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I recently hired a tax accountant, and he has requested to me to provide business expense receipts ASAP for blue form deductions for 2020. Besides physical receipts, the greatest collection of my online purchases are with Amazon Japan. Amazon USA has a convenient feature where one can download order history from any period as a .CSV file. A couple of clicks and you're done!

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-download- ... 1834353979

For Amazon Japan, under "Ordering and shopping preferences," I couldn't find a "Download order reports" option. I contacted Amazon Japan support and alas, .CSV export functionality is available for the USA but not Japan

A workaround that I figured out was to view my 2020 order history as a web page and use an app to capture to PDF. I'm on a Mac and my PDF capture tool of choice is Paparazzi! 10 webpage captures versus manually downloading 100 PDF invoices one by one. Sounds like a win in my book.

I began writing this post out of frustration, but then once I figured out a workaround, thought that I would share. Also, am interested if others have encountered this problem, and what efficient solutions you've figured out? Thank you.

If you can view it on your iPhone, you can get one PDF of the whole page using the new screenshot tool instead of making ten captures

https://mobile.twitter.com/nickmurftwee ... 6264956928

@Gareth, thanks for the suggestion. I knew that Safari could capture webpages as a PDF, but didn't realize until viewing that video link that it could be chosen AFTER taking a screenshot. Good to know.

There are 2 downsides to this method though:
1. Items are listed but there are no prices.
2. It's a screenshot so the text is an image rather than data.

I should clarify that it took 10 captures because Amazon can only display 10 orders per webpage on Chrome desktop. There are no options to view more orders.