Question 1

How does Norman connect Shopify payouts to the books?

Accepted Answer

Shopify Payments pays bundled amounts into your connected business account — one payout usually covers many orders minus fees. Norman captures those payouts via the bank feed, breaks them down to the underlying orders, books transaction and app fees per payout as an expense, and treats returns as a reduction of revenue and input VAT. You don't need a monthly payout CSV export from the Shopify admin.

Question 2

How does Norman book Shopify transaction fees and app subscriptions?

Accepted Answer

Transaction fees are booked per payout as an expense and stay matched to the right orders instead of being carved out of reports at month-end. Recurring app subscriptions and the monthly Shopify base fee are captured as ongoing operating expenses with a receipt — including input VAT where the invoice shows it. That keeps margin and input VAT traceable per period.

Question 3

How does Norman handle OSS, EU sales, and tax rates in the shop?

Accepted Answer

Norman separates domestic, EU, and third-country sales and prepares the data for VAT returns and the One-Stop-Shop scheme (OSS) in a structured way. When you cross the €10,000 EU-wide B2C distance-selling threshold, you see it early and export OSS-relevant sales per country and tax rate. Reduced rates — for books or groceries, say — can be set per product so the right rate applies automatically.

Question 4

Am I a Kleinunternehmer with my Shopify shop, or do I need a Gewerbe?

Accepted Answer

A shop that sells goods almost always counts as a Gewerbe and needs a trade registration — unlike purely freelance work. For VAT, the §19 UStG threshold decides: as long as your prior-year revenue stays under €22,000, you can be a Kleinunternehmer and invoices go out without VAT. Norman shows your live revenue against that threshold and switches the VAT logic the moment you move to standard taxation — the final classification is the Finanzamt's call.

	Norman	Shopify admin + payout CSV + Excel
Shopify payouts	Pulled in via the bank feed and matched to orders automatically	Export bundled payouts monthly as CSV and match by hand
Transaction & app fees	Broken out per payout; returns reduce revenue and input VAT correctly	Reconstructed by hand from Shopify reports and bank lines
OSS & EU sales	Domestic, EU, and third-country sales split per OSS logic and tax rate	Do the math by hand per sale or ping your advisor
VAT / OSS & advisor handoff	Built from live Shopify data, with original receipts per line	Rebuilt from platform spreadsheets right before the deadline

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