What does the Amazon Settlement Analyzer read?
Only your last two settlement reports — the same reports Amazon already generates for every seller. It does not read orders, buyer information, or anything outside those settlement reports.
Amazon Settlement Analyzer
Connect your Amazon seller account and see every adjustment on your last settlements — charges and credits shown separately, broken down by type.
Free. No credit card required.
How it works
Step 1
Create a free account
Email and password, then a quick one-time MFA setup — required before any tool can read Amazon seller data.
Step 2
Connect Amazon
You'll land on Amazon's own consent screen. It lists every permission our app holds; the Settlement Analyzer itself only ever reads your settlement reports.
Step 3
See every adjustment on your last settlements
Charges and credits shown separately, broken down by type, with the largest lines called out — for the date range your last two settlements cover.
What this reads, and what it doesn't
The Settlement Analyzer reads only your last two settlement reports from Amazon. Amazon's own consent screen lists every permission our application holds, including shipping data — that screen is per app, not per feature. This tool itself never reads orders, buyer information, or anything outside the settlement reports it was built to analyze.
If you don't continue to a full Rilk account within 30 days of connecting Amazon, your scan result and Amazon connection are deleted automatically.
Amazon settlement glossary
Every line type you're likely to see on an Amazon settlement report, in plain English.
The sale itselfRefundsCustomer claimsShipping labels and re-ratesReimbursements and clawbacksFBA fees that are easy to missAccount fees and balance movements
The sale itself
Lines under the transaction type "Order". One order usually produces several of them.
Order / Principalmoney in
The item price the buyer paid. This is your sale before any fees.
Order / Commissionmoney out
Amazon’s referral fee: a percentage of the sale that depends on the category.
Order / Taxnets to zero
Also shown as: MarketplaceFacilitatorTax-Principal
Sales tax the buyer paid, followed by a matching line where Amazon remits it to the state. The two cancel out. You never keep the sales tax, even though it shows on the settlement.
Order / Shippingmoney in
Shipping the buyer paid on a seller-fulfilled order.
Order / ShippingTaxnets to zero
Also shown as: MarketplaceFacilitatorTax-Shipping
Tax on the buyer’s shipping charge, and Amazon remitting it. Nets to zero.
Order / RegulatoryFeenets to zero
Also shown as: MarketplaceFacilitatorRegulatoryFee-Principal
A state fee the buyer paid on some products (for example, an electronics recycling fee), followed by Amazon remitting it. Nets to zero.
Order / ShippingHBmoney out
Shipping holdback: a small charge Amazon keeps out of the shipping the buyer paid on a seller-fulfilled order. Usually well under a dollar.
Order / FBAPerUnitFulfillmentFeemoney out
The FBA fee to pick, pack and ship each unit. Only on orders Amazon fulfilled.
Order / ShippingChargebackmoney out
On orders Amazon shipped for you, Amazon keeps the shipping the buyer paid. It shows as a credit and a matching charge.
Order / VariableClosingFeemoney out
A flat per-item closing fee on media categories such as books, music and video.
Refunds
Lines under "Refund": the buyer’s money going back, and what Amazon gives back or keeps.
Refund / Principalmoney out
The item price returned to the buyer. The negative of the original sale.
Refund / Commissionmoney in
Amazon gives back the referral fee it took on the sale…
Refund / RefundCommissionmoney out
…minus a refund administration fee, which Amazon sets at 20% of that referral fee, up to $5 per item. Read the two lines together: a refund costs you that fee, not the whole commission.
Refund / Taxnets to zero
Sales tax returned to the buyer, and the matching reversal of Amazon’s remittance.
Refund / RestockingFeemoney in
A restocking fee kept from the buyer’s refund. This one is money to you.
Refund / ReturnShippingeither way
Return shipping recovered from, or credited to, the buyer as part of the refund.
Refund / Goodwillmoney out
A goodwill credit Amazon gave the buyer, charged to you.
Refund / ShippingHBmoney in
The shipping holdback from the original order, reversed on the refund.
Customer claims
Refunds the buyer got through Amazon or their bank rather than from you. They look like normal refunds; only the transaction type tells them apart.
A-to-z Guarantee Refundmoney out
The buyer filed an A-to-z Guarantee claim and Amazon refunded them at your cost. It has the same lines as a normal refund, so it is easy to miss. Each one is a claim you lost or didn’t contest.
Chargeback Refundmoney out
The buyer disputed the charge with their card issuer and the money was taken back from you. Same lines as a normal refund, including the shipping ones when shipping was refunded too.
SAFE-T Reimbursementmoney in
Amazon paid you on a SAFE-T claim, the seller-side protection for seller-fulfilled orders (for example, a buyer returned an item damaged or different from what you sent).
Shipping labels and re-rates
Labels bought through Amazon, and what happens to them after the sale.
Shipping label purchasemoney out
A label you bought through Amazon’s Buy Shipping, billed through the settlement. If you connect your own carrier account in Buy Shipping instead, the carrier bills you directly and this line doesn’t appear.
Shipping label purchase for returnmoney out
Amazon charged you for the buyer’s prepaid return label. On sellers with a lot of returns this adds up quietly.
Adjustmenteither way
The line with no explanation. For sellers who buy labels through Amazon it is usually a shipping label re-rate: the carrier re-measured or re-weighed the package after it shipped and billed the difference (or, less often, credited some back). It lands weeks after the order, so it rarely gets tied back to the order that caused it.
