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If next year's plan is this year's revenue plus a growth percentage, the numbers will look fine — right up to the month you pay for stock. Shopify financial planning builds a model around how your store actually makes and spends money: margin per order, stock bought ahead of sales, seasonality and ad spend.
It's a project with an end date. You get a three-statement model, an annual budget, a 13-week cash forecast and scenarios you can rerun, plus the know-how to update them yourself. Ongoing finance leadership is fractional CFO work, and live KPI dashboards are a separate reporting job.
As of September 2026, eight finance firms and consultants offer this service on shopexperts: five agencies and three freelancers, across the United States, the United Kingdom and Poland. Compare the experts below, or request a quote with your revenue, channels and the decision you need the model for.
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I work with founder-led e-commerce brands as a strategic finance partner, helping bring clarity to pricing, profitability, cash flow, and growth decisions. I’m not a traditional fractional CFO—and that’s intentional. Most e-commerce founders know their revenue. Far fewer truly understand where they’re making money, where they’re losing it, and what to do next. Before doing this work, I was a brand owner myself. I’ve sat in the same seat, made the same tradeoffs, and felt the same pressure that comes with trying to grow without breaking the business. That experience shapes how I show up for clients. A lot of the value I provide doesn’t live in spreadsheets. It comes from helping founders think through tough, often messy decisions with real numbers behind them—and without feeling like they’re doing it alone. Some of the ways I typically help: • Understanding true contribution margin by product and sales channel • Pricing and unit-economics decisions that actually improve profitability • Setting realistic ROAS and CPA targets that align with cash flow • Forecasting and planning so surprises are minimized • Acting as a sounding board as the business scales and decisions get heavier I don’t replace your bookkeeper or accountant. I help make sure the numbers are structured in a way that’s actually useful—and then help translate them into clear, actionable decisions. I try to be direct, accessible, and generous with my time and perspective. The best work happens when founders feel comfortable asking real questions and having honest conversations. Best fit: founder-led e-commerce brands doing meaningful volume who want clarity, confidence, and a true thought partner—not just reports.
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I help Shopify & DTC brands fix unit economics, cashflow, and operational complexity - especially when scaling into the EU & UK. I’m an EU-based founder and operator with hands-on experience building and scaling a physical-product brand across 30+ countries via Shopify Plus and Amazon. I co-founded BrainGain, a home fitness brand that grew from a garage startup into an 8-figure, multi-market business serving 100,000+ customers. My experience spans the unglamorous but critical parts of scale: unit economics, pricing & VAT, sourcing, 3PLs, cross-border fulfilment, working capital, and marketplace vs DTC trade-offs. Today, I advise Shopify brands - particularly US-based founders expanding into Europe - on how to grow profitably, not just quickly. Most clients come to me when revenue is growing but margins, cashflow, or ops are breaking underneath the surface. My approach is practical and experience-led, focused on clarity, focus, and execution - helping founders double down on what works and avoid the distractions that quietly destroy margin.
Freedom Finance is a boutique fractional CFO and accounting firm built exclusively for ecommerce brands. We work with founders who have outgrown basic bookkeeping and need real financial clarity to scale profitably. Our focus is on cash flow, inventory, unit economics, and decision-ready reporting — not just historical financials. We help ecommerce teams: Understand true profitability by product, channel, and offer Manage cash flow and inventory without surprises Build and maintain forecasts and 13-week cash flow models Improve gross margin, contribution margin, and ad efficiency Prepare clean, investor-ready financials We primarily support Shopify brands in the $1M–$50M+ range across DTC, subscription, and omnichannel ecommerce. Engagements are fixed-price and hands-on, with CFO-level ownership — not outsourced bookkeeping. If you’re looking for a financial partner who understands how ecommerce actually works, we’d love to help.
