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I don't think money from KickStarter is investment money. It sounds like you sold items, but haven't shipped them yet (of course). Investors would buy stock, which is completely different.

So you probably should book income (which you can't recognize as revenue until you have shipped it).

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Thanks for replying. So income that is not revenue. That makes sense.

Some backers chose to receive nothing, though, so for them its not even a transaction, just a donation, I guess. It's more complicated than just selling items, even though it looks like that on the surface.

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