Once you are logged in, go to Payment and Financial Reports > Earnings and start clicking the Download links.
You'll need to download every report available from iTunes Connect. The following steps will help you get your own data into the app: Import Financial Reports
The Safety Light.beans file mentioned at the beginning of this file will show what that hard work can produce. We realize that getting this app setup is a bit tedious: you'll need to download or enter a lot of data before you get meaningful results. We have paid partners based on the information in the reports. We've been using it internally for years. Please ignore how bad this product looks: like I said, this is the first time we've let a product so ugly out of our internal group of testers.īut don't let the alpha designation give you any misgivings about the product's stability. BeanCounter will let you keep track