Did I miss a news item that states all transactions are now being deferred? Every single order since 10/31 is on deferred status.
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Disregard. Figured it out -
So, if I understand correctly, its still operating the same way, but instead of that account reserve, they are just calling it something else and changing how it applies to your next anticipated payout. So even though it shows me, for example, my next payout is $76, it will be more like the usual $1k when I actually add up all the deferred payouts that have dates just before the disbursement date.
If I have that wrong, of course, let me know 
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It sounds like the same situation.
Mine still shows Account Level Reserves.
It is something I’ve wanted to have since there was no “automatic” way to know when funds were going to become available.
Could you share an edited screenshot of where you see it in the Payments Dashboard?
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We only have had a couple of deferred payments. At or around the date the deferred payment was to be released, the amount moved from deferred into invoiced and was then released as a payment the day before or the day of the released date on the deferred payment. The payment of the deferred payment did not follow (or come with) the normal next bi-weekly distribution payment. It was a separate payment.
It would be nice to know if the deferred payments were
- Released and paid individually even if they have the same release date.
- Released and paid as a lump sum of the total of all deferred payments with the same release date.
Since you have several deferred payments in the works, could you please remember to come back and let everyone know whether #1 or #2 above is how deferred payments with the same release date are handle?
Thanks in advance …
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I always had about 50% or more in my account level reserve, but right now that is sitting at $0.00 which has never happened before. This is why I think things are still working as normal, just the way things are shown to you has changed.
I sold 15 books and other items, totaling about $900 in the last 5 days. I’ve never seen numbers this low, especially on payout. Usually my Net Proceeds shows about 1/2 of what my total amount in sales I should have with the rest being in Account Level Reserve. Now there is zero in ALR, but everything is in Deferred. Every single sale.
This is what I see now in the Transactions:
Just this morning my net proceeds was ~$78, now a few hours later its $116, so it’s still going up just as each item hits its release date. Based on the release dates of the oldest unpaid items, my net proceeds would be about what I expected come my next disbursement date.
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I had a deferred transaction for which I was patiently awaiting payment. I checked the release date and assumed that I would automatically paid after that date. Wrong. When I received a smaller than expected payment from Amazon I checked deferred transactions again. Even though it was several days after the release date, the pending payment was still sitting there. I had to manually request payment in order to get the funds sent to me. The Request Payment button was not activated until after the release date. It’s another hoop for sellers to jump through.
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In my account, the Deferred Transactions are close to the Account Level Reserve, but they are not the same.
When I look at the Deferred orders in the Transaction View, all deferred orders are invoiced orders and are Business Customer orders, both FBA and FBM.
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Are the deferral reason(s) all Delivery Date Policy like SoldBySelf?
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No, the Deferral Reason is Invoiced Order on all of them.
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On this help pageit lays out:
Why is my transaction deferred?
A transaction is deferred while an order is awaiting delivery or pending buyer payment.
The following are the deferral reasons you may see on the Transaction view page:
Delivery date policy (Orders are awaiting delivery)
Orders placed by customers on Amazon are typically subject to Delivery date-based reserve policies. Sales proceeds are reserved until we know the buyer received the order in the promised condition, and to ensure that you have enough funds to fulfill any returns, claims, or chargebacks.
Note: Previously, sales proceeds withheld through Delivery Date-Based Reserves appeared as a lump sum amount “Account-Level Reserves” on your Payments Dashboard. This is now shown as deferred transactions so that you can know exactly which orders are subject to these policies and for how long they will be reserved.
Invoiced orders (Orders are pending buyer payment)
Invoiced orders placed by Amazon Business customers are deferred while awaiting payment by the buyer. These transactions will be released after the customer completes their invoice payment, which typically occurs within 30-45 days after the order date. Note that these orders are also subject to delivery date policies, but in most cases, the invoice due date will be later than the reserve period.
Since I still have Account Level Reserve, it seems that these orders have not been moved to Deferred Transactions for my account?
My orders are all the second category, Invoiced Orders.
For @SoldBySelf it seems this may in fact replace the Account Level Reserve.
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It seems so.
I’ve said it before and it bears saying again:
I have no idea how software coders can debug nor support assist when something has so many A/B tests, users in different groups, some things rolled out, other things not, etc. going on all the time.
The vast majority of users on this forum probably have different UIs on Amazon in one way or another.
Another thought about @SoldBySelf is that they are book orders. That verbiage in the delivery date based reserves about promised condition wouldn’t necessarily apply to all item types.
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It’s part of the Delivery date policy, it’s delivery date + 7 days. Any order below the 7 days = Deferred.
Account level reserve is calculated separately though
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Most of them are book orders, but not all of them. But all of them are deferred.
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I have no account level reserve anymore. I have never had $0 ALR since starting on Amazon in 2020. Now its $0 and the deferred are slowly being released into my standard orders/Net proceeds spot on my payments dashboard.
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Yea, this part matches what I am seeing now.
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