How to Read Your Etsy Monthly Statement (Column by Column)
Your monthly statement is a CSV with eight columns per transaction row: Date, Type, Title, Info, Currency, Amount, Fees & Taxes, and Net. Net is the only number that tells you what a line actually put in or took out of your pocket: it's Amount minus Fees & Taxes, nothing more. Deposits into your bank account never appear in those three columns at all, they post as their own separate rows, which is the single biggest reason the statement looks like it doesn't add up. Below: where to download the file, what each column means, and the one column (Info) that's genuinely inconsistent and worth knowing about before you rely on it.
Where to download the CSV
Go to Shop Manager, then Finances, then Payment account, then Monthly statements. Pick the month you want and click Generate CSV. Etsy builds the file and emails you when it's ready to download, it isn't instant.
Once it downloads, open it in a spreadsheet app or in the fee explainer. Every row is one transaction: a sale, a fee, a tax line, a deposit, and so on.
The eight columns, explained one by one
1. Date
The calendar date the transaction posted to your account.
2. Type
The category of the row: Sale, Refund, Listing, Transaction, Marketing, Fee, Tax/VAT/GST, Payment, or Deposit. The full glossary is below.
3. Title
The listing title tied to that row, or a short description of the charge for rows that aren't attached to a specific listing.
4. Info
Extra detail whose content depends on the row's Type, and it's the one column that isn't consistent. Covered on its own further down, since it trips up more sellers than any other column on the sheet.
5. Currency
The currency code the row is recorded in.
6. Amount
The total the customer paid: Price + Tax + Shipping − Discount.
Watch out:Amount is not your income. It can include VAT or sales tax that Etsy collected from the buyer and will remit on your behalf, so it's not automatically the revenue figure you should record for bookkeeping or taxes.
7. Fees & Taxes
The combined fees and taxes deducted from that row, shown as a negative number. The CSV gives you this total per row, not a category breakdown, which is exactly what the fee explainer sorts out for you.
8. Net
Net equals Amount minus Fees & Taxes. It's the actual amount that line put in or took out of your account. A positive Net on a Sale row is money owed to you. A negative Net on a Fee or Tax row is money you owe Etsy. Net, not Amount, is the column that reflects what you actually keep.
The Type glossary
| Sale | An order placed by a buyer. |
| Refund | Money returned to a buyer. |
| Listing | The listing fee charged when you publish or renew a listing. |
| Transaction | The percentage fee Etsy charges on a completed sale. |
| Marketing | A charge from Offsite Ads or Etsy Ads. |
| Fee | Other Etsy service fees not covered by the categories above. |
| Tax/VAT/GST | A tax line collected or remitted on a transaction. |
| Payment | A payment processing charge. |
| Deposit | Money Etsy pays from your account balance into your bank account. |
Why your deposit doesn't match your sales
Sellers open the statement expecting the deposit that hit their bank account to line up with a sum of Amount, Fees & Taxes, or Net rows for the period. It won't, and it isn't a bug.
Rule:Deposits do not appear in your Amount, Fees & Taxes, or Net columns. They post as their own separate rows with Type "Deposit," so summing those three columns across an entire statement will never equal the deposit total in your bank account.
The Info column's real problem
Most guides to the statement skip the Info column entirely, or wave at it as "additional details." The honest answer is that what it contains depends on the row's Type, and it isn't standardized across the sheet.
On a Sale row, Info can show an order number, useful if you want to trace that line back to a specific purchase. On a Deposit row, it more often shows a date, when those funds became available, not an order reference at all. On Fee, Tax, or Marketing rows it may just repeat a generic label or carry little that's useful on its own. There isn't one meaning you can rely on across every row.
The practical consequence: you can't always match a specific Fees & Taxes charge back to the order that caused it using the CSV alone, especially once a statement has several sales, their fees, and any Marketing or Refund rows landing in the same period. The columns don't carry a shared key that reliably links a fee row to its sale row.
If you need every charge sorted by category without hunting row by row, that's exactly what the fee explainer does with the same CSV.
How to calculate your totals
Two filter-and-sum steps cover most bookkeeping questions:
- Revenue:Filter Type to "Sale," then sum the Net column for your actual take-home, or sum the Amount column for the pre-fee total instead.
- Deductions:Filter Type to "Fee" and "Refund," then sum the Fees & Taxes or Amount column for those rows, depending on which side of your books you're building.
Both methods are legitimate, they just answer slightly different questions: Net gives you money actually kept, Amount gives you the gross figure before fees.
Let the fee explainer sort every row for you
The fee explainer reads your monthly statement CSV in your browser and sorts every charge into plain categories. The file never leaves your device.
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