ShippingServicesRefundmoney in
The refund for a voided Buy Shipping label. It posts about a month after the void, usually in a later settlement than the label charge it cancels.
Where re-rates show upeither way
Labels bought on Amazon’s carrier accounts are re-rated on the settlement (as Adjustment). Labels bought with your own connected carrier account are re-rated on that carrier’s invoice, and never appear on the settlement.
Reimbursements and clawbacks
Money Amazon pays you for its mistakes, and money it takes back later. Most have no order attached.
WAREHOUSE_LOSTmoney in
Also shown as: WAREHOUSE_LOST_MANUAL
FBA reimbursement for units Amazon lost in its warehouse.
WAREHOUSE_DAMAGEmoney in
Also shown as: WAREHOUSE_DAMAGE_EXCEPTION
FBA reimbursement for units Amazon damaged in its warehouse.
MISSING_FROM_INBOUNDmoney in
Reimbursement for units you sent to FBA that Amazon never checked in.
MISSING_FROM_INBOUND_CLAWBACKmoney out
Amazon found inbound units it had already reimbursed you for, and took the reimbursement back.
REMOVAL_ORDER_LOSTmoney in
Reimbursement for units lost while Amazon was sending them back to you on a removal order.
REVERSAL_REIMBURSEMENTmoney in
Amazon refunded a buyer who was supposed to send the item back, the item never came back, so Amazon reimburses you for it.
COMPENSATED_CLAWBACKmoney out
Amazon reimbursed you for an item, then found it (or the buyer returned it) and took the money back.
FREE_REPLACEMENT_REFUND_ITEMSmoney in
Amazon credited you for a replacement item that was sent to a buyer.
FBA Inventory Reimbursementmoney in
The general heading for FBA reimbursements. The specific reason is one of the codes in this section.
FBA fees that are easy to miss
Fulfillment by Amazon charges that land on the account, not on a single order.
Storage Feemoney out
Also shown as: FBA Inventory Storage Fee
Monthly FBA storage, charged on the space your inventory took up the month before.
FBA Long Term Storage Feemoney out
Also shown as: StorageRenewalBilling
An extra storage charge on inventory that has sat in FBA too long.
Inbound Transportation Feeeither way
Also shown as: Inbound Transportation Fee - Reversal
What Amazon charged to carry your shipment into FBA on its partnered carrier. The "Reversal" line gives some or all of it back.
Inbound Defect Feemoney out
A fee for a problem with an FBA shipment — for example a shipment created and then deleted or abandoned, or one that arrived not matching its plan.
RemovalCompletemoney out
Also shown as: FBA Removal Order: Return Fee, FBA Removal Order Fee
The fee for a removal order: Amazon pulling units out of FBA and sending them back to you.
DisposalCompletemoney out
Also shown as: FBA Removal Order: Disposal Fee
The fee for Amazon disposing of FBA units instead of returning them.
FBA Customer Returns Feemoney out
Also shown as: FBA Customer Return Per Unit Fee
A fee for processing customer returns on FBA items. Some versions are billed per product for a date range, with the product ID and dates written into the line’s name.
Account fees and balance movements
Plan fees, service fees, reserves and money moved to cover a balance.
Subscription Feemoney out
The monthly Professional selling plan fee.
Previous Reserve Amount Balancemoney in
Money Amazon held back from your last payout, released into this one.
Current Reserve Amountmoney out
Money Amazon is holding back from this payout, usually to cover possible refunds and claims. It is not a cost; it comes back as "Previous Reserve Amount Balance" next time.
Payable to Amazoneither way
Also shown as: Successful charge
Your balance went negative, so Amazon charged the card or bank account on file to cover it. It is a transfer, not a new cost.
BuyerRechargeeither way
Amazon charged the buyer again after an earlier refund or adjustment, and moved the money to you.
Micro Depositmoney in
The small test deposit Amazon sends to confirm a new bank account.
Frequently asked questions
Amazon's consent screen lists more permissions than that — why?
Amazon's consent screen shows every permission our application holds, because permissions are granted per app, not per feature. The Settlement Analyzer itself only ever calls the settlement report endpoints — nothing else is fetched by this tool.
Is this an official Amazon tool?
No. The Amazon Settlement Analyzer is built by Rilk, an independent Amazon seller software company. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by Amazon.
What counts as an adjustment?
Line items on your settlement outside a normal order or refund: manual adjustments, reversed reimbursements, SAFE-T reimbursements, warehouse damage and lost-inventory corrections, clawbacks, and FBA inventory reimbursements. The tool totals charges and credits separately and breaks each type out on its own.
Does this cost anything?
No. Creating an account and running a scan is free, and no credit card is required.
What happens to my data if I don’t continue?
If you don’t continue to a full Rilk account within 30 days of connecting Amazon, your scan result and Amazon connection are deleted automatically.
Why does this require MFA?
Amazon requires multi-factor authentication on any account that can access seller data through the Selling Partner API. It is set up once, right after you create your account, before you connect Amazon.
Rilk reconciles every settlement automatically
Beyond a one-time scan, Rilk tracks adjustments against your real per-order P&L on an ongoing basis — on Pro and Ultimate, with a 14-day Pro trial on every account.