Glossary
Key terms for marketplace settlement reconciliation, returns correlation, and operational COGS in Flywheel.
- Settlement period
- A bounded window of marketplace activity that closes with a payout (deposit) to your seller account. In Flywheel, each period lists its payout amount, deposit date, tie-out status, and every fee line that rolled into it.
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- Settlement reconciliation
- The process of verifying that a marketplace payout matches the sum of its underlying fee and order lines — and tracing any mismatch back to the order or raw report. Flywheel reconciles Amazon US and Walmart US settlements with the same depth.
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- Payout tie-out
- A comparison between a settlement payout and the sum of its transaction lines, accurate to ±$0.01. Flywheel surfaces this as a Balanced or Mismatch badge on each settlement period.
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- Fee event
- A single line item in a settlement report — referral fee, FBA fee, refund, adjustment, or other marketplace charge — tied to an order or account-level activity. Flywheel lets you filter, sort, and export fee events from the transaction explorer.
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- Transaction explorer
- Flywheel's filterable view of settlement lines across periods and marketplaces. Sort, paginate, and export to CSV or XLSX, then drill into an order for its fee timeline and raw report download.
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- Returns correlation
- Linking a marketplace return to the original order it came from — including pre-settlement returns — and reconciling it to refund fee events when the settlement lands.
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- Operational COGS
- Cost of goods sold that Flywheel allocates on settled marketplace orders using unit costs you provide. Based on your costs and connected marketplace orders only — excludes marketplace fees, shipping you pay, operating expenses, and off-platform sales. Operational COGS, not a full P&L.
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- Inventory ledger
- Flywheel's always-on record of on-hand quantity and stock movements. Every inbound, outbound, adjustment, and write-off writes to the ledger regardless of which costing method your profile uses.
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- Order-based pricing
- Flywheel bills by monthly marketplace order volume, not per seat. Plans scale from smaller sellers to higher-volume operators; your tier can auto-upgrade mid-period if order count exceeds your limit.
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- Dual marketplace parity
- Flywheel applies the same settlement reconciliation depth, returns correlation, and transaction tooling to Amazon US and Walmart US — one unified view with marketplace-aware columns and filters.
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