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New Dev Here, not sure I'm understanding the Payout calculation right.

A topic by byolivierb created Aug 10, 2018 Views: 602 Replies: 2
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First, I sent an e-mail to support five days ago but I received no answer. I understand that itch must receive a lot of those e-mails and are not a massive company, I'm not blaming them. I'm just curious if I'm understanding my payout settings right.

I have my revenue sharing set to 30% to itch, 70% to me. I've reconfirmed this multiple time.

Under the initiate a new payout option, the amount shown (let's say it's 50$ for sake of argument) is far from matching that sharing. The 50$ amounts for a little over a third of my purchases money. Even if the percentage would be inverted, 70% for itch and 30% for me, it still wouldn't make sense. I know not all purchases are available right now, but even without taking the recent purchases into account the number is much lower than 70% of the available purchases.

So what am I missing here? Is paypal taking a massive cut of that money? Is it tax stuff that I'm missing or forgot about? Or is there really a bug happening here.

Again, I'm not blaming itch at all, I'm sure there's a reason for this and I'd like to understand. I'm not particularly stressed out about that money personally.

Thank you!

Admin (1 edit) (+2)

itch.io's cut does not include the fee added by the payment processor. Payment processor fees are applied per transaction, not per payout. So if you sold 50 items for 1 dollar then the 30 cents + 2.9% payment processor fee would be a significant portion of the revenue, about 50 * 0.33 = $16.50

We recommend charging as much as you feel comfortable with to reduce the fee from the payment processor. For example, if you sold 10 units for 5 dollars, the fee would about 10 * 0.45 = $4.50

Thanks for the answer, though I worry this still doesn’t make much sense for my case. I didn’t sell that many units but sold them for a fair amount. I don’t know how much Paypal or Stripe takes, but I don’t think it’s up to 30%.

Sadly I’d need to get into numbers and I guess the forums is not the place to do that, so I might need to wait for an official answer from the support.

For my case, on one purchase of about 10$, I get 4$ payout. It would mean itch takes 30%, it would mean the payment processor fee is also 30% which I’m sure is not the case.

Maybe I’m all understanding this wrong, sorry for that. Thanks for the help.

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