Publishing a book on Amazon KDP can be a difficult task for some. Made even harder for those of you who are publishing on KDP from South Africa. To reiterate, entering your South African banking details into Amazon KDP is possible for authors from South Africa.
How to load your South African banking details into Amazon KDP?
- First create your account with Amazon KDP
- Enter your South African banking account info into the KDP account setup.
- Make sure your KDP account name matches your “Banking Account Holder” name.
- When asked for BSB – simply enter your bank branch number.
- You should see a screen similar to the one below, once done 👇
Watch me do it on YouTube here.
What is a Purpose of Payment?
The circled section above has confused many authors (as seen from the comments on my article on the topic of entering SA banking details with Amazon KDP.)
The Purpose of Payments / Reason for Transfer is simply referring to a yearly form received via email from the South African Reserve Bank that would want to know why you are needing to receive funds from outside of the country. I received my email from on the 2nd January 2024 containing the link to an online for with 5 simple steps to complete.
Sent By: Bidvest Bank <>
Email Subject: South African Reserve Bank Reporting Exchange4Free Mandate
Body:
Dear David
We are reaching out to kindly remind you to sign your South African Reserve Bank (“SARB”) reporting mandate to continue receiving international payments for 2024. The SARB requires you to sign a mandate every year to continue receiving international payments…
If you have recently signed up to collect royalties from Amazon KDP – Keep an eye out for something similar in your inbox. If you have not yet received an email like one shown below, I think it may only be triggered once Amazon tries to actually action a payment to your account. In other words, you may need to wait a little while until Amazon tries to pay you.
Anyway, I just wanted to share the email with you, as I know how confusing this may seem. For any other queries involving Amazon KDP South Africa, I recommend reading this article on the topic.
Let me know me if I helped you?
Good day,
I have been receiving payments from KDP regularly, without any problems, up until the end of 2023. After that, the message about the PoP has been displayed.
I cannot find an e-mail from my bank that asks for the reason.
How do I correct this problem?
Kind regards,
Frans Van Wyk
Hi Frans, first point of call would be to scan KDP payment reports to confirm that they are in fact trying to pay you.
IF you do see “Failed” payment attempts from Amazon KDP in the reports, I recommend searching your relevant email inbox using different keywords such as [] OR [Exchange4Free Mandate] to see if there is perhaps an email that you have missed. Let me know if this doesnt help?
Thanks very much. I am busy sorting it out with Bidvest Bank.
Glad you came right Frans 🎉
Thanks a lot for this article. It is of great help. I am currently seeing the exclamation mark about that PoP issue. I was asking myself what to do with it. So, since it’s Amazon KDP itself that will have to innitiate the process, then I can rest assured that payments will reach my current account.
Hey there! I would recommend checking the payment reports from Amazon KDP on a semi-regular basis. When a payment is attempted by Amazon for the first time you are likely to see the SA Reserve Bank email (if you had not already completed it online)
Hi Dave! Quick question here from a brand new and very confused author. My understanding from the above is that I don’t need to do anything immediately for the “Reason for Transfer” / PoP – I can expect an email to randomly arrive if and when Amazon tries to pay me? If all other details I load are correct then all will be well?
This is plenty of help Bos Dave.
I’m taking slow steps, but it’s really great knowing that there’s a solid place I can turn to if the hiccups do arise… Thanks alot of the wisdom… There’s a saying in zulu (just can’t get the words right in my head at the moment)… But it implies that “The way one wants to go, is asked from the ones that have been there”…
Again Namaste.
Anytime, thanks for leaving your comments 🙂
Hi and many thanks for this.
I got such a mail last year from Absa. I tried to fill the form but couldn’t find anything that said Royalties. I picked something I thought was fine but haven’t received any payment since then.
Every month, I get a mail from KDP Support saying payment failed. I haven’t gotten any mail to sign the reporting mandate this year.
I wonder if you have any suggestions for me.
Thank you
Heya Niyi, as long as you submitted the mandate that is the important part. Obvs, you should also be seeing a similar form for 2024 too, I recommend scanning your inbox for emails containing keywords seen in the 2023 mandate to be safe! My advice if payments are failing (and you have submitted 2024 mandate) would be to ensure your [KDP Account Name = Banking Account Holder Name.]
The names being (even subtly) different often cause payments to fail. Let me know if this helps you?