Total earnings on a sale

Calculating your earnings on a sale is very simple :

You decide at which price your content or service will be sold (in EUR and USD)
We charge you a 5% payment processing fee for 3Dsecure card transactions (8% for non-3DS transactions)
If your country of residence is in Europe, we have to apply VAT to our payment processing fee
The remainder is your earnings!

Typically, your customers will purchase multiple items at a time using our Shopping Cart feature. We display a Sale Item ID and your corresponding earnings for each item sold.

Examples without VAT

Let's review a couple of examples together : 


You sell a live show for 100 USD
We charge you 5%, which is 5 USD
Your total earnings are 95 USD


You receive a donation of 20 EUR
We charge you 5%, which is 1 EUR
Your total earnings are 19 EUR

Examples with VAT

Let's review a couple of examples together : 


Your country of residence is Germany, for which the standard VAT rate is 19%
You sell a live show for 100 USD
We charge you 5%, which is 5 USD
We must charge you 19% VAT on our 5 USD payment processing fee, which is 0.95 USD
Your total earnings are 94.15 USD


Your country of residence is France, for which the standard VAT rate is 20%
You receive a donation of 20 EUR
We charge you 5%, which is 1 EUR
We must charge you 20% VAT on our 1 EUR payment processing fee, which is 0.20 EUR
Your total earnings are 18.80 EUR

Total earnings vs. Earnings available for payout

Please note that your total earnings are the amount we will pay you eventually.

For us to pay your earnings, they first need to have the Claimed Earnings status.
👉 Read more on How to claim your earnings

FairPay pays your earnings 16 days in arrears and has a 5% Rolling Reserve.
👉 Read more on our Payout Schedule

Updated on: 05/09/2023