I didn’t have have any money went into Deferred transactions, as soon as an order (both FBM & FBA) were shipped, the money were released into Account Level Reserve, then went into Fund available after DD+7.
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We are seeing a lot of people report this who were just recently transitioned. Definitely being handled different than what we saw. We would note that we do not do FBA and everyone we have seen report this has FBA sales and invoiced orders already sitting in Deferred Transactions.
Another great Amazon rollout in progress …
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I have the feeling that there isn’t one single person at Amazon who understands this. (Or at least understands it correctly – there may be several different “understandings”). Nor does this lack of understanding matter to them.
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It does appear that way for the fees, but I see that they are taking the shipping fees from the available balance, not from the reserve account. Just another way to screw us over 
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When I was in sales, the commission was broken up to 30/90 so you could not sandbag your sales to shift numbers for the next month, and/or push returns to the next month/quarter. The BS is when the company establishes a % increase over the prior year, and you have a smashing month, but take a loss next year, due to a one time purchase.
We don’t do commissions/bonus for sales here, only end of year profit sharing for every employee. The salesperson gets the same percentage over salary as the warehouse worker, delivery driver, and SAS communicator/OnlyFans artist.
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From our experience to far …
Fees for the order are taken at the time the Deferred Transaction is released.
Professional fee, refunds, ad charges, shipping label purchases, and other FBA type fees are taken upon incurring the charge and are deducted from the Standard Orders > Total Balance Funds Available.
There have been conflicting reports on this as some report as seeing their Account Level Reserve get hit with these charges … and that they have $0.00 in Standard Orders > Total Balance when this happens.
We are watching reports on Account Level Reserves as there are reports that some sellers, who didn’t have any funds in Account Level Reserves before, are now seeing funds being held there (and that are not part of the $0.00 disbursement at transition) and that these funds increase as new orders are processed (much like what happens to a new seller).
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Mine is FUBAR.
Everything got moved on 3/24 to account level reserve.
Then on 3/26 80% was moved to Net proceeds
I have the request payment but only $54 is available.
There is still the 20% under account level reserves.
I have no A-Zs or chargebacks open.
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Your next disbursement would be Monday 3/30/2026. Have you had a $0.00 disbursement yet? If not, expect it on Monday. After that, we would expect it to function more like we have been seeing. It will be interesting to hear what you look like on Tuesday / Wednesday of next week.
Luckily, this wont hurt small business’ at all. /s
Thankfully, we have been saving for months, and are lucky enough to have the resources to not be signifigantly impacted.
If you want more people to pay attention to it, simply call it the “risk tax” that it is. Business’ get all riled up when you call something a tax, more than when its a contractual obligation you have no choice to refuse, just like taxes. Across all 3 business’ it is a loss of interest alone of about $300 every pay cycle if that cash was put in a HYSA.
It’s just a cash grab/grift against all the grandfathered sellers that remained. They get a cash bump with no risk, as any account that did have issues would have been migrated when they had the claim metric hit. There is still low Luigi Mangione risk, to make them consider the moral implications of taking small business’ cash flow, so here we are.
Not surprised in any way. Just more corporate grift enabled by society.
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I’m just going to toss a thought out there to see if anyone can come up with things that I am missing here.
Since the funds are going to be ‘released’ to available after delivery +7 as I understand it, I am wondering if there is a downside to mailing orders that come in on Friday (normal ship by date of Monday) and getting them in the mail on Saturday.
Since I do NOT want to trigger same day shipping, I would only enter the tracking numbers on MONDAY as required. That way the packages would get a day or two head start toward being delivered.
Summary – actually ship early, put in tracking on the required date, that would hopefully shorten the wait time for delivery to be reflected, allowing for the 7 day clock to start ticking.
Any possible landmines I am not anticipating here?
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You are over thinking it. Just stay on the normal workflow. After you make it through the first period, it will level out and the flow will be similar to what was once normal and life goes on.
We got transitioned on 3/5 with the $0.00 distribution on 3/8. We got the first distribution after transition on 3/22 which was a little less. Our next distribution is on 4/5 and currently all of the orders we have shipped as of today 3/27 will make it through the DD+7 and be paid out on 4/5. The orders we ship on Monday 3/30 and on will flow into the distribution on 4/19. Somewhere around 4/13, we would expect those orders to flow into the distribution after 4/19.
