Amazon Receipt: How to Get One (and Why You Should Save Them)

If you came here because you can’t find an Amazon receipt, you don’t have to ask Amazon for it. Every order you’ve ever placed sits in your account, ready to print or email. It takes two minutes.

Below is the walk-through. Then, what to do with these if you run a small business.

How do I find my Amazon purchase receipts?

Your Amazon receipts live in your account, either on the website or in the Amazon app.

If you’re on your computer, click “Returns & Orders.” If you’re on your phone, tap “Your Orders.”

A full list of your most recent orders shows up on the next page. You can filter your orders to the last 30 days, 3 months, the year, or orders you made in the past 3 years.

Orders have a “View Invoice” button that you click to view or print the Amazon receipts. It’s an easy way to print receipts for expense tracking or returns.

Looking for a warranty slip?

Amazon offers a 1-year warranty on products that are faulty or damaged. A third-party seller may offer extended warranties for longer than 1 year. Your purchase invoice from Amazon is enough to get a replacement product, as long as it’s within 1 year of the delivery date.

How to get an Amazon receipt on your computer

You can find all of your orders and their digital receipts in your Amazon account online.

Step 1: Log in to Amazon

First things first, make sure you’re logged into your Amazon account. On your laptop, go to Amazon.com and log in with your email and password.

Step 2: Find your orders

Click the “Returns & Orders” button at the top right corner of your screen, between your name and the cart. The orders tab is where you’ll find the order details of all your items purchased, including completed, canceled, and pending orders.

Step 3: Locate the order you want a receipt for

On the “Your Orders” page, you can either search for the order you want or filter your orders by date. You can filter to show the last 30 days, 3 months, orders for the entire year, or orders you made in the previous 3 years.

Step 4: View the invoice

When you find the order you’re looking for, click the “View Invoice” button. You can then print the receipt for safekeeping. Note that as of 2024, you can no longer download invoice receipts in PDF format from Amazon directly.

TIP: Use Shoeboxed to automatically pull Amazon receipts from your Gmail and organize them in your account. You can then export your Amazon receipts to your preferred accounting software, including QuickBooks, Wave, and Xero.

How to get an Amazon receipt from your email

Amazon sends an order confirmation email for every purchase. Inside the email is an order number you can use to find the receipt.

Step 1: Open the order confirmation email

Step 2: View the invoice

When you view your order’s invoice, you’ll see “Final Details for Order #…” at the top of the page. Under the order number is a hyperlinked “Print this page for your records” button. Click “print” and the receipt goes to your printer.

That solves the immediate problem. Here’s the bigger one that catches small-business owners off-guard at tax time.

If you’re running a small business, the IRS expects you to save your receipts

Most people search for an Amazon receipt because they need one specific receipt: a return, a reimbursement, a question about a charge. That makes sense.

But if you run a small business, freelance, or file a Schedule C, the IRS has a rule about every business-related receipt: keep it for at least three years after you file the return that includes it.

That’s from IRS Publication 583. Three years is the default. Some situations stretch to six. The IRS doesn’t care that you ordered from Amazon. They care that you can prove the expense was real, what it was for, and that it was for business.

Say you bought a $1,400 laptop on Amazon last year and you deducted it. In 2027 or 2028, if the IRS asks, you need to pull up that receipt. “Let me log into Amazon and find it” works most of the time. It stops working the day you can’t find it, you’ve changed phones, your business email is gone, or Amazon’s order history doesn’t go back far enough.

That’s the actual problem. You don’t need one receipt today. You need every receipt you might need three years from now.

Shoeboxed is the easy way to never lose another receipt

Shoeboxed makes storing receipts easy. You can scan receipts with our apps, mail in paper receipts, email them to us, or set up our Gmail plugin. We pull the vendor, date, total, and category, and store it in your account for as long as you’re a customer. Search by vendor, export to your accountant, done. No more digging through Amazon’s order history.

Since 2007, we’ve processed more than 1.8 million Amazon receipts. Most belong to small-business owners and 1099 contractors using Amazon for office equipment, supplies, and the occasional new laptop or printer they’re deducting in full. After 1.8 million of them, we know what most people miss.

Want to see how fast Amazon spend adds up for a small business? Here’s what our company has spent on Amazon since 2021. Almost $30,000, and we’re not a heavy Amazon shop. Office supplies, gear for our Durham team, replacement scanners, the occasional piece of equipment we needed in a pinch. That’s a lot of receipts. If you don’t have a system, that’s also a lot of deductions you’re going to leave on the table at tax time.

Here’s what those receipts look like in aggregate across our customer base. More than half of the 1.86 million Amazon receipts we’ve processed arrive with no category at all, meaning the deduction never gets claimed at tax time. The categories that do get used skew vague: “General Retail” is the runaway top tag, far ahead of more useful labels like “Office Supplies,” “Computer / Internet,” or “Equipment.”

