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How it works

Payouts and your balance

Updated August 25, 2026

Money copy is exact or absent, so this page states the precise rules: when a credit becomes withdrawable, what the dashboard gates a withdrawal on, and where payouts work today. Where a number is operator-tunable, the dashboard - not this page - shows the current value.

creditedlands the moment an impression is verified
still clearingthe window a fraudulent charge can be reversed in
withdrawablenever expires, not reduced while it sits
Your 70% moves through three states. Where a number is tunable, the dashboard - not this figure - shows the current value.

Your balance, in three states

  • Credited - your 70% share lands in the ledger the moment an impression is verified (see The 70% split).
  • Still clearing - earnings stay in this state for a holdback period of a few days, shown on your dashboard. This is the window in which a fraudulent charge can be reversed, so your withdrawable number never overstates what is truly yours.
  • Withdrawable - cleared earnings above the minimum. The dashboard's payout bar shows all three numbers and the current minimum, so you never have to compute anything.

Where payouts work today

Payouts currently reach bank accounts in the United States, India, and Brazil. You can earn anywhere. You cannot yet withdraw everywhere. If your bank is elsewhere, keep earning: your balance is yours, it never expires, and you will be able to withdraw it when we support your region.

How a withdrawal runs

Connecting payouts onboards you with the provider your country uses, Stripe for the United States or Wise for India and Brazil, and a tax form is collected either way; a withdrawal cannot run until that form is on file. When you withdraw, Awaitful transfers to the provider and the provider deposits to your bank. See Payouts to India, via Wise and Payouts to Brazil, via Wise for how those rails differ.

Awaitful pays the transfer fee. Every provider charges one, and it comes out of Awaitful's side rather than yours, in every country. Withdraw $20 and the whole $20 is sent on, never $20 minus a fee. Your Payouts page shows the fee anyway, so you can see what it costs to pay you.

What can still change the amount that lands is the far end. A payout outside the United States is converted into your local currency, and a country can tax that conversion or a bank can charge for receiving it. Brazil is the one to know about: IOF is deducted on arrival, after the money has left us, so it is not in the figure your Payouts page quotes. The country pages above say exactly what applies where.

you withdrawfrom your cleared, withdrawable balance
we transferto your payout provider, minus the small fee shown first
the provider depositsto your bank, on its own schedule
in your bank
A withdrawal leaves your cleared balance, goes to the payout provider, and reaches your bank in a few days. If it cannot be completed, it returns to your balance, so money is never lost in transit.

If a payout cannot be completed, it returns to your balance so you can try again. Your money is never lost in transit: it is either in your bank or in your balance, never in between.

Change where you get paid

You can replace your payout account any time, to a different bank for example, as long as no withdrawal is on the way. The change never touches your balance: it stays in your ledger, in US dollars, and lands in the new account on your next withdrawal. See Set up your payout account for how connecting works.

Your withdrawal history

The Payouts page keeps every withdrawal you have made, each one showing the account it went to and whether it has been paid, so you always have a record of where your money went - even after you change accounts.

What never happens to your balance

It does not expire, it is not reduced by fees while it sits, and it cannot be spent as ad budget if you also advertise - developer earnings and advertiser wallets are separate by construction. The one exception is play money: while the dashboard shows the test-mode banner, balances are practice numbers, reset when real payments go live. You can stop future earning instantly, any time: Turning it off lists every switch, and Your first earnings covers what accrual looks like day to day.

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