Right up front let me say that yes, I know this is petty, it’s “only” 1 cent. I’d probably never have noticed something like this - except it was (an extremely rare for me) self referred sale and I’d been playing around with the math, had made some screenshots. (Please note that the amount for self referral in other areas was $3.99 and is still 3.99. On the royalty breakdown page the amount still shows as $1.69, it only seems to have changed on the royalty history report…)
The only different I spot is it looks like the $1.69 royalty may have been before the updated earnings reporting but I’d think that shouldn’t have changed any already computed amounts… so where did that 1 cent go, why and how? Has anyone else seen this? Again, I know it’s only a penny, but these days pennies add up.
I’ve noticed the one cent disparity between History and Royalty History as well. it started when the new format with the little eye was introduced a few days ago.
@Van It could be the “rounding up” on one report and the “rounding down” on the other.
When you calculate the initial royalty 16.62 X 16.9% = 2.80878 which in theory zazzle “rounds up” to 2.81 (then takes all the fees off eg excess royalty for being over 10% and marketing royalty fee depending on the department)
Seems like the royalty history report is rounding down
Rounding would certainly have an effect on the initial computations but the ‘breakdown’ report showed and still shows $1.69, the same as when it initially posted to the Royalty History. What confuses me is why it changed to $1.68 from $1.69 on the Royalty History well after the initial computations/reporting. If this was from rounding up or down I’d think that would have been done prior to $1.69 being listed as royalty everywhere then changing but only on the Royalty History page. Sorry to sound dense but this heatwave is about to melt my already taxed brain.
@Van I can’t answer - my royalty history reports also shows a cent less per sale that the earnings history. They are working on the “improvements coming soon” so perhaps it has something to do with that
It seems random. I looked over my (few) sales, and see other sales with the same missing penny, but there are also some that are what the breakdown shows they should be. None show a penny more. I’d never have noticed this except for screenshots I had made while doing some research.
I had not noticed this, but .. yes Im seeing the same .. and while a penny itself is no big deal.. multiply that by how many sales per day flow into zazzle .. of which I have absolutely no clue .. but say there are a million sellers at zazzle.. and each one only made one sale a day.. thats $10,000.00 ..a penny at a time .
Adding .. all the new insight we have in our sales page , the one we should have (and I personally feel would help us make more sales) is the origin of sales.. esp 3rd party .. to see how we could better focus our advertising .. I really hope z considers adding this
we had a teacher in Jr High decades ago.. he used to pick up pennies.. off the ground on campus.. got to be a joke.. kids would purposely drop pennies just to watch him pick them up.. h had jars in his class room to show how many pennies he was picking up.. near the end of my 8th grade year.. pennies he picked up for a few years.. he bought a brand new car paying cash.. so.. yeah it adds up
Hi all, thank for your patience here. The royalty you see on your royalty history page may sometimes appear slightly different than the actual amount. For example, if you hover over the royalty amount on the details page, you’ll see the exact figure, like $1.685268. Please know that we’re using this precise number for all payments, so your earnings are not affected. We’re currently working on updating the royalty history pages to show this full precision. Thanks for your patience!
