When does Apple pay developers? The App Store fiscal calendar, payment dates and missing months

Apple’s rule is one sentence long: payments are made “within 45 days of the last day of the fiscal month in which the transaction was completed,” to the bank account and currency you entered in App Store Connect (Apple). The fiscal month is the part that needs explaining, because it decides when a sale gets paid and which report it appears in.

When will Apple pay me?

To be paid at all, Apple lists four conditions (Apple):

1. A Paid Apps Agreement in effect.
2. Banking information in App Store Connect. Apple pays the primary account on file and doesn’t split payments across accounts.
3. Proceeds above the minimum payment threshold for each country or region where you sell.
4. Any monthly invoicing your country or region requires.

Tax forms belong on that list in practice: Apple’s tax pages say you need to submit them, alongside banking information, to receive payments (Apple).

Once those are in place, Apple’s bank combines the proceeds from every currency you sell in and sends “a single payment to your bank per fiscal month.”

How does Apple’s fiscal calendar work?

Fiscal months are built from whole weeks that run Sunday to Saturday. Each quarter has a five-week month followed by two four-week months, and the year ends in late September. Fiscal 2026 ended on Saturday, September 26. In 2026 the App Store’s fiscal quarters have closed on the same days as Apple’s company quarters; Apple’s third quarter of fiscal 2026 ended on June 27 (Apple), the same day as fiscal June.

Apple’s help pages link to the official calendar inside App Store Connect, which needs a sign-in. These are the fiscal months behind this year’s payments, with the payment dates that RevenueCat and ASO.dev both list in their published calendars (RevenueCat, ASO.dev):

The pattern is 33 days from the Saturday a fiscal month ends to a Thursday payment, with New Year’s Day pushing one payment to a Friday. That sits inside Apple’s 45-day promise, but the promise is the 45 days, not the Thursday. Treat the last two rows as estimates until Payments and Financial Reports shows an expected payment date.

A fiscal month can also carry a calendar month’s name while starting in the previous one. Fiscal January 2026 began on December 28, 2025, so a purchase on December 30 sits in a January financial report. Sales and Trends, which uses calendar days in Pacific Time, files the same purchase under December.

Why is a month missing?

Most of the time, nothing is wrong. Because every quarter starts with a five-week month, payments drift against the calendar. In 2026, January, April, July and October each had two payments, and February, May and August had none. If your bookkeeping runs by calendar month, those months will look empty even though every fiscal month was paid.

When a fiscal month really wasn’t paid, Payments and Financial Reports says why (Apple):

• Expected Payment Date: the payment date hasn’t come yet.
• Balance Carried Forward: proceeds haven’t reached the minimum payment threshold and “will carry over to the next payment period.”
• Payment Returned: your bank sent the payment back. App Store Connect shows the reason and a Transaction ID. Once you fix the banking details, Apple says returned earnings can take up to two regular payment cycles to resend.

There are two quieter cases. A fiscal month with no purchases or refunds produces no financial report at all (Apple), and an expired agreement or missing tax form stops payments until it is fixed.

What is the minimum payment threshold?

Apple publishes a table of thresholds by bank country and account currency. Many common pairs, such as a USD account in the United States, a EUR account in the euro area or a GBP account in the United Kingdom, are listed at 0.02 USD. Any bank country or currency not in the table must exceed 40 USD. A small app paid into an unlisted currency can carry its balance forward for months before a payment goes out.

What currency are you paid in, and who takes the fees?

You are paid in your bank account’s currency. Apple’s bank does the conversion, typically at the spot rate on the payment date and no more than three business days before the money reaches your account (Apple). Apple sends low-value transfers instead of wires where it can, but your bank or an intermediary bank may still deduct fees, and the deposit can be smaller than the amount App Store Connect shows.

That is why the estimate and the payment differ. Before a month is paid, App Store Connect shows Total Estimated Proceeds, and Apple says the actual amount can differ mainly because of exchange-rate movement and withholding tax, which is applied when the payment is made (Apple).

Where do you see payments in App Store Connect?

Payments and Financial Reports, which needs the Account Holder, Admin or Finance role. Payment information for the previous fiscal month starts to appear on the first Wednesday of the current fiscal month, and the financial reports for every country and region are ready by the first Friday (Apple). You can ask for an email when they arrive.

A paid month shows the amount in your bank currency, the bank name with the last four digits of the account, the issue date and a seven-digit Transaction ID, also called a Consolidated Credit Identifier. Have that ID ready if you need to ask Apple or your bank about a deposit. For any country or region you can open units, amounts in the local currency, taxes and adjustments, and the exchange rate applied.

The downloadable financial reports come as a single file for all countries and regions, as separate files for each location, or as a detailed version with transaction and settlement dates, and Apple keeps them for ten years. They can also be fetched through the App Store Connect API.

Why doesn’t the payment match Sales and Trends?

Sales and Trends counts a purchase when the customer starts it and estimates USD amounts with last month’s average exchange rates. The financial reports count settled transactions in fiscal months and use the rate applied to your bank’s currency. My July post on proceeds and sales goes through every column and the reasons the two sets of numbers drift apart.

Where AppMeta Pulse fits

AppMeta Pulse reads the daily Sales and Trends reports through the App Store Connect API. It doesn’t read Payments and Financial Reports, so it can’t tell you when a payment will land or what it will be after conversion and fees. For that, the Payments page above is the source.

Payments and Financial Reports is still the first place Pulse sends you: the Vendor Number it needs to download sales reports is shown there, under your legal entity name. After that, Pulse covers the daily side, with proceeds and downloads by app, net of refunds, and subscription figures such as the MRR worked out from Apple’s Subscription report. It also keeps its own copy of the daily reports after Apple’s one-year window for them closes.