The account level reserve is the amount of money that Amazon sets aside to cover any claims

or chargebacks. It occurs when Amazon holds back all or part of your payment for more than 14

days.

First of all, why does Amazon do this? Why do they keep a reserve of your balance, of the sales that

you've made? The number one reason is it's a way for them to combat fraud.

So in the past, Amazon didn't actually have this holding period.

What's up, guys? You're listening to another episode of Selling on Amazon with Andy Isam.

What is Amazon's account reserve for your payments and how do you understand it?

Shout out to Vaughn, former student of mine for recommending this podcast episode over on Instagram.

Guys, this is going to be a good episode because this is something

that I get asked quite a bit. In fact, there was a post in my Facebook group of my students

just recently within the last few days as of recording this podcast episode about that. Like,

wow, Amazon is holding a seems like a ton of my money. Like when am I going to get my money? Or why is my account reserve so high? Once you get launched in selling on Amazon,

you're going to obviously want to get paid, right? You're wondering, when am I actually going to

get paid from Amazon? And if you're using the Amazon seller app, up at the top on just the

main homepage,

you'll see right there in one of those boxes, current balance.

Now, current balance may show, you know, anywhere from negative dollars to a couple hundred dollars to what mine shows $26,000.

Now, that is not necessarily what you are going to get paid when your next payment settlement

period ends, but it's a semi-good indicator of if you're going to be making money or if you're

going to be losing money.

Meaning if it is a positive number, you're probably going to be in a pretty good spot as

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