When does Shopify pay app developers?

Twice a month. Earnings from the 1st to the 10th are paid 5 business days after the 15th; earnings from the 11th to the 5th-last day, 5 business days after the end of the month; earnings from the last 5 days, 5 business days after the 15th of the next month.

What is the minimum Shopify Partner payout?

25 US dollars. Below that, the balance waits for the next payout period.

Why is my payout lower than my MRR?

Shopify's revenue share and 2.9% processing fee, taxes, refunds, chargebacks, credits and frozen stores all come between the price of your plans and your payout, and a recurring charge can take up to 37 days to become an earning.

Where are my payouts now?

Since October 27, 2026, in the Dev Dashboard: select your organization, then Organization settings. Charge details, app earnings and exports stay in the Partner Dashboard.

Why do the Dev Dashboard and the Partner Dashboard show different install counts?

Since September 25, 2026, the Dev Dashboard counts every store your app is on, development stores and stores with no active plan included, while the Partner Dashboard counts only active stores.

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Shopify Partner payouts: when Shopify pays app developers, and why the numbers disagree

Shopify pays app developers twice a month, in US dollars, once the balance reaches 25 dollars. Before that, a recurring charge can take up to 37 days to become an earning, because Shopify first has to collect it from the merchant. Add Shopify's fees, refunds, credits, frozen stores and dashboards that each count differently, and the figures rarely match. Pick a charge and a day in the calculator below to see when Shopify pays it out, then read the path from a merchant's charge to your bank account, as Shopify documents it on October 29, 2026.

By Arthur Renard, updated October 29, 2026

What you want to date

A subscription the merchant just approvedA one-time purchase, billed onceAn earning already counted by Shopify

Day the merchant approved

Shopify turns it into an earning up to 37 days later, once it has billed the merchant.

Paid at the latest on

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Business days run from Monday to Friday. Shopify doesn't say which public holidays it skips, so the date may slip by a day or two. Below a $25 balance nothing is paid, and the balance waits for the next period; an earning on hold (an unpaid merchant bill, a frozen store) waits too. The exact date of each payout is in Shopify's Dev Dashboard, under Organization settings.

Luseri reads your payouts from Shopify's Partner API and estimates the next one, next to your recurring revenue. Create my account

The payout schedule

Earnings accrued	Paid
From the 1st to the 10th of the month	5 business days after the 15th
From the 11th to the 5th-last day of the month	5 business days after the last day of the month
During the last 5 days of the month	5 business days after the 15th of the following month

A payout is made only when the balance is at least 25 US dollars; below that, it waits for the next period. Sales and referral earnings are counted separately.
Payouts go through Hyperwallet to one payout method per organization: a PayPal account or a bank account. Virtual bank accounts such as Payoneer are not supported.
Payouts are always issued in US dollars. Converting them to another currency costs 0.50% of the payout.

Before your first payout

You set up a Hyperwallet account with your business details, and add your tax information in your organization settings. A business may have to verify its identity before its first payout, and an individual once their earnings reach a threshold; Shopify lists the countries concerned, the European Union, the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom.

Since October 27, 2026, payout and billing settings are in the Dev Dashboard: select your organization, then Organization settings. The Settings and Payouts links of the Partner Dashboard, and its payout widget, moved there. Existing partners have nothing to do: their settings stayed the same. Charge details, refunds, app earnings, exports and app history stay in the Partner Dashboard.

From a merchant's charge to your earnings

The merchant approves your charge. App subscriptions are billed on their own 30-day cycle, separate from the merchant's Shopify bill, so usage from one cycle can be spread over two of the merchant's bills.
Shopify collects the charge from the merchant. Only then does it become an earning: up to 37 days after the merchant approved a recurring charge, and within 7 days for a one-time charge. The same delays apply to Shopify App Pricing.
Earnings add up until the next payout date in the schedule above, then are paid to your payout method.

So the first month of a new subscription can reach your bank account more than a month after the merchant subscribed. That is also why your MRR runs ahead of your payouts.

