Disbursement (Amazon Payout)
The transfer of your available Amazon balance to your bank account at the end of a settlement period. It is your sales minus fees, refunds and any amount held in reserve.
What Is a Disbursement?
A disbursement is the payout Amazon sends to your bank account. It closes a settlement period: Amazon totals your sales, deducts fees, refunds and other charges, and transfers what is available.
Why the Payout Is Less Than Your Sales
- Fees - referral, fulfillment, storage and other charges are taken before you are paid
- Refunds - money returned to customers during the period
- Reserve - Amazon holds back part of the balance to cover returns and claims; funds for an order generally become available about a week after delivery rather than at the time of sale
Reconciling a Payout
The amount that reaches the bank rarely matches any sales report, because it mixes orders, refunds and fees from different dates. Reconciling means tracing each deposit back to the settlement and the transactions inside it.
How SellerLegend Helps
SellerLegend lets you reconcile settlement periods with bank deposits and drill into the orders, fees and refunds behind each one, and its cash flow ledger links Amazon payouts to your wider cash position.
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