In the resources and help for Payments and Financial Reports, it says "If your bank and bank account currency is listed in this table, you must exceed a minimum payment threshold of $10 USD. All other bank countries and bank account currencies must exceed a minimum payment threshold of $150 USD." So if my app is making less than this threshold, then will I never get paid? Or will it add up month after month until it does?
Payments under $150
I've heard reports of pay outs as low as USD$42/mo., so...
But yes, if the amount does fall to a certain level, then it accrues and kicks when it reaches x level...if it stays below that threshold, it will be paid out at the end of the fiscal year, regardless - or so I'm told.
Point is, you won't never get paid, one way or the other.
Looking over the Apple Developer Program license agreement, it looks to me like you get nothing unless you go over the threshhold.
From the Resources and Help document with the table (under "How are Payments Made?"):
Apple's bank will consolidate payments for different financial reports when possible, generally resulting
in a single payment for all earnings each month the requirements for being paid have been met.
From the license agreement:
…remittance payments ( i ) are made by means of wire transfer only; (ii) are subject
to minimum monthly remittance amount thresholds; …
I found nothing that says that the money is saved for you. Instead, it seems to me to say that there is no accumulation for months the threshhold is not reached. That's probably to spare Apple the trouble of dealing with service fees and the like when moving small amounts of money around.
But, you know, that table is pretty large, so chances are good you'll get the $10 threshhold, which if you think about it, is next to impossible to stay under. Even if your app is 99 cents, you only have to sell 15 apps (taking into account Apple's 30% commission) for the entire month to reach the threshhold.
Don't take my word as gospel truth, though—I very well could have missed something in the legalese 🙂