Big numbers on the Amazon dashboard don't mean big profit in the bank — most sellers are counting revenue wrong, and the payout report hides the rest.
Suraj Deshmukh
A lot of Amazon sellers see big sales numbers on their dashboard, but when they check their bank account, barely anything is left. The usual reason is that people count their revenue wrong. They add up every order and every refund separately instead of matching each refund back to its original order, so they double count returns. On top of that, real payout also includes shipping charges, reverse shipping credits, and adjustments, which most sellers never look at closely. All of this hides where the money is actually going.
Instead of guessing, I built a prompt that reads a seller’s own Amazon transaction report and works out the real profit per product, not just the gross sales number. It checks every row type in the file, not just orders and refunds, matches everything back to the correct SKU using the Order ID, and asks for product cost, packaging cost, and ad spend in one go so it stays fast even on camera. Any seller can paste their own transaction CSV and run this themselves.
This is a Claude prompt, not a tool. It tells Claude to skip the report’s header rows, detect every transaction type in the file first instead of assuming only Order and Refund exist, then match Shipping Services and Adjustment rows back to the right SKU using Order ID so nothing gets silently dropped or miscounted. It asks for product cost, packaging cost, and ad spend per SKU as one table, then calculates net profit per product and flags any SKU with high returns, negative profit, or fees eating too much of the payout.
Tested and working on a real Amazon transaction report. It correctly caught row types like Shipping Services and Adjustments that the first version of the prompt missed, and re-matched them to the right SKUs instead of leaving the numbers short.