Enrolled in Small Business Program - Still takes ~30% cut.

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Created May ’21

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As the title says, I am enrolled in the small business program but Apple still takes about 30% of my sales. Most of my sales are from Swedish customers, not sure if this matters.

For instance I have an app with sales of: $109
After apples cut I am left with: $74
74/109 = 0.68.

Why is this? I have non consumable IAP in my app.

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mackeT OP

May ’21

Any ideas?

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Yohol OP

May ’21

Is it possible to give you extra money at the end of the year?
Or, you will be recognized as small business after one year?

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mackeT OP

May ’21

Thank you for your response. I am already enrolled in the program since my 2020 sales were below 1 million usd. So they already know that I am a small business and I haven't seen anything written anywhere about giving back the 15% at the end of the year?

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Rhetenor OP

Jun ’21

We've just noticed something similar – apart from 3 sales in April only sales in USD or CAD are at 15%, all the rest from Jan-May are at 30%. The 3 exceptions are 2 GBP and 1 ILS at 15%, but other GBP in April are at 30%. So if these are the exceptions which prove the rule it seems to be related to non-USD/CAD sales. Will contact Apple.

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Industrial Designer OP

Nov ’21

Same here. They exactly 30% of most of my IAP. I bee approved to program for over year.

There doing the math wrong.. intentionally or not but they doing it wrong.

if they’re mixing local taxes with their comission, then they should put it in a different column for everyone to see. This a very shady practice if its true.

I contact them and they simply return a copy-paste answer and close the thread. Hopefully more Developers report this issue. Is very seriois and SHOULD GO PUBLIC.

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Answer 6

iijjj OP

Jan ’23

"Apple cut" is not only the Apple commission, but also sales taxes they pay in 84 countries for you. Therefore, typically, you should still at least 26% taken from Apple. And depending where you sell the most, you might see more, or less.

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