Received this email today. I’ve never been on reserve (since 2016) so it’s unclear to me if this will change.
Hello,
On March 12, 2026, in line with your feedback, we’ll update your reserve settings to the standard reserve period of seven days after delivery date (DD+7).
Most Amazon sellers worldwide already use DD+7. Moving your reserve setting to DD+7 provides time for you to accrue fees and other costs before disbursement and gives your customers time to receive, open, and evaluate their order.
DD+7 aligns the customer order and payment cycle, with funds made available for disbursement seven days after we confirm order delivery. For example, if you sell a product on January 1 and it’s delivered on January 3, then under the DD+7 policy, your funds for that order will become available for disbursement on January 11.
When you ship an order, funds are collected and added to your deferred transaction amount. Upon delivery, funds become reserves to allow Amazon customers to receive and review orders and you to accrue fees and costs. After seven days, the funds are moved into your account balance, which can be disbursed automatically through your choice of the automatic settlement cycle or a once daily disburse-on-demand request.
The move to DD+7 may cause a one-time cash flow impact and temporarily limit your ability to disburse funds on or around your migration date. This is because of the change to delivery confirmation before the reserve period begins.
We recommend that you review your cash reserves to ensure sufficient funds on hand during the transition. This update will affect you more if you have longer periods between order and shipping or shipping and delivery.
To learn more, go to Confirm a shipment and Payments based on delivery date.
The Seller Central help hub contains information to support you.
I just received this as well. I opened my selling account in 2000 and have never been on reserve. If I am no longer going to be eligible for daily disbursement, I wish the email would say so. I hope this only applies to funds that are on reserve, in which case I will not be affected (unless I am totally missing something…)
Yep, same here. Since the FTC secured a 2.5 billion settlement against them, I would not be surprised if they are pushing more sellers to be migrated over to the DD+7 disbursement system just to make more bank for Amazon; not that such a settlement should mean much for Amazon, but any excuse to take more from its sellers, I suppose.
Same here; OG dailies. “Per your feedback” makes it sound like something of a courtesy, but this is definitely nothing us dinosaurs were clamoring for.
I was just coming here as well because I got the email. Been on since 2015 under this account, and never had a reserve.
IMHO – it’s gonna delay cash for and affect one “payday” – I get disbursements every two weeks. For the first one after that date, they’re gonna hold on to my money and in 7 days as they roll off, it will be rolled into the next disbursement.
What that also does is gives them the ability to “invest” that hold and make more money, as they call it protecting themselves against returns that are issued upon first scan…where they have to fork out the money and then “pray” that we make more sales so they get their money back as we earn more money.
Geez, I hope that makes sense. In the craft world, we get “angry” when a show asks us to pay the fee up front by say a year or makes us pay and then we get our money back if not accepted. They have our money – which means they can make money – something small like interest…
This protect Amazon against scammer sellers where the scammer doesn’t get their money so fast. And we all pay for it.
Ebay has been placing some sellers on a disbursement hold which ends 2-3 days after the actual delivery of an order. Ebay support has been telling the sellers affected that it will be the new normal for all sellers, but there is no announcement.
This is separate from their new seller holds of up to 30 days and an Ebay equivalent of the velocity review for sellers who have a strange high ticket sale period.
There may be a trend to address Trust and Safety or money laundering.
Will be interesting to see what this does to INRs. Obviously now, we’ve already been paid for an item. Wrestling that money back won’t be a problem for Amazon as they haven’t given it to us yet under DD+7… I see this as a big driving factor too.
My selling account is so old, I can’t even remember when my first sales were, but I didn’t start selling seriously until the last few years. There was a big gap between when I was using Amazon as a garage sale and my professional selling. The olden days were simple, and I was shocked how much things had changed when I got back into it.
Anyway, I was told my account was valuable because where would be no reserve because of the age of the account, but that was not to be. I’ve had a reserve ever since my professional status was activated. So, I’m envious of all of you for whom DD+7 is new.
I got it too. I’ve always been every 2 weeks, so not sure how this affects anything.
Edit: I assume it just means the 2 weeks is from the delivery date and not the sale date. So amazon keeps the $$ to invest for a few days longer. PER MY FEEDBACK /s
I haven’t had enough sales on eBay lately to be concerned but I have them set for a weekly payout and let them figure it out.
As far as the other part, I finally threw in the towel and started selling on Amazon on Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 5:56 PM and have never had reserves and converted to Professional barely in time to keep On Demand payouts.
I will not be very freaking happy if those go away after 16+ years because AMAZON refuses to vet sellers properly but sellers are almost powerless unless it’s on our own sites.
Just popped over to the NSFE. Apparently, at least some people got a message that seemed to imply that on-demand disbursement will still be available. My assumption is that that applies to those who already have that, but unsure. Of course, it will take that extra time for the money to move to the “Released” funds so that you can make the request…
ETA: and upon looking closer at the message I got, it has the phrase "This update will affect you more if you have longer periods between order and shipping or shipping and delivery. "
IOW, all of our efforts to force you to shorter handling and transit times than work for your business haven’t worked, so we’ll try to bribe you to do it.
Got one too! Ours goes into effect on March 5th! We’ve never had a RESERVE- or if so, was MINIMAL, maybe a hundred or so dollars, once they realized we could be trusted as dealer. What does this have to do w/ our FB which is 100% and never been lower than 97.5% in the nearly 14 years we’ve been on the river.
Frankly, hope we’ve made the move to Texas by then. May just give up the book biz on AMAZON. Would save us a lot of $$/time/effort moving/shelving books etc. Guess could start all over again w/ Etsy, Biblio or ABE; use ART of the BOOK to post CONDITION NOTES on multiple marketplaces.
Things are are changing too much on AMAZON. First this BS about 2 day handling-we got the flat file done on Sat. though we screwed that up-don’t blame AMZ, it was our stupidity! .
Didn’t realize had to remove the INACTIVE titles first, so ended up w/ approx. 50 titles we’d sold recently that became ACTIVE-but didn’t realize it till sold one of them(w/ no inventory) last night since we’d sold/shipped the book in question less than a week ago!.
So guess what we were doing afterwards? Removing these 50 titles so no more forced cancellations! .
MODS-could we place this on a locked thread-so we can say what we really think without repercussions from AMZ MOLES?
