How to Get an Inventory Report in Amazon Seller Central (2026): Which Report Answers Which Question

There is no single “inventory report” in Amazon Seller Central. There are at least nine, they live in three different menus, and picking the wrong one is why a stock reconciliation can take an afternoon instead of ten minutes. The short version: for what customers can buy right now, pull the FBA Inventory report at Reports → Fulfillment → Inventory → Manage FBA Inventory; for what you held on a specific date, pull the Inventory Ledger at Reports → Fulfillment → Inventory Ledger and choose the summary view; for what to ship in next, pull the Restock Inventory report. Both of those first two navigation paths are quoted verbatim from Amazon’s own posts, cited below and checked 2026-08-31.

This page maps each question a seller actually asks to the one report that answers it, then explains the columns that carry the answer.

Which inventory report answers which question

Read this table as a lookup, not a ranking. The order is by how often the question comes up, not by which report is better.

Two caveats before you act on the table. First, Amazon’s own help articles for these reports sit behind the Seller Central login, so the canonical URLs are listed at the end of this page for readers who are signed in — they cannot be opened by an anonymous browser, and this page does not paraphrase pages it could not read. Second, the navigation paths above come from Amazon posts of different vintages; the two most load-bearing ones (Manage FBA Inventory and Inventory Ledger) are the freshest and are quoted verbatim in the sections below.

How to get an inventory report in Amazon Seller Central

The mechanics are the same for every report under Reports → Fulfillment, and they are worth stating once because two of the steps are where exports go wrong.

1. Open Reports → Fulfillment. The left sidebar splits reports into groups; Inventory is one of them.
2. Pick the report by name from the sidebar, not by guessing from the dashboard. The dashboards and the reports carry different numbers because they refresh on different schedules.
3. Set the date range before you request the file. Ledger-style reports are range-based; snapshot reports are as-of-now and ignore whatever range you set.
4. Choose the view where one exists. The Inventory Ledger in particular has a summary view and a detail view that answer different questions from the same menu entry.
5. Request the download and wait. Large accounts get a queued file rather than an instant one; the request stays in the report list until it is ready.

Amazon’s news post announcing the retirement of the Global FBA Inventory report gives the FBA path verbatim: “Go to Reports, and select Fulfillment. On the left sidebar, under Inventory select Manage FBA Inventory.” (Amazon Seller Forums, News_Amazon ; checked 2026-08-31.) The same post is the source for the retirement itself — the Global FBA Inventory report was retired on December 27, 2024, and Amazon’s stated replacement is the FBA Inventory report reached by that path. If you have an old runbook that still names the Global report, that is the line to fix.

Manage FBA Inventory: the columns that matter

This is the snapshot report. It answers “right now”, never “last Tuesday”. The column names are lower-case and hyphenated, prefixed afn- for the Amazon Fulfillment Network.

The one number most sellers actually want is afn-fulfillable-quantity — units in fulfillment centres that are pickable. afn-reserved-quantity is the counterweight: units physically present but not available to sell, which is why the two numbers together explain a Buy Box quantity that looks wrong. afn-warehouse-quantity and afn-unsellable-quantity complete the on-hand picture, and the inbound family (afn-inbound-shipped-quantity and friends) covers units that have left you but have not been received. These column definitions are third-party descriptions, not text quoted from Amazon’s login-gated help page; treat the spellings as a guide and confirm against your own export header row.

Two columns are newer than most guides on the web. Sellers reported in mid-2026 that afn-onhand-buyable-quantity and afn-fc-transfer-quantity had appeared in the Manage FBA Inventory report, describing the first as units processed and actively buyable and the second as units temporarily unbuyable because they are in transit between fulfillment centres (Amazon Seller Forums thread , seller replies rather than Amazon staff, read 2026-08-31). That distinction is seller-reported, so it is worth a sanity check against your own file — but if your export has columns your ingestion script does not recognise, this is the likely reason. Any tool that maps this report on a fixed schema will need updating too; the comparison in our Amazon inventory tracker tools roundup turns on exactly how often each product refreshes its copy of these numbers.

Inventory Ledger: the only report that reconciles a date range

If the question contains a date, this is the report. An Amazon Forums community manager gave the path and the shape of the file in a 2026 reply: “Go to Seller Central → Reports → Fulfillment → Inventory Ledger”, select a date range, and “choose Ledger Summary View for daily inventory snapshots”. The same reply states the report “shows starting balance, receipts, shipments, adjustments, and ending balance by SKU and location” and downloads as CSV or Excel (checked 2026-08-31).

That column list is the reason the ledger is the accountant’s report. Every other inventory report tells you a level; the ledger tells you the movements that produced the level, so a quantity that changed overnight has a row explaining it. The summary view is the daily balance; the detail view is the individual events behind it.

One structural limit is worth knowing before you reconcile against a supplier invoice: the ledger covers units in Amazon’s network, so inbound shipments that have not been received do not appear as inventory you hold. A shipment closed on your side and not yet received on Amazon’s will sit in neither the ledger’s balance nor your warehouse count.

