Earnings and payouts
What you earn from each paid statement, and how it reaches your bank or wallet.
What you earn
Storeware takes no share of app sales, ever. There is no threshold and no limit: your first sale and your millionth are treated the same, and the Developer Terms say no change to them will add a share. When a merchant's statement is paid, each line on it for your app becomes an earning: what it brought into Storeware's Stripe balance, less the fees Stripe charged for collecting it, which are passed on at cost.
- The processing fee is the one Stripe actually charged on the payment, shared over the lines on the statement by what each charged.
- The invoicing fee is Stripe's rate on a paid invoice, shared the same way.
- A statement in pounds, euros or rupees settles in dollars, so conversion is in what it brought in.
- A credit for unused time gives back its part.
- Each earning is held 30 days, then waits for the next payout. A dispute takes its amount and Stripe's dispute fee back from the earnings it paid, and returns them if the dispute is won.
- Test charges earn too, marked as tests and with no fees, so you can follow the numbers. They are never paid out.
Your Earnings page in the Developer area shows the balance, each app and every movement.
Getting paid
Set up your payout account from Payouts on your Earnings page. Set your country on your developer profile first, because how you are paid depends on where you are. You never sign in to Stripe: everything is in the Developer area, and an owner of your organisation sets it up after a code from their sign-in app.
| Where you are | How you are paid |
|---|---|
| The US, the UK, the EEA, Canada or Switzerland | To your bank account, through a payout account you set up with Stripe's screens inside the Developer area. |
| About 20 more countries, such as India, Australia, Mexico and Singapore | To your bank account in your own currency, through Stripe Global Payouts. You may choose a USDC wallet instead. |
| About 110 more countries, such as Brazil, Nigeria, Kenya and Japan | In USDC to a crypto wallet you own, through Stripe Global Payouts. |
That is about 160 countries in all. Where Stripe reaches neither a bank nor a wallet, the Payouts page says so, and your earnings are kept.
- Global Payouts opens country by country as Stripe turns it on for Storeware. Until it is open for you, the page says so and your earnings wait.
- For a bank account or a wallet, you give your name, your address and the account in Storeware's own form. The account number or wallet address goes straight to Stripe; Storeware keeps only Stripe's reference to it.
- A wallet payout is USDC on the network you name, and usually arrives in minutes. Check the address and the network: money sent to a wrong address cannot be got back.
- On the first of each month, your available earnings are sent when they come to at least $25. Less waits for the next month, as a negative balance does.
- What Stripe charges to pay you out, including any currency conversion, is taken from the payout, at cost.
- Your payouts and, in the US, your tax forms are on the same page.
- Download any month of your earnings as CSV for your books.
- Your app's charges stay test charges until your payout account is ready and Storeware turns on real billing for the app.