Your raw data sales report is the complete account of everything you’ve sold, and your payments received, through Bandcamp. You can download it from your Tools page. It will arrive as a CSV file, which you can open or import into any spreadsheet program (Excel, Numbers, OpenOffice), mobile spreadsheet app (Numbers, Google Drive) or online office suite (Google Drive, Zoho Docs).
Bandcamp also offers payout statement and revenue summary reports which break down your sales data in ways that may be easier to understand. More information on those reports can be found here.
What’s in it?
Each line represents the sale of an item from your store, a payout from Bandcamp to you, or a sale reversal. A sale of multiple copies of the same item to the same person will appear on the same line, but if one person buys two different items they will appear on separate lines.
Here’s a run-down of the columns:
date | the date and time of the order, payout or reversal, in UTC |
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paid to | identifies the PayPal account |
item type | album / track / package / payout / reversal / refund |
item name | which item was sold |
artist | the artist name (which might vary for label accounts) |
currency | the currency of the transaction |
item price | the asking price of the item, as set by you. Does not include additional fan contribution, shipping, or tax, but does take discounts into account |
quantity | how many they bought |
discount code | the discount code they used |
sub total | the asking price of the item, as set by you, multiplied by quantity. For single item purchases, this is the same as item price |
additional fan contribution | any extra amount they chose to pay over the item price |
tax rate | the marketplace tax rate applied to the purchase |
seller tax | tax charged and paid out to you, based on your Profile settings |
marketplace tax | tax collected and remitted by Bandcamp; not included in your payouts |
shipping | shipping charges for the item |
transaction fee | the transaction fee charged by the payment processor. Fees may vary depending on geographic location. Note: This field will be blank for items purchased together in one cart; the amount is only displayed on the last item. The field will contain a star (*) if the payment is still pending (you‘ll see any pending payments at the very bottom of your Sales Report). |
fee type | which type of transaction fee was charged. It will either be the fee incurred at the time of sale (“paypal,” “credit card,” or “gift card,” depending on whether the buyer used PayPal, their credit card, or a gift card) or the fee incurred at the time you are paid out (“transfer”). |
item total | the total cost including shipping, tax, and additional fan contribution |
amount you received |
the amount that went into your PayPal account (including shipping and tax) after PayPal or credit card transaction fees.
After June 2024 all physical sales are processed using Enhanced Payments, so the amount you receive will be zero, as Bandcamp processes payments on your behalf and later makes payouts to you in bulk, in the same way as digital sales. |
bandcamp transaction id | the Bandcamp transaction ID for the sale or payout |
paypal transaction id | For Standard Payments, this will be empty for digital sales, and physical sales collected to cover your revenue share balance. For Enhanced Payments, this will be empty for all sales |
assessed revenue share | how much revenue share you owe for this sale |
collected revenue share | how much we collected from this sale |
balance of revenue share | the total amount you owe to Bandcamp in revenue share |
change to payout balance | how much of the sale Bandcamp owes to you |
payout balance | the total amount you’re due to receive in upcoming payouts |
net amount | how much a given sale was worth to you, after revenue share, transaction fee, shipping and tax. Use this column if you need to determine how to split out payments to multiple artists. If you are simply interested in how much you’ve received to your PayPal account, use the amount you received column instead. |
package option |
which merch options they chose |
item url | the URL of the item |
catalog number | the identification number you’ve assigned for a specific release (if you’ve entered one on the edit page). |
upc isrc |
release identification codes, if you’ve supplied them (for music charts) |
buyer name buyer email buyer phone buyer note |
the buyer’s details (collected by the payment processor) |
ship to name ship to street ship to street 2 ship to city ship to state ship to zip ship to country |
the buyer’s shipping address (for physical merch only) |
ship date ship notes |
the date you marked the item as shipped and any notes you added on your merch orders page (for physical items only) |
collection society share | publishing royalty fee to your collection society. The songwriter or composer will receive a percentage of this share back at a later date |
Tracking revenue share and payouts for Enhanced Payments
Here’s the gist of how revenue share works on Bandcamp.
