Itch.io has a minimum payout of $5 after deductions. It is better to ask for payouts less frequently, because you save on the payment processing fee - i.e. PayPal charges a fee for the payout, Itch.io does not.
The adjustments are:
- The tax clearance fee of $3. Itch.io covers the cost if there are no sales on the account, but when the account does have sales, they recover it from those sales. This is an once-off fee.
- Historically itch.io was covering some the payment processor fee to pay the funds out to the developer - but they decided to recover these from the developers as well. There can also then be an adjustment for those fees if you had received a payment in the past, before itch.io implemented this rule.