Chargeback and Fraud prevention Consultant Chargeback Manager Customer Support team Manager/Service Provider With more than 5 years of experience as a chargeback and fraud defense lead consultant in million-revenue companies and consulting firms, I'm able to develop the most efficient chargeback and fraud management strategy for your business model and control the implementation of the new processes from 0 to fully functional workflows. Your loss prevention will be as sophisticated as in indutry leading companies. No strings attached - my consultation is free and the charges are result based.
Fractional CFO and Accounting for 7&8 figure eCommerce businesses. Our team of 20+ experts helps you grow faster & more profitable. We specialize in multi channel eCom brands with books in Finaloop, QBO, Xero or Netsuite.
Accountally provides outsourced bookkeeping and accounting services for growing brands that need reliable, scalable financial support. We handle monthly bookkeeping and reconciliations, financial reporting, accounts receivable and payable, payroll, inventory management, and ongoing tax support. Our team is platform agnostic, Finaloop certified, and experienced across a wide range of industry specific platforms, allowing us to integrate seamlessly into your existing systems or build processes from scratch when needed. Backed by 50+ years of combined leadership experience across CFO, Controller, and executive roles, we don’t just keep your books clean, we bring insight, oversight, and a finance function that scales as your business grows.
Outsourced CFO and Bookkeeping services for profit-focused DTC brands. Scaling a DTC brand is stressful. With messy books and no CFO on your team you run the risk of… -Hiring too quickly -Buying too much inventory -Scaling ad spend unprofitably -Running out of cash And that leads to stressful, sleepless nights. We don’t want that for you. Free to Grow CFO has given hundreds of DTC brands a plan for scaling alongside healthy profit and cash flow. Our plan will work for you too. Fast, Insightful Reporting. Proactive Strategic Advice. From DTC Finance Experts. -M&A -Debt & Equity Funding -Accurate Financials by the 15th -Planning, Forecasting, Budgeting -Financial Dashboards and KPI Tracking All delivered through our proven, ready-to-implement “Free to Grow CFO Process”.
Revenue is easy to see. Real profit? Not always. Acuity delivers ecommerce accounting built for founders managing multiple sales channels, with accurate books and clear visibility into margins, cash flow, and inventory performance. We support 2,700+ entrepreneurs and help ecommerce sellers scale with confidence – without spending their nights reconciling Stripe payouts. Learn more about how we support growing brands: acuity.co/ecommerce-accounting/
Start with the decision the model has to support. A model for a bank loan, a model for next year's stock buy and a model for hiring your first operations lead need different levels of detail. Name the decision in the brief and the quotes become comparable. "Build us a financial model" gets you whatever the consultant built last time.
Ask to see an ecommerce model they've built, with the numbers removed. Look for margin calculated per order, not just per month. Look for stock purchases on their own line with supplier payment terms, and for returns, payment fees and shipping treated as costs that move with volume. A template built for a software business misses most of that.
Make sure your books can feed it. A forecast starts from history. If your bookkeeping is months behind, expect the consultant to spend the first week cleaning data at modelling rates. Monthly stock purchases and ad spend are the two histories an ecommerce model leans on most, so pull them together before the first call.
Check who owns the model after handover. A good consultant builds something you can update in an hour a month. Ask for a walkthrough, a note on every assumption, and one tab where you paste actuals from your accounting software. If only the builder can change it, you've bought a dependency.
Match the builder to the stakes. A freelance FP&A consultant suits an internal budget and cash forecast. A firm with CFO-level staff makes more sense when a lender or investor will read the model line by line.
Red flags. A fixed quote before they've seen your sales history. A model with one scenario. Growth assumptions that aren't tied to ad spend or stock. Any promise about what the model will earn you. A forecast is a set of assumptions you can test, not a prediction.
Generic templates assume a business that invoices monthly and holds no stock. A Shopify brand pays for inventory months before it sells, pays for ads before the revenue lands, and gives part of every order back in fees, shipping and returns. A useful model captures six things.
Contribution margin per order. Start from the average order, then subtract cost of goods, pick-and-pack, shipping, payment fees, expected returns and the ad spend it took to win the order. That number, not revenue, tells you whether growth helps.
