# Revenue

Track billed revenue, partner fees, tax, and disbursements from your AWS Marketplace agreements in Suger.

---

## Overview

AWS handles billing on its side — it invoices your buyers, collects payment, deducts its listing/transaction fees and tax, and disburses your earnings to your bank account. Suger does **not** process AWS payments. Instead, Suger **ingests** the billing data AWS publishes through the **AWS Marketplace Data Feed** (delivered to your seller S3 bucket) and normalizes it into unified **revenue records**, so AWS revenue sits alongside your Azure, GCP, and Snowflake revenue in one place.

Each AWS billing event carries an **action** (`INVOICED`, `COLLECTED`, `DISBURSED`, `FORGIVEN`) and a **transaction type** (seller revenue share, AWS revenue share = the marketplace fee, AWS tax share, and their refund variants). Suger groups these events by invoice to build one revenue record per invoice.

:::info
This page focuses on the revenue **data** — what Suger tracks and how each amount is derived. For the finance-team workflow, tax guidance, disbursement settings, and event notifications, see [Finance, Billing, and Tax](/aws-marketplace/finance-billing/).
:::

## Where to find AWS revenue

AWS is a first-class channel in Suger's revenue surfaces:

1. Open **Revenue → Revenue Records**.
2. AWS is the default **Channel**; keep it selected (or switch back to it).

Two tabs are available:

- **Joined Records** — one normalized row per invoice, with billed amount, partner fee, collectable amount, disbursement, tax, and refunds.
- **Raw Records** — the individual AWS billing events (each with its action and transaction type) that the joined record was built from.

You can also see AWS revenue for a single **buyer** on its detail page, or for a single **entitlement** on its detail view.

## What each amount means

Suger derives the normalized revenue record from the AWS billing events for an invoice:

| Revenue record field | Derived from | Meaning |
|----------------------|--------------|---------|
| **Billed (Invoice amount)** | Seller revenue share, invoiced | What AWS billed the buyer. |
| **Partner fee** | AWS revenue share | AWS's listing/transaction fee. |
| **Tax** | AWS tax share | Tax AWS collected on the invoice. |
| **Collectable** | Invoice − partner fee − tax | What you receive after AWS's fee and tax. |
| **Disburse amount** | Disbursed events (failed disbursements excluded) | Money AWS actually paid out to you. |
| **Disburse date** | Disbursement event date | When AWS disbursed the funds. |
| **Refund (invoice / disburse)** | Seller/AWS revenue-share refund events | Refunded amounts, tracked separately from the original charge. |
| **Bank trace ID / disbursement reference** | Disbursement event | Identifiers to reconcile a payout against your bank statement. |

A **forgiven** invoice is marked `WRITTEN_OFF` rather than counted as collected.

:::info
Agreements sold through a **channel partner (CPPO)** are tagged as **Resold** with the reseller's details; direct agreements are tagged **Direct**.
:::

## Sync

Suger reads new billing-feed files as AWS delivers them and updates the corresponding revenue records.

- The **first** sync performs a historical backfill from your marketplace start date; subsequent syncs re-scan a trailing window so late-arriving events (collections, disbursements, refunds) are picked up.
- Revenue for the current day is finalized once AWS delivers the feed, so the newest records may lag by about a day.

## FAQ

### Why is my collectable amount lower than the billed amount?

The collectable amount is the billed amount minus AWS's marketplace fee **and** tax. AWS nets both before disbursing your earnings. See [Finance, Billing, and Tax](/aws-marketplace/finance-billing/) for AWS's fee structure and tax handling.

### When will I see a disbursement?

A disbursement appears once AWS reports it in the data feed and Suger's next sync ingests it. Until then, the record shows the collectable amount without a disburse date or amount. Failed disbursements are excluded from the disbursed total.

### How are refunds shown?

Refunds are tracked as separate refund amounts on the record (refund invoice and refund disburse), so the original charge and the refund remain distinguishable. To process a refund, see [Refunds and Cancellations](/aws-marketplace/refunds-cancellations/).