Deferred Transaction Adjustments is a paid add-on, billed per Amazon account, that you can enable yourself from your Link My Books dashboard. You need to be on a paid plan first; the option does not appear during a free trial.
For what the feature does and how to read the results, see Amazon Deferred Transactions & Revenue Recognition.
Before you start
Check that deferred transactions are active on your Amazon account: in Seller Central go to Payments → Payments and look for a Deferred Transactions tab. If it isn't there, Amazon has not moved your account to deferred transactions yet and the feature has nothing to recognise.
How to enable it
Go to Settings
In your Link My Books account, navigate to: Settings → Settlement Settings → Revenue Recognition
Enable Deferred Transaction Adjustments
In the Revenue Recognition area, find the option for Deferred Transaction Adjustments
Click to enable the feature
Choose your start date & confirm
Select the start date from which you want the feature to apply
Review the pricing and billing details shown on screen
Click to confirm the upgrade
Feature activates immediately
Once confirmed, the feature is activated right away and will start collecting the data needed to produce the Deferred and Released recognition settlements
Your chosen start date is displayed in the interface so you can see from when it applies
⚠️ Once active, the start date cannot be changed and the feature cannot be turned off from the dashboard. Choose the start date carefully. If you later need either changed, contact support and we will do it for you.
Setting an opening balance for Amazon Deferred Balances
⚠️ Important: Set an opening balance in your accounting software
When you enable Deferred Transaction Adjustments, Link My Books will create an Amazon Deferred Balances account in your chart of accounts (Xero or QuickBooks). This account tracks the value of orders Amazon is holding back and has not yet settled.
To ensure your books are accurate from day one, you should set an opening balance on this account that matches the amount Amazon is currently holding on your chosen start date. You can find this figure in your Amazon Seller Central payments dashboard — it is the total of any unsettled or deferred amounts as of that date.
Without an opening balance, the deferred account will only reflect changes from the start date onwards and your balance sheet will not reconcile correctly until Amazon has fully cycled through the held amounts.
Prospective vs retrospective start dates
The approach for setting your opening balance depends on when you are enabling the feature relative to your start date:
Enabling from a current or future date (e.g. 1st of next month):
Log in to Amazon Seller Central as close to midnight on your chosen start date as possible. Navigate to Reports > Payments > All Statements and note the deferred transactions balance shown. Use this figure as your opening balance — it represents what Amazon is holding back at that exact point in time.
Enabling retrospectively (e.g. backdating to a previous month):
Amazon's API does not provide historical deferred balance snapshots, so we are unable to confirm what the correct deferred balance was on a past date. However, you can work this out by taking your current deferred balance from Seller Central and working backwards using the deferred and released transaction amounts that Link My Books will generate for each month after you enable the feature.
💡 Tip for retrospective opening balances: Your accountant will be familiar with entering opening balances for current liability accounts. If you are unsure about the correct figure, you can also ask Amazon Seller Support directly if they can confirm your deferred balance as at a specific historical date. Our support team is unable to provide this figure, but we are happy to help explain the deferred and released transaction entries that Link My Books produces so your accountant can calculate the correct starting point.
Backfilling historical months
If you need to backfill Revenue Recognition for prior months, you can do so by setting the start date to the earliest month you want included. Link My Books will automatically generate recognition settlements for each month starting from the selected date.
Backfilled settlements are dated to the month the activity happened, so check whether that month falls in a VAT period you have already filed. If it does, agree with your accountant how the difference will be handled before you backfill.
Locating Deferred and Released recognition settlements
Once Revenue Recognition is enabled, you can view the Deferred and Released recognition settlements by:
Opening the Settlement Dashboard.
Using the filter options to select Deferred and Released transactions.
Viewing the recognition settlements for the selected month and marketplace.
How long does it take to generate?
After you enable Deferred Transaction Adjustments, Link My Books needs to process your historical Amazon settlement data to build the Deferred and Released recognition settlements for each month in scope.
For most accounts the recognition settlements appear within a few hours. For accounts with a large volume of historical orders or multiple Amazon marketplaces, this processing can take significantly longer — it is not unusual for very large accounts to take 24 hours or more to complete a full backfill.
💡 What to expect after enabling
Some recognition settlements will begin showing on your Settlement Dashboard shortly after activation, and more will populate as the backfill continues in the background. If you enabled the feature recently and some months haven't appeared yet, this is usually just the backfill still in progress — allow 24 hours for those to process before raising a query with the support team.
Failed logs and recognition settlements stuck in progress
During the backfill, Link My Books generates a processing log entry for each settlement / month being worked through. In most cases all of these complete successfully. Occasionally, some logs may show as failed or a recognition settlement may remain stuck in progress for longer than expected.
A small number of failed logs during a large backfill is often self-resolving — the system retries automatically. However, if a large number of logs have failed, or if recognition settlements for a month have been stuck for more than 24 hours, this usually requires Tech Team intervention to reprocess. Contact our support team if this is the situation on your account.
⚠️ When to contact support
Please contact our support team if any of the following apply after enabling Deferred Transaction Adjustments:
• A full 24 hours has passed and some months in your selected date range still have no recognition settlements
• You can see that a significant number of processing logs are failing
• Recognition settlements for a specific month have been stuck "in progress" for more than 24 hours
When you reach out, let us know your Amazon marketplace(s), the start date you selected, and which months are affected so we can get the Tech Team to look at the processing logs directly.
Pricing
Amazon Deferred Transaction Adjustments is a paid add-on, billed per Amazon account:
£15/month (GBP)
$20/month (USD)
$30/month (AUD)
You'll see the relevant price during the upgrade flow before you confirm.
⚠️ Being charged for this and don't think you turned it on?
Check first: go to Settings → Settlement Settings → Revenue Recognition. If Deferred Transaction Adjustments is active, you will see its status and the start date it is applying from.
If it is active and you did not enable it, do not treat the charge as a normal fee. Email [email protected] and tell us which Amazon account it is on and roughly when the charges started. Turning the feature off, and changing the start date, both have to be done by us.