Amazon maintains a complete record of every purchase made through your account, but accessing this data in a usable format has become significantly more difficult for most sellers and shoppers. Understanding how to extract your order history is essential for expense tracking, tax preparation, customer analysis, and inventory planning.

Until mid-2022, Amazon offered a straightforward Order History Report tool that allowed users to download their complete purchase records as a CSV file with a few clicks. Amazon deprecated this feature for standard accounts, restricting it to Amazon Business Prime accounts only. This change caught many FBA sellers, procurement managers, and e-commerce operators off guard, particularly those who relied on historical order data for financial reporting and customer relationship management.

This guide explains what changed, why it matters for your business operations, and provides detailed instructions for accessing your order history based on your account type.

What Is Amazon Order History Report?

The Order History Report is a downloadable CSV file containing comprehensive data about all purchases made through an Amazon account. The report includes order numbers, purchase dates, item descriptions, prices, quantities, seller information, shipping addresses, payment methods, and order status (shipped, delivered, returned, refunded).

For Amazon Business Prime accounts, the report also includes purchase order (PO) numbers, requisitioner names, cost center allocations, and business-specific metadata that supports procurement workflows and accounting integration.

The CSV format makes this data compatible with Excel, Google Sheets, accounting software, and business intelligence tools. Sellers use these reports to analyze buying patterns, calculate cost of goods sold, reconcile expenses, and build customer segmentation models.

While Amazon permanently stores your order history and does not allow complete deletion, you can archive individual orders to hide them from your default order view. Archived orders remain in your account records and appear in downloaded reports. You cannot selectively exclude orders from exported data—the report contains your complete transaction history for the selected date range.

Why Does Anyone Need Amazon Order History Report?

Order history reports serve different purposes depending on whether you're managing personal purchases, running an FBA business, or handling procurement for an organization.

For individual sellers and shoppers: Downloaded order history provides a complete expense record for tax preparation, budget analysis, and warranty tracking. When you need to reorder a specific product but can't remember the exact listing or seller, the report lets you search your purchase history by date range, price point, or product category. The report also documents returns and refunds, which is valuable when disputing charges or tracking problematic sellers.

For Amazon FBA sellers: If you source inventory through Amazon (buying competitor products for analysis, purchasing supplies, or procuring wholesale goods), your order history becomes a business expense record. Exporting this data allows you to categorize purchases by product type, track supplier performance, identify seasonal buying patterns, and maintain accurate cost accounting. Many sellers use order history data to calculate the true landed cost of inventory when factoring in all Amazon purchases related to their business operations.

For sourcing companies and procurement teams: Organizations using Amazon Business accounts need order history for budget reconciliation, compliance audits, and vendor management. The report enables finance teams to match Amazon charges against purchase orders, track departmental spending, and identify opportunities for consolidated purchasing or negotiated pricing. The PO number field in Business account reports directly links Amazon transactions to internal procurement systems.

For customer service and relationship management: Brands selling on Amazon can use their own purchase history (from buying competitor products or market research) to analyze pricing trends, identify successful product variations, and understand customer purchase patterns. While you cannot access other sellers' order data, analyzing your own buying behavior as a customer provides insights into the Amazon shopping experience.

How to Generate an Order History Report for Amazon Prime Business Accounts

Amazon Business Prime account holders retain full access to the Order History Report tool. This feature remains available because business accounts require detailed procurement records for accounting, compliance, and budget management purposes.

The report generation process takes 5-15 minutes depending on the size of your order history. Amazon processes the request on their servers and sends an email notification when the CSV file is ready for download. Reports remain available for 30 days after generation.

Step 1: Log in to your Amazon Business account at business.amazon.com. Standard Amazon.com credentials will not access Business account features—you must use your Business account login.

Step 2: Navigate to Analytics & Reports from the main navigation menu, then select Order History Reports from the dropdown options.

Step 3: Configure your report parameters. Select the report type (Items, Orders, or Returns), enter your start date and end date, and provide a descriptive report name for easy identification. The date range can span multiple years, but larger ranges take longer to process.

Step 4: Click Request Report. Amazon generates the file asynchronously. You'll receive an email at your account's registered address when the report is ready, typically within 15 minutes for date ranges under one year.

Step 5: Return to Analytics & Reports > Order History Reports. Your completed report appears in the list with a Download button. Click to save the CSV file to your computer.

The downloaded CSV includes columns for order ID, PO number, requisitioner name, buyer name, order date, ship date, delivery date, item description, quantity, unit price, total price, payment method, shipping address, and order status. You can import this data directly into Excel, QuickBooks, or custom business intelligence tools.

How to Generate an Order History Report in a Regular Amazon Prime Account

Standard Amazon Prime accounts no longer have direct access to the Order History Report tool. Amazon deprecated this feature in mid-2022, requiring regular account holders to use alternative methods that involve more steps and longer processing times.

You have two options: view recent orders directly in your account interface (limited to the last 6 months in the default view), or request a complete data export through Amazon's privacy and data request system.

Option 1: View Recent Order History (Manual Method)

Step 1: Log in to your Amazon account and navigate to Returns & Orders in the top navigation bar.

Step 2: By default, Amazon displays orders from the past 3 months. Use the dropdown filter to extend the view to orders from the past 6 months, or select specific year ranges (e.g., "2023 orders").

Step 3: This view does not provide a download option. You can manually copy order details or use browser extensions to scrape the visible data, though this violates Amazon's terms of service and is not recommended for business use.

This method works for quick reference checks but is impractical when you need comprehensive records or structured data for analysis.

Amazon's GDPR and privacy compliance framework requires them to provide complete personal data upon request. This process takes 7-30 days and delivers a comprehensive data package including your full order history.

Step 1: Log in to your Amazon account and navigate to Amazon's Request My Data page. This is found under Account & Lists > Account > Request My Data, or by searching "request my data" in Amazon's help section.

Step 2: On the Request My Data page, click the Request Data button to open the data selection interface.

Step 3: From the dropdown menu, select Order History or Your Orders (the exact label varies by region). You can request additional data categories simultaneously, but each category extends processing time.

Step 4: Review your selections and click Submit Request. Amazon confirms your request with an on-screen message and sends a confirmation email.

Step 5: Wait 7-30 days for Amazon to process your request. Processing time depends on account age, number of orders, and current request volume. Most requests complete within 10-14 days.

Step 6: Amazon sends a notification email when your data package is ready. Return to the Request My Data page and click Download to receive a ZIP file containing your order history in CSV format along with additional account data.

The exported order history CSV contains similar fields to the Business account report: order ID, order date, item title, category, ASIN, quantity, list price, purchase price, shipping address, and order status. The file includes your complete order history from account creation to the request date, making it comprehensive but potentially very large for long-term accounts.

Note that you can only submit one data request every 30 days per Amazon's policy. Plan accordingly if you need regular access to updated order history—this limitation makes the manual data request process impractical for ongoing business operations or frequent analysis needs.