Quick start
Create your account, install the extension, connect KDP and Amazon Ads, and get your catalogue, sales and first real net-profit number in about five minutes.
About five minutes. Steps 2 and 3 bring in your whole catalogue — its sales, its Kindle Unlimited pages read, and then its reviews. Step 4 adds your ad spend, which is what turns royalties into profit.
1. Create your account
Sign up with any email — it does not have to be your Amazon email. You get a 14-day free trial, no credit card.
After you verify your email, the setup wizard opens automatically.
2. Install the browser extension
KDP has no public API, so connecting it — and Kobo Writing Life and Draft2Digital — goes through the TrueRoyalties Connector extension.
Pick your browser and install it. Chrome, Edge, Brave and Arc are supported. This step is skippable — nothing here is mandatory.
3. Connect your platforms
Once the extension is detected, you land on a grid of every platform you can connect — KDP is one tile among the rest, and you only connect what you actually use.
Click Connect on KDP and you are asked to sign in fully, with your Amazon password, in Amazon's own window — that gives TrueRoyalties a session of its own instead of borrowing your everyday one. The first import then starts by itself on our servers and pulls your full history, not just today. Big catalogs take a few minutes, and you do not need to keep any tab open.
Important. One KDP account can be linked to one TrueRoyalties account, permanently. Make sure you are signed in to the right Amazon account before connecting.
4. Connect your ads
Nothing here is mandatory either — but without your ad spend, TrueRoyalties knows your income and not your costs.
Amazon Ads is a tile on the same grid. You are sent to Amazon to authorize read access, then back to the app, and your ad history is backfilled automatically. See Amazon Ads.
If you also advertise on Meta or TikTok, connect them the same way — their spend lands in the same net profit.
5. Read your dashboard
You land on the dashboard with five numbers: net profit, royalties, ad spend, True ACOS and units sold.
Before trusting the figures to the cent, set your rates once in Settings → Taxes — see Taxes and currencies.
6. Then, when you want more than numbers
Neither is needed to see your profit, and both take a minute:
- Smart links — one link that sends every reader to their own Amazon store, with a QR code for the back matter of your paperback.
- Your verified page — a public page of your real figures, for proving what you earn without a screenshot.