A few months ago, I bumped into an interesting option on Amazon to show your historical order history in spreadsheet form. Direct link (affiliate link here and below). Sadly, a reader noticed that this option is going away on March 20, 2023.
You can always see your all of your historical orders in the regular order history. You don’t get a single spreadsheet view that way, so I thought it worth a headsup for someone who finds this kind of data interesting.
Going through my own data a few months ago, I found it interesting to calculate how much I’ve been spending monthly, as well as seeing a history of how much was spent in specific categories over the years, e.g. health, beauty, gift cards, etc.
Update: See this comment for an alternative.
Hat tip to USCCS
Just found this, it’s not free like the extension ($9/mo), but it is easier to work with: https://www.ordigo.io/
they should have kept this up. Also why wasn’t easy to find?
This was exactly what I was looking for! What a great find! Thank you for sharing!
Amazon you stink, you’re making doing my taxes more difficult!!!!! Grrrrrr!!!!!!
Thanks! I was able to pull all of my order history back to 2006. The calendar did not allow me to pull history for years prior to 2006, as stated by some other users.
Too bad this is going away. I’ve been using it for the past 5-years to determine which orders I didn’t pay Sales Tax on for tax return purposes. Amazon and their partners have gotten better about charging sales tax, but I generally still find about 3% of my purchases didn’t have sales tax charged to me.
A couple years ago i ran across this Chrome extension by a developer that loads your amazon purchases by year into a spreadsheet format that is searchable – it has saved my life when it comes to trying to find individual amazon charges when i review my credit cards statements! He is the info and link – https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/amazon-order-history-repo/mgkilgclilajckgnedgjgnfdokkgnibi
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A GODDESS!!!!
I appreciate it but the extension isn’t working for me…
Excellent, thanks
Worked perfectly, thank you!
Kristin I love you. Doing the Lord’s work. Thank you
The only big miss for me is trying to reconcile single orders when multiple items are split-out and charged on different dates/times. If the “Item Subtotal”, “Subtotal Tax” and “Item Total” were shown for each item on the Orders List web page then my need for the history report would be greatly reduced. As an alternative, if Amazon is hurting for disk storage or report generation is taking too many computing resources, why not implement a 3, 4 or 5 year limit on the history data with automated expunge of older data. No company wants to keep information forever if they don’t see the need. I do agree that exporting the current order history report is a valuable tool for order analytics and many scenarios involving exactly “what” and “when” items were purchased. So sorry to see it go.
I need this to itemize my deductions. it just makes things easier for me.
Not the prettiest option, but you could always do a personal data request and go through all of the crap that they send you. In fact, I think that when you do the PDR, you can request specific items (orders, reviews, etc).