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The Best Way to Merge TikTok Shop and Reverb Data for Handoff to Your Accountant
If you're doing handoff to your accountant by hand right now, here's the fastest path from "two exports" to "one usable sheet," and why the manual version keeps breaking.
Step by step
- Decide your target columns once. Most people settle on Date, Channel, Order ID, and Total — set that up in CSV Experts and you won't redo it.
- Import the TikTok Shop file first. The first time you see this file shape, you map each of its columns to your target list.
- Import the Reverb file the same way. Its columns get mapped once too — after that, every future file with this shape merges with no extra clicks.
- Check the merged totals. Dates and numbers are normalized automatically, so a European "24,00" and a US "24.00" both land as the same value.
- Export. CSV or Excel, ready for handoff to your accountant.
What actually goes wrong if you do this by hand
TikTok Shop gives you an order creation time stamped in UTC, while Reverb gives you an order date column specific to the marketplace's order dashboard — line those up manually across a few hundred rows and it's easy to miscount a week. On top of that, TikTok Shop's export refunded and partially-refunded orders stay in the export with a status column instead of being removed, so totals can overstate revenue if you don't filter by status, and Reverb's used mostly for musical instruments/gear, so price ranges and shipping costs vary far more per row than typical retail exports. Individually those are minor quirks; combined into one spreadsheet by hand, they're where most reconciliation errors for handoff to your accountant actually come from.
Why it matters for handoff to your accountant
Handing raw multi-platform exports to an accountant usually means paying them to do the cleanup you could do yourself in a few minutes.
Just want the quick column-difference reference instead? See the short version.