Etsy 1099-K doesn't match my sales

The form reports gross payments. Your dashboard, your deposits and your net profit are worked out after things the form does not take off.

The short answer

Box 1a is the total buyers paid through the marketplace's payment system in the calendar year. The IRS instructions define it this way:

"Gross amount" means the total dollar amount of total reportable payment transactions for each participating payee without regard to any adjustments for credits, cash equivalents, discount amounts, fees, refunded amounts, shipping amounts, or any other amounts.

Etsy's help page says the same in its own words: gross is reported "without subtracting expenses", and it lists fees, refunds, shipping costs and sales tax you collected as things that stay in.

What each figure leaves out

Figure	Where you see it	How it differs from the form
Revenue	Stats	Sales minus discounts. Leaves out fees, shipping and fully refunded or cancelled orders.
Net profit	Payment account	After refunds, fees, shipping and taxes.
Deposit amount	Deposits CSV, bank statement	After refunds, fees, taxes and reserves.
Order Total	Orders CSV	Does not take off fully refunded or cancelled orders.
Gross	Payments sales CSV	Etsy names this column as the one to total for the year.

If it still does not match

A sale near midnight on the last day of a month can sit in one month on the statement and the next on the form. The year still ties.
More than one shop under the same taxpayer ID is combined on one form.
Sales paid outside the marketplace's payment system are not on the form.

Sources, read 10 November 2026: IRS, Instructions for Form 1099-K (revision 12/2026 as shown on the page); Etsy Help, What Do I Need to Know About My 1099-K Tax Form?; Etsy Help, How Is the Total on My 1099-K Calculated?.

Check your own form

Drop the monthly statement CSVs below and type box 1a, plus boxes 5a to 5l if you want the month-by-month view.

1. Monthly statement CSVsNo statements yet

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Choose CSV files or drop all twelve here.

2. Box 1a gross from your 1099-K

Tax year read from the files

Monthly boxes 5a to 5l (for the month-by-month check)

Tip: paste all twelve amounts into January to fill the row. Labels such as 5a or Jan in the pasted text are read as the box, not the amount.

Jan 5a

Feb 5b

Mar 5c

Apr 5d

May 5e

Jun 5f

Jul 5g

Aug 5h

Sep 5i

Oct 5j

Nov 5k

Dec 5l

More than one shop is on this form. Allows two statements for the same month.

Statements are read in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

Questions

Is the form wrong if it is higher than my sales report?

Not for that reason alone. The form reports gross payments before refunds, fees and shipping. Compare it with the Gross column of the payments sales CSV, or rebuild it from your monthly statements with the tool on this page.

Which report should match the form?

Etsy says to download the Etsy Payments Sales CSV and total the Gross column for the year.