarespace file first. The first time you see this file shape, you map each of its columns to your target list.
- Import the TikTok Shop file the same way. Its columns get mapped once too — after that, every future file with this shape merges with no extra clicks.
- Check the merged totals. Dates and numbers are normalized automatically, so a European "24,00" and a US "24.00" both land as the same value.
- Export. CSV or Excel, ready for cash flow tracking.
What actually goes wrong if you do this by hand
Squarespace gives you a Date column in ISO-like format, while TikTok Shop gives you an order creation time stamped in UTC — line those up manually across a few hundred rows and it's easy to miscount a week. On top of that, Squarespace's export customer and shipping address fields are wide, so the money and date columns can end up far to the right of the sheet, and TikTok Shop's refunded and partially-refunded orders stay in the export with a status column instead of being removed, so totals can overstate revenue if you don't filter by status. Individually those are minor quirks; combined into one spreadsheet by hand, they're where most reconciliation errors for cash flow tracking actually come from.
Why it matters for cash flow tracking
Tracking cash flow across channels means normalizing payout dates and amounts that are recorded differently on each platform.
Just want the quick column-difference reference instead? See the short version.