How and When Creator Payouts Work

Key Takeaways:

Your revenue flows to us from Apple, Google, Stripe, and referral commissions—each on its own schedule, and the app stores are slow by design
The 15th is our standard monthly payout review; only provider funds we have actually received and reconciled are included
The standard payment minimum is $100; a smaller received balance stays in your ledger and carries into the next review
Every payout in your dashboard is itemized down to the individual source, so you can always see exactly what you were paid and why

When you build an app with us, you keep the majority of the revenue. That part is simple. The part worth explaining is the timing—because how the app stores pay is not how most people expect. Here's exactly how the money moves and what appears in a payout statement. If you're still weighing whether app revenue is worth it, we've run the numbers in brand deals vs subscription apps and shown how 500 subscribers can clear $10K a month.

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Where Your Money Actually Comes From

Your app can earn from more than one place, and each one pays out differently:

The Apple App Store and Google Play collect subscriptions and in-app purchases from your users, take their platform fee, and remit the rest to us—usually around a month or more after the sales happen.
Stripe, when your app takes payments directly on the web, settles much faster—typically within days.
Referral commissions, if you've referred another creator, are paid on their own cadence.

We record each source after the money reaches us and we reconcile it to the provider report. Revenue that Apple, Google, Stripe, or another provider has reported but not yet paid to us is not part of the received balance.

The Payout Schedule

The 15th is our standard monthly payout review. We review the received, reconciled balance recorded by that cutoff. If the balance meets the payment minimum, we send payment and record the transfer. If it does not, we send no payment and the balance remains in the ledger for the next review. Provider funds received after the cutoff appear in a later statement according to the timing in your agreement. The reason we wait for money to settle first is that app-store revenue can change after the sale. Refunds, chargebacks, taxes, currency conversion, and platform adjustments can all affect the provider's final remittance. If a provider later issues a correction, we record that correction as its own ledger line so the change is visible.

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Why There's a Minimum

The standard payout minimum is $100. If your received balance comes in under it, we don't drop it or make you chase it—it simply rolls forward and is included in the next monthly review. This avoids disproportionate bank fees and reconciliation costs on tiny transfers. Rolling a small balance forward keeps your money in the ledger; it does not erase it.

Everything Is Itemized

Open the Payouts tab in your dashboard and every payment expands into creator-readable source lines: the provider, the earnings period, when we received the funds, the app proceeds, the revenue-share rate, and your share. Internal transaction IDs stay out of the way; the accounting records remain available to our finance team for audit. Transparency here isn't a feature we bolted on—it's the whole point. You should never have to email us to find out what you were paid or why.

Questions Are Always Welcome

Money should be the least stressful part of building your app. If anything about a payout ever looks off, or you just want to understand it better, reach out—we'll walk you through it line by line.

How and When Creator Payouts Work

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