In our Margin Details dashboard, you can now choose to organize your transaction data by ordered date instead of posted date. With this setting enabled, sales and their applicable fees are tied to the day the order was placed rather than the day the transaction posted to your account.
This view is designed for users who prefer a profitability picture that's tied to the performance of the month itself — closer to an accrual basis — rather than the default cash-flow style view, where revenue and fees land in the month they posted regardless of when the order originated.
How It Works
When ordered date is selected in Margin Details, every transaction with an associated order date is bucketed into the month that order was placed. For example, a sale placed on March 30th but posted in early April will now appear in March's P&L, alongside the FBA fees, referral fees, and other order-level costs tied to it. This aligns the dashboard much more closely with your Ordered Product Sales figures — though the two will not be exactly identical, since they come from different data sources.
Deferred Transactions
Deferred transactions still exist in this view, just as they do in the default. The key difference is what happens once they're released: instead of landing in the month they were released, they land in the month of the original order.
This means you can add released transactions + current deferred transactions together to get the full picture of a month's activity by ordered date. Over time, the current deferred transactions will move to released transactions into the month of its order date. (In the default posted-date view, that math doesn't work the same way because released amounts move into the month of release rather than the month of origin.)
Fees Without an Ordered Date
Not every fee has an order date attached to it. The most common examples are:
Advertising invoiced charges
Account-level fees (subscription fees, storage overage fees, etc.)
These transactions don't tie back to a specific order, so they continue to land in the month they were released, even when the ordered date view is active. Keep this in mind when reconciling — your ad spend and account fees will still follow posted-date logic.
When to Use This View
The ordered date view is best suited for users who want their P&L to reflect the performance of a given month rather than its cash flow. If you're trying to evaluate how a month performed — what was sold, what it cost to sell it, and what margin those orders generated — ordered date will give you a cleaner picture. If you're reconciling against disbursements or working from a cash-basis perspective, the default posted date view is still the right tool.
Both views are available via the user setting at the top of the Margin Details dashboard, so you can toggle between them as needed.