My payday is tomorrow, [hits my bank on Wednesday]
80% of my balance is in reserve 
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Mine is tonight and 100% is in Reserve.
We finally got a couple of orders tonight after 4 days of zero with the DD+7 transition this past week. It will be interesting to see if they go into Deferred as Amazon says they will or if they will keep pushing them into Reserve.
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Good luck!! Anyone who sells on AMAZON currently needs it-or prayer!
Our own reserve is low! Since never had one previously, don’t know if it’s because our recent sales have been low or because we have low/nil ODR.
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I had a couple FBA orders that were shipped after 3/5, and they went into “Account Level Reserve”, so far there is “0” in “Deferred Transactions”.
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Our “settlement date” was yesterday 3/8 and we received $0.00. Today 3/9, the payment page has moved everything out of Reserve and up into Net Proceeds (bottom graph area). In the top widget boxes, it shows everything in the Standard Orders “Total Balance” and $0.00 in the Funds Available “Now”. If we change the Funds Available to “At Settlement End”, then we see that the $$$ amount equals what is currently in Standard Orders “Total Balance” box.
So orders received on 2/19 and shipped 2/23 and delivered on 2/27 with DD+7 at 3/6 will not be paid till 3/22.
Currently, there is no way to track which orders are in Standard Orders “Total Balance” or when they will move to Funds Available at “At Settlement End”. (However, we know because we have been tracking on excel since January).
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My last Payout was March 5, and was paid normally
Today is March 9
My DD+7 is March 12
Everything on my Payment Dashboard (statement view) remains the same as always
Net Proceeds (3/5/2026 - Present) has a positive balance
Account Level Reserve - Has a Balance of $0
My Funds Available dropdown still only has “Now” and “At settlement end”
WITHOUT the “Request Payment” option (which I never had)
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Sounds like you have not migrated yet. Expect everything you have in Funds Available will go into Reserves on the 12th. Expect to get $0.00 on your next payout on March 19.
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I think more than likely it already is:
If you have deferred transactions you are most likely already on it. So am I - intuitively.
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That’s what I was thinking, but the deferred amount hasn’t changed while the available now amount keeps climbing like usual. I guess I’ll find out what happens on Thursday evening when I should get my regular disbursement.
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If your Standard Order Total Balance = Standard Order Funds Available NOW balance, then you have not been migrated yet. And the orders you are sending out currently are going into Total Balance and Funds Available NOW like the way it was … then you have not migrated.
Ours showed normal in Funds Available up to 3/5 when everything went to Reserve. What is interesting about yours is your transition date 3/12 is your payment date. The 3/5 transition happend in the AM. Normal payouts happen at the end of day (around midnight for us). You will probably see everything go to Reserve and then receive nothing.
Do you normally get invoiced orders? If so, when you look at the deferred orders, you will see the order and the date that it will be released.
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I think it is All Accounts = Standard Orders + Invoiced Orders + Deferred Transactions = Funds Available Now right?
So if my Standard Orders = Funds Available Now = $100
But my Total Orders which includes standard, invoiced and deferred = $1100 then the deferred amount of $1000 = DD+7
No?
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No
Standard Orders > Total Balance + Invoiced Orders > Total Balance + Deferred Orders > Total Balance = All Accounts > Total Balance
The $$$ in the Funds Available > Now column are the funds that have made it through DD+7 and from which you will be paid on your next 2 week payout date or is available to Request Payment if you want to get before your normal 2 week payout date.
Currently, we have $93.49 in the Standard Orders > Funds Available > Now. That is part of the amount shown in the Standard Orders > Total Balance (so the $93.49 is included in this amount not a separate number). If we were to Request Payment for the $93.49 right now, then the Standard Orders > Total Balance would get reduced by $93.49.
What we can not do right now is figure out which orders have made it through DD+7 as the $93.49 does not match any combination of order payments we have tracked that have made it through the DD+7 process. We know the Standard Orders > Total Balance is correct and should all be available before our next payout date (as shown with the Funds Available > At Settlement End $$$ amount). So we are going to touch nothing and thus be able to validate this process.
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Just making sure, have you included buy shipping from orders that have not cleared DD+7 yet or any other fees (not the fee from the sale) in your calculation?
You might have 5 orders, lets call it 5x, that are DD+7 but shipping for any orders after those reduce the available balance. Potentially you could have 4.75x or 3.4x or something else it just depends on how all the other Amazon expenses you have interact with your sale proceeds.
As I mentioned in my post upthread, when I have gaps between orders, I will click Request Payment before starting the process of shipping the next batch of orders so that my payment is not reduced by the shipping for those orders.
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At that time, there were no orders processed after the transition to DD+7 which would have been involved. The $93.49 in question was what Amazon had moved to available from the orignial amount held on 3/5/2026 and moved forward after $0.00 balance transfer on 3/8/2026.
After processing orders today, we can see that all shipping charges are taken from Standard Orders > Total Balance which interns reduces Standard Orders > Funds Available by the same amount. The order payment goes into Deferred Transactions which includes the transaction fee.
Example
Before todays shipments, Standard Orders > Total Balance was $484.93 and the Standard Orders > Funds Available was $93.49. The $93.49 did not match any combination of orders that had been delivered and met the DD+7 as of 3/9/2026.
The reduction of the $93.49 to today’s $82.86 does represent a reduction of shipping charges at that point (as does the reduction of $484.93 to the current $474.30 in the Standard Orders > Total Balance).
So at our next payout on 3/22/2026 around midnight, we expect the amount to be $484.93 minus all shipping charges incurred from now up to 3/22/2026. All orders during this time that are shipped will NOT clear DD+7 based on the estimated delivery date + 7 (which is used in the Deferred Transation data).
Amazon gets to hold our money for close to 30 days. Take that money from every seller and then apply the interest made. Amazon has now created another income stream.
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I’ve always had a rolling account reserve. I have an older account and have daily disbursements. Call me crazy, but the last time I researched this, I was said to have a 10 day holding period after delivery before funds would be released.
I haven’t received an email (yet). I wonder if this will speed up my reserve holding period?
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Having a reserve amount is not the same as DD+7. A reserve amount is under different controls.
Reserve amounts usually cover A2Z claims and charge backs. The length of time they are held depends on the time it takes to resolve the issue.
DD+7 shows under deferred and shows the estimated day it will be released. Unpaid invoice orders also go under deferred and have an estimated day it will be released.
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I’ve always had a large Account Level Reserve. Here is a semi-recent disbursement.
Net Proceeds: $24.82
Beginning Balance: $3,476.80
Sales: $1,442.97
Expenses: -$402.23
Account Level Reserve: -$4,492.72
Is this normal? Should I ask Seller Support if my account has been on some sort of restriction? I rarely get chargebacks and when I do, I win. Most of my A-Z claims are Amazon funded (if the seller wins). My account metrics are good.
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Really? I figured I always had account level reserve. I have an old account, but I only started selling professionally a few years ago. They held payments for a month and standard total funds available now was less than standard total balance.
I just looked today (because you wrote this), and for the first time, I saw the two values were the same. Does that mean I had been moved over to no reserve and will soon go back to reserve?
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Since Amazon is hell bent on screwing sellers 6 ways to Sunday, it would have been nice for them to create a visual seller central tutorial on how this is going to display.
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That would require someone at Amazon to actually KNOW what was going to happen…
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