The adjustments column is also where lost-and-damaged units surface, which makes it the natural starting point for a reimbursement audit — the ledger tells you a unit was written off, and the FBA Reimbursements report tells you what Amazon paid for it. Comparing the two by hand is tedious at any real SKU count. ReimburseOps takes that specific job: you upload the Seller Central reimbursements CSV plus an optional cost file, and it flags records where the payment looks short against your own cost basis. It is worth being precise about its boundaries, because they differ from the managed services in this category — it never connects to Seller Central and takes no API keys, it does not file claims for you, and it charges a flat subscription rather than a percentage of anything recovered ($0 free tier, $19/month Pro; the free tier shows only part of the flagged list and cannot export). Sellers who would rather hand the whole job to a commission-based service should read our GETIDA alternatives comparison instead, which ranks that category by commission, cap and audit window.

Restock Inventory and Restock recommendation are two different things

This is the single most common mix-up in the inventory menu, and it is not the seller’s fault: the names are nearly identical and the two features serve opposite fulfillment models.

The Restock Inventory report is the FBA planning report, reached through Reports → Fulfillment → Inventory → Restock Inventory. It covers units you send into Amazon’s network, and the columns sellers work from are the recommended replenishment quantity, days of supply, and the recommended ship date.

The Restock recommendation feature is for merchant-fulfilled listings and is not a downloadable report at all. Amazon’s announcement describes it as a feature that “uses a demand forecasting model to help you maintain healthy inventory levels for your Fulfilled by Merchant listings”, calculating “suggested restock quantities and restock-by dates” for products that meet criteria including active sales in the last three months and current days of supply under 14 days. Access is through the Manage Inventory page, clicking Restock notification in the Inventory column. The post lists three outputs: suggested restock quantities based on projected two-week demand across all locations, estimated days of supply, and forecasted eight-week demand trends (Amazon Seller Forums, News_Amazon , post updated March 19, 2025; read 2026-08-31).

So: if your units are in Amazon’s fulfillment centres, you want the report. If they are in your own warehouse, you want the on-page feature — and no export exists for it. Sellers who need forecasting that survives a promotion or a seasonal spike usually outgrow both; that gap is what dedicated planners are sold on, and our SoStocked review covers what marketing-aware forecasting adds over Amazon’s native recommendation.

Reserved Inventory: why sellable units disappear

Reserved inventory is the most-reported and least-understood line in any Seller Central inventory report: units that are physically in Amazon’s network but held out of the quantity a customer can buy. Amazon’s own explainer names three causes and only three — Customer Orders (units tied to orders that have not shipped yet), FC Transfers (units in motion between fulfillment centres), and FC Processing (units the centre has sidelined for extra work) (Amazon Seller Forums, Glenn_Amazon ; read 2026-08-31).

What the Reserved Inventory report adds is the split: it breaks your reserved total into those three buckets, which is what turns a scary number into an actionable one. A large customer-orders bucket is a good sign. A large FC-transfers bucket is a Prime-eligibility problem, not a stock problem. A large FC-processing bucket is the one worth investigating, because it can indicate a compliance or restriction issue on the listing rather than normal warehouse motion. This page stops at reading the report; when you need the cause-by-cause detail — how long each subtype typically lasts, what actually releases it, and how Reserved differs from Unfulfillable and Stranded — amzbase’s Amazon FBA reserved status guide takes the three one at a time.

Inventory Age and the two fee clocks

Two separate fee mechanics run off inventory timing, and they read from different reports.

Aged inventory is measured by how long units have sat in fulfillment centres, and the Inventory Age report groups units into age bands with an available-units column that can be sorted by fulfillment centre — an Amazon community manager confirmed both the column and the sort in a Forums reply , and gave the general path as Reports → Fulfillment → Inventory (read 2026-08-31). The Inventory Age and Excess page at sellercentral.amazon.com/fbaselleranalytics/inv-age-excess shows the same units with the associated charges attached, which is the faster view when your question is about money rather than counts. If long-tenured stock is your problem rather than your symptom, our guide to Amazon long-term storage fees covers the mitigation side.

Running too lean has its own clock, and it is backward-looking. Amazon’s explainer defines Historical Days of Supply as a measure of “how long your inventory lasted relative to your actual sales over the past 90 days” and states that when it “drops below 28 days consistently, you’ll trigger the low-inventory-level fee”. The forward-looking counterpart is the Minimum Inventory Level, calculated at FNSKU level, which tells you the minimum units to maintain (Amazon Seller Forums, Glenn_Amazon ; read 2026-08-31). The trap Amazon spells out is that the two can disagree: healthy stock today does not exempt you from a fee earned by the last 90 days.

What this page could not verify

Amazon’s help articles for these reports require a Seller Central login, and the developer documentation site returned a Cloudflare challenge at every escalation level on 2026-08-31. Two consequences, stated plainly rather than papered over. Column-level definitions for the Manage FBA Inventory report here are third-party descriptions, not Amazon’s wording. And the Selling Partner API report-type identifier that third-party integrations use for this report, commonly given as GET_FBA_MYI_UNSUPPRESSED_INVENTORY_DATA, could not be confirmed against Amazon’s developer docs on that date — verify the exact string in the official reference before you wire it into anything.

Everything else on this page is sourced to a public Amazon post and dated. Where you need the canonical help articles and are signed in, the reference IDs are: Inventory Ledger report (G4FKT5KQWFFJ7LDN), Inventory Ledger — how to find the information you need (GCRWH2T93NYDHBXU), Restock Inventory report (G202105670), Restock recommendation (GRG6KMB257N2XXNQ), and Reserved Inventory report (G201723860), each under sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/external/.

For the wider question of which third-party tool to bolt onto these exports, our inventory and operations workflow page compares the category by the job it replaces, and the analytics and reporting workflow page covers the profit-side reporting these inventory files feed into.