WHAT DOES IT MEAN WHEN "7 DAYS PAYOUTS ARE PENDING ?
What’s changing?
Aligned payout date
Starting March 2025, Elements payouts will be sent on the 15th of each month to align with Market payouts.
New data processing timeline
Elements earnings insights will move from a 33-day to a 40-day delay.
Market insights will move from real-time to a 7-day delay.
These updates to your dashboard will provide more stable and accurate reporting, better reflecting your actual earnings while reducing errors and downtime.
Please note: Your statements remain the source of truth for accurate earnings and payout information. The earnings insights should be used for indicative performance only.
Important: There will be a 7-day data freeze on earnings dashboards from March 1–7, 2025. During this time, you will not see refreshed data.
As I understand it, this is just a notification that daily reports will temporarily stop being published until the new time gap is 40 days according to the new regulation instead of 33 days.
So that we don’t have to post questions on the forum again about why reports are not being published on the dashboard.
Earnings will continue to accrue during these 7 days, at least the message does not say otherwise.
“Market insights will move from real-time to a 7-day delay.”
but they not clarified what exactly will change, what about Statement? How are we able to provide support if we don’t know if someone bought the theme or not
In Poland (and probably in all EU countries), I’m legally required to issue an invoice by the 15th of the month. With the new delay, I only have 2-3 days to complete my paperwork. It’s really inconvenient, especially since the Earnings Statements document is considered the only “source of truth” - but it arrives too late to be useful!
I don’t understand why these delays exist. Why not simply say: “The money you receive in March is March earnings. Period!” It would make accounting so much easier. Realistically, almost no authors treat their “January” earnings as January earnings. Issuing invoices in March for January earnings isn’t even legal. I report mine as February income, using the last day of the month on my invoice.
But with the new delays and the note stating that insights aren’t the “source of truth,” I’m unsure - should I now report it as March instead? And, God help me, how am I supposed to explain this mess to my tax office?
Ok, I missed that. Or rather dismissed it, as it makes no sense to me in the context of market.
What does “market insight” means then? Are we talking about the Earning tab only? What about the balance? Why is it even necessary to have such a delay for Market? How is not reporting a sale more accurate that reporting it? I guess I can understand it when it comes to the overcomplicated Elements. But for Market, it makes no sense. This smells hella fishy!
I think the email is about Envato Elements and not Envato Market. The link in the email is for viewing Envato Elements earning insights - https://author.envato.com/reports/earnings
I think the point is referring to the “Market Earnings”, which is also in the Elements Dashboard, there Market Earnings and Element Earnings are located together. Market sales data and insights will now be displayed with a 7 day delay too.
Market 0+7 days.
Elements 33+7 days.
We will still get real-time sales notifications on Market itself, as I understand it, nothing has changed in that regard.
Is Statement tab also be afffected with delay? I mean if someone buys the product, the author will only know that someone bought their product after 7 days.
So, regarding the the Markets, starting March we should expect 7 days with 0 sales until it reaches the new lag timeframe? Since then we’ll start seeing sales (if any) from 7 days before?
I don’t think so.
I think the sales and invoices will be real time. That’s why the email specifies that the invoices should be the source of truth for accurate earnings and payout information.
But that’s just my interpretation, I’ll wait for @BenLeong or @KingDog to bring further light into this.
I’m not sure if it’d help but at the statement page, you can see the amount of the money you’re suppose to receive from Envato. You may invoice it before if you’re not receiving the payouts to directly your bank account, in this case, you may need to use a second option ( PayPal/Wise ) to manage the details.
I’m aware of it’s not an ideal way but just suggestions.
I’m talking about Elements, not Market.
There are no real-time statements, no “users.” From a business point of view, I deal only with Envato Elements Pty Ltd. And they claim almost everywhere that these earnings are from January. Legally, I should create an invoice dated 31.01.25 and issue it before February 15. But of course, that’s impossible because Elements have delays in reports. So normally, I issue the invoice at the beginning of March with a 28.02.25 date, making it February earnings for my tax office.
The only evidence and explanation I have is a page on the Envato Help Center explaining this delay mess: a user who purchases a subscription from Envato on the last day of January might actually download my item on 28.02.25, and that is the last day I technically earned money. So I can put this date on my invoice.
In Poland, nobody cares when you get your money, but it’s very important when you earned it. The tax office doesn’t even care if I ever receive this money - I will still need to report it and pay taxes accordingly.
With the new delays, I will know how much I earned only on 13.03.25. Before 15.03.25, I can legally report those earnings as February income. And most importantly, the numbers we see on the dashboard are not a “source of truth,” as Envato said in their email.
Maybe I should report those earnings as March income. But it will be a high-level quest if somebody asks why the business on the other side claims these are January earnings while I report them as March ones.
Please note: Your statements remain the source of truth for accurate earnings and payout information. The earnings insights should be used for indicative performance only.
Important: There will be a 7-day data freeze on earnings dashboards from March 1–7, 2025. During this time, you will not see refreshed data.
