iOS Has anyone gotten paid for Apps yet?!?!

[atlandrew]

All,

I have 4 applications in the App Store with 2 on the way (read In Review). The first one got into the store in late August. When can I expect to receive payment?? Has anyone gotten paid yet? If so, how will I be paid? Thanks in advance guys...

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p.s. My games are iCanSketchIt, Knight's Run, Colorblind, and Hi-Lo.
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[nattylux]

We got paid on August 22 for July sales. Expect payment for August sales any day now. Remember also that you only get paid for a region if you make over $250 there. If not, it will roll over to the next month.

 

[jolla]

Is that $250 / country? $250 for each app-store!? That would suck! You can have a $200+ in 30 different stores but not get paid? Wow.

 

[NT1440]

Is that $250 / country? $250 for each app-store!? That would suck! You can have a $200+ in 30 different stores but not get paid? Wow.

No offense man, but it sounds like you really didnt read the terms of development for your apps.

 

[jolla]

Non taken, I actually did read it, and do remember something like that. But I might have skipped the part thinking "ah yeah need 250 or wont get paid" not realising that 250 per region meant that I needed 250/store. My reaction above was obviously a bit of an overstatement

 

[NT1440]

Non taken, I actually did read it, and do remember something like that. But I might have skipped the part thinking "ah yeah need 250 or wont get paid" not realising that 250 per region meant that I needed 250/store. My reaction above was obviously a bit of an overstatement

OMG, a response on MR where someone didnt take something personally!

the times they are a changing

 

[jolla]

But now that we are talking about it (I assume the original TS-question was answered by the first reply) - does anyone have any idea why Apple does this? I assume it is a tax thing; you are actually earning money by selling products in a lot of different countries. Countries need to be kept seperate for the administration?

 

[NT1440]

But now that we are talking about it (I assume the original TS-question was answered by the first reply) - does anyone have any idea why Apple does this? I assume it is a tax thing; you are actually earning money by selling products in a lot of different countries. Countries need to be kept seperate for the administration?

I'm pretty sure it would have to do alot with marketing laws amongst other laws being different among so many different countries.

 

[Pring]

It isn't per store.. it's per region. The regions are:

United States
Australia
Canada
Europe
United Kingdom
Japan
Rest of World

 

[firewood]

...does anyone have any idea why Apple does this?

They make money on the interest of all the tiny revenues they hold till they reach the threshold for payment.

It's also probably an accounting thing. Lots of tiny transfers costs more in reporting and support costs for handling problems with a whole bunch more wire transfers from each country.

It also discourages unpopular apps which can't sell at least $250/mo in at least the biggest of the major markets, at least in the paid portion of the store.

 

[admanimal]

I received my payout from Canada for August today. I expect the others to follow by the end of the week.

 

[GabeJ]

How are you getting paid

Does apple pay by check? Or some other way?

 

[admanimal]

Does apple pay by check? Or some other way?

Direct deposit from Apple U.S. and wire transfers from international regions.

 

[fixie rider]

Direct deposit from Apple U.S. and wire transfers from international regions.

Is the "rest of the world" region also a wire transfer? These are the ones in USD, correct?

I only received monthly financial reports for the other 6 regions. unfortunately my record keeping is pretty bad, so i'm not sure if US report includes all USD or only USD in US.