Prior to joining the Payability team, Victoria developed social media content and strategies for top technology brands such as Skype and Samsung. Newhouse School of Public Communications.
She can often be found in a yoga class or working on her fashion blog. Generally speaking, professional sellers get paid by Amazon every two weeks.
Each payment includes 14 days of orders that were successfully delivered seven days ago. The actual dates of your payouts depend on when you opened your seller account, and you might not actually receive payment on the day of your payout.
When all is said and done, you could wind up having to wait up to 20 days to get your money in-hand. Or, you might not get paid at all because you have an unavailable balance. An Amazon unavailable balance is an amount of your payout that Amazon is keeping on hold for longer than the usual 14 days.
Why you have one could depend on a number of factors. These are the most common:. If one is posted, you can get more information on your specific reason by visiting the Account Health page. Spotting the issues before Amazon does and then resolving them decreases your chances of initiating an account review and thus, an unavailable balance. Pro Tip : Some categories are more prone to unavailable balances than others. Take clothing and shoes, for example.
When you throw an unavailable balance into the mix, things get even worse. Without those funds, you might not be able to order more inventory, pay employees, or cover other business expenses. You could open a new credit card or ask your bank for an increased spending limit.
You could talk to your bank about a term loan or line of credit. After all, banks offer large dollar amounts, long payment terms and low APRs. But, with an unavailable balance now called account level reserve , you have to wait twice as long or more. The payout of an unavailable balance could roll over into your next payout or continue to be held for several payouts.
To see if you have an unavailable balance, look in the Closing Balance section of the Statement View on your Payments report. There could be a variety of reasons for your unavailable balance. Typically, it will fall into one of these categories or could be a combination of them :. Amazon wants to make sure there are funds available to process such claims.
A-to-z Guarantee claim or chargeback: If a buyer files an A-to-z Guarantee claim or if you have any chargebacks from transactions in the last 30 days, you might see an unavailable balance. After all, a drop in metrics is typically accompanied by an increase in claims, chargebacks, and returns.
This can ever occur as a result of positive changes to your account like a sudden increase in sales. In this case, Amazon may want to hold back some of your funds to make sure you can fulfill an increased amount of orders accurately and on time. You can go to your Account Health page in Seller Central to learn more about your specific reason. To avoid an unavailable balance in the future, run an audit of your account, including your overall seller performance, customer feedback, fulfillment updates, etc.
If any areas are concerning you, try to find the root of the problem so you can fix it before Amazon holds your payments even longer. If you sell in verticals such as shoes or clothing where returns and exchanges are more frequent due to sizing issues, unavailable balances can be difficult to avoid even if your other metrics are outstanding.
An unavailable balance can be a huge setback for any seller trying to grow on Amazon. Marketplace sellers that receive a significant portion of their revenue from Amazon sales may need that unavailable balance to order inventory, make payroll, pay credit cards or invest in marketing. While this all sounds overwhelming, you do have options. Here are six ways to overcome an unavailable balance and the pros and cons of each:. Cons: Small businesses may not qualify in fact, approval rates for small online businesses are very low ; the application process is long and tedious, often taking longer than you have to wait for funds.
Pros: Quick and easy application process; higher approval rates for small and online businesses. Pros: Immediate access to cash, without the need for an application or interest payments. Cons: Your savings may not be enough or you may not have any to begin with ; savings can take years to, well, save for and tapping into the funds should be your absolute last resort. Cons: This is not a long term solution and may end up being more expensive; you still might not have your payout when payment is due to your supplier; your supplier might not even agree to longer payment terms.
Pros: As mentioned above, Instant Access is a fast, easy, and long-term solution to seller cash flow issues. Payability Instant Access can solve your unavailable balance issue in 24 hours and acts somewhat like insurance against future unavailable balances or cash constraints that can hinder your growth.
The application process is fast, simple and requires no credit checks, tax documents or waiting time.
Approval is based on account health and sales performance. Instant Access is both a long term and short term solution to an unavailable balance or gap in cash flow.
As long as you continue to sell, Payability will continue to advance your funds the next day, every day. In the event of an unavailable balance, Payability will charge fees again on the money that Amazon rolls over into the next pay period. This is done because Payability must take a risk on the money again. Like you, we have no idea when Amazon will actually release your unavailable balance or any payment for that matter so we do need to charge fees on unavailable balances again in order to cover the additional risk and our cost of capital.
While additional fees are never ideal, the ability to get consistent payouts even if Amazon decides to hold them back for more than 14 days, absolutely outweighs the additional fees as it gives you more control over your business and eliminates the financing roadblocks that often hold small businesses back. Platforms such as Amazon have created seemingly unlimited consumer demand.
So faster access to sales revenue is essential to businesses looking to keep up — unavailable balance or not. With Instant Advance, Payability buys a certain amount of your future receivables up front and at a discount, giving you a large lump sum of cash.. Rates start at 0. As with Instant Access, there are no credit checks and you can get approved for an advance in 24 hours. When all is said and done, if payment delays and rollover balances are a problem for your business, Payability could be the right solution for you and applying is easy.
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