Yes, the first 3 to 4 week suck but, then after that, the cash flow comes back. Orders are paid but follow the DD+7.
Shipping early will only mess with the AHT issue and probably create that old headache again.
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I mean one could play games with it, like people do with FBA freight costs by not buying inbound freight till after disbursement, and let Amazon take it out of their portion of the money on the net proceeds instead.
Let Amazon wait two weeks for that bill to be realized, being they have my money anyway, I would rather make interest on it instead of them.
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My deferral started 3/24. Settlement period is 3/17 to present.
The statement view page shows: Transfer of (a small amount) scheduled to initiate on 3/31/2026. I assume that transfer amount is the order revenue from 3/17 to 3/23.
Shipping label purchases are not being deferred, there have been a few refunds and I have purchased inbound FBA shipping, also not deferred.
Since I’ve been migrated and there is a positive balance shown for disbursement, I thought the option to request payment would be available but it is not. The links are not live.
My account level reserve number is currently negative so I assume that is why I cannot request payment, even though my Net Proceeds is positive, the same amount showing as scheduled to transfer on 3/31.
I wonder if there will actually be a transfer on 3/31.
I hope you’re prepared for no transfer; but also hope that you’ll get some money.
I’ve seen WAY too many different reports from various people to think that Amazon really thought this out and planned properly. Even just here, with people who had the same dates, the experiences seem to differ on what they see, and on NSFE, when (if) they get paid.
Seems like one of Amazon’s bigger CFs (and that’s really saying something!)
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I nominate this for quote of the week
(thanks for the well-wishes)
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Indeed. They set the bar pretty high there.
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This ^^^. We have been on DD+7 for 11 years since we signed up in 2015. I can’t speak for people doing FBM, but for FBA, once you get through the first waiting period then you will be disbursed every 2 weeks just like before but the difference is you’ll be getting money from sales from almost a month ago. After that you probably won’t notice the difference.
Does it suck that Amazon holds your money for almost a month? It absolutely does and it’s obviously for Amazon’s benefit as every other platform we sell on pays us right away or at least in 2 or 3 days. Of course, we’re all on this same boat and we know Amazon never does anything that isn’t in their interest and not in the interest of sellers. For businesses with a payroll and large overhead this is NOT a good thing and if you didn’t plan for it like most did here, it could be disastrous. I feel for those in that position. Just know that after the first 30 days everything should be back to somewhat normal for most of you.
-Ana
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Going to share our experience, maybe it will help someone. We have always been on 2 week with no reserve. All FBA, 7 figures a year account.
- 23rd or 24th was first day we noticed account level reserve. Our disbursement date was the 25th and the Account level reserve once it was there was 2/3 of our disbursement. Up until that point, our disbursement amount was showing as the full amount.
- 25th disbursement happens with us getting the 1/3 not in reserve
- Payment dashboard was wonky for a bit but eventually the amount that was “in reserve” moved up to the standard orders section of the total balance
- Every day there is an update that moves part of that balance into funds available. It appears it will be 7 installments or close before that money is fully released (at that point, funds will start being released from Deferred Transactions)
- While that was happening our deferred transactions have been accumulating that you can click on and see release dates (this is the part that has worked exactly as we expected)
- Our account level reserve now is less than $50
So basically what it appears has happened is Amazon had actually put our account in dd+7 a week+ prior to us being able to see we were moved. For the initial move they used Account Reserve as the depository for items in dd+7 that were not to be released yet. So essentially Account Reserve was in the initial move working as Deferred Transactions are now and as Deferred Transactions will function moving forward.
Amazon could have made this easier by instead of using Account Level Reserve just use Deferred Transactions as it was intended and was we expected. They also could have given people a heads up that “hey your account looks like you are getting paid in full but actually 2/3 of that money is already in dd+7” but it’s clearly too much to ask them to be transparent about anything.
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I asked for a $5.28 refund for a UPS label I purchased from Amazon Buy Shipping a month ago, today I was finally refunded. Interestingly, that $5.28 went straight into “Fund available now” and can be requested right away too.
So does that mean if we get any kind of reimbursment from Amazon that would also be put in Funds available now in the same way as this UPS label refund?
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