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Who this is for

Authors getting paid for direct sales.

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Overview

End-to-end flow from connecting a bank account to receiving payouts.

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Initial setup — two options

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Option 1: Bank account via Plaid (ACH)

  1. Open Payouts → “Connect bank”
  2. Complete the Plaid Link flow (authenticate with the bank, pick the account)
  3. Bank info encrypted and stored
  4. Account ready to receive payouts

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Option 2: Stripe Connect Express

  1. Open Payouts → “Connect Stripe”
  2. Complete Stripe’s Express onboarding (identity verification, address, payment details)
  3. Account verified and ready
Payout profile is required before either option — collects:
  • Legal name
  • Payee type
  • Tax ID type and number
  • Address

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Balance views

  • Available balance — earnings from delivered orders not yet in a payout batch and not blocked by open disputes; can be paid out now
  • Future balance — earnings from paid/processing/shipped orders that haven’t reached delivered status; preorders show their release date
  • Fee snapshot holds — Stripe-paid orders whose processing fee has not been captured yet are held out of available balance and payout batch creation until the Stripe fee snapshot arrives
  • Gross-to-net breakdown — the Payouts page shows gross buyer revenue, merchandise base, buyer shipping, tax, Shippo shipping retained for labels, platform fees, Stripe processing fees, already-batched earnings, fee-snapshot holds, and available balance; authors can filter this analysis by date range without changing the current available balance used for payout requests

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How earnings are calculated

  • Platform fee is 0% on the first 1,500ofaworkspace′smonthlyshopmerchandisesales∗∗,then∗∗31,500 of a workspace's monthly shop merchandise sales**, then **3% only on the marginal merchandise revenue above 1,500; tax and shipping are excluded from the fee
  • Shipping amount goes to the author only if the author fulfilled themselves; Shippo-quoted shipping is excluded from author earnings (covers the label cost)
  • Stripe’s processing fee is allocated proportionally over non-tax portions
  • Stripe fee snapshots are captured from Stripe charge balance transactions. If Stripe sends the charge before the balance transaction is ready, CabinsPress retries from later payment/charge webhooks and a 12-hour backfill job.

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Request a payout

  • Click Request payout, optionally add a note
  • An email request goes to CabinsPress staff
  • Banner confirms: “We’ll process your payout within 5 business days”

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Payout batches

  • Author can also create a batch for a specific date range
  • Each batch includes delivered orders in the range, minus refund clawbacks, return label costs, and lost dispute clawbacks
  • Export CSV for accounting
  • View line items linking back to individual orders
  • Mark a batch as paid with a reference string for record-keeping

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Payout history

  • Table of all batches with period, status, total, paid date, and reference
  • Drill into any batch for the line-item breakdown

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Next steps

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