Digiday·2026-04-16

Amazon hits pause on controversial change to its advertising payment system that had caused a seller revolt

This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail Amazon is hitting pause on a controversial change to its advertising payment system after backlash from sellers who said the update would strain their finances. “We recently let a small number of advertisers know that we’d be updating their available payment methods to pay with their seller or vendor account balance or Pay by Invoice,

This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail Amazon is hitting pause on a controversial change to its advertising payment system after backlash from sellers who said the update would strain their finances. “We recently let a small number of advertisers know that we’d be updating their available payment methods to pay with their seller or vendor account balance or Pay by Invoice,