How to See Your Total Amount Spent on Amazon
Gain clarity on your total Amazon spending. Our guide shows you how to find and interpret your complete purchase history.
Tracking purchases on online platforms like Amazon provides valuable financial insights. Understanding your total spending helps with personal budgeting, expense tracking, and identifying purchasing trends. This article provides a straightforward guide on how to find your total Amazon spending directly through your account.
Locating Your Order History
Access your order history by navigating to the Amazon website or opening the Amazon mobile application. Ensure you are signed into the correct Amazon account, as spending data is specific to each logged-in user.
On a desktop web browser, locate the “Account & Lists” dropdown menu near the top right. Click this menu and select “Returns & Orders” to view your past purchases. For the Amazon mobile app, tap the menu icon, usually located in the bottom navigation bar or top left corner, and select “Your Orders” to see your purchase history.
This section provides a chronological record of all items purchased through your account. You will see individual order details, including the items bought, purchase date, and total cost for each transaction. This initial view serves as the foundation for analyzing your overall spending.
Filtering and Summarizing Your Purchases
On the “Your Orders” page, refine the displayed information to summarize spending over specific periods. Near the top, find a dropdown menu, often labeled “Orders” or “Filter by year.” This menu allows you to select various timeframes, such as “past 30 days,” “past 3 months,” or specific calendar years.
Choosing a specific year filters your order history to display purchases made within that year. After applying the filter, Amazon’s interface often provides a “Total spent” summary. This summary is usually displayed prominently at the top of the filtered order list, aggregating the cost of all items, shipping fees, and applicable taxes for the selected timeframe.
If a “Total spent” summary is not immediately visible, you may need to manually review the order totals. Scroll through the filtered list and add up the “Order total” for each transaction. This manual summation provides an accurate overall spending figure for the chosen period, even without an automated summary.
Interpreting Your Spending Data
Your Amazon “Total spent” figure includes the purchase price of items, shipping fees, and sales taxes. This comprehensive figure reflects the gross amount of money that left your payment method for Amazon purchases.
The “Total spent” usually represents your gross purchases and may not immediately reflect returns or refunds. While returns reduce your actual outflow of funds, the initial “Total spent” might not be adjusted until the refund is issued. Therefore, always consider any significant refunds when assessing your net spending.
Purchases made using Amazon gift cards are generally included in the “Total spent” figure, as the value of the gift card was effectively spent on merchandise. Digital content, such as e-books or subscriptions, may be listed separately. For a complete spending picture, review specific digital content libraries or subscription management pages.