DD+7 March 12, 2026
I received this today from Amazon:
On March 12, 2026, in line with your feedback, we’ll update your reserve settings to the standard reserve period of seven days after delivery date (DD+7).
Most Amazon sellers worldwide already use DD+7. Moving your reserve setting to DD+7 provides time for you to accrue fees and other costs before disbursement and gives your customers time to receive, open, and evaluate their order.
DD+7 aligns the customer order and payment cycle, with funds made available for disbursement seven days after we confirm order delivery. For example, if you sell a product on January 1 and it’s delivered on January 3, then under the DD+7 policy, your funds for that order will become available for disbursement on January 11.
When you ship an order, funds are collected and added to your deferred transaction amount. Upon delivery, funds become reserves to allow Amazon customers to receive and review orders and you to accrue fees and costs. After seven days, the funds are moved into your account balance, which can be disbursed automatically through your choice of the automatic settlement cycle or a once daily disburse-on-demand request.
The move to DD+7 may cause a one-time cash flow impact and temporarily limit your ability to disburse funds on or around your migration date. This is because of the change to delivery confirmation before the reserve period begins.
We recommend that you review your cash reserves to ensure sufficient funds on hand during the transition. This update will affect you more if you have longer periods between order and shipping or shipping and delivery.
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So we now use Amazon shipping, Amazon extends 30 day invoicing whether we want it or not, we ship using Amazon shipping, we stand in line every day and have every package scanned individually, and we still won't be paid until 7 days after the package is delivered?
We're now responsible for USPS and UPS delays?
DD+7 March 12, 2026
I received this today from Amazon:
On March 12, 2026, in line with your feedback, we’ll update your reserve settings to the standard reserve period of seven days after delivery date (DD+7).
Most Amazon sellers worldwide already use DD+7. Moving your reserve setting to DD+7 provides time for you to accrue fees and other costs before disbursement and gives your customers time to receive, open, and evaluate their order.
DD+7 aligns the customer order and payment cycle, with funds made available for disbursement seven days after we confirm order delivery. For example, if you sell a product on January 1 and it’s delivered on January 3, then under the DD+7 policy, your funds for that order will become available for disbursement on January 11.
When you ship an order, funds are collected and added to your deferred transaction amount. Upon delivery, funds become reserves to allow Amazon customers to receive and review orders and you to accrue fees and costs. After seven days, the funds are moved into your account balance, which can be disbursed automatically through your choice of the automatic settlement cycle or a once daily disburse-on-demand request.
The move to DD+7 may cause a one-time cash flow impact and temporarily limit your ability to disburse funds on or around your migration date. This is because of the change to delivery confirmation before the reserve period begins.
We recommend that you review your cash reserves to ensure sufficient funds on hand during the transition. This update will affect you more if you have longer periods between order and shipping or shipping and delivery.
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So we now use Amazon shipping, Amazon extends 30 day invoicing whether we want it or not, we ship using Amazon shipping, we stand in line every day and have every package scanned individually, and we still won't be paid until 7 days after the package is delivered?
We're now responsible for USPS and UPS delays?
132 replies
Seller_GKvLGnYFSX50s
I got this today too, I honestly don't know what they are talking about. Does this only apply to FBM orders?
Seller_tltjh6QSyzuC8
Yeah, and the best part is, "in line with your feedback"! Yes, Amazon please hold our money for even longer banking more interest for yourselves.
Seller_lGARPNvsQ2yLz
I received this too. 10+ year seller with excellent account health. Why would they do this to me when there have never been any issues? And why say they are doing it over 6 months from now? Very strange and I pray it is incorrect. I have never had a reserve on my account.
Seller_ResBFKGA0inE8
received as well. I really don't know what it's all about. Hopefully someone can chime in that knows and can put in simple terms.
Seller_RjohQ7XXQIuIr
>we still won't be paid until 7 days after the package is delivered? We're now >responsible for USPS and UPS delays?
Sure sounds like it. More BS amazon sellers have to swallow for the privilege of selling on amazon
Seller_ZDUFw1qRNIbgB
We got the same email, add it to the list of attacks by Amazon on FBM as of late....
removing our top selling listings due to 'IP' which just forces us to recreate the listing and spend another fortune on ads to bring up the ranking to what it already was...
forcing AHT on us for no reason except that we deliver on time or early and then add several days to our delivery estimates saying it will prevent us from delivering too late (our OTDR is 95%-98%)...so we are both delivering too early AND too late....
refusing to remove feedbacks that are SOLELY about shipping time when we used amazon shipping and it was supposedly 'claims protected'....I thought that meant fb as well? then you look at the overseas FBA sellers fb and they remove ALL of them, even the ones stating how bad the quality of the item is...
This is all just a huge push to force FBM sellers to FBA, we will NEVER comply with that so if push comes to shove we leave this site after 20+ years.
I guess like everything else there is no way to get around this DD+7 BS...if anyone finds a way please pass it on.
Seller_9yQUzZAP34cYw
Absolute lunacy! Can you imagine how much money Amazon makes in interest by holding our all of our money? Now they get to hold it an extra 7-14 days.
This is just theft, plain and simple
Seller_kWzASERYhgus6
I got this today too. My "feedback" was that Amazon is the SLOWEST paying web site I sell on, and I wanted to be paid FASTER!!!!! How is this in line with that?
Just another nail in the coffin for getting rid of 3P sellers.
Getting us all used to digital currency where your balance is made of tissue paper based on whether you behave in the way most profitable to the bankers and corporations.
Seller_VVU0Eee63oIYM
In line with my feedback. Yeah, I've been pleading with Amazon for 15 years to delay giving me my money for an extra two weeks.
This is probably being rolled out for all FBM sellers, not just problematic ones, since my record since selling here has been impeccable.
What happens to packages that never receive a delivery scan? Are the funds for those held in limbo indefinitely?
Seller_cHU6XL6jaQChu
Realistically, this does not affect me too much personally. Is it stupid, yes, but the real question is... What happens to orders that actually get delivered, but the carrier did not scan it as delivered. Does that money never get to our account, even though it was delivered (aka no complaint on and INR from the customer)?
