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Earnings
Tracking Your Earnings
What are Earnings?
TypePad Earnings are the revenues generated by Text Ads and the TypePad Tip Jar. To learn how to enable text ads, see Configuring Text Ads. To learn how to enable your Tip Jar, see Configuring Your Tip Jar. Earnings are available only to Pro users. TypePad Earnings is a new commerce feature for which we have updated our Terms of Service agreement. View Commerce Terms of Service.
What features allow me to generate earnings on TypePad?
TypePad allows you to earn revenues through Text Ads (see Configuring Text Ads) and TypePad Tip Jar (see Configuring Your Tip Jar).
Your earnings from text ads are based on the number of valid clicks on ads viewed by readers of your weblog. Valid clicks earn different revenue based on the amount advertisers paid for the placement of the respective ads. Total Text Ad Revenue (listed in the Earnings Summary module on the Track Your Earnings page) refers to your total earnings from Text Ads since you first activated the feature.
Invalid clicks are those generated by prohibited means intended to artificially increase click or impression counts on your weblogs. Six Apart's advertising partners use proprietary technologies and human monitoring to detect fraudulent clicks generated by robots or unethical users.
Your Tip Jar earnings are based on the number of tips you receive from contributing readers.
By default, your earnings will be applied towards paying for your TypePad membership via TypePad's Auto-Pay feature, provided you have earned a sufficient amount to cover your next invoice at the time it is due. In addition, you can send money from your earnings account to a PayPal account. You must have at least $15.01 in your available balance to send money a PayPal account. You must also provide Six Apart with your taxpayer information before your account can be credited, or your earnings made available to you via PayPal. Why do I need to submit my taxpayer information?
TypePad Auto-Pay is a feature that automatically pays your monthly or annual TypePad subscription fees from your earnings. Your earnings will be applied toward your invoice only after you have earned sufficient funds to cover the entire amount of the invoice and payments via Auto-Pay are not refundable. To take advantage of TypePad Auto-Pay, you must first provide your taxpayer information to Six Apart. Six Apart is required by law to collect taxpayer information before distributing earnings from TypePad's commerce features.
Why do I need to submit my taxpayer information?
To comply with U.S. tax laws, Six Apart must collect your taxpayer information before earnings from commerce features are made available to you. Your taxpayer information is securely stored by Six Apart and is subject to Six Apart's Privacy Policy. Any information presented within the help pages of TypePad or within TypePad's application interface should not be construed as tax advice. Consult a tax advisor for help on tax questions specific to you or your business. View Commerce Terms of Service.
What is the deadline for submitting my taxpayer information?
Until we receive your taxpayer information, Six Apart will hold all distribution of earnings from commerce features. You may still generate earnings using TypePad's commerce features but may not take advantage of TypePad Auto-Pay until we receive your taxpayer information. Six Apart is required by law to collect taxpayer information before distributing earnings from TypePad's commerce features.
What if I earn more money than my TypePad membership costs me?
You can send money from your earnings account to a PayPal account. You must have at least $15.01 in your available balance to send money a PayPal account. You must also provide Six Apart with your taxpayer information before your account can be credited, or your earnings made available to you via PayPal. Why do I need to submit my taxpayer information?
What happens to my earnings if I downgrade my TypePad membership?
The earnings feature is only available to Pro-level members. If you downgrade your membership to Plus or Basic from Pro, we will apply your existing earnings balance towards your downgraded membership account provided that:
- You submitted your taxpayer information to Six Apart prior to downgrading.
- Your balance is sufficient to cover the full amount of each invoice at the time it is due. Earnings less than the monthly or annual subscription cost of your membership will not be applied towards your account. They will be lost if you cancel your account or they may be used if you upgrade back to the Pro level of service.
What happens to my earnings if I cancel my TypePad account?
If you cancel your TypePad membership at the Plus or Basic levels of service after having downgraded from the Pro level of service, you will lose access to all unused earnings in your account. You can claim these earnings by upgrading your account back to Pro and using the tools offered at that level of service.
If you cancel your TypePad membership at the Pro level of service, you will lose access to your earnings if your balance is less than $15.01. You can claim your earnings balance provided that:
- Your balance is at least $15.01.
- You have submitted your taxpayer information.
- You have submitted a valid PayPal account e-mail address on the cancellation page at the time you cancel your account.
Within 45 days after the cancellation of your TypePad account your earnings will be paid to your PayPal account. See Cancelling Your TypePad Account.
