If you are trying to reconcile numbers from the Sales Dashboard in Seller Central to InventoryLab, you're not going to get numbers that match up. They are not intended to.

This is because InventoryLab uses your payments data rather than sales. To clarify, InventoryLab only considers the order when a transaction posts rather than when the order is placed. As you know, orders can remain in "pending" status for days, but the money does not hit your account balance until shipped.

Since an order could get canceled at any time or simply left in the cart for many days on end, we only account for the sale once it ships to the buyer. Otherwise, it would leave room for inconsistency in the numbers and inaccurate accounting.

To match up data from Amazon to InventoryLab, you should always check your Date Range Summary report instead of sales reports or sales dashboard.
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1. Visit Seller Central and click the three vertical lines in the top menu.

2. Click Payments, then select Reports Repository from the list.

You will want to request a Summary report for any given month or timeframe where the reports are completely reconciled in InventoryLab. Be sure to select All for Account Type to include as you need both Standard and Invoiced orders.

Note: If you need to get a transaction summary, in the case of an audit or as requested by an InventoryLab Customer Champion to help troubleshoot issues, make sure you select Transaction instead of Summary before clicking Generate.

Once you generate the report, you'll need to download the .PDF file and open it.

Your file will be In Progress. Give it a moment and click the Refresh button.

Once available, you'll be able to click Download to download the Date Range Summary report to your computer.

5. Navigate to InventoryLab and click the Reports tab.

6. Select Profit & Loss from the dropdown menu.

7. Select the same exact date range that you did when you ran the Date Range Summary report and click View.

You should then be able to compare the Income and Expenses areas of the Profit & Loss report using the collapsable headers to the same sections on the Date Range Summary report. (You can also save the Profit & Loss report as a .CSV file to your computer by clicking "Export" to compare.)

Areas you can compare:

INCOME

EXPENSES

OTHER

Note: Since InventoryLab allows you to include Cost of Goods Sold and additional expenses for your business that are not tracked by Amazon to get your most accurate Net Profit, you will not include those items when comparing to Amazon.

If the two figures between InventoryLab and Amazon Date Range Summary reports are off significantly, please check to make sure you have the following manually accounted for in InventoryLab (service fees and removal orders became available through the API and were automatically imported by IL beginning in Jan 2015):