In your Sales Report, details about your balances are separated into five columns: assessed revenue share, collected revenue share, balance of revenue share, change to payout balance, and payout balance (for fine detail, see above). By looking at these five columns together, you can determine how your running balances are being calculated and where payments are going. For sales of digital and physical items using Enhanced Payments, we collect our 10-15% revenue share right at the time of the sale, and transfer your share to you in bulk 24-48 hours later.
Example: selling digital and physical items
order date | trans- action fee |
item type | item price | amount you received | assessed revenue share | collected revenue share | balance of revenue share | change to payout balance | payout balance |
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1/3/2015 | 0.49 | album | 10 | 0 | 1.50 | 1.50 | 0 | 8.01 | 8.01 |
1/3/2015 | 0.88 | package | 20 | 0 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 0 | 17.12 | 25.13 |
1/3/2015 | 0.39 | album | 9 | 0 | 1.35 | 1.35 | 0 | 7.26 | 32.39 |
1/4/2015 | 0.32 | payout | 32.39 | 32.07 | -32.39 | 0 |
The first three rows show sales of digital albums and physical packages, and the last row shows a payout to you. Payouts reflect sales for digital and physical items made at least 24 hours earlier (with certain exceptions). Here’s the nitty gritty of what’s going on in this example:
- A fan purchases a digital album (item price), and the payment less the transaction fee goes to Bandcamp. This is why amount you received is 0 — we send payments to you in bulk later.
- The 15% revenue share for that purchase is assessed, and collected from the payment.
- The change to payout balance column shows your share of the payment added to the payout balance, to be paid out to you later.
- In the next row down, a fan purchases a physical package for $20, bringing the running payout balance to $25.13. The 10% revenue share for that payment is assessed, collected, and noted in the change column. After this sale, the payout balance is $32.39.
- In the row below that, a fan purchases another digital album for $9. The 15% revenue share for that sale is assessed, collected, and noted in the change column. After this sale, the payout balance is $32.39.
- In the last row we send you a bulk payment for the payout balance, less the fee charged by the payment processor. The amount you received column shows the payment landing in your account. Note: due to a PayPal limitation you may see two payout entries per day.
Tracking revenue share and payouts for Standard Payments
Please note the following information on Standard Payments applies only to sales made prior to June 2024. All sales after that point are subject to the rules and processes for Enhanced Payments.
Here’s the gist of how revenue share works on Bandcamp.
In your Sales Report, details about your balances are separated into five columns: assessed revenue share, collected revenue share, balance of revenue share, change to payout balance, and payout balance (for fine detail, see above). By looking at these five columns together, you can determine how your running balances are being calculated and where payments are going.
For sales of digital and physical items using Enhanced Payments, we collect our 10-15% revenue share right at the time of the sale, and transfer your share to you in bulk 24-48 hours later.
Example: selling digital items
order date | trans- action fee |
item type | item price | amount you received | assessed revenue share | collected revenue share | balance of revenue share | change to payout balance | payout balance |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1/3/2015 | 0.49 | album | 10 | 0 | 1.50 | 1.50 | 0 | 8.01 | 8.01 |
1/3/2015 | 0.49 | album | 10 | 0 | 1.50 | 1.50 | 0 | 8.01 | 16.02 |
1/3/2015 | 0.39 | album | 9 | 0 | 1.35 | 1.35 | 0 | 7.26 | 23.28 |
1/4/2015 | 0.23 | payout | 23.28 | 23.05 | -23.28 | 0 |
The first three rows show sales of digital albums, and the last row shows a payout to you. Payouts reflect sales for digital items made at least 24 hours earlier (with certain exceptions). Here’s the nitty gritty of what’s going on in this example:
- A fan purchases a digital album (item price), and the payment less the transaction fee goes to Bandcamp. This is why amount you received is 0 — we send payments to you in bulk later.
- The 15% revenue share for that purchase is assessed, and collected from the payment.
- The change to payout balance column shows your share of the payment added to the payout balance, to be paid out to you later.
