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Merge Etsy and Shopify Sales Data for Tax Prep in the United States
At tax time you need total revenue by channel without hand-fixing each export's columns first. In the United States, that also means accounting for sales tax: sales tax is charged per state, and whether you owe it in a given state depends on your economic nexus there — total revenue by state matters more than total revenue alone.
Why Etsy and Shopify exports don't line up
- Etsy: Sale Date, usually already in your local timezone; Item Total, Shipping, and Etsy fees as separate columns, before tax; a numeric Order ID shared by every item in the same order.
- Shopify: a Created At timestamp that includes a timezone offset; a single Total column that already nets out discounts, with tax broken out separately; an order Name like #1001 rather than a numeric ID.
Neither export is built with sales tax in mind, so getting from "two raw files" to "the United States-ready numbers" means normalizing dates/totals first, then applying your own sales tax treatment on top of the merged total — not per platform separately.
How to merge them
- Set your target columns once in CSV Experts (Date, Channel, Order ID, Total, and a Currency column if you sell in more than USD).
- Map the Etsy export, then the Shopify export — each file shape is remembered after the first time.
- Export the merged sheet and apply your sales tax treatment to the combined total.
FAQ
Does this upload my sales data anywhere?
No. Everything runs in your browser using JavaScript — your files are never sent to a server.
Does it work for more than two channels?
Yes. Add as many source files as you want; each distinct file layout is mapped once and remembered.