Ask HN: How long does it take Apple to pay you after you sell apps?

There's some info towards the bottom of this article:

http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/1570-how-to-track-your-ipho...

"About 2 weeks after the end of the month, you'll start to get emails from Apple with a subject line that begins with "iTunes Financial Report". That's great news—Apple has taken the first step toward paying you."

My app has been out for just over a month, I haven't gotten this yet but I expect it sometime in July.

If you've earnt over $150 in a region (uk, us, Europe, Canada, Australia, japan, rest of world... Off the top of my head). Then you will usually have the money in your account just before the end of the following month. Although you'll start to receive financial reports mid way through the month.

E.g Jan) 100$ - uk Feb) 100$ - uk (your now over 150$ for the region) Mar) financial report around the 14th onwards then money in the bank by the end of the month

Back when I expected to get some $ from an app I worked in the past on, I typically banked on 40 days after the payment period.

I believe that the agreement says 45 days after the end of the payment period. From personal observation, the payment periods are the end of the month, plus/minus three days. I've seen payments get paid within 25 days and get paid after 45 days (and angry emails written).

Typically, about 25 days after the end of the month in my experience. For reference, I got paid on 6/23/10 for May, 5/26/10 for April, and 4/28/10 for March.

Thanks for all the feedback, we started selling a bunch of apps just after the first of the month, so it looks like it won't be until the end of next month until we get paid. Oh boy, that is going to be a liquidity problem...

Thanks again everyone.

You don't get paid anything until you make >$150 month in one particular financial region. In my case, been going on near a year and I still haven't made $150. whimper

In the Winter 2010 session of the Stanford iTunes U - iPhone programming course someone came to talk to the class and said the expect 90 days. But I suppose YMMV

We had an excellent month and so far haven't heard anything.