Nine reports decide almost everything on this site. Most sellers open two of them.

Key takeaways

• Almost every guide on this site ends by telling you to check your own account rather than a published figure. These are the reports where those figures live.
• Each report settles a question that published sources disagree about — your actual fee, your actual storage bill, your actual conversion rate for a currency, your actual defect rate.
• Four of the nine matter weekly. The rest are monthly or situational.
• The reports that matter most are the ones with the longest feedback delay: the returns fee arrives in the third month, and reimbursements settle on a cost basis you may never have entered.
• This page is an index rather than a tutorial. Each entry links to the guide where the decision it informs is worked through.

Every guide on this site carries a version of the same instruction: the published figure is somebody else’s account, so get yours. This page collects where.

01The nine

1. Selling Economics / Fee Preview

Settles: what Amazon actually charges you per unit, at SKU level, on current rates.

This is the single most important report for anyone modelling margin, because 2026 made the published averages nearly useless. The $0.08 average hides a spread of $0.05 to $0.51 by band, and price is now an input to the fee.

Use it for: break-even ACOS, repricing floors, product research, any deal submission.

2. Monthly Storage Fee and Inventory Age reports

Settles: what you actually paid to store things, and how old everything is.

Storage is four separate charges on different bases, and the published rates for all four disagree. This report is what you were charged.

The inventory age report is where the 150-day review starts. Reported aged-inventory triggers at 180 days mean a monthly habit, not a project.

3. SKU Economics Report

Settles: the returns processing fee, which is deducted between the 7th and 15th of the third month following shipment.

That delay is why sellers do not connect the charge to the product that caused it. See the returns guide.

4. Returns and Recovery Dashboard

Settles: return rate per ASIN, and the reason codes behind it.

Reason codes separate the two different problems — an expectation gap needs listing work, a defect needs supplier work. Aggregate return rate tells you nothing; a 28% catalogue average can contain a hero SKU at 15% and a problem SKU at 55%.

5. Account Health dashboard

Settles: ODR, late shipment rate, cancellation rate, valid tracking rate and your Account Health Rating.

Check daily. Reporting describes notifications as arriving after you cross the 1% ODR threshold rather than while trending toward it — see the ODR guide. It is the only early warning that exists, and it takes two minutes.

6. Settlement reports

Settles: the money. Actual proceeds, actual fees, actual timing.

Three uses across this site: measuring your real order-to-cash gap under DD+7, measuring your effective currency conversion rate against mid-market, and building accrual accounts.

7. Inventory location report

Settles: which states your stock has been stored in.

Almost nobody opens this, and it is your nexus footprint. FBA inventory is reported to create physical nexus regardless of revenue, and you did not choose the locations.

8. Capacity and IPI dashboard

Settles: how much you are allowed to store, and whether individual ASINs are throttled.

Two constraints, not one — account capacity in cubic feet and ASIN-level restock limits. Check before planning Q4, not during it.

9. Advertising search term reports

Settles: which keywords convert, at what cost per acquisition.

The useful direction is paid discovers, organic keeps: mine the report for converting terms and build them into the title and backend field. And calculate cost per acquisition rather than CPC — the cheaper click is frequently the more expensive sale.

02The two you should also have

Brand Analytics, if you are in Brand Registry. High-volume terms with low click share are keyword problems; high click share with low conversion share are listing problems. Free, and rarely opened.

Business Reports, for Featured Offer percentage — your Buy Box share, which is a percentage rather than a binary win.

03The routine

Daily, two minutes: Account Health.

Weekly, fifteen minutes: Feedback Manager for new negatives, capacity and IPI, advertising search terms, and any A-to-z claims — reporting describes not letting them auto-grant.

Monthly, an hour: inventory age (the 150-day review), storage fee report, SKU Economics for the returns fee landing from three months ago, and returns by ASIN.

Quarterly: settlement reports for the cash-timing and currency checks, and a fee preview pass on your top twenty SKUs.

Situational: inventory location report before any tax conversation; CBP Form 7501 from your forwarder before any landed cost work.

04Why this page exists

Across roughly fifty guides on this site, a pattern held: published sources disagreed on almost every figure that mattered. Storage rates, ODR thresholds, IPI thresholds, currency conversion costs, reimbursement impact, deal fees, AWD rates, title character limits.

In most cases the disagreement resolved into something mundane — a dated change, a regional variation, a publisher with something to sell. But resolving it took work, and the resolution was always the same: the primary source, or your own account.

These nine reports are your own account. They are not comprehensive and they are not interesting. They are the only figures in this subject that describe your business rather than an average of somebody else’s.

Frequently asked

Which report should I check first?

Account Health, daily. It is two minutes and it is the only early warning for the one metric that can suspend an account on its own.

Where do I find my actual FBA fees?

The Selling Economics and Fee Preview report, at SKU level on current rates. Published averages became nearly useless in 2026 once price bands made the fee dependent on your selling price.

Why is the returns fee so hard to trace?

It is deducted between the 7th and 15th of the third month following shipment and appears in the SKU Economics Report. By then you have changed prices and launched other products.

What is the inventory location report for?

It shows which states your stock has been stored in, which is your physical nexus footprint. FBA inventory is reported to create nexus regardless of revenue, and Amazon chose the locations.

How often should I do all this?

Account Health daily, a fifteen-minute weekly pass, an hour monthly, and a quarterly cash and fee review. The monthly hour is where the 150-day inventory review and the returns fee both live.

Why not just use published benchmarks?

Because across this site's research, published sources disagreed on nearly every material figure. The disagreements usually resolved to a dated change or a publisher with something to sell — and the resolution was always the primary source or your own account.

Sources

1. Amazon returns processing fees: 2026 rate card (deduction between the 7th and 15th of the third month following shipment; SKU Economics Report), Feedvisor accessed 2026-08-08
2. Amazon Order Defect Rate (Account Health dashboard cadence; notifications arriving after the threshold is crossed; not letting A-to-z claims auto-grant), Feedvisor accessed 2026-08-08
3. Amazon’s return policy changed in 2026 (Returns and Recovery Dashboard sorted by return rate per ASIN), ALFI accessed 2026-08-08
4. Amazon Currency Converter rates 2026 guide (three-month settlement report method for calculating an effective conversion rate), Titan Network accessed 2026-08-08
5. Amazon seller multistate tax implications (Amazon reporting inventory locations in seller reports; each storage state creating nexus), Sam Brotman accessed 2026-08-08
6. Amazon FBA restock limits 2026 (capacity and IPI visibility in Seller Central; ASIN-level restock limits alongside account capacity), Nova Analytics accessed 2026-08-08
7. Amazon A9 algorithm: how search ranking actually works in 2026 (using PPC search-term reports to identify converting keywords for organic use), Feedvisor accessed 2026-08-08
8. What is the Amazon Buy Box? The complete 2026 guide (Featured Offer percentage in Business Reports), Ainfluencer accessed 2026-08-08