Supplement & CPG Accounting

Your inventory has an expiration date. So does bad accounting.

Supplement and CPG brands run on subscriptions, co-packers, and dated inventory — three things a generalist P&L wasn't built to hold. We keep books where expiry write-offs, seeding units, and subscription revenue all land where they belong.

Warehouse worker checking dated inventory in a fulfillment aisle

Three ways supplement and CPG books go wrong

These are the patterns we see over and over when we review books kept by firms that don’t live in this category.

Expiring Inventory Nobody Wrote Down

Every lot on your shelf is losing value on a schedule, but most books carry it at full cost until a fire-drill write-off at year end. That overstates inventory and margins all year — and then dumps the correction into one ugly month. Expiry-driven shrinkage needs to be recognized as it happens, not discovered at tax time.

Subscription Revenue That Doesn't Reconcile

Recharge, Skio, or native Shopify subscriptions add churned cards, failed renewals, prepaid bundles, and win-back discounts to every month's revenue picture. Books that just record processor deposits can't tell new revenue from recovered revenue — and prepaid subscriptions are a liability until you ship, not income when the card runs.

Co-Packer COGS and Free-Goods Confusion

Raw materials at the co-packer, finished goods in transit, and thousands of units seeded to influencers and sent as samples. When seeding units get quietly expensed — or worse, stay in inventory — your true product margin and your marketing spend are both wrong. Free product is marketing; it needs to move out of inventory at cost.

What changes when the books are built for supplement and CPG

  • Lot-aware inventory with expiry write-downs recognized monthly, not annually
  • Subscription revenue reconciled from the billing app to the processor to the bank
  • Raw materials, finished goods, and in-transit inventory tracked separately across co-packers and 3PLs
  • Influencer seeding and samples moved out of inventory into marketing at cost, every month
  • Sales tax handled with supplement-specific taxability rules — supplements are taxed differently state by state
  • One client manager across the books and the tax return, in-house

70%

of other firms' books we audit contain errors

$100M+

tax savings uncovered over 5 years

1

client manager across books and taxes

Want to see what this looks like in practice? Read how an 8-figure jewelry brand got true profit visibility and 10 hours a week back.

Transparent pricing

Accounting plans start at $1,247/month, with Controller and CFO tiers as you scale — real prices, published, no “it depends.” Tax planning and filing are handled in-house by the same team.

We’re not a perfect fit for everyone

  • You're not a private label brand — arbitrage and wholesale don't typically require specialists.
  • No single internal point person who can answer questions in a timely manner.
  • Early stage — almost all our clients are 7–9 figure brands growing intentionally.

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