Payout Statement
What this section is for
Payout Statement explains how money moves in and out of your Amazon account during a single settlement period.
It helps you answer:
- What settlement period am I looking at
- What balance did the period start with
- Which components increased the balance (positive cash flow)
- Which components reduced the balance (negative cash flow)
- How those components combine into the period’s net result
- How the overall payout composition looks as a flow (Sankey)
This section is built around Amazon settlement periods, also called financial event groups. You do not pick arbitrary date ranges here. You pick one settlement period and review its composition.
Where you find it
You see Payout Statement inside the Payout Dashboard.
The whole Payout Dashboard is protected behind the Finance Dashboard feature. If your plan or access does not include it, the page may be blocked.
What you see on screen
1) Page header
- Marketplace selector (single marketplace only)
This selector controls which marketplace’s settlement periods you can choose and which statement values are loaded.
While data is loading, the page can show a skeleton dashboard layout.
Payout Statement inputs
The Payout Statement section has its own filters at the top of the section.
Account Type
A dropdown labeled Account Type with two options:
- Standard Orders
- Invoiced Orders
This selection changes:
- which settlement periods are available
- which settlement statement is loaded
- all values shown in the cards, breakdown, and Sankey
Practical meaning: Standard vs Invoiced is not a display toggle. It is a different dataset.
Settlement Period
A dropdown labeled Settlement Period showing one option per settlement period.
Each option is shown as:
- start date
- dash
- end date, or Present (Open) if the period has no end date yet
This is the main time selector for this section. Everything on the page updates when you change it.
Errors and loading
If settlement periods or the statement fail to load, you see an error alert such as:
- Failed to load payout statement. Please try again later.
If data is still loading, you see skeleton placeholders.
Top balance cards
Once a settlement period is selected, the top of the section shows two cards.
Original Balance
What it shows:
- Original Balance value for the selected account type
- Displayed with its own currency setting
Tooltip meaning:
- This is the stored original balance for the settlement group.
Where it comes from:
- It is a stored value on the settlement period record, not calculated from the breakdown lines.
Beginning Balance
What it shows:
- Beginning Balance value for the selected account type
- Displayed with its own currency setting
Tooltip meaning:
- Starting balance for this period.
Where it comes from:
- Also stored on the settlement period record.
Practical note: Original Balance and Beginning Balance can differ. This page treats them as separate fields from the settlement period record.
Main block: Net Proceeds, Sankey, Breakdown
Below the top cards you see three panels.
Panel 1: Net Proceeds
What it shows:
- Title Net Proceeds
- Tooltip: Total net proceeds for this settlement period
- The settlement period date range
- The main Net Proceeds number
- A short line item list starting with Beginning Balance and then the main components
Important: Net Proceeds is calculated in the frontend from component totals and Beginning Balance. It is not the same thing as Original Balance.
Panel 2: Cash Flow Visualization
This is a Sankey chart that shows the flows from income components and expense components into the final net figure.
What you can do:
- Hover nodes and links to see tooltips
- Visually follow where most of the money is concentrated
What it is good for:
- Fast pattern recognition
- Understanding which categories drive the payout composition without reading every number
Panel 3: Breakdown
A list of line items split into two groups:
Positive flows (increase balance):
- Product charges
- Shipping
- Inventory Reimbursements
- Other
- Refunded expenses
Negative flows (reduce balance):
- Refunded sales
- Promo rebates
- FBA fees
- Amazon fees
Each line shows:
- label
- amount as currency
Coloring:
- Positive values are styled as positive
- Negative values are styled as negative
What you can do in this section
Select a marketplace
The marketplace selector is in the page header and only allows one marketplace.
Changing marketplace changes:
- the settlement periods list
- the default statement shown
- all values in the statement
Switch account type
Changes the underlying dataset. Expect the settlement period list to change, and the statement values to change.
Choose settlement period
Switches the statement to a different event group.
If a period is still open, it is labeled Present (Open).
Use tooltips
Help icons explain what the main cards are intended to represent.
Inspect Sankey and breakdown
Use hover tooltips on Sankey links and nodes to validate where a number comes from at a high level, then use the Breakdown list to see exact totals per component.
What affects results
This section is driven by three effective selectors.
Marketplace
Filters the available settlement periods and the statement to the chosen marketplace.
Account Type
Filters settlement periods and statement values to Standard vs Invoiced.
Settlement period groupId
Determines which single settlement period is being summarized.
There is no separate date range filter for this section. The settlement period boundaries define the time window.
Time granularity for this section
Granularity here is settlement period level.
- You view one settlement period at a time.
- All totals are aggregated only inside that settlement period.
- There is no daily, weekly, or monthly toggle in this section.
Default behavior:
- On first load, the page shows the latest settlement period returned by the backend.
