BlackBerry App World™ Development

[mapleleafs90]

According to the app world report on my app sales this is how much has sold.

To date I have received only $68 from DRI App World

Total Sale	$168
Total Royalty	$118

Shouldn't I have made $118? It's been 3.5 months since I launched the app

[peter9477]

What was the date range you used to make the calculation? Payments lag behind actual sales by a while... up to one month, nominally. Next payment is in a bit less than two weeks, so your last one would have missed a big chunk of the Christmas sales.

[mapleleafs90]

Even without christmas included its still close to $100 I should have.

I don't recall ever receiving a Bango payment or whatever, its always 2 DRI App World payments every month, 1 usually about half the amount of the other.

I heard the bongo payments lag 3 monthsbehind but its past that and havent received one.

[peter9477]

What app is it? (Bango is only for carrier payments, so likely nobody gets those for a PlayBook app yet.)

[mapleleafs90]

App is called Profile Assist. I thought the credit card payments took 3 months to be sent.

[mapleleafs90]

Alright so I just got this months payment, still it does not make any sense to me..

I received TWO seperate paypal payments, one of $9.32 and on of $9.95 for a total of $19.27 USD.

The last payment I received was on December 22nd for $18.24 and $7.59 for a total of $25.83.

So I am assuming this $19.27 payment starts from the December 22nd, 2011 and ends January 24th, 2012?

I generated a report using these dates, uploaded to appworldreports.com and found that I did 

Total Sale	$48
Total Royalty	$34

So how exactly does $19.27 USD = $34 USD?

Am I missing something here?

[bec0ding]

My payments are way off aswell, calculating DRI takes around 50% fee (slightly more.) I keep receiving two PDF from Digital River.

This is a huge problem for BB devs if it's the case. The whole process should be more transparent aswell. (Example : Android)

Would like more input from long time devs.

Tyvm

[bec0ding]

I've done a lot of reading and I came up with this :

On the Vendor FAQ, it's written that Digital River has a 100$ min to send payments and Bango (Carrier billing) has a 50$ min but it looks like Digital River now sends no matter how much the amount every month. I'm thinking that bango still respects the minimum amount of 50$ though and that's why we're missing money from our payments. Once the carrier billing amount is reached on the new month, the payment will be made.

[DMA2011]

The DR payments are for the previous calendar month and tie up with the epen report available around the 10th of the month on the DR site. You should be able to tie this report back to a downloaded purchase report for the month (minus any carrier billing).  Any carrier billing is on a seperate invoice from bango, which generally sends an invoice on the second/third of the month covering the previous month, but doesn't pay out until the following month.

[smiley]

You also have to factory in refunds which are not listed on the reports. Also if are in Canada

Operator Bill CAN Rogers Canada (RIM) less 0.5% for chargeback
Operator Bill CAN Telus Canada (RIM) less 1% for uncollectables

The billing process needs to be revamped and devs need to see realtime reports sold, cost, returns etc...