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October 25, 2021
Question

Gift With Purchase

  • October 25, 2021
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If we send a gift to a customer along with an item they purchased on our ecommerce store, how do we classify that expense.  Would it be considered Cost of Goods Sold or something else?  

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Rustler
Level 15
October 26, 2021

If the gift is part of an order, then I would post it to a COGS TYPE account you can create in the chart of accounts named COS, Cost of Sales.

 

COGS is technically only used for the cost of inventory sold when you file taxes.  While you can post it there, it makes income tax time a little more complicated

asha_kanta_sharma
October 26, 2021

You can create a separate Expenses Account as "Sales/Business Promotion","Dealer Schemes" or as suitable and these will show as indirect expenses in PL