Two tax deductions you’re probably missing on your Amazon spend

Most small-business owners (and anyone who gets paid as a contractor) miss two deductions tied to their Amazon spend: the home office deduction and mileage deduction. Together they can be worth thousands of dollars a year.

Home office

If you work from home, even part of the week, you can probably deduct part of your rent or mortgage, utilities, internet, and home insurance. Anytime you buy a desk, chair, monitor, office light, or printer on Amazon for that home office, those receipts are separate deductions on top of the home office deduction itself.

Most small-business owners and 1099 contractors I talk to either skip the home office deduction because they’ve heard rumors about audit risk, or they take it and forget that the Amazon order for the new chair is also deductible. Both are mistakes.

If you’ve never run the math on yours, take two minutes with our free home office deduction calculator. It uses your address to estimate your annual savings based on your actual square footage and local rents. You don’t need to sign up or hand over your email. You just get the number.

Mileage

If you drove to a UPS Store to drop off an Amazon return, that’s deductible business mileage. If you’re a realtor who bought a closing gift on Amazon and drove to drop it off at the client’s new house, that’s deductible business mileage too. The IRS lets you deduct those drives at the 2026 standard business mileage rate of $0.725 per mile. That adds up faster than most small-business owners and 1099 contractors realize.

If you drove to a charity to drop off donated items you bought on Amazon, that drive is also deductible as charity mileage. The charity mileage rate is 14¢ per mile under IRS Publication 526. It’s a different rate than business mileage, but it counts.

Most small-business owners and 1099 contractors miss this: every Amazon-related drive is its own mileage deduction, on top of the receipt itself. The Shoeboxed mobile app tracks drives automatically via GPS. At the end of each day we text you the trip list, you reply with which trips were business, medical, or charity, and we file the mileage receipt to your account. You get both deductions in one app, with no spreadsheet to maintain and no end-of-year scramble.

All your options for saving receipts, honestly

Shoeboxed isn’t the only way to do this. Here’s the honest comparison.

• Shoeboxed app. Snap a pic to log a receipt. The app also tracks your drives via GPS automatically. At the end of each day we text you the trip list, you reply which ones were business, medical, or charity, and we file the mileage receipt. You get both deductions in one app, plus an IRS-ready export when you need it. This is the one I’d recommend to a friend, and also the product I bought because I believed in it.
• Shoeboxed Magic Envelope. Mail us your shoebox of paper receipts; we scan, categorize, digitize. This is the original Shoeboxed service, built for people who still get paper receipts and want them digitized without doing it themselves.
• Email-to-Shoeboxed. Forward your Amazon order confirmations to your unique Shoeboxed address; we extract and file automatically. It works well for digital-only receipts. We even have a Gmail plugin that will do this automatically for you.
• Paper folder or accordion file. It works, but thermal receipts fade in a year or two, paper gets lost, and good luck searching the pile when your accountant asks for a specific receipt from March 2024.
• Google Drive or Dropbox. Better than paper alone, worse than a tool built for receipts. No OCR, no categorization, no IRS-ready export. You’re using a photo gallery as a filing cabinet.
• Photos on your phone. It’s fast and free. Same trade-offs as Google Drive. Your camera roll becomes a mess, and good luck finding the right receipt three years later.

Bottom line: any system you actually use beats a perfect system you don’t. If you’re a paper-folder person and you’ll stick to it, the paper folder is fine. Our data shows most people don’t stick with it. The Magic Envelope was invented for them.

Frequently asked questions

Do Amazon orders have receipts?

Yes. Every Amazon purchase comes with a printable order summary. You can find it two ways: click the order number in the confirmation email Amazon sent you, or visit the Orders tab on Amazon’s website and print the invoice from there.

How do I save an Amazon receipt as a PDF?

As of 2024, Amazon no longer lets you download receipts as PDFs. You can only print the page. Or use Shoeboxed to pull digital versions of every Amazon receipt into your Shoeboxed account.

How long do I need to keep my Amazon receipts?

If you deducted the purchase as a business expense, the IRS expects you to be able to show the receipt for at least three years after you filed the return (Pub 583). Some situations stretch to six years. The safest move is to save every business-related receipt as you get it.

How do you get an Amazon receipt?

To get an Amazon receipt, log in to your account, click “Returns and Orders,” find the order you want a receipt for, and click “View Invoice.” If you want to print the invoice, click “Print this page for your records.”

In closing

Glad this article helped you find the receipt you came for. The bigger win is saving the next one when you get it, so you never have to hunt again. The IRS expects small-business owners and 1099 contractors to keep these for three years. Saving them as they arrive beats hunting for them three years later.

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About the author. I’m Doug. I bought Shoeboxed in late 2025 with an SBA loan after fifteen years of running other people’s companies as CEO. I’d used Shoeboxed myself back in 2010 at a previous gig and called it magical even then. I use it daily now. Small business owners deserve every dollar they’re legally entitled to keep, which is why I bought Shoeboxed and work hard to make it better.