What takes money out or holds it back

Situation	What happens
Shopify's revenue share and processing fee	Taken before the payout: 0% on your first $1M of lifetime gross app revenue, then 15%, plus 2.9% on all billing. See Shopify App Store fees and revenue share.
Taxes and the Regulatory Operating Fee	Applicable taxes are deducted from your payout and recorded in an invoice. Sales to merchants in some countries or regions carry an extra Regulatory Operating Fee.
The merchant's bill fails	The earning is paid only after the payment is retried and goes through.
The store is frozen	A store is frozen when an invoice stays unpaid for 28 days. Its earnings are not paid until it is unfrozen, and its future payments for your app are on hold.
The store closes, or uninstalls your app	Charges billed through Shopify stop when a store is deactivated. An uninstall does not remove a pending charge that was already generated.
A refund or a chargeback	No fees are owed on refunded or charged-back amounts, and Shopify can take amounts back from your next payouts.
An app credit you grant	Deducted from your upcoming payment. A credit fails if it is larger than what the store paid you in the last 30 days.
A hold on the payout	Shopify emails you when a payout is on hold because it needs more information. Wrong payout details, the limits of the payout method, and fraud or money-laundering checks can also hold it.

Why the numbers don't match

Shopify shows several "earnings", with different definitions:

The earnings card of the Dev Dashboard home: what is left of your app revenue after revenue share, fees, refunds and chargebacks.
The "App earnings" of a store: a gross figure, credits and refunds included, which is not a payout.
The earnings of an app: paid amounts and pending ones together.
The payout: what you actually receive. Shopify writes that when a charge's details and its payout disagree, the payout is correct.

In the Partner API, each transaction carries a gross amount (what the merchant paid, without taxes), a net amount (what is added to or taken from your payout) and Shopify's fee. Shopify adds that this transaction data "is for analytics purposes only": the payout statement is the reference.

Install counts differ too. Since September 25, 2026, the Installs card of the Dev Dashboard counts every store your app is on, your own development stores and stores with no active plan included, while the Partner Dashboard's "Merchants with your app" counts only active stores. The two Shopify dashboards are compared in our Dev Dashboard guide.

Problems developers reported in 2025 and 2026

From Shopify's developer forum, with Shopify staff's answers.

Reported	What developers saw	What Shopify said
December 2025	Sales stopped showing in the Partner Dashboard, and some developers said their payouts came late.	Staff said payouts were not affected. In January, some fees from January 1 to 3 were taken from the December 16 to January 1 payout.
February 13, 2026	Install and uninstall events stopped appearing.	Fixed on February 16, came back, fixed again on February 18.
May 13, 2026	After the move to Shopify App Pricing, development stores got real charges instead of test charges.	Staff pointed to a $0 private plan for testing, then to no-charge test plans, added on July 9.
September 6, 2026	Earnings and the pending payout stopped updating from September 4 or 5.	"A data sync issue", with partner sales and payouts not affected. Marked resolved on September 11.
September 25, 2026	The install count disappeared from the App Distribution page of the Partner Dashboard, and the Dev Dashboard showed more installs.	The old count undercounted, and the new one includes closed and frozen stores. The active installs chart and its export came back to the Partner Dashboard; app monitoring is to move to the Dev Dashboard.
October 22, 2026	On a usage-based plan, uninstalling the app produced a final usage charge of $0.	Staff confirmed a problem on Shopify's side, with no fix date. Still open on October 29.

Keep your own record

Shopify's pages move and its counts change definition, so keep a record you can check against your payout statements: the charges merchants approved, what Shopify collected, and the gap between the two.

Luseri reads your payouts from the Partner API, with the fees Shopify kept, and shows the cash collected next to your MRR, each in its own currency, with an estimate of your next payout and a page for each store. The exact date and amount of a payout stay in the Dev Dashboard. It only reads: it never changes your payout settings. See the MRR dashboard for Shopify apps.

Questions

When does Shopify pay app developers?: Twice a month. Earnings from the 1st to the 10th are paid 5 business days after the 15th; earnings from the 11th to the 5th-last day, 5 business days after the end of the month; earnings from the last 5 days, 5 business days after the 15th of the next month.
What is the minimum Shopify Partner payout?: 25 US dollars. Below that, the balance waits for the next payout period.
Why is my payout lower than my MRR?: Shopify's revenue share and 2.9% processing fee, taxes, refunds, chargebacks, credits and frozen stores all come between the price of your plans and your payout, and a recurring charge can take up to 37 days to become an earning.
Where are my payouts now?: Since October 27, 2026, in the Dev Dashboard: select your organization, then Organization settings. Charge details, app earnings and exports stay in the Partner Dashboard.
Why do the Dev Dashboard and the Partner Dashboard show different install counts?: Since September 25, 2026, the Dev Dashboard counts every store your app is on, development stores and stores with no active plan included, while the Partner Dashboard counts only active stores.