View Your Payments and Earnings
Note: Sign in to the developer console to build or publish your skill.
Use the Alexa developer console to see your payments and earnings for in-skill products and paid skills.
For details about the developer console, see Create and Manage Skills in the Developer Console.
Overview
Note: The Earnings and Payments sections in the developer console are only available to those users with an Administrator or Analyst role. For more details, see Manage user permissions.
The Earnings section displays the amount of earnings you have received each month from in-skill purchases (ISP) or paid skills.
The Payments section displays payments made to you for ISP or paid skills.
You can download the Earnings and Payments reports as a CSV file.
Earnings
List of available metrics for Earnings:
| Category | Definition |
|---|---|
| Skill | The name of your skill. |
| Type | Earnings come from ISP or paid skills. The type shows the type of purchase: Entitlement (one-time purchase), Consumable, or Subscription. |
| Product | (For ISP only) The name of the product. |
| Marketplace | The Amazon marketplace URL associated with the customer's account. For example, Amazon.com or Amazon.de. |
| Units sold | The gross number of times customers were charged for one-time purchases/consumables or active paid subscriptions. Units Sold doesn't include credit card charges that are still pending or that were later declined. This number might differ from Purchases which includes all offers accepted by customers. |
| Developer earnings | Your gross share of monthly earnings. |
| Units refunded | The number of one-time purchase, consumable, or subscription charges refunded. |
| Refunds | Your royalty portion of the total amount refunded to customers. |
| Adjustments | Adjustments are typically adhoc in nature, not associated with specific transactions, and could include certain price promotions and other manual fixes. |
| Earnings before tax | Your earnings after refunds and adjustments. Actual payment amounts might differ when royalties are subject to tax withholding or payment thresholds aren't met. Learn more about payments and earnings. |
Payments
List of available metrics for Payments:
| Category | Definition |
|---|---|
| Payment date | The date that Amazon issued your payment. |
| Status | After Amazon has disburses your payment, the payment status is Issued . When your bank is unable to receive your funds, the payment status is Failed. This status indicates that there might be a problem with your payment settings. |
| Program | Earnings can come from Monetization (ISP and paid skills) programs. |
| Marketplace | The Amazon marketplace URL associated with the customer's account. For example, Amazon.com or Amazon.de. |
| Earnings period |
The earnings period starts on 12AM of the first day of the month in the time zone associated with the marketplace where earnings occurred. For example, Amazon.com - 12AM US/Pacific Amazon.co.uk - 12AM Europe/London Amazon.de - 12AM Europe/Berlin |
| Earnings before tax | Your earnings after refunds and adjustments. Actual payment amounts might differ when royalties are subject to tax withholding or when payment thresholds aren't met. Learn more about payments and earnings. |
| Tax withheld | The taxes Amazon withholds from your earnings due to tax withholding requirements. For details about taxes, see Set Up Tax Forms for Your Account. |
| Payment method | The method used to disburse your payment, such as Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) or check. |
| FX rate | The exchange rate that your bank uses to convert earnings to your home currency. |
| Total payment | Your total earnings from each marketplace in your home currency. Final amounts might not appear until your bank confirms receipt of funds. |
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Last updated: Jul 01, 2024