How to Delete Your Amazon Purchase History

Whether you’re in denial of your spending habits (no judgment here) or you’re simply organizing your digital life (you go, Glen Coco), you’ve found yourself looking to clean up your list of past Amazon orders. The bad news: you can’t delete your Amazon purchase history entirely. The good news: you can hide your past orders by archiving them.

Amazon allows non-business accounts to archive up to 500 Amazon orders and hide them from your main order history page. Sadly, Amazon business account customers are not able to archive their purchases.

The company makes it easy to delete your purchase history through the archive feature on your web account. We’ll walk you through how to do it below.

How to archive your Amazon orders

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To use the archive to delete your Amazon order history, log into your Amazon account via your desktop or web browser. Then you will:

1. Find the dropdown in the top menu that says “Accounts & Lists.” You can either hover over it to open up all menu options, or click directly into your account.

   

2. Under “Your Account,” select “Orders” or “Your Orders,” depending on which view you’re looking at.

   

3. Use the dropdown menu to select the time period you wish to look at (last 30 days, past 3 months, or a specific year).

   

4. Find the order you want to hide and select “Archive order” in the bottom left-hand corner.

   

5. Click “Archive order” again to confirm.

   

This will remove your Amazon order from the default order history. However, you can still view your previous Amazon purchases on the Archived Orders page. 

Note that you cannot archive more than one Amazon order at a time. You must make your way through your order history and hide your Amazon purchases one by one.

Viewing your hidden Amazon orders

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Want to take a stroll down memory lane (or double-check that charge on your bank statement)? Your archived orders are still viewable on the “Archived Orders” page of your Amazon account.

To view your archived Amazon purchases:

1. Go back into your account orders using the same method outlined above (Account & Lists > Your Account > Orders/Your Orders).
2. Click the dropdown menu to choose the time period of order history.
3. Scroll down and select “Archived Orders.”

    

You’ll see a list of your hidden purchase history, with the option to unarchive any of the orders shown. Simply click “Unarchive Order” in the bottom left corner of the purchase.

Hiding your purchase history using Amazon Household

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Anybody with your account login can still see your archived Amazon orders. You can prevent this by creating an Amazon Household account, which enables you to share Amazon Prime with family members. Amazon Household allows you to hide your purchase history from specific people, which can be helpful if you order a present for your partner or child and don’t want to ruin the surprise. 

An Amazon Household account can consist of a maximum of:

• Two individual adult Prime accounts
• Four teen users (13 to 17 years old) with individual log-ins
  • Adult users can review and approve all purchases made from a teen’s profile
• Four children with access to Amazon Kids only
  • Children may not access Prime or shopping on Amazon

You don’t have to go out of your way to delete your Amazon order history on a Household account—the very nature of this benefit is that your purchase history, lists, and recommendations are all private and separate from your other family members. This only applies to the two adult Prime accounts, though—parents still get a text or email order confirmation for any purchase made on a teen Household account.

To create a Household account:

1. Go to Your Account. 

   

2. Scroll to the bottom of the page, and under Shopping programs and rentals, select Amazon Household.

   

3. Select Add Adult/Teen/Child.

   

4. Send an invite to your household member by inserting their name and email when prompted. 

   

5. Agree to share your wallet. 

   

6. Select your preferences for shared content.

   

7. Link any additional adult Prime accounts and/or add up to four teen or child profiles to your Household.