Amazon, $84.32. That’s all your bank gives you. Cat litter? Your nephew’s birthday present? A third phone charger you’ll lose by Christmas? No idea, and lately Skwad couldn’t tell you either. We fixed that with a Chrome extension that reads your Amazon order history right in your browser and turns every order into an itemized transaction, with each item on its own line and the order number in the notes.
Setup takes about two minutes. First, a little backstory on why this had to be an extension at all.
Why Amazon needed its own tool
We already itemize order confirmation emails from lots of retailers, and Amazon used to be on that list. Then Amazon quietly stripped the line items out of its order and shipping emails. An email scan now sees a box but not what’s in it. Your bank feed was never going to help. A card charge is a total and a merchant name, full stop.
The detail still exists in exactly one place: your Amazon order history, behind your own login. So we built a tool that reads it from there. The extension runs in your Chrome browser, on the Amazon tab you’re already signed into. Your Amazon login never passes through Skwad. The extension reads the order page the same way you would, then sends only the itemized result to your Skwad.
What each order looks like in Skwad
Each Amazon order shows up as a single transaction, and it’s a lot more talkative than your bank’s version:
- Each item on its own line, with its quantity and per-item price
- Tax, shipping, gift wrap, and promos as their own lines, so the total matches your card
- The order number in the transaction notes
- A Retail sync tag, so you can filter to everything the extension touched
Because the items are separate lines, you can categorize each one on its own. The dog food goes to Pets and the phone case goes to Electronics. Your envelope budget finally sees what actually happened instead of an $84 lump under Shopping.
How to set it up
Before you start: Chrome on a laptop or desktop, a personal Amazon.com account (or Amazon.ca in English), and your Skwad login handy in that same browser.
- Grab Skwad Retail Order Sync from the Chrome Web Store. Computer only, sorry; phones can’t run it.
- Click the extension, hit Log in to Skwad, and approve from any Skwad tab where you’re already signed in. No retyping passwords.
- Choose the Skwad you want orders landing in.
- Pop open another tab and sign into Amazon.
- Hop back to the extension and press Sync.
And that’s it, five steps. Hit a snag? Our Retail order sync guide covers the fiddly bits and troubleshooting.
Your first sync, and every one after
Your first sync digs back about 180 days, so roughly six months of orders, and needs a few minutes. It’s slow on purpose. The extension opens orders one by one so Amazon doesn’t get twitchy and throttle it. Go make a coffee and leave that tab be.
From then on it’s fast, because it only grabs orders placed since last time. Anything already synced gets skipped, so hitting Sync twice won’t double anything up. Deleted an imported order in Skwad? It stays deleted. The next sync leaves it alone.
What about the charge from my bank?
If the same purchase also arrives through bank linking, you might briefly see two transactions: the itemized one from the extension and the plain one from your bank. Skwad reconciles these for you. Auto-merge clears the confident duplicates on its own, and anything it isn’t sure about waits for you in the Duplicates view under Transactions. Either way, the merchant stays Amazon, and the items stay on the transaction.
What it can’t do yet
Honest list of gaps. Chrome only, and only on a computer. Personal Amazon.com and English Amazon.ca, yes; Amazon Business, other countries’ marketplaces, and French Amazon.ca, not yet. If Amazon won’t cooperate, flipping your Amazon language to English usually sorts it out. Amazon is also the only retailer so far.
Frequently asked questions
Does the extension need my Amazon password? Never. It reads orders off the Amazon tab you’ve already logged into, so your Amazon password stays between you and Amazon.
Does my Amazon email have to match my Skwad email? Nope. Use whatever email you like on each side; the two accounts never have to know about each other.
Will I end up with duplicate transactions from my bank? You might briefly see two: the itemized one from the extension and the plain one from your bank. Skwad reconciles them. Auto-merge clears the confident duplicates on its own, and you can review the rest from the Duplicates view in Transactions.
Which retailers work? Just Amazon so far, and only personal Amazon.com or English-language Amazon.ca accounts.
If I delete an imported order, will it come back on the next sync? No. Delete an imported Amazon transaction and it stays gone, even after the next sync.
Install it, let the first sync chew through six months of orders, then open Shopping. Somewhere in there is the answer to that $84.32.
