Where to find total sales for 2012?

[kepbargains72]

Hello everyone....How do I find out what my total sales were for 2012?  Is there somewhere that I can print out my sales?  Thanks for your help 🙂

[cumos55]

Go to Paypal and print out each record for each sale.

Each payment of eBay fees, and

each transfer of money to your bank account..

A start....

Usually people keep records as the sales are received and paid

A record of postage paid,  and purchase of inventory.. as well as supplies..

[expressit1]

Hello everyone....How do I find out what my total sales were for 2012?  Is there somewhere that I can print out my sales?  Thanks for your help 🙂

Hmmm......   I'm new here  but I went to sellers dashboard  ( under my ebay ) and clicked on it and it listed all my sales totalled for 2012.

[pierrelebel]

"it listed all my sales totalled for 2012."

The accuracy of that information is questionable.

In my dashboard, the difference between the numver offered by eBay and my actual sales record is huge.

If the information is needed for income tax purposes, the total offered by eBay on the dashboard is useless.

[nuvistors]

Are you asking ebay to do your book keeping ?

Most sellers keep books so they know where they stand  during the year.    Books are also something that CRS likes to see once in a while.

[bb_cool_stuff]

I've always been anal when it comes to my books, must have been potty trained by shotgun.

I do my books everyday, usually takes less than five minutes & probably less than fifteen at the end of the month.

While that won't work for everyone, that is what works for me.

[cumos55]

Someone asked this very same question in a discussion on eBay.com

And I gave the same answer...

Paypal records for one year can be accessed....

eBay invoices can be accessed

Your own bank records should be available for one year... if you kept those records...

Paypal records are not perfect  but  you have: 

(1) A record of each sale

(2) A record of Paypal fees

(3) A record of eBay fees  if Paypal balances are used to pay eBay fees.

(4)  Transfers from Paypal to  your own bank account..

If eBay  Sales are  all you want  you have  a very good record of eBay sales,  and postage paid for each transaction by each buyer...

Now you have the total.

but do you have all costs?... Postage paid at the post office,  as well as incidental supplies

Report income for 2012 as best as possible....

The most imortant thing to do starting January 1, 2013 is... Keep Your Own Record ....of each sale,   and keep all receipts that relate to expenditures...

and if you continue to sell for many years....

Your 2012 data   can be destroyed at the start of 2019...  My rule is that you always have six years of complete records... When year seven is complete,  year one can be destroyed....

The rule  from Revenue Canada is ---

Under the Act, books, records, and their related accounts and source documents,  have to be kept for a minimum of six years from the end of the last tax year to which they relate. The tax year is the fiscal period for corporations and the calendar year for all other taxpayers.

You are always selling in year seven

and your years  relative to 2012

1) 2012

2) 2013

3) 2014

4) 2015

5) 2016

6) 2017

7) 2018