With millions of products available, shopping on e-commerce platforms, including Amazon, is convenient. you may order everything from a pair of socks toa robot vacuumwith the click of a button and have it show up at your front door. To keep track of your spending, use your credit card statements, install a Chrome extension, or check your digital wallets. You can also go through your order history item-by-item with a calculator. We make it manageable with our handy guide.
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Amazon is removing options to view your spending history
Amazon removed the ability to download your entire order history in a handy CSV file in March 2023. This was the default method for seeing how much you spent on Amazon. The option, calledDownload Order Reports, was available under the Accounts settings page and gave you a spreadsheet file of your entire order history on the site.
Third-party apps that can view your shopping data are few. Amazon has been activelycracking down on third-party access since 2019as part of a purported privacy protection drive. These decisions make it difficult to view how much you’ve spent on Amazon.
Chrome extensions
There’s a handyChrome extensionthat has access to Amazon data. Go to the Google extension store to install the Amazon Order History Reporter extension on any Chromium-based browser. You’ll do this on a computer and not a mobile device.
You can view your data after you add it to a spreadsheet. When you download multiple years' worth of orders using this extension and combine them into one spreadsheet, you can view your entire Amazon order history in one spot.
Use your digital wallet to view your Amazon spending
Amazon toyed with the idea of a digital wallet in 2014 but discontinued it a year later. Apple, Google, and Samsung have forged ahead. Today,nearly half of US adults use a mobile or digital walletto make payments. If you’re one of them, you may view how much you’ve spent on Amazon using Google Wallet. Neither Samsung Pay nor Apple Pay allow you to see transactions beyond the most recent.
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View your Amazon spending on Google Wallet
You can get a rough idea of how much you’ve spent on Amazon using Google Wallet by following these steps:
Use your credit card statements to see how much you’ve spent on Amazon
If you use your credit card or debit card for all your Amazon shopping, it’s easy to view what you’ve spent by going to your bank’s website and downloading your statements. Each bank is different, but all allow you to view your statements, and usually, you’re able to sort by date range and merchant.
Search for Amazon or sort alphabetically, and then add up your spending.
Manually calculate your Amazon orders
When all else fails, you may resort to the most labor-intensive method of adding your Amazon spending item-by-item on Amazon. Have a piece of paper, a pencil, and a calculator nearby. Here’s how to see your past Amazon orders.
View your Amazon orders on the web
To view your Amazon orders on the web, go to Amazon.com and log in to your account, then follow these steps:
View your Amazon order history on mobile
you may do the same thing using your mobile device. However, there are more steps to go through, and the experience is not enjoyable. Still, it is possible. Here’s how:
This method is the least ideal way to see how much you’ve spent on Amazon, but it has some unexpected benefits. Seeing the stuff you bought can be an eye-opener, and you may realize you don’t need some of it. This can help you with your shopping decisions. At the very least, it will be a fun trip down memory lane.
For Amazon Business users
If you have an Amazon Business account, track your expenses from the Settings menu. The e-commerce giant offers a detailed business analytics page where you can check total spending by quarter. It’s intuitive to use. Follow the steps below.
Amazon also displays your company spend by categories and annual spend comparison from the same menu.
It’s important to track your Amazon spending
Every household needs a good budget, and a way to take control of your finances is to track your Amazon spending. It’s easy to overspend on Amazon because of deal after deal popping up on your feed. You can quickly lose control of your spending after a couple of years of this, so it is important to go back and see how much you’ve spent on Amazon. You can also get one of thetop budgeting apps for Androidand manage your expenses like a pro.
