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Where Your Amazon Influencer Money Actually Shows Up

By Miles · Updated Sep 7, 2026 · every claim sourced & dated

Updated August 31, 2026

You’ve got money coming from Amazon and no single screen that shows all of it. One dashboard shows your text link clicks. Another shows your storefront videos. A third shows brand campaign payouts. If you’ve ever refreshed a page wondering where a specific commission actually landed, this is the map that would have saved you the confusion.

The short version: four separate places

Amazon splits your Influencer income across separate tracking systems that don’t share one report. Depending on how you earned it, the number shows up in a different place:

  • Classic Associates text/image links: Associates Central
  • Storefront shoppable videos: a separate Onsite Store ID, inside your Influencer dashboard
  • Creator Connections brand campaigns: the per-campaign Earnings Reports tab
  • Sponsorship Clicks (the pay-per-click program, if you’re enrolled): its own thinner reporting inside Creator Hub

None of these four roll up into one combined total anywhere Amazon shows you. If you’re only checking one, you’re only seeing a slice of what you actually earned.

Associates Central: your classic link commissions

If you drop Amazon links in a blog post, a YouTube description, or anywhere off Amazon, this is where that money shows. Associates Central → Earnings → Commission Summary, tied to your Associates Store ID (the tag= parameter on every link you generate). This is the oldest and most detailed of the four, with category-level breakdowns going back further than the newer dashboards offer.

Your storefront videos run on a second, separate Store ID

Here’s the part that trips people up: your onsite shoppable videos, the ones tied to your Amazon Storefront, don’t report through the same Store ID as your off-Amazon Associates links. They run under their own Onsite Store ID inside the Influencer dashboard. If you’ve ever compared a number in Associates Central to what you expected from your storefront and come up short, this is usually why. You’re looking at one bucket while the other bucket fills up somewhere else.

Check it under Creator Hub → Storefront → Manage Content, where individual video performance sits, and the earnings side under the Influencer-specific payments view, not the Associates Central one.

Creator Connections: its own Earnings Reports tab, per campaign

Brand campaign payouts, the ones stacking a 10 to 50 percent bonus on top of your base commission, live in Creator Hub → Creator Connections. Each campaign you’ve joined has its own Earnings Reports tab showing clicks, qualifying purchases, and the bonus amount for that specific brand deal. This one is genuinely per-campaign: there’s no combined view across every Creator Connections deal you’re enrolled in at once, so if you’re running several campaigns, checking one tells you nothing about the others. You have to click into each.

Full mechanics of how the bonus layers on top of base commission are in how Creator Connections actually works.

Sponsorship Clicks: the thinnest of the four

If you’re Gold or Platinum tier and enrolled in Sponsorship Clicks, the pay-per-qualified-click program, its reporting is real but noticeably thinner than the other three. Creator-reported experience puts this at occasional, not steady, income, and the reporting view inside Creator Hub doesn’t break things down with the same detail Associates Central gives you for classic links. Treat any number you see here as directional until you’ve watched it over a few weeks, not a single-day read.

What none of these dashboards will tell you

Click-level tracking, meaning which exact click on which exact platform led to which exact sale, isn’t something Amazon’s own dashboards hand you in any of the four places above. If you’re running the same product across multiple platforms and want to know which one is actually driving purchases, a third-party link tool that logs clicks separately from Amazon’s own attribution (covered in the deep-linking guide) adds a layer none of Amazon’s native reporting gives you.

The honest bottom line

There isn’t a single “total Amazon earnings” number waiting for you anywhere in Creator Hub. If you want your real total, you’re adding up four separate numbers by hand: Associates Central for links, the Influencer storefront view for onsite video, Creator Connections’ per-campaign tabs added together, and Sponsorship Clicks if you’re eligible. Knowing which bucket to check for which kind of content is most of the battle. Category rates that feed into all four are in the current commission rate table, and if you’re producing enough video across enough ASINs that keeping track of all this by hand is starting to eat real time, that’s exactly the volume problem ReviewCut is built to take off your plate on the editing side, so the only thing left to manage is where the money shows up.


Frequently asked questions

Is there one commission tracking dashboard for Amazon Influencers?

No. Commission tracking is split across the four places above, Associates Central, the Influencer storefront view, Creator Connections’ per-campaign tabs, and Sponsorship Clicks. Amazon does not combine them into a single running total anywhere in Creator Hub.

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Miles

Runs Miles Insights and the Weekly Brief for Amazon Influencer creators. Every claim sourced and dated; corrections published when Amazon changes the rules.