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Papercrane
What you sold isn't what you kept
Connect Shopify, WooCommerce, PrestaShop, Stripe, Square, PayPal, Etsy, or Amazon Seller Central. Papercrane's agent joins your store to your processor and your books, and shows you exactly where each sale splits into fees, refunds, and what actually lands.
Read access you approve, in your own words. Free to connect and ask. Paid plans start when you publish a dashboard. See pricing
Three numbers, one sale
Your store counts a sale the day it happens. Your processor counts a deposit, minus its fee, days later. Your books count what actually got recorded. All three are correct, and none of them alone is the answer to "what did I make." Papercrane connects to all three and shows the gap between them, itemized.
What each channel actually keeps
A pure payment processor and a marketplace take very different cuts, for different reasons. Below is a rough sense of what typically separates a sale from a deposit, channel by channel; open any card for the real breakdown of your own numbers.
Take home rate by channel
Shopify, WooCommerce or PrestaShop
97¢
Processor fee only, typically around 3%
Roughly 97 cents of every dollar
97¢
Processor fee, a little higher on small tickets
Roughly 97 cents of every dollar
Processor fee similar to a card processor
Roughly 97 cents of every dollar
Processor fee plus currency conversion
Can drop toward 92 cents of every dollar
Referral fee plus fulfillment, varies by category
Often 80 to 85 cents of every dollar, before ad spend
74¢
Listing, transaction, payment, and often Offsite Ads fees stacked together
Etsy's own reported average sits near 74 cents of every dollar
Figures are illustrative examples, not a quote for your store. Your real rate depends on your card mix, order size, and category. Every row links to the page that reads your actual numbers.
Connect the channels you actually sell on
Ten ways in. The store platforms, processors, and marketplaces most sellers run, plus two that answer questions the ledger can't.
What actually landed in the bank
Shopify
What did your Shopify store actually make last month?
WooCommerce
Your WooCommerce reports are stuck in wp-admin
PrestaShop
Your PrestaShop dashboard and your Stats page disagree
Stripe
Stripe says one number. Your bank says another.
Square
Your Square deposit never matches your sales.
PayPal
Where is your PayPal money right now?
Etsy
Why is your Etsy deposit smaller than your sales?
Amazon Seller Central
Why doesn't your Amazon deposit match your sales?
Outgrowing a spreadsheet across five channels? See Warehouses & Databases.
When you don't need us
If your only question is what one platform sold today, its own reporting already answers that, and it's free. If you only sell on Amazon and want a packaged profit number, Sellerboard does exactly that for nineteen dollars a month and does it well; we don't try to match a single channel tool at its own game. Papercrane is worth adding when the answer needs more than one channel, or needs to reach your bookkeeper, a partner, or a client.
Questions sellers ask us
Connect your store, and see exactly where every sale splits into fees, refunds, and what you actually kept.
Free to connect and ask. Paid plans start when you publish a dashboard. See pricing
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