Amazon DD+7: when do you get paid for a sale?
Amazon doesn't pay you when an order ships. It holds the money until the buyer has the package, plus a reserve period, usually 7 days: "DD+7". Here is how the hold works, when the money reaches your bank, and why your payout never matches what you sold.
13 days from the order to available money. That's if you request a payout the day it's available; otherwise it goes out with your next scheduled payout. The bank date allows Amazon's five business days for a transfer, not counting bank holidays.
How the delivery date reserve works
- The hold: an order's proceeds are deferred until the shipment is delivered, plus the reserve period. Amazon's standard is 7 days (DD+7); it can lengthen it after looking at an account's risk and history.
- The delivery date: the carrier's actual delivery date when you ship with an integrated carrier, otherwise the latest estimated delivery date.
- Fees travel with the order: the referral fee and FBA fulfillment fee are deferred with the sale and charged when it's released. Advertising, shipping labels and similar charges are taken straight away.
- Amazon Business invoiced orders wait for the buyer to pay the invoice, typically 30 to 45 days after the order.
Amazon's example: an item sold on January 1 and delivered on January 6 becomes available for payout on January 14. New sellers, and sellers just put on the policy, often see almost all of their balance deferred at first: only sales delivered more than a week ago are free to pay out.
From available money to your bank
- Scheduled payouts: Amazon closes a settlement period and pays out the available balance, usually every 14 days.
- Disburse on Demand: you can request a payout of your available balance once every 24 hours from Payments in Seller Central. It doesn't shorten the reserve: deferred sales still wait for delivery plus 7 days.
- The transfer can take up to five business days to reach your bank account.
Why your payout never matches your sales
A settlement statement covers only transactions released in that period. Sales from the last week or so of the period are still deferred and land in the next one, while sales from before it arrive now, along with refunds, reimbursements and the fees taken directly. Amazon's transaction report, by contrast, lists everything by posted date, deferred or not. So the same order can sit in different months depending on which report you open, and a payout is never "the sales of those 14 days".
MyProfit shows both views: profit by order date on the Overview and the P&L, and profit for every payout on the Settlements page, starting from the same deposit as Amazon's statement, so your bookkeeper can tick each one off against the bank. The settlement report guide walks through the lines of a payout.
How to get paid sooner
- Ship seller-fulfilled orders quickly and confirm them with a valid tracking number from an integrated carrier: the actual delivery date usually comes before the latest estimate.
- Offer faster delivery.
- Request your available balance with Disburse on Demand instead of waiting for the scheduled payout.
- Keep your account in good standing and resolve claims and chargebacks quickly: Amazon sets the reserve period from its view of an account's risk and history.
Sources: Amazon's Seller Central pages "Payments based on delivery date", "Deferred transactions for accounting and payment reconciliation", "Disburse on Demand", "When will I be paid?" and "How Amazon transfers payments", read October 3, 2026.
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