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 Author: uticabrix View Messages Posted By uticabrix
 Posted: Jan 16, 2024 15:10
 Subject: Year End Shipping Costs Issue
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uticabrix (11687)

Location:  USA, New York
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Store: Utica Brix
How do stores found out how much year end we have spent on Shipping? (for tax
filing).
Bricklink only includes what stores charge overall. Paypal used to have this
until Ship Station took over, and they don't have this option. Any suggestions?
 Author: brac.brick View Messages Posted By brac.brick
 Posted: Jan 16, 2024 15:34
 Subject: Re: Year End Shipping Costs Issue
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brac.brick (1116)

Location:  USA, Massachusetts
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In General, uticabrix writes:
  How do stores found out how much year end we have spent on Shipping? (for tax
filing).
Bricklink only includes what stores charge overall. Paypal used to have this
until Ship Station took over, and they don't have this option. Any suggestions?

I keep a spreadsheet of all my sales with what I spent on shipping for each order.
This won't help you now, but a thought moving forward. I use Pirate ship
and there is a record of each label i purchased.
 Author: kzinti View Messages Posted By kzinti
 Posted: Jan 16, 2024 16:05
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kzinti (4923)

Location:  USA, Missouri
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In General, uticabrix writes:
  How do stores found out how much year end we have spent on Shipping? (for tax
filing).
Bricklink only includes what stores charge overall. Paypal used to have this
until Ship Station took over, and they don't have this option. Any suggestions?

Shipstation takes Paypal payments as well, so everything would be going through
Paypal presumably. If not, like a special overnight at Fedex that you use a credit
card, use a small limit credit card for only business expenses. Easier to track.
 Author: Brickman4you View Messages Posted By Brickman4you
 Posted: Jan 17, 2024 13:19
 Subject: Re: Year End Shipping Costs Issue
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Brickman4you (1910)

Location:  USA, North Carolina
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In General, uticabrix writes:
  How do stores found out how much year end we have spent on Shipping? (for tax
filing).
Bricklink only includes what stores charge overall. Paypal used to have this
until Ship Station took over, and they don't have this option. Any suggestions?

For anyone reading this, we found best practice is to add actual shipping cost
to "My Note on Order".

Then at end of year you can download all order Data into a spreadsheet then total
that column.
 Author: zorbanj View Messages Posted By zorbanj
 Posted: Jan 17, 2024 13:54
 Subject: Re: Year End Shipping Costs Issue
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zorbanj (805)

Location:  USA, New Jersey
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I moved to Pirateship shortly after Shipstation took over (and ruined) the PayPal
shipping function. Pirateship lets you run a fully customizable shipping cost
report.

Maybe the link can help you:

https://help.paypal.shipstation.com/hc/en-us/articles/10149238539291-How-do-I-obtain-a-report-of-my-shipments-


In General, uticabrix writes:
  How do stores found out how much year end we have spent on Shipping? (for tax
filing).
Bricklink only includes what stores charge overall. Paypal used to have this
until Ship Station took over, and they don't have this option. Any suggestions?
 Author: dcarmine View Messages Posted By dcarmine
 Posted: Jan 17, 2024 16:37
 Subject: Re: Year End Shipping Costs Issue
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dcarmine (7168)

Location:  USA, Nebraska
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Won't help you now....I switched to PirateShip.com They are free, they import
Paypal orders for addresses using multiple PP accounts, ship using UPS or FedX
without an account from those services, and you can Bulk create labels. They
also have data on your shipping costs, areas shipped to, and lots more.

The best thing they do is help you dispute USPS scanners that cause a large fee
because they said you did it wrong. I had one just last week. I submitted the
appeal and I got my money back on Monday! PayPal wasn't unable to do that
when I switched 2yrs ago.

No reason not to try it.
Donna


In General, uticabrix writes:
  How do stores found out how much year end we have spent on Shipping? (for tax
filing).
Bricklink only includes what stores charge overall. Paypal used to have this
until Ship Station took over, and they don't have this option. Any suggestions?
 Author: zorbanj View Messages Posted By zorbanj
 Posted: Jan 17, 2024 16:51
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zorbanj (805)

Location:  USA, New Jersey
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Store: ZorbaNJ's Bricks
PirateShip also allows you to include the IOSS number for when Bricklink collects
VAT. PayPal's Shipstation does not, although Pirateship allows IOSS numbers
for its monthly subscription version.


In General, dcarmine writes:
  Won't help you now....I switched to PirateShip.com They are free, they import
Paypal orders for addresses using multiple PP accounts, ship using UPS or FedX
without an account from those services, and you can Bulk create labels. They
also have data on your shipping costs, areas shipped to, and lots more.

The best thing they do is help you dispute USPS scanners that cause a large fee
because they said you did it wrong. I had one just last week. I submitted the
appeal and I got my money back on Monday! PayPal wasn't unable to do that
when I switched 2yrs ago.

No reason not to try it.
Donna