A payout is not the sum of what fans paid. Bandcamp’s revenue share, payment-processor fees, any payout fee, and refunds or reversals come off along the way, and some collection-society amounts may be set aside. Your sales report’s own columns let you walk from each sale to the money you received.
Bandcamp has an article titled “My payout was less than I expected, why”. As summarised in search results, it lists Bandcamp’s revenue share, payment-processor fees, a possible fee on PayPal payouts, and possible collection-society accruals. We could not open the page, so we are not quoting percentages; they change and the article has the current ones.
Bandcamp’s page “Reading your raw data sales report” (dated June 10, 2026) lists the report’s columns in order. The ones that matter here include: sub total, additional fan contribution, transaction fee, fee type, item total, amount you received, assessed revenue share, collected revenue share, balance of revenue share, change to payout balance, payout balance, net amount and collection society share. Its item types are album, track, package, payout, reversal and refund, so refunds and reversals appear as their own rows and can lower what is left to pay.
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Open your own Bandcamp sales report here and see exactly what each sale paid after fees, without it leaving your browser — free, and it ignores the fan details: https://musiciwant.com/musicians/bandcamp
Last checked October 15, 2026. Sources marked “read as a summary” are pages we could see only as a search-result summary because the page itself would not open for us; we have kept those claims general and not quoted numbers from them. Per-stream figures are estimates from the two dated articles named below; none of them are ours.