- When you pick a different period, the page requests that period’s statement.
Settlement list limitation:
- The settlement period dropdown is limited to roughly the last year of settlement periods due to a backend cutoff rule. Older periods do not appear.
Metrics shown to the user and what they mean
The section shows two types of metrics:
- Stored settlement period fields (balances and dates)
- Aggregated component totals (cash flow lines)
Settlement period identity
Period Start
- Displayed in the Net Proceeds panel date range and in the dropdown label.
Period End
- Displayed as a date or Present / Present (Open) when null.
Meaning:
- These dates define the settlement window for the statement.
Balance metrics
Original Balance
- A stored amount on the settlement record.
- Shown as a top card.
Beginning Balance
- A stored amount on the settlement record.
- Shown as a top card and also as the first line item in the Net Proceeds panel.
Breakdown components and data meaning
These are the line items you see in the Breakdown panel and in the Sankey.
Positive flows
Product charges
Meaning:
- Money from product sales principal during the settlement period.
Backend basis:
- Sum of principal amounts from shipment related financial events inside the settlement group.
Shipping
Meaning:
- Shipping income collected during the settlement period.
Backend basis:
- Sum of shipping charges from shipment events in the group.
Inventory Reimbursements
Meaning:
- Positive adjustments from Amazon such as reimbursements, credits, or similar adjustments.
Backend basis:
- Sum of adjustment amounts greater than zero in the group.
Other
Meaning:
- Taxes and add ons that are not classified as product charges or shipping.
Backend basis:
- Sum of tax amounts, gift wrap, gift wrap tax, and shipping tax from shipment events.
Refunded expenses
Meaning:
- Expense components connected to refunds that increase the balance relative to gross refund outflow, such as returned fees or related refund expense adjustments.
Backend basis used by this statement:
- Sum of specific fee and promotion related fields from refund events in the group.
Important clarification: There is another potential definition of refunded expenses in the data model, but the statement uses the refund events aggregation described above, not shipment chargeback fields.
Negative flows
Refunded sales
Meaning:
- Money returned to customers during the settlement period.
Backend basis:
- Sum of refund principal plus refund shipping across refund events.
Sign behavior: The UI treats this as a negative flow conceptually. The stored sign convention may vary. The section logic is sensitive to signs (see Net Proceeds formula).
Promo rebates
Meaning:
- Promotional discounts or rebates applied that reduce proceeds.
Backend basis used by this statement:
- Sum of promotion amount from shipment events in the group.
Important clarification: Promo rebate sums for refunds exist in data, but the statement uses shipment event promo sums in the shown logic.
FBA fees
Meaning:
- Fulfillment and selling fees charged by Amazon related to shipments.
Backend basis:
- Sum of commission fee plus per unit fulfillment fee across shipment events.
Amazon fees
Meaning:
- A category reserved for additional Amazon fees.
Current behavior: Backend returns this as null in the statement logic. Frontend displays null as zero, so the breakdown shows 0 for Amazon fees even when there might be fees elsewhere.
Derived metrics in the UI
These values are computed in the frontend from the component totals.
Positive Flow total
[ \text{PositiveFlow} = \text{ProductCharges} + \text{Shipping} + \text{InventoryReimbursements} + \text{Other} + \text{RefundedExpenses} ]
Negative Flow total
[ \text{NegativeFlow} = \text{RefundedSales} + \text{PromoRebates} + \text{FBAFees} + \text{AmazonFees} ]
Important limitation: Even if the backend returns values like Cost of Advertising or Reversed Reimbursements, they are not included in the visible breakdown list and are not included in NegativeFlow in the shown logic.
Net Proceeds
The UI computes Net Proceeds as:
[ \text{NetProceeds} = \text{BeginningBalance} + \text{PositiveFlow} + \left|\text{NegativeFlow}\right| ]
Practical impact: This uses absolute value on NegativeFlow. That means the result depends heavily on whether the underlying negative components are stored as negative numbers or positive magnitudes. If the sign convention in the data differs, Net Proceeds can look inflated or counterintuitive.
Fields returned by backend but not clearly shown in this section
The backend response includes at least:
- Cost of Advertising
- Reversed Reimbursements
In the snippet you provided, these are present in the response but are not shown as line items in the Breakdown and are not part of Net Proceeds calculation shown here.
If you later display them elsewhere in the Payout Dashboard, they may appear in other panels. In this section as described, they are not visible.
Backend data flow in user terms
When you open the dashboard:
- The system loads settlement periods for your selected marketplace and account type.
- It also provides the latest settlement statement as a default view.
- The page shows that latest period automatically.
- When you select a different settlement period, the page loads the detailed statement for that period.
What is inside the statement:
- balances and dates pulled from the settlement record
- component totals calculated by summing different Amazon financial event tables for that settlement group