What happens to my earnings if my account is suspended?
You will lose access to your earnings if your account is suspended. You will regain access if your account is re-activated. If the account is not re-activated and is cancelled instead (for example, because of lack of payment for your subscription) you will lose access to your earnings.
What happens if my TypePad membership is prepaid using funds from my earnings account, but subsequently I cancel the account?
Prepayment of your account from your earnings is not refundable.
Can access to Text Ads be denied to me?
Six Apart provides access to text ads through a partnership with Kanoodle. Kanoodle may occasionally reject access to its advertising network to weblogs that have content not suitable for Kanoodle's advertisers or content that is in a foreign language or targeting an audience of foreign readers. Your weblog will also be rejected if it is protected by a password of if it has no content. If your weblog is rejected and you believe that this has occurred by mistake, contact TypePad customer support. While we will make every effort to investigate the matter and turn text ads on for you, our partner Kanoodle has the right to deny you access to its advertising network, as outlined in the terms of service.
Why is my site displaying advertisements for TypePad or Kanoodle?
Ads are provided by Six Apart's partner Kanoodle. These ads will automatically appear on your weblog as soon as Kanoodle approves your account. In the meantime, TypePad ads will temporarily show on your weblog. The same process is repeated if you set up the feature on multiple weblogs in your TypePad account. You will receive a one-time credit of $2.00 in your earnings account for the period that TypePad house ads run on any of your weblogs prior to your Kanoodle approval and provided that you register at least 2,000 page views during that time. See Kanoodle Account Activation.
Earnings Summary
From the Control Panel tab, click the Earnings tab to track your earnings information. The Earnings Summary page appears. At the top of the page, your year-to-date earnings by month will appear in a bar chart viewing format, as shown:
Click the links at the bottom of the chart to display either the Last 12 Months of earnings, a pie chart graph of your Income Sources or the Auto-Pay Progress bar graph. The Flash Player from Macromedia is required to view the bar charts. To download Flash, click here.
Viewing Your Income Sources
Click the Income Sources link to view a pie chart graph showing your income sources and their relative proportions.
Viewing Your Auto-Pay Progress
Click the Auto-Pay Progress link to view the progress you have made toward being able to pay your TypePad membership fee from your earnings. If you have not submitted Tax ID information, this status bar is not enabled. To enable Auto-Pay, you must first submit your taxpayer information.
Earnings Statistics
In addition to the summary graphs, the Earnings Summary page also provides statistics on your all-time combined earnings, all-time Auto-Payments, all-time PayPal withdrawals, and current earnings balance. Your current balance also appears on all pages within the Earnings tab in the upper right-hand corner as shown:
Transaction Register
The Transaction Register page displays a complete listing of transactions into and out from your Earnings account for all weblogs with Earnings features enabled. For more details on a particular transaction, click the transaction list item and a flyout window will appear as shown:
Filtering Transactions
You can filter your transaction list by type of transaction, transaction amount, or weblog (if you have multiple weblogs). Use the drop-down filter menus to determine your filter criteria and click Reset Filter to display your filtered results.
Text Ad Details
The Text Ad Details page shows detailed information on Text Ad earnings. Your Text Ad activity is shown in a table detailing the following site metrics:
|
Metric |
Definition |
|---|---|
Date |
Date of transaction |
|
Impressions |
Total number of times ad units were shown on your weblog |
|
Clicks |
Number of times text ad links on your weblog were clicked |
|
Clickthrough Rate |
Number of clicks an ad unit receives divided by the number of times the ad unit is shown (Impressions) |
|
Daily Earnings |
Amount of text ad revenue you earned |
To view details beyond the last five days, click View Expanded List.
To return to the Earnings Details page, click Return to Details.
Withdrawals
You can send money from your TypePad earnings account to PayPal by going to the Withdrawals page under the Earnings sub-tab under the Control Panel tab.
To send money to PayPal, you must have an Available Balance of at least $15.01, you must have submitted your taxpayer information, and your account must not be suspended.If you have a complimentary account, or if your account is in a free trial, you must also first submit your credit card information to TypePad and establish a regular TypePad subscription to use this feature. Six Apart charges a small fee (described below) to process sending money from your TypePad earnings account to PayPal. PayPal may also charge you a processing fee in addition to Six Apart's.
What fees apply to sending money to PayPal?
