Payouts

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Five payout rails compared by cost, country coverage and who handles identity verification

Affiliate Payout Automation for App Creators: Rails Compared

Stripe Connect, PayPal Payouts, Wise, a bank transfer or a CSV: what each rail costs, who carries identity checks and tax forms, and why the App Store settlement date, not the commission date, sets your payout schedule.

Four subscription events sorted by whether each one claws back an affiliate commission

Affiliate Clawback Policy for Subscription App Payouts

A refund reverses an affiliate commission. A cancellation does not. This is the difference, the hold period that avoids most clawbacks, and a clause you can paste.

A subscription price changing across twelve months with the affiliate commission marked at each change

Affiliate Commission on Upgrades, Downgrades, Prorations

Eight subscription lifecycle events change what a creator is owed without ever looking like a purchase. What an upgrade, a downgrade, a proration, a pause and a transfer should each do to the commission ledger.

A 9.99 dollar subscription split into store commission, tax and developer proceeds, with the affiliate commission shown against gross and against net

Net or Gross? Affiliate Commission After Apple's Cut

Twenty percent of gross is roughly twenty nine percent of what you actually keep. The arithmetic on a $9.99 subscription at both App Store rates, and the one-line definition to paste into a creator offer.

One hundred trials converting to forty subscriptions, with per trial and per conversion commission costs compared

Do Affiliates Get Paid on Free Trials? Pay on Conversion

No, and the arithmetic says why. A trial start arrives at a price of zero, the conversion arrives later as a flagged renewal, and that is the event worth a commission.

A single commission rate expanding into the ten policy decisions it actually requires

Recurring Affiliate Commissions and Subscription Payouts

A commission rate is one number. Running it on a subscription is about ten decisions: recurrence length, hold periods, clawbacks, the store cut, attribution and the payout rails.