You’ll receive payouts from us in your PayPal account. If you haven’t set one up yet, head over here.
Payments for digital items and physical items, as well as live streams, are processed first by Bandcamp and paid out to your PayPal account 24-48 hours later. (Higher-value purchases, like a track that sells for $500, are manually reviewed and may take up to 14 days.) We collect our 10-15% revenue share at the time of sale, along with payment processor fees, and for affected sales, a collection society accrual amount of 11%.
Our Enhanced Payments system allows fans to pay for music and merch using a credit or debit card or a Bandcamp gift card. Bandcamp also collects and remits the necessary marketplace taxes on physical orders for sellers.
For details on shipping orders with Enhanced Payments, including how to print shipping labels, check out our How do I fulfill merch orders on Bandcamp article.
Monthly Payouts
Bandcamp offers a monthly payout option in addition to the default 24-48 hour payout period. When the monthly payout option is selected from your Profile page, your sales are paid to your PayPal account in bulk on the 1st of each month.
Monthly payouts may simplify your accounting as they consolidate sales and decrease the number of payouts you receive. For certain sellers, monthly payouts may also decrease PayPal's 1% payout fee, as that fee is capped at $1USD per payout.
Details
Monthly payouts may result in two payouts on the 1st of the month. This is because PayPal processes funds differently depending on if the sale was equal to or greater than $8.07 or not, so you may receive one payout for smaller sales, and one for larger sales.
It takes up to 48 hours for PayPal to process a sale before being able to include it in a payout. This means sales made during the last two days of each month might still be processing when the monthly payout triggers, so those sales will not be included in the payout until the following month. Your Payout Statements will help you identify which sales were included in which payout.
Required Tax Information
Marketplaces like Bandcamp are required by law to collect tax information for all accounts that sell over $5000 USD in a calendar year. Providing this information is necessary to receive payouts from Bandcamp. More information.