E-Commerce
Deliver growth for your business
A robust, reliable e-commerce platform is critical for businesses to stay competitive and grow, but it can require massive operational work on the backend — accompanied by major tax, finance, and cybersecurity implications for your business.
Enhance your operations, protect sensitive data, develop strategic plans, and more with our guidance — so you can focus on what matters most: satisfying your customers and generating business.
Enhance and scale operations
Position your company for future growth or a liquidity event, pursue funds through various nontraditional financing alternatives, and navigate growing pains with a strong operational plan to help you prepare for the unexpected.
Target key performance indicators (KPIs) and dashboards
Tap into the major value of your customers’ data by implementing specialized technology and forecasting tools that help you uncover important insights, make informed decisions, and reduce the inefficiencies and guesswork of manual planning.
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Confidently sell with top e-commerce retailers
Expand sales and increase your market presence by selling products on popular websites. Avoid the surprises of unexpected fees and sales tax implications by understanding the requirements associated with sites’ distinct business models.
Maintain VAT compliance and accounting
Assess your global value-added tax (VAT) and goods and services tax (GST) requirements and develop a compliance road map for future sales — while correcting historical liabilities — with tax templates to manage compliance, pricing, and profitability.
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Customize data analytics
Leverage your data to provide a comprehensive view of your business with insights to planning, budgeting, forecasting, consolidations, reporting, predictive analytics, and more.
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Select and implement enterprise systems
Reduce software challenges and increase growth opportunities by eliminating manual reporting processes and expanding data use for planning and decision making. Key support areas include project.
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Protect valuable assets and data
Reduce the risk of a costly cyberattack and the unintended exposure, theft, and loss of customer cardholder data by strengthening and testing your cybersecurity standing.
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Monitor payment processing
Maintain auditing compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) that’s applicable to companies that accept debit and credit card purchases. Test your systems and identify any vulnerabilities through network and web application penetrating systems as required under PCI DSS.
Strengthen supply chains
Address the often-overlooked infrastructure costs associated with expansion, especially globally, that your business may not foresee. Receive end-to-end value-added tax (VAT) and customs duty support on both tangible and intangible products or services.
Develop a path to liquidity
Align your business values with your personal financial goals by managing your personal balance sheet around cash flow and your desired legacy. Craft a comprehensive plan that addresses your short- and long-term goals so you’re in control of your finances and liquidity — whether seeking cash flow financing, growth capital, equity by taking advantage of high valuations while remaining active in the business, or an exit.
Manage sales returns
Manage your returned items — from apparel that doesn’t fit to expired or recalled products — and work to extract as much value as possible from returned goods by allocating necessary resources with reverse logistics.
Build a strategic plan
Develop a formal, long-term strategic plan to guide decisions, understand the forces driving your current state, and develop a clear path to your desired future state. We can help assess business functions and identify strategies that help build and protect your organizational and personal assets.
Execute mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
Evaluate key valuation drivers during due diligence whether you’re on the buy- or sell-side of a transaction. Our experience advising hundreds of transactions can help you execute your transaction while working to protect the proceeds.
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Assess income tax
E-commerce companies can move quickly from reporting tax losses to reporting taxable income — so it’s crucial to manage your exposure from state and local income and franchise tax filings as you continue to grow.
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Manage property tax
Prepare renditions if your business holds inventory in multiple states that impose personal property tax on inventory and pursue potential exemptions for select inventory.
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Develop strategic tax structuring
Develop state, income, and franchise tax efficiencies for your business by structuring it through special purpose entities or bifurcation of the organization. We’ll help you assess how states impose gross receipts taxes, capital stock taxes, and net income taxes and compute tax based on the activities of a single entity or group of entities.
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Evaluate financial policies and controls
Maintain the integrity of your internal control environment to protect your business and customers by putting the right financial policies and controls in place.
Navigate tax planning
Stay informed of tax requirements and rule changes to avoid underpaying or overlooking the numerous, complex tax laws for e-commerce businesses that sell to or operate in many municipalities, or that have international customers.
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Expansive expertise for local and global challenges
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Deeply immersed in direct-to-consumer (DTC) industries including apparel; retail; wine, beer, and spirts; food and beverage; technology; manufacturing and consumer products; and more, our professionals understand how the nuances of your business may impact your e-commerce presence.
We give you access to the worldwide resources of Baker Tilly International, the world’s 10th largest global advisory network. Our over 47,000 professionals provide seamless, high-quality, market-specific knowledge and services to clients in more than 140 territories.
Through active collaboration, we take the time to assess your business operations and determine how a strong e-commerce strategy that integrates industry trends could drive business goals and long-term growth.