Inventory timing. Stock ordered in spring for a November peak is cash out in spring, often with a deposit before production starts. Purchase orders need their own schedule with supplier terms, not a line buried in cost of sales.
Seasonality and promotions. Monthly curves from your own sales history, with discount events priced in as lower margin as well as higher volume.
Channel mix. Direct orders, marketplaces and wholesale carry different margins and get paid on different timetables. Wholesale sold on payment terms can look profitable and still drain cash for months.
A 13-week cash forecast next to the annual budget. The budget sets targets for the year. The 13-week forecast is the working tool: cash in and out week by week, checked against the bank balance.
Scenarios. Ad spend up or down, a supplier price rise, a shipment landing six weeks late. Each one should change a single input and flow through to cash.
None of this makes the future certain. A model earns its fee only when someone compares it with actual results every month and corrects the assumptions that turned out wrong.
Model builds are priced per project and FP&A support is usually hourly. Typical market ranges, plus the starting prices published by firms listing this service on shopexperts:
Financial model build
Custom three-statement model, 2 to 4 weeks
FP&A consultant
Per hour, CFO-level from about $150
Starting prices on shopexperts
Median about $550 across the 8 listed
The shopexperts figures are published starting prices on the eight profiles as of September 2026. A starting price is the smallest scope a firm will take on, so ask what it includes before comparing it with a full build. A CFO-led, investor-grade model built for a raise or a lender typically runs $10,000 to $35,000.
The price moves with the number of sales channels and entities in the model, how clean your books are, how many scenarios you need, and whether outsiders will rely on it. If you want help with monthly updates after handover, agree the hourly rate up front. Twelve months of sales history is the minimum a quote needs.
Most engagements are scoped as one project, or a short run of them, built from these pieces:
Profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow, linked and driven by your inputs
Monthly targets for sales, margin, ad spend, stock purchases and overheads
Weekly cash in and out, built to roll forward against your bank balance
Margin after cost of goods, shipping, fees, returns and ad spend
Ad spend, supplier price and late-shipment cases you can rerun yourself
A monthly check of results against the plan, with owners for each gap
A week-by-week view of cash in and out over the next quarter, starting from today's bank balance. For a Shopify brand it covers payouts on their real schedule, supplier deposits, ad spend, payroll, tax and loan repayments. Each week you drop the week just gone, add a new one and compare forecast with actual. It shows a cash gap early enough to move a purchase order or call a lender. A profit forecast can't, because profit and cash land in different weeks.
For a first pass, yes. A template works for a store with one channel, simple stock and no outside readers. Templates rarely handle stock bought on supplier terms, returns by product or channels that pay on different timetables. If stock is your biggest cost, or the model is going to a lender, a custom build earns its fee. A cheaper middle path is to fill in a template yourself and pay a consultant a few hours to review it.
At least 12 months of monthly sales, and 24 if you want seasonality to mean anything. Profit and loss and balance sheet from your accounting software, cost per item on each product, ad spend by channel, supplier terms and lead times, open purchase orders, and any loan or financing terms. Shopify's reports cover the sales history; your accounting software holds the rest.
Setting monthly targets for sales, gross margin, marketing, stock buying and fixed costs, then comparing actual results against them every month. The Shopify-specific part is holding ad spend and stock together: cut one without the other and the plan breaks within weeks. The most useful budgets are short, a page of targets rather than forty tabs, and they get re-forecast when something material changes.
No. Demand planning forecasts unit sales by product so you know how much to reorder and when. Financial forecasting takes that purchase schedule as an input and asks whether you can afford it, when the cash leaves, and what it does to margin. The two should share assumptions. A demand planner answers how many units; this service answers whether the business can fund them.
A one-off model suits a store with a bookkeeper who closes the month on time and a founder willing to update the numbers. If nobody will do that, the model goes stale within a quarter. Ongoing support makes sense when money decisions arrive every week and nobody in-house owns them. Starting with a model is the cheaper way to find out which you need.
