Reconciling my Amazon spending

Lindy56

I spend a lot of money with Amazon but I like to reconcile my purchases as listed with Amazon with the credit card I use to pay. It is always a bit tricky but since I started using the Barclays( Amazon) card I am finding it nigh impossible. Anyone else have this problem or am I just getting old ?  I know most people don't check.

elsien

Why has it suddenly become more tricky - not sure I am understanding what the problem is? 

Emmia

Lindy56 said:

I spend a lot of money with Amazon but I like to reconcile my purchases as listed with Amazon with the credit card I use to pay. It is always a bit tricky but since I started using the Barclays( Amazon) card I am finding it nigh impossible. Anyone else have this problem or am I just getting old ?  I know most people don't check.

Surely your Amazon transactions = the amounts listed on your credit card bill? What's tricky about it?

Lindy56

Because sometimes the credit card will group items together and I have to work out which Amazon items have gone into that charge. Sometimes Amazon group things together that are not even delivered or ordered on the same day.   There is also the problem of goods I have delivered on subscribe and save which seem to appear even more randomly , earlier than delivery .It is difficult to know the cut off point for each month on Amazon to compare the sums charged on my Barclays Amazon. I did raise the matter with Barclays but they were not bothered . As I said most people do not bother . I do check/scan  but reconciling it ???

elsien

Barclays wouldn’t be bothered  because it’s nothing to do with them when Amazon does or doesn’t deliver.
Surely your Amazon account will tell you what has been sent and when,  and there’s normally an invoice attached for each item? 

eskbanker

Lindy56 said:

Because sometimes the credit card will group items together and I have to work out which Amazon items have gone into that charge.

The credit card provider won't be doing any grouping, they'll just reflect how the merchant has chosen to represent the transaction(s), so any such consolidation of order data will be done by Amazon rather than Barclays, even if it doesn't correspond to the construction of orders visible to you within your Amazon account.

Emmia

Lindy56 said:

Because sometimes the credit card will group items together and I have to work out which Amazon items have gone into that charge. Sometimes Amazon group things together that are not even delivered or ordered on the same day.   There is also the problem of goods I have delivered on subscribe and save which seem to appear even more randomly , earlier than delivery .It is difficult to know the cut off point for each month on Amazon to compare the sums charged on my Barclays Amazon. I did raise the matter with Barclays but they were not bothered . As I said most people do not bother . I do check/scan  but reconciling it ???

My Barclaycard doesn't do this - if I place an order for X items in Amazon worth Y amount and pay with my Barclaycard I have an entry showing that amount.

Do you place multiple orders in a day on a regular basis?

noitsnotme

I get where the OP is coming from.  Amazon group purchases together with no rhyme or reason sometimes if you pay for multiple items together but they dispatch them in different groups.  However as mentioned by others above this is nothing to do with Barclays.

The easiest way round it is don’t checkout more than one item at a time in Amazon.  If I’m buying several things from Amazon at the same time I will process them individually through the checkout.  It takes a fraction longer but the Amazon checkout process is pretty quick so it’s not too bad.

mta999

Just to say that you will need to group them so that each group exceeds £35 so you get free postage - unless you have prime of course

Woodstok2000

Ignore delivery dates or packaging, it's irrelevant.

 On amazon in your account you can see each order you have placed and how much that order was for by clicking through to order details or viewing the invoice. These are not grouped or consolidated, it reflects the order as you placed it. This will match the amounts on your credit card so can be reconciled directly.

born_again

Just total up Amazon purchases on Amazon & then the same on Barclaycard.

Do you use group delivery option ?