{"id":10364,"date":"2014-12-21T15:37:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T20:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10364"},"modified":"2014-12-21T15:37:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T20:37:39","slug":"apple-app-store-affiliate-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/21\/apple-app-store-affiliate-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple App Store Affiliate Payments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Drang<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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But I am annoyed at PHG’s policies for releasing funds. First, there’s the 60-day delay between the sale and the payment of affiliate fees. Given that all these transactions are electronic, I don’t see why the delay is more than 30 days. Second, there’s the $30 threshold that has to be met before payment is sent. I understand that PHG doesn’t want to accumulate the administrative costs that come with lots of very small payments, but Amazon’s threshold is only $10 if you have the money sent directly to a bank account. Finally, there’s the fact that PHG applies the $30 threshold not to the aggregate of all fees, but to each individual currency used in the various iTunes Stores.<\/p>\n

It’s this last policy that really bothers me. At the moment I have the equivalent of about $100 in fees from non-US purchases sitting at PHG, but because they’re spread across several currencies, I can’t collect any of it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’m guessing that the 60 days is related to credit card chargebacks. My own affiliate sales are even more modest than Drang’s. I barely cleared the $30 USD threshold for the first year. Most of the other currencies are under $3. For the last couple month’s, I’ve had a mystery $33.19 credit in my bank account from American Express. Neither the bank nor the credit card company was ever able to tell me where it came from. After reading Drang’s post, I logged into PHG for the first time in a long while and noticed that Apple had automatically paid me that same amount. I still don’t know why the credit shows up as from American Express, given that all my other Apple payments show up as from Apple.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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