How Much Have You Spent on Amazon? See Your Yearly Total

The Amazon page that used to show this

Order History Reports lived at /gp/b2b/reports for years. It produced three CSVs. Items, Orders, and Refunds. Tax preparers leaned on it every spring. Resellers used it to reconcile inventory, and ordinary shoppers occasionally pulled it just to see where the money had actually gone. Amazon turned the page off without warning in March 2023, redirecting it to a generic “Your Orders” landing that does not aggregate anything.

The decision left a gap. There is still no first-party Amazon page that totals your consumer spending across a year, and the company has shown no sign of bringing one back. That gap is what the Insights tab in the Order History Reports replacement is built to close, using the order data your account already holds.

The Insights tab: three views of your spending

Once an import finishes, the viewer adds an Insights tab next to Orders. Three inline SVG panels render from the rows you just pulled. Numbers below are illustrative, not from a real account.

The single-currency honesty rule

A spending dashboard that secretly converts every order to your home currency at today’s FX rate is making a number up. The rate moves daily, and historical orders should be valued at the rate that applied on the day you paid, not the day you opened the report. Most consumer dashboards skip that distinction and present a single, confident, slightly wrong total.

Order History Downloader does not do that. The Σ row groups subtotals by currency in a stable order: USD, then EUR, then GBP, then CAD, AUD, JPY, then everything else alphabetically. If your account spans amazon.com and amazon.co.uk, the Insights tab shows you a USD total and a GBP total. They never get blended. The defensive parser also handles US-style $1,234.56 and EU-style 1.234,56 € correctly, so a comma is never mistaken for a decimal.

Calling that a feature feels strange. It is closer to a refusal. A refusal to fake precision the data does not carry. For households with one currency, the experience is unchanged. For anyone shopping across borders, the trust signal is that the math you see is the math the data supports.

How to run the import

1. Install Order History Downloader from the Chrome Web Store (Chrome, Brave, or Edge).
2. Open your Amazon Your Orders page on the storefront you use most.
3. Click the receipt icon in your toolbar, pick a date range, hit Import.
4. Wait for the rows to stream into the in-page viewer.
5. Switch to the Insights tab.

The full step-by-step is in the Amazon order-history download guide, including how to widen the lookback window and what to do when Amazon throws an interstitial mid-import.

What to do with the yearly total

The number on its own is a curiosity. The interesting work happens when you slot the total into something that already exists in your life. Three common destinations.

• Taxes. Sole-proprietor returns and Schedule C deductions need line-item receipts, not a single end-of-year scalar. The same import that powers Insights also feeds the Amazon-for-taxes workflow, which exports a year of orders to CSV with VAT/GST columns intact.
• Multi-account households. Two adults plus a kids’ account is a common shape. The viewer detects them automatically and tags every row with a hashed account label, so combined household spending stops being a copy-paste exercise.
• Bookkeeping. Pipe the CSV into Google Sheets, QuickBooks, or any ledger that takes UTF-8. The multi-sheet Excel export already splits Orders, Items, Shipments, and Transactions into separate tabs.

For accounts that predate March 2023, the Your Orders page itself is paginated and partial. The GDPR-ZIP backfill is the route to a complete history, since it pulls from the data export Amazon is legally required to provide on request.

Why your spending stays on your device

A spending report is a private document. Total annual outflow, the categories you shop in, the addresses an order shipped to. None of it should leave your computer just because you wanted to see a chart. The extension is built around that constraint.

All processing happens in your browser. No order data leaves your computer. There is no backend, no account, no third-party analytics. No Google Analytics, no Segment, no fingerprinting. The only network requests the extension makes are to the same Amazon pages you would visit by clicking through manually. The diagnostic log lives in your browser’s local storage and is only ever shared if you explicitly click Report a bug.

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