If you sell a strategy or an app in the Marketplace, the Earnings page shows exactly what you've earned, month by month, from the people who subscribe to it. It's built from what your subscribers actually paid — not an estimate based on your current price.
You'll find it under Account → Earnings in the sidebar. It appears once your listing has been set up for payouts.
How your share is worked out
Every time a subscriber's payment goes through, PayPal takes a small processing fee first. Your share comes out of what's left.
Example
a subscriber pays $50.00 for your strategy. PayPal keeps $2.24 as its fee, which leaves $47.76. At a 60% share, you earn $28.66 from that payment.
Most listings are paid on a 60/40 split — 60% to you, 40% to StaxInvesting. If you've agreed a different split with us, the page shows your actual percentage on every line.
Because each payment is counted at the amount that person was actually charged, your statement stays right even if prices change over time.
Free months are on us
StaxInvesting sometimes gives members a free first month on a strategy. You still get credited for that month at your listing price — StaxInvesting covers it, not you.
Example
a member takes a free first month on your $50 strategy. Nobody was charged, but you're credited $30.00 (60% of $50). There's no PayPal fee on a free month, because no payment was made.
A free month still counts if the member cancels before it ends.
Refunds
If a payment is refunded, it shows up as a negative line in the month the refund happened, and your share of it comes off that month's total. If PayPal keeps its processing fee on a refund, that cost is shared at your usual split.
Example
a $50 payment you earned $28.66 from is refunded in full, and PayPal keeps its fee. That month shows -$30.00 for the refund — your 60% of the $50 that went back to the member.
Reading the page
- The tiles at the top show what you've earned this month, last month, and in total since your listing started, plus how many payments came in this month.
- The chart shows your earnings for each month. If you have more than one listing, each one is stacked in its own color.
- The monthly statement has your total earnings and the month you started at the top, then one row per month, newest first:
| Column | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Paid | How many subscriber payments went through that month |
| Free months | How many free first months StaxInvesting gave away on your listing |
| Gross | What subscribers were charged, before any fees |
| Fees | PayPal's processing fees on those payments |
| Net | Gross minus fees — what your share is worked out from |
| Credits | The listing price of the free months you're credited for |
| Refunds | Money returned to subscribers, shown as a negative |
| Your share | What you earned that month |
| Payout | Whether that month has been paid to you yet — see Getting paid below |
- Click any month to open its line items — every charge, free month and refund behind that month's total, with the date, the listing, the subscriber and your share of each.
- If you have more than one listing, a second table underneath splits your totals by listing, with each one's share and the month it started.
- Export CSV saves the whole statement, or a single month's line items, as a spreadsheet.
Example
DOPE Spreads at $50 a month has one payment and two free months in September. The row reads Paid 1, Free months 2, Gross $50.00, Fees $2.24, Net $47.76, Credits $100.00 — and Your share $88.66 ($28.66 from the payment plus $30.00 for each free month).
Note
For privacy, your subscribers are shown as "Subscriber #1", "Subscriber #2" and so on. The same person keeps the same number every month, so you can still see who renews.
Who isn't counted
Accounts run by the StaxInvesting team, and your own accounts, never count toward your earnings — even if they appear on your listing. That's also why they're left out of the subscriber count shown in the Marketplace.
Your subscriber count
The Subscribers tile on your dashboard counts the people who subscribe to your listing right now. Underneath it, a short line splits that number up:
- Paying — subscribers whose payments are going through.
- Free month — people in the free first month StaxInvesting gave them. They move to paying when their first charge goes through.
- Cancelling — people who have cancelled but still have time left on the month they already have. They drop off the count when that month ends.
Each person counts once, even if they have more than one account with us. Anyone whose subscription has ended is left out.
Example
The tile reads 4, with "2 paying · 1 free month · 1 cancelling" underneath. Two people are paying you, one is trying your strategy on a free month, and one has cancelled but can use it until their month runs out.
Getting paid
Payouts are sent to your PayPal account by StaxInvesting, by hand, after each month ends. The Earnings page is your statement: use it to check each payout against the month it covers.
The Payout column on your monthly statement shows where each month stands:
- Paid — the money has been sent.
- Pending — the month is over and you earned something, but it hasn't been sent yet.
- In progress — the current month. It's still adding up and is paid after it ends.
- No payment due — you didn't earn anything that month, or refunds cancelled it out.
When a payout is sent, the next time you open your dashboard (or the guru portal) a Your payout was sent notice appears in the bottom-right corner with the amount, the month it covers, the date and the PayPal transaction ID. It stays there until you click View earnings or Got it, so you won't miss it. The payout is also listed under the bell at the top of the page.
Click a paid month to see how much was sent, the date, and the PayPal transaction ID. Click Copy next to the ID and search for it in your PayPal activity to find the exact payment.
Every payout also comes with a note in PayPal that spells out the month: each strategy or app, how many subscribers paid, how many free months were credited, how the money split between you and StaxInvesting, and your total. The note starts with a reference like STAX-P3-202609, and the same reference appears on that month in your statement, so the two always match up.
Example
Your September row shows Paid. Click it and you'll see "Paid $88.66 on Oct 3, 2026 · PayPal transaction ID 5TY05013RG002845M". In PayPal, the payment's note begins "StaxInvesting creator payout STAX-P3-202609 - September 2026" and lists 1 paid subscriber and 2 free-month credits for DOPE Spreads, adding up to $88.66.
Setting your PayPal payout email
We need to know which PayPal account to pay. Until you've added one, a reminder appears at the top of your Earnings page.
- Scroll to Payout details at the bottom of the Earnings page (or click Add it now on the reminder).
- Type the email address you use to log in to PayPal — for example
you@example.com. - Click Save email.
To switch to a different PayPal account later, type the new address and click Update email.
Note
For your security, the page only ever shows part of your saved address — something like
y•••u@example.com— and StaxInvesting checks every new address with you before sending money to it. While that check is pending the address shows Being reviewed; once it's done it shows Confirmed.
Tip
Changing your PayPal account close to payout time can delay that payout while the new address is checked, so update it early.
Tip
On your dashboard, the Earned This Month tile shows the same number at a glance — click View earnings to jump straight to this page.