Amazon Prime Statement

So I have a spreadsheet of all debt and outgoings etc.  Something always hits us with a swerve-ball is Amazon purchases.  So I thought I could just download say 12 months worth and budget an average sum.

If you search for help it seems to be out of date, so I go onto Amazon Help Chat and guess what, Amazon dont have this function…

Just wow!  I bet they dont want anyone to be able to see the total amount?

Surely an online banking download would be a much easier way to do this anyway?

not as easy as there are multiple payment cards (hers,his and house), but it will have to do

and my main point its not available and you can bet its for the simple reason they dont want to help you see the enormity of your spend

Its a feature of an Amazon Business account – doesn’t cost any more than a regular account and works in much the same way – that gives you a ‘Buiness Analytics’ option under your order history that will show all your orders for any given time frame

It’ll also give graph form reports on categories of spend (ie the different amazon. departments like Sports, Office, Home Imporovements) and and comparisons of spend between years and so on

The only real dfiffence you’ll notice its it’ll give ex-vat prices so you need to watch what the actual price is (its still there but not as prominent)

You can also set up approvals for purchases if theres more than one user of the account

Is this like like why my dad couldn’t download a CSV of all the temperatures that his smart heating had been set to over the past year?
Eg because he was a fringe case that it’s not worth paying the developers to accomodate when it doesn’t actually generate income. Probably the opposite, in fact.

This is an easy one to solve. Don’t buy anything from Amazon.

So I have a spreadsheet of all debt and outgoings etc.

Can you not just work it out from your spreadsheet?

As above though, it’s not really up to Amazon to provide every bit of information in every conceivable format.

Constructively, you could search all your collective emails for Amazon order confirmations.

Nope its missing.  Surprising they dont (initially).  For a year!

I will live, I will search in my card statements.  I just think they dont do it on purpose.

If you only need the total figures of the orders you can get a more useable list on your Transactions page.

there are multiple payment cards (hers,his and house), but it will have to do

Unless you like to hide purchases from each other, can you not just make life easier by having one card for everything?

Banks now have open APIs which allow you to sync all your accounts into one app so you don’t need to use a spread sheet to mange your budget.

I have multiple account, savings and credit card all in one one place.

Google best budgeting apps. I use money hub.

You can quickly find out how much you have spent with any merchant.

Surely you just go into your purchases page, go back 12 months and tot it up from there??..

Or what frogstomp said.

This is an easy one to solve. Don’t buy anything from Amazon.

And that will help with obtaining the last 12 months of historical data, will it?

And that will help with obtaining the last 12 months of historical data, will it?

ask again in 12 months 🙂

Every Amazon order is available to see forever.  It’s a bit of a faff to get to each invoice but just a couple of clicks per item.  Occasionally Amazon wasn’t actually the supplier and to get the invoice you need to ask the supplier but I think you can still see the total anyway.

But if you look in Amazon help for transaction history every credit card payment is listed – not so obvious what it’s for but you can reconcile against order numbers if you need to check something.

I personally doubt that it is deliberate. I agree it’s probably not in most companies benefit to allow their clients to have access to something this – to make it more obvious how much you’re spending. But more importantly, I think requests like this would be once in a blue moon.

Unless you are making a mahoosive number of purchases, the o4der history should be easily available and I would have thought it would be relatively straightforward to make a new spreadsheet with each order and the value for the past year or 6 months or whatever. Or just go to one credit card specifically for Amazon, so it would be very simple to track.

Have a look at an app like snoop where you can link your bank accounts and play with the data.