- In the next row down, a fan purchases the same album for $10, bringing the running payout balance to $16.02.
- In the row below that, a fan purchases a different album for $9. The $1.35 revenue share is assessed ($1.35 is 15% of $9), then collected and noted in the change column. After this sale, the payout balance is $23.28.
- In the last row, we send you a bulk payment for the payout balance, less the fee charged by the payment processor. The amount you received column shows the payment landing in your account. Note: Due to a PayPal limitation, you may see two payout entries per day.
Example: selling digital and physical items
order date | trans- action fee |
item type | item price | amount you received | assessed revenue share | collected revenue share | balance of revenue share | change to payout balance | payout balance |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1/3/2015 | 0.88 | package | 20 | 19.12 | 2.00 | 0 | 2.00 | 0 | 0 |
1/3/2015 | 0.49 | album | 10 | 0 | 1.50 | 3.50 | 0 | 6.01 | 6.01 |
1/3/2015 | 0.49 | album | 10 | 0 | 1.50 | 1.50 | 0 | 8.01 | 14.02 |
1/4/2015 | 0.14 | payout | 14.01 | 13.87 | -14.01 | 0 |
When you sell a digital item, the payment initially goes to Bandcamp, and we pay out your share to you in bulk later. When a fan purchases a physical item the payment goes to you immediately, and we collect the amount owed later, from your digital sales. Here’s how it works in detail:
- A fan pays for a package. The payment goes directly to you, so the amount you received column shows the total, less the transaction fee.
- Though the 10% revenue share for that purchase is assessed, it isn’t yet collected (so that column shows a 0). The balance of revenue share column shows the amount now owed to Bandcamp.
- The highlighted row shows how we collect the owed balance. When a payment for a digital item goes to Bandcamp, we collect the assessed revenue share for that sale, as well as the outstanding balance owed from any previous physical sales.
- We reduce the balance of revenue share by the outstanding amount we are able to collect (in this case, the entire owed balance). If there’s a remainder (as there is in this example: $6.01), we add it to your payout balance.
- The next row shows another sale of the same digital album. Your outstanding balance of revenue share is back to 0, so only the revenue share assessed on that sale is collected. We add the remainder after the transaction fee to your payout balance.
- In the last row we send you a bulk payment for the payout balance, after the fee charged by the payment processor.
What happens if I’m selling a bunch of physical items, but I’m not selling enough digital to cover the revenue share balance I owe?
order date | trans- action fee |
item type | item price | amount you received | assessed revenue share | collected revenue share | balance of revenue share | change to payout balance | payout balance |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
... | 15.00 | ||||||||
1/2/2015 | 0.88 | package | 20 | 19.12 | 2.00 | 0 | 17.00 | 0 | 0 |
1/3/2015 | 0.88 | package | 20 | 19.12 | 2.00 | 0 | 19.00 | 0 | 0 |
1/3/2015 | 0.88 | package | 20 | 0 | 2.00 | 19.12 | 1.88 | 0 | 0 |
1/4/2015 | 0.88 | package | 20 | 19.12 | 2.00 | 0 | 3.88 | 0 | 0 |
In this example, your owed balance of revenue share starts at $15.00, built up from previous sales of physical items. If there aren’t enough sales of digital items for us to collect against that balance, we’ll periodically collect an entire payment for a physical item. The highlighted line above happens to be such a payment. Here’s what’s happening:
- You sell two packages for $20 each, and the payments go directly to you. The 10% revenue share fee for each purchase is assessed, but not collected.
- We add the amount owed for both of those sales to the running balance of revenue share, bringing the total owed to $19.00.
- You sell a third package for $20. The revenue share for this payment is assessed and added to the running balance owed, bringing the total owed at the time of sale to $21.00.
- Whenever the owed balance exceeds the total of a given payment, that payment goes to Bandcamp, and we reduce the balance of revenue share by the payment amount less the transaction fee.
- At the time of the next $20 purchase of a physical item the owed balance is only $3.88, so the payment goes directly to you.
And that’s the sum of it. Pun unintentional but not redacted.