The following fees are applied when you send money from your Earnings account to your PayPal account:
Fee |
Amount |
|---|---|
$1.00 |
Between $15.01 and $25.00 |
$1.50 |
Between $25.01 and $50.00 |
$2.00 |
At or above $50.00 |
To send earnings to your PayPal account, complete the PayPal e-mail address and Amount to send text boxes and click Send to PayPal. A confirmation screen appears with your transaction information, including processing fees associated with the withdrawal. Click Withdraw Funds to complete your transaction.
Why can't I send my entire balance to PayPal?
Your available balance must be at least $15.01 to use this feature. Available balance indicates the amount available to you to send to PayPal from your earnings account. This amount may be less than the total balance of your earnings account because it can take up to 45 days for Six Apart to receive payment for revenues you have generated through Six Apart partners. However, these revenues become available to you to send to PayPal as soon as we receive payment from our partners.
You can also apply your entire earnings balance towards paying for your TypePad subscription via TypePad Auto-Pay.
What if I don't have a PayPal account?
You can set up a PayPal account by going to http://www.paypal.com. Or you can enter an e-mail address for someone to whom you wish to send your earnings. When that person receives the e-mail notification of this payment, the email will contain a link from PayPal allowing that person to set up a PayPal account and retrieve the money. For more information, read this PayPal help note.
Are there other ways to use my earnings?
Settings
On the Earnings Settings page, you can edit your taxpayer information, Auto-Pay settings, and see which weblogs have enabled earnings features.
Changing Your Auto-Pay Settings
To enable or disable Auto-Pay (see What is TypePad Auto-Pay?) select either the Enable Auto-Pay or Disable Auto-Pay radio button and click Save Changes.
Submitting and Editing Your Taxpayer Information
U.S. law requires Six Apart to collect taxpayer information from members who use features generating earnings on TypePad, and who are U.S. citizens, U.S. residents or U.S. corporations. In addition, if you are not a U.S. citizen or resident but your business is taxable in the United States, you must provide us with a completed IRS form W-8ECI. (Send an email to contact@sixapart.com if you have a question about where to send a W-8ECI form.) Your taxpayer information will be stored securely and is subject to TypePad's Privacy Policy.
Providing Your Taxpayer Information
From the Control Panel tab, click the Earnings tab. On the Settings page, click the Go to the Tax Form link under the Provide Your Taxpayer Information section. The Your Tax ID Information page appears. Complete the form fields as detailed below:
Tax information
- Organization Type - Choose whether you are an individual, a corporation, a partnership, a government agency, or a foreign national.
- Use the table below to complete the Tax Name and Tax ID Number fields:
| If you are... | Tax Name | Tax ID Number |
|---|---|---|
| Individual | Your Full Name | Your Social Security Number |
| Sole Proprietor | Your personal name, NOT the business name of the sole proprietorship. | Your Social Security Number or your organization's IRS employer identification number (EIN), depending upon which you use for business purposes. |
| Corporation (including professional corporations) | Name of Organization | Organization's IRS employer identification number (EIN) |
| Not for profit organizations | Name of Organization | Organization's IRS employer identification number (EIN) |
| Partnership (including general partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, and limited liability companies) | Name of Organization | Organization's IRS employer identification number (EIN) |
Your Contact Information
- Click Auto-fill to complete the fields using your existing TypePad account info, or complete the fields manually.
Once you have completed the form and selected the checkbox agreeing to TypePad's terms of service, click Save Changes. You will see a confirmation on the page that your changes have been saved before you can return to the Settings page. If you have previously agreed to Six Apart's Terms of Service, the Terms of Service checkbox will not appear.
It is your responsibility to keep your taxpayer information up to date.
Editing Your Taxpayer Information
From the Control Panel tab, click the Earnings tab. On the Settings page, click the Go to the Tax Form link under the Provide Your Taxpayer Information section. The Your Tax ID Information page appears. Complete your desired changes and click Save Changes. You will receive confirmation that your changes have been saved before you can return to the Earnings page.
Managing Your Earnings Features
You can enable or disable both Text Ads and the Tip Jar from the Settings page by clicking the 
icon to enable a feature or the 
icon to disable a feature. In the example shown, Text Ads are disabled, and the Tip Jar is enabled:
You can also control these features from the Change Content Selections link under the Edit Current page on the Design sub-tab under the Weblogs tab, but using the Earnings/Settings page is a convenient shortcut.
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