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iOS Anyone Get Paid yet?
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I got USA today as well the biggest and most important one of the bunch. 3 regions down, 4 to go.
Ethan
Ethan
Not Getting the $250 in a region
I know some people did get paid for regions they didn't have $250, but I didn't. I had like $175 worth of sales in Europe. So here are my questions. 1) Was anyone at the end of the year end contract with Apple? (I don't think this the case for anyone. Even the people who were admitted early didn't start a year ago from what I recall) 2) Are you in country that mandates payments at year end? 3) Who has got the smallest check from where?
I know some people did get paid for regions they didn't have $250, but I didn't. I had like $175 worth of sales in Europe. So here are my questions. 1) Was anyone at the end of the year end contract with Apple? (I don't think this the case for anyone. Even the people who were admitted early didn't start a year ago from what I recall) 2) Are you in country that mandates payments at year end? 3) Who has got the smallest check from where?
I just got an international payment today. No sure from where though 
Edit: I just got off the phone with my bank, it turns out it came out of Ireland, could that be GB?
Edit: I just got off the phone with my bank, it turns out it came out of Ireland, could that be GB?
So far three of my five payments were under $250.
1) No, mine expires in the summer.
2) United States...dunno if it mandates payments.
3) My smallest is Australia which is about a hundred below the minimum. It's not surprising that the lowest would be from Australia. It's technically the smallest (not in landsize) region...I think.
Still waiting on the EU. Damn why does it take so long to pay us?
If i sell something on Ebay, Paypal takes 2-4 days to get your money. It takes Apple damn near a whole month or longer?
If i sell something on Ebay, Paypal takes 2-4 days to get your money. It takes Apple damn near a whole month or longer?
Still waiting on the EU. Damn why does it take so long to pay us?
If i sell something on Ebay, Paypal takes 2-4 days to get your money. It takes Apple damn near a whole month or longer?
Because when you sell something on ebay it is a person to person transaction. With the app store its a person to corporation to person. And in the case of EU payments, its a person to corp, internationally to the US, then to person. There are a lot more complications when you add in the extra variables. If you can't take the wait, you might want to get out of development for this platform and move towards a platform where you can require payments directly to you.
Isn't that the samething with ebay?.
Buyer Bids on your item, Buyer Pays PayPal(Corporation) > PayPal pays you!
Buyer see your app, Buyer pays Itunes(Apple)> Apple pays you!.
I can see where your coming from. I just think apple is to slow and doesn't care because there is no competition .
Just like it takes 1-2 Week to approve your application for the App store!!
The difference is that the money that Apple pays any one developer comes from processing thousands of credit card transactions and then getting that money from the credit card company. Then there is probably extra accounting and taxes that they have to handle since they are actually the ones selling the software and also making money from it. Multiply this by tens of thousands of developers and 20-something different countries and it shouldn't be that hard to imagine how this process takes a while. Plus I wouldn't be surprised if the App Store payment processing is combined with the rest of iTunes payment processing behind the scenes, which increases the scale of the process by several orders of magnitude.
A single eBay transaction doesn't even compare in scale to what Apple has to do to get you your money for a month.
Ebay/Paypal has over 150 Million Accounts all over the world that buy/sell every day. they process credit card transactions the same way Apple does. Apple only has 40-50 Million Itunes accounts.
I think its Apples lack of developer support is the reason.
They took a whole month to process my Contracts, They take Weeks(Some developers claim months) to approve a application. I think its the same when it comes to being paid also.
I don't mean to be a cry baby but sometimes you have to voice your opinion . Because if you don't they will feel like they can walk all over you.
The music side of iTunes is done the same way. Its their business model, take it or leave it.
Google Adsense also works in a similar manner. Payments aren't received until the end of the following month.
Apple is taking longer than normal this cycle, but also keep in mind that they appear to be sending out payments from all 7 regions for everybody.
Apple is taking longer than normal this cycle, but also keep in mind that they appear to be sending out payments from all 7 regions for everybody.