If you sell on Amazon, you know the pain of reconciling your payouts. The timing never quite lines up—especially with orders that are deferred, meaning Amazon hasn’t officially “earned” the revenue until it’s processed, shipped, or delivered. For accounting professionals and e-commerce sellers alike, these deferred transactions have long been a black box, manually tracked (if at all) and commonly misrepresented in the books.
Until now.
We’re thrilled to announce a game-changing innovation:
👉 Bookkeep is the first and only accounting automation platform to fully support Amazon’s deferred transaction accounting.
Unlike traditional accounting methods or manual workflows that depend on Amazon’s transaction release cycles, Bookkeep now automatically captures and books deferred transactions on a daily basis. This means your sales data reflects all transactions—including those not yet settled by Amazon—providing a complete and current picture of your daily sales performance.
Check out the full release info here →
What Are Deferred Transactions and Why Do They Matter?
Amazon uses a deferred accounting model for many seller transactions, especially with pending orders or when funds are held before disbursement. In practical terms, it means revenue from some sales isn’t officially realized in the same period it was sold—it’s held as a liability until Amazon fulfills the service.
Amazon also only provides snapshot-based reporting. This means you’re seeing summaries of transactions without visibility into the raw details or exact timing of and type of orders. For accountants, reconciling Amazon data to books becomes a time-consuming puzzle—if not outright impossible.
For accountants, this presents a huge challenge:
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Revenue mismatches
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Manual journal entries
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Inaccurate profit reports
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Headaches during monthly close
Until now, no accounting tool could automatically capture these deferred sales. Many sellers had to settle for imprecise cash-based books—or spent hours building manual workarounds in spreadsheets.
How Bookkeep Solves It—Automatically
With our new Amazon Deferred Transactions feature, Bookkeep taps directly into Amazon’s transaction-level data to identify which orders are deferred, which are recognized, and when they should hit your P&L and balance sheet. We:
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Automatically detect and separate deferred transactions from recognized ones
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Create GAAP-compliant journal entries with correct timing
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Accurately reflect liabilities and revenue in the right periods
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Support accrual-based reporting without manual intervention
All of this is done seamlessly—every day, in real-time, across your clients or stores.
Check out the full release info here →
Why This Matters for Accountants and Sellers
For accountants and bookkeeping professionals, this means:
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Better financial visibility for your clients
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Faster, more accurate monthly closes
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No more manual journal entries or guesswork
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True accrual basis books for Amazon sellers
For Amazon sellers, it means:
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More accurate profitability reporting
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Smoother tax prep and audit readiness
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Confidence that your revenue is recorded in the right month
A First in the Industry
No other accounting platform supports this level of detailed, automated recognition for Amazon deferred transactions.
We built this feature because our users demanded a better way to handle Amazon payouts and revenue timing. There wasn’t a solution available.
Now there is, with Bookkeep.
Ready to Try It?
If you’re already using Bookkeep for Amazon, deferred transaction support is live now for customers on our Pro plan or higher.
If you’re new to Bookkeep, start a free trial or book a demo and see how we can simplify and automate your ecommerce accounting—including features no one else offers.
