Is there a way to tie one's Amazon charges to one's Mastercard bill?

[LAS14]

It makes me crazy! I want to assign Mastercard charges to budget categories but most of them don't tie in to what I see in my orders list. I have called on occasion and they are able to figure out that orders have been added together, or handling charges don't show in the orders list, etc.

Surely I'm not the only one who's livid about this??? But they're too big to care, I suppose.

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[Sherman A1]

1. As far as I know, you need only list it

As a method of payment in your account and choose it when you check out.

[blogslut]

2. In what platform are you wishing to do this?

Through your bank or your Amazon account or somewhere else?

[LAS14]

4. I download my Mastercard bill to Excel and divide...

.... the charges into different budget accounts. Since the Amazon stuff is jus labeled "Amazon" I have to go to the Amazon website and look at my orders. Most of order amounts don't match Mastercard amounts. For the reasons I mentioned.

[Codeine]

3. You're not describing this well I'm afraid.

What exactly are you trying to do?

[LAS14]

5. I download my Mastercard bill to Excel and divide...

.... the charges into different budget accounts. Since the Amazon stuff is jus labeled "Amazon" I have to go to the Amazon website and look at my orders. Most of order amounts don't match Mastercard amounts. For the reasons I mentioned.

[marybourg]

8. This is the same even if you use the Chase Amazon Prime

card. Amazon bills when it ships, and sometimes it breaks shipments up and sometimes it adds parts of shipments to other shipments. And that's how it bills.

[Codeine]

9. I see.

Amazon stuff breaks down by fulfillment center so the billing won’t match the orders individually, but the totals will be the same in the end.

[LAS14]

13. Thanks for this info. It's helpful for my understanding, if not for my ability to figure out...

.... which charges should go in which category.

[eleny]

6. Doesn't matter what card you use at Amazon

They'll lump some items from your order together and bill the card that way no matter what card you use. All you can do is check your orders in your Amazon account against your cc bill to see if it all adds up correctly. In our experience we were always billed correctly. But it's a pita to have to decipher the billing.

I'm not an Amazon apologist since I rarely shop there much these days. But I remember the bad old days of checking the billing to make sure it was correct.

[obamanut2012]

7. It alraedy is tied to whatever card you use to pay

If you want either Amazon or MC to "itemize" your orders, they won't do that, they can't do that, and there is zero reason to do that.

[LAS14]

12. I want the exact charge they send to Mastercard to appear on the list of My Orders.

Is that what you mean by itemizing?

[tanyev]

10. At work we have a business Amazon account and their business analytics feature

makes it very easy to find the charges that match my company credit card. It’s free to set up a business account, but I don’t know if that works for your situation.

[LAS14]

11. It sounds like it would, but do you have to prove you're a business? Do...

... you happen to know the navigation to set it up?

[tanyev]

14. I logged into my account to look at it and there is a Register as a Business Account

option under My Account. I tried it just now and the first thing it asked me for was a work email so I bailed. I remember it was pretty easy to set up the real work account. The trickiest bit was filling out the form and getting it set so we were tax-exempt, which you wouldn’t have to deal with.

As far as Amazon knows, maybe you are running a small business from your home. Do you have a different email you can use for your ‘business’? That’s how Amazon would distinguish the business from the personal.

[LAS14]

15. thanks much! nt