I always thought it was money they kept in a pot presumably to guard against bad sellers (or so they said).
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Deferred Transactions are the ones we can’t touch until the two week period pending fees. But we can request payment at any time. Is this how your screen appears?
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If there are in the funds available column? … correct?
Your image shows the Request Payment for the Invoiced Orders and Deferred Transactions. Do those category of payments show up in the Funds Available column or just get moved to the Standard Orders once they are released?
Is there a charge for the Request Payment option?
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Yes, it has always had “deferred transactions.” It’s the box that says “account level reserve” that is now 0.
The reserve used to always have a dollar value. It’s gone, but we still have deferred payments.
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Yes against standard orders only. Deferred Orders can never be touched. Then deferred orders trickle into standard orders. Standard orders and Request Payment always match.
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I started in 2018 and had a one- or two-week reserve. To my recollection at that time I did not have the option to early request. They later added that option, for a fee.
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“On March 5, 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)”
Got this yesterday, and I am pissed. I have a very old account (20+ years) and have always been able to disburse funds as soon as they are in my account.
This ia a big cash grab by Amazon.
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The best part of this is Amazon is pretending that this is something sellers wanted….. 
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I can’t think of any reason why seller’s would want this. At first, I thought that there was something wrong with my feedback.
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Got this too. I think that for ppl like me and Wade who are already on the 14 day payout, that won’t change, BUT, they won’t credit the stuff they shipped on Wednesday in the Thursday payout. There will be an added 7 days after the delivery date before it hits your payment balance, regardless of your payment date.
Just one more twist of the knife.
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That’s what I thought, too! Until I read @ASV_Vites post, which makes more sense. Or rather, the same amount of no sense, but in a different way.
I’m sure one Seller one time vaguely responded “oh well maybe sometimes” and Amazon is using that to claim that the majority of Sellers begged for this 
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A post was split to a new topic: Amazon Business-to-Business program
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I interpreted it that way at first – or wondered if this is the penalty for not getting much feedback.
Then the light bulb came on as I recalled Comcast, and their ilk making bad changes due to “feedback” “popular demand” etc.
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in all seriousness
Explain to me how this is anything but a cash grab by amazon.
I have never had a problem “paying fees” Most of my returns happen at 15+ days after delivery (practically at day 29 most times)
Oh and how is this for ironic, right after the notification they ramped up the ads and e-mails for me to consider a Business loan through Amazon.
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Just a reminder that if you would be more comfortable expressing your opinion in a non-public thread, you can head over to PRIVATE SellersAskSellers DD+7 thread (continuing the discussion) in our private 
SAS Confidential (members only) area.
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When we started with PayPal, PayPal use to require us to have a $300 balance to make sure there were funds for charge backs / returns refunds. But any funds over that $300 were available. Not sure if this happened for everyone … but after sometime PayPal lifted the required $300. However, we maintained the $300 and increased it to $350 during the holidays as we used it to ship Christmas packages. As far as distributions, we pull it once a month at the end of the month. Very simple and very easy … never an issue.
This floating reserve with Amazon makes us nervous. The every two week automatic distribution we can deal with. Wait two weeks for the funds to become available seems like it is going to be a nightmare to stay on top of Amazon (no … we don’t trust them).
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You reconcile every order? Sounds like a full time job….
We’ve done enough reconciling early on with FBA and payments to have a certain level of trust. Juice as far as we are concerned isn’t worth the squeeze or the time.
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It isn’t hard for FBM as it is now. Purchase the shipping label and you are paid within minutes (sometimes like Prime Days it might take a couple of hours). All you have to do is review the payment’s widget for the day. If you ship 20 orders, then there should be 20 shipping charges and 20 payments.
We also have an excel sheet set up to compare. Normally, we reconcile quarterly with that against the Amazon payment info. Hasn’t been hard.
Now we will have to set up an excel v-lookup against order numbers to verify the order has made it out of reserve and into the payment (funds available).
At your volume, probably so. We’re not at your volume so we have to make sure we protect what is due to us. If we do it weekly or monthly, probably 30 mins time with excel set up. If there isn’t any issues, we will probably run quarterly when we do taxes (it probably will add 15 minutes to that process).
Guess we are just old school when it comes to inventory and accounting.
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How often do you find issues? And what sort generally?
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