As a small business, I order a lot of tools and supplies from Amazon each year. Of course, when tax season rolls around, I need to start pulling stuff together for my accountant. Guess what? Turns out Amazon discontinued the order history report that I have used for years to download all of my orders so I can then work things out.
I read a ton of posts and Amazon changed order history to now be a special request that they say will be processed in days. You can do this if you have the time – go to your account, scroll down to the bottom and look for “Manage Your Data” and then find “Request Your Data” — or click here. One of the options is “Your Orders”.
Well, it’s been a day and still nothing. I don’t have time for this BS and if you search there are plenty of other ticked off people but for whatever reason, Amazon will not relent.
Now, here’s the tip – there is a legit Chrome extension called “Amazon Order History Reporter” by Philip Mulcahy. Now, you do need to use Chrome to use this – click here to read more and install it.
I thought I would be a manly man and not read the instructions. I quickly found out that it has a different way of working – not bad, just different so I went back and read the instructions and it works fine. Click here to read them and follow the steps – everything was smooth after that.
So, click here to read the instructions and the only thing I would add is you navigate to Amazon Order History – where you see all of your orders. Then, run the Amazon Order History Reporter extension – it will as you for what year you want the data and slowly create a table. It’s not a speed demon but that is fine – it was did in 10 minutes what was going to take me 2-3 hours if I had to do it manually.
Once the table is drawn, there is a an option button in the top left to download a CSV (Comma Separated Value) file that Excel an import.
It gave me all I needed – date, what was ordered, total and what credit card I used plus a number of extra fields that I didn’t need but others might.
Get it. Like I said above, I even paid the requested $7.95.
Conclusion
So, Amazon, this was a really uncool move on your part. Philip, thank you. You saved me a ton of time.
If you are reading this because Amazon’s move has left you in a jam, take a look at this extension — it works and is totally worth $7.95/year. I’ll be using it again next tax season I am sure.
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