Amazon DSP (Demand-Side Platform) is billed on an invoice basis, not by upfront card payment. You run campaigns during the month, and after the month closes Amazon Advertising issues a consolidated tax invoice covering everything that delivered in that period.

The invoice is addressed to the entity named on your DSP account, and payable directly to Amazon.

Every dollar on an Amazon DSP invoice resolves to one simple equation:

Total Cost = Supply Cost + Demand-Side Fees

This is what Amazon DSP pays publishers, exchanges and SSPs for the impressions your campaign won. It is the largest component of most invoices.

Supply Cost = (CPM × Impressions) ÷ 1,000

On the invoice, supply cost appears as a line-item carrying the campaign or line-item name.

These cover access to the DSP itself and to Amazon's audience data. They are calculated on top of supply cost and shown as separate line items so the split is fully transparent.

Charged when a campaign uses Amazon audience data for targeting, priced per 1,000 impressions served against that audience.

• Amazon first-party audiences include in-market, view-remarketing, lifestyle and other Amazon-owned segments.

• Contextual targeting places ads on Amazon product pages within a category or product set you choose.

• The rates above apply to display. Audience fees are higher for video and Streaming TV.

Premium video and streaming inventory carries its own CPM ranges rather than the standard display economics:

An Amazon DSP invoice has two parts: a one-page summary with the commercial and payment details, followed by a campaign-level breakdown.

Each campaign is listed with its campaign name and campaign number, then broken into line items. A typical block looks like this:

• The first line is the supply cost — the media you actually bought.

• Platform Fee and Audience Fee are the demand-side fees from Section 2.2.

• The three add up to the campaign total. 152.03 + 11.73 + 136.24 = 300.00 USD.

• The campaign totals across all campaigns add up to Total Campaign Charges on the summary page.

Amazon accepts payment by electronic funds transfer (wire or ACH) or by cheque. Electronic transfer is strongly preferred — it clears faster and is far easier to trace.

Remit to the bank details printed on your invoice.

Cheques are made payable and posted to the remittance address on the invoice, for example:
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Amazon Advertising LLC, PO Box 24651, Seattle, WA 98124-0651, USA

Write the invoice number on the cheque. Allow for postal and clearing time so that funds are received — not just posted — by the due date.
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Unreferenced payments are the single most common cause of an account being flagged as unpaid when the money has in fact arrived. To avoid this:
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1. Put the invoice number in the payment reference field of the transfer (e.g. 384067HDP26).

2. Email remittance advice to [email protected] as soon as the payment is released.

3. Include in that email: invoice number(s), amount paid per invoice, payment date, payment method, and the remitting bank account name.

4. If you pay several invoices in one transfer, list every invoice number and the amount allocated to each.

5. Keep the transfer confirmation on file until the invoice shows as settled.

• Pay the exact amount shown, in the invoice currency. Do not convert and pay a local-currency equivalent unless your contract provides for it.

• Bear all sending, correspondent and intermediary bank charges at your end (pay on an "OUR" basis) so the full invoice amount arrives.

• Short payments caused by deducted bank fees leave a residual balance open and will be chased.
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"Net 30" means the full amount must be received by Amazon within 30 days of the invoice date — not initiated on day 30. Release the payment with enough lead time for international clearing.

• Invoiced billing operates against a credit line granted by Amazon after a credit check.

• Your approved credit limit caps how much unbilled and unpaid spend can be outstanding at once.

• Consistent on-time payment supports credit limit increases; late payment can reduce or suspend the line.

• If unpaid balances approach the limit, campaign delivery can be throttled or paused — even where budgets and flight dates are still live.

If an invoice passes its due date unpaid, expect the following sequence:

1. Automated and then direct reminders from Amazon's receivables team.

2. A hold placed on new campaign activation.

3. Suspension of live delivery across the advertiser account.

4. Interest or late-payment charges where the advertising agreement provides for them.

5. Referral to collections and withdrawal of invoiced credit terms for prolonged non-payment.

If you know a payment will be late, contact Amazon before the due date. A flagged and explained delay is handled very differently from a silent one.

Run this every month when the invoice lands:

1. Confirm the invoice period matches the month you expect to be billed for.

2. Check the bill-to entity, address and tax number are correct and current.

3. Confirm every campaign listed belongs to you, using campaign numbers.

4. For each campaign, check supply cost + platform fee + audience fee equals the campaign total.

5. Check the campaign totals sum to Total Campaign Charges on the summary page.

6. Compare total spend to your console report for the same period; investigate any material variance.

7. Diarise the due date with an internal buffer of several working days.

8. Take beneficiary bank details from this invoice's payment instructions block.

9. Release payment quoting the invoice number as the reference.

10. Email remittance advice to [email protected] and file the confirmation.