I was just wondering how to withdraw the money I have made from the asset store. I know you need a Paypal, but how do you link the accounts?
You don’t. They send it to you 4 times a year, if you’ve made over $250.
–Eric
But how do you get it if it’s under 250? Like can you request it?
No, although I think they will do it at the end of the year.
–Eric
Thats stupid sounding. Why would they do that? It shouldn’t be that hard for them to just send the money to your paypal after each sale. This is why I use other sites instead of this 
Yeah, I have to agree with slkjdvf, if that’s true then they REALLY need to change that 
They follow the same basic model as Apple’s App Store…presumably for small amounts the processing isn’t worth it. Though $250 is too high; the App Store started out like that, but the limit is lower these days. ($100?) Personally I’m much more interested in getting monthly payments. Quarterly is way too long.
–Eric
I like Asset Store, it gives very nice amount of sales even in comparation with such monster marketplaces like TurboSquid.
Getting money monthly will be nice. But even now when I got more then $250 I still didn’t receive the money.
Should I get it in 30.06.11? Or they transfer it until 15.07.11?
Do someone knows the date?
Thanks!
Probably not for a couple more weeks, judging from last time.
–Eric
Gotta say, this is pretty upsetting. I haven’t been contacted either about my payment, and here it is the 8th of July.
The terms of the contract say that we must be contacted within 10 days, of the end of the quarter, with the final value of our revenue. Well I believe that the Asset Store Front End informs us of our final revenue. From there we must submit an invoice, according to the contract. I want to submit my invoice right now, but I don’t know where to submit it to.
Anyone who has gone through this process and been contacted for payment, please send me the email address which you have sent your last invoice to.
According to the contract they also have 10 days from receipt of the invoice within which to pay you.
That means I probably won’t get paid until the 20th of July, almost an entire month past the end of the quarter. Unity did not have to wait 20 days, nor 3 months, to receive 100% of the money from OUR customers.
This is really bogus.
They actually never did that; there isn’t any submitting of invoices necessary. (Which is good, since I never understood why that would have been necessary.)
–Eric
Thanks Eric. In your experience, how long does it take to get paid? Have you been paid for this quarter yet? Do they still follow the contract to the extent that they contact you within 10 days of the end of quarter?
EDIT: before anyone asks, yes I have well over $250 NET.
Could you be reasonable - its very easy to over-dramatize this as there is money involved. But like every closed market, you will find there is a system in place. A system you knew existed when you signed up. A system that you don’t agree with yet still chose to go with.
Reading the small print is never a bad thing. Currently, this is all your fault.
That does not mean that the system cannot be improved. From my dealings with unity, I must say they are very receptive to well-thought out rational calm arguments. If you present your problems calmly to them in email, much can be done to make all parties happy.
A couple of weeks or so.
No.
Last April I was contacted on the 5th about what form I wanted my payment in. Since they have that information now, I’m not sure that I’d be contacted this time.
What it says in the contract and what they actually do are two different things, so I think it’s UT’s fault. What they actually do is better than what they said originally, so I’m not really complaining, but it could be more clear. (Unless the contract has been revised recently of course.)
–Eric
In that case much should be improved. I’ve currently got a lot of faith in unity, and it doesn’t feel like we need to take the fight to “the man” and punch his face just yet. I am betting they will try hard to remedy this situation now it has come to light. Would not hurt to mail them too as they are a medium sized business now and still learning the ropes when it comes to asset store.
(for the other guy in case he is still having issues).
You’re rather presumptuous hippocoder. I don’t remember mentioning anything about blame. I’m disgruntled with the payment process, and have been well aware of the contract’s terms since I submitted my work 6 months ago. I’m trying to find any way to expedite the process. Being upset != being unreasonable.
And for your information- I have sent 2 “reasonable” messages to Unity’s Asset Store, and the only one that was responded to (promptly and by the very helpful Caitlyn Meeks) told me to wait and that payment will be processed before the end of July, however I have heard nothing in response from the payment department for over a week. I find that unreasonable, and yes the “System” can be improved, and I’m voicing my opinion so please be reasonable enough yourself to understand that.
i know the system and everything related to the asset store is full of inconsistencies but just have patience… most of the places where they handle payments every quarter take up to 45 days from the end of the quarter to the author to actually receive the money … just have patience…
and by the way, apple app store limit its below 100 dollars and now they handle the payments monthly 
You’re right, thanks.
Edit: And thanks for the info Eric5h5
Which makes sense for the AppStore cause its volume is high enough to justify monthly book closings. For UT it wouldn’t make sense, with topsellers making 15k (thus Ut making less than 5k from them) a quarter its not even remotely in a range where a monthly turnus would be financially smart, so they do it for the assetstore when they are legaly required to do it for UT as a company itself too which is quarterly and once thats through the payments to the authors are sent out.
once the asset store has 10-20 times the volume it reaches the point where monthly payment processing would make sense (a lower margin is unlikely as its the only way to prevent a trash flood at least basically, anything else would require dedicated Q&A staff that approves before sending in or the Asset Store is the same big pile of trash that google let the android marketplace become)