Finance for Integrators
For Backend devs automating an online store's billing — invoices, payments, refunds, payouts — and the finance behind each. · 18 days · Tech
The days
Listen to the whole course · 84 min
- 1The money story: from a sale to the booksTrace what happens after a customer buys a license — which teams touch it and in what order — so you know exactly where your integration sits and who owns what comes next. Listen · 5 min
- 2Reading the ledger without building oneRead any accounting entry and say what moved where — enough to follow a finance conversation, without ever needing to post one yourself. Listen · 5 min
- 3Five account types and the one equationClassify any account into one of five types, and predict which direction — debit or credit — increases it. Listen · 5 min
- 4Accounts Receivable, from order to cashFollow an invoice from order to cash in both the prepaid and the invoiced flow, and name what Accounts Receivable owns at each step. Listen · 4 min
- 5Revenue recognition and deferred revenueExplain when a license sale becomes income, and why cash you collected isn't yet revenue you've earned. Listen · 5 min
- 6Invoices, credit notes, and adjustmentsSay why a correction is a credit note or a reversing entry, never an edit, and what that means for the data your store keeps. Listen · 5 min
- 7Accounts Payable: the other side of the moneyDescribe what Accounts Payable does and name the two store events — refunds and partner payouts — that flow through it, so you know which team owns money leaving Meadow. Listen · 5 min
- 8Tax I: sales tax, VAT, and GSTPut the right consumption tax on an invoice given the customer's country, the selling entity, and the product's classification — and name which of India GST, EU VAT, or US sales tax applies. Listen · 5 min
- 9Tax II: cross-border, withholding, and e-invoicingExplain the three things that change when a sale crosses a border — withholding tax, reverse charge, and e-invoicing/clearance mandates — and what each demands from your store data. Listen · 5 min
- 10Multiple legal entities and inter-companyExplain why one business runs several legal entities, and apply the rule that decides which Meadow entity should invoice a given customer. Listen · 5 min
- 11Multi-currency: one sale, two numbersHandle a sale made in the customer's currency and explain where exchange differences come from between invoicing and payment. Listen · 5 min
- 12Reconciliation: books vs bank vs gatewayExplain what bank and payment-gateway reconciliation prove, and why clean, idempotent store data is what makes both possible. Listen · 5 min
- 13Periods and closeExplain what an accounting period is, what "closing" and "locking" a month or year mean, and why the timestamp on your store's data decides which period a sale falls into. Listen · 5 min
- 14The report mapMap which report each finance team lives in, what's specific to one team, and what's shared — so you know who reads the store facts you emit, and where. Listen · 5 min
- 15Revenue reportingRead a revenue report and distinguish billed, recognized, and collected revenue, and read revenue split by product, entity, and country. Listen · 5 min
- 16Tax filing reportsName the main tax-filing reports per jurisdiction — India's GSTR-1/3B/2B, the EU VAT/OSS return, and TDS/withholding — and state what store data each is built from. Listen · 5 min
- 17Audit and complianceExplain what an audit verifies and name the non-negotiables your store integration must preserve so an independent stranger can trust the books. Listen · 5 min
- 18Capstone: one sale, end to endTrace a cross-border license sale through every team and every report end to end — for both the prepaid German customer and invoiced Ridgeline — and leave with the decision checklist that makes you autonomous. Listen · 5 min