Take control of every Amazon Business account on your company domain

When purchasing is scattered across ungoverned accounts, organizations lose visibility, control, and savings opportunities. The cost of this fragmentation is well documented. According to The Hackett Group, organizations lose 5-16% of targeted procurement savings to maverick purchasing. When multiplied across regions and departments, this maverick purchasing can account for up to 20% of indirect spend. 

For administrators, this fragmentation means you can't govern accounts you can't see. Security controls like Single Sign-On (SSO) and 2-Step Verification don't reach those users. Finance loses a complete record of what the organization actually buys. And every ungoverned account is a blind spot. For compliance, for cost control, and for security. Account Authority closes that gap.

What Account Authority does

Account Authority is an Amazon Business capability that lets organizations verify ownership of their company email domain and bring every Amazon Business account on that domain under one official, governed account. The result: centralized control, a complete view of organizational spend, and security policies that reach every user, not just the ones who happened to find the right account.

Govern your purchasing account from one place

When accounts are created across the organization without oversight, policy enforcement becomes a guessing game. Research shows that non-compliant procurement practices cost organizations 12–15% of total spend with distributed teams facing the worst enforcement gaps.

Account Authority gives administrators one place to set the rules and let the system enforce them automatically: 

• New account routing: Once your domain is verified, anyone who tries to create an Amazon Business account with your company email is routed through your approval process. Every account on the domain is sanctioned and tracked.

• Consumer account conversion: Buyers who start a consumer Amazon account on your domain are prompted to switch to your official Business account, closing the consumer-purchase loophole without disrupting their work. 

• Works hand-in-hand with User Management: Account Authority establishes the verified perimeter. User Management governs who operates inside it: inviting, managing, and offboarding users so onboarding and offboarding stay clean as your organization grows.

Centralized organizational spend

Spend you can't see is spend you can't manage. Account Authority detects Business accounts created with your verified domain and lets administrators consolidate them under your organization's official account, turning scattered purchasing into a complete, reportable picture. From there, your spend flows into Amazon Business Analytics, custom reports, and dashboards, so you can track procurement adherence, demonstrate compliance, and make decisions from one trusted record instead of piecing data together across accounts.

Extend your account security to every user

Security controls only protect the users they reach. When accounts live outside your official account, your investments in identity and access protection leave gaps. Account Authority gives those controls a verified domain to operate on. SSO covers users routed through your domain, and mandatory 2-Step Verification protects every user on the official account. The result is consistent protection across every user on the domain, not just the ones who happened to land on the official account.

How to set up Account Authority

Getting started centers on verifying your company email domain, which typically takes 1-2 days. You may want your IT team involved for the technical path. To verify by DNS:

• Go to Business Settings. 

• Select Domain Verification in the System Integration section.

• Click Add a domain. 

• Enter your root domain (the part after @ in your company email).

• Click Submit. 

• Add the verification code to your domain's DNS server.

• Select Verify domain from the Actions dropdown. 

• Confirm the status changes from "Unverified" to "Verified."

• Once verified, you set your account creation and consolidation policies, and Account Authority enforces them automatically from that point forward. 

Account Authority is the foundation the rest of your Amazon Business setup builds on. Learn more about setting up Account Authority in this short training video.