Your Amazon purchases land in your budget as one number. Amazon, $84.32. Was that groceries, a birthday gift, or printer ink? Your bank doesn’t know, and for a while now, neither did Skwad. 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.
Here’s why we built it as an extension, what you get on each order, and how to set it up in a couple of minutes.
Why Amazon needed its own tool
Skwad already pulls itemized detail out of order confirmation emails from plenty of retailers. Amazon used to be one of them. Then Amazon’s order and shipping emails stopped carrying line items, so an email scan can no longer tell what was in the box. Your bank feed was never going to help either. A card charge is a total and a merchant name, nothing more.
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
Every Amazon order becomes one transaction. On it you’ll find:
- 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
You’ll need Google Chrome on a computer, a personal Amazon.com or English Amazon.ca account, and a Skwad account you can sign into in the same browser.
- Add Skwad Retail Order Sync to Chrome from the Chrome Web Store. Do this on a computer; the extension doesn’t run on phones.
- Open the extension and click Log in to Skwad. Approve it from a Skwad tab you’re already signed into. There’s no password to retype.
- Pick which Skwad your orders should sync into.
- In another tab, sign into Amazon.
- Back in the extension, click Sync.
That’s the whole setup. The full walkthrough, with troubleshooting, lives in the Retail order sync guide.
Your first sync, and every one after
The first sync reaches back about 180 days, roughly six months of orders, and takes a few minutes. The extension opens your orders one at a time on purpose so Amazon doesn’t throttle it. Leave the tab alone and let it work.
After that, each sync only picks up orders placed since the last one, so it’s quick. Orders you’ve already synced are skipped, so syncing twice never creates duplicates. And if you delete an imported order in Skwad, it stays deleted. The next sync won’t bring it back.
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
The extension is Chrome-only and needs a computer. It works with personal Amazon.com and English Amazon.ca accounts; Amazon Business accounts, other marketplaces, and French Amazon.ca aren’t supported yet. If Amazon refuses, switching your Amazon language to English clears most of it. And Amazon is the only retailer for now.
Frequently asked questions
Does the extension need my Amazon password? No. It reads your orders from the Amazon tab you’re already signed into. Your Amazon login stays with Amazon.
Does my Amazon email have to match my Skwad email? No. They can be completely different accounts.
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? Amazon for now, on personal Amazon.com and English Amazon.ca accounts.
If I delete an imported order, will it come back on the next sync? No. Deleting an imported Amazon transaction keeps it from being re-created.
Install the extension, run your first sync, and open your Shopping category. You’re about to find out what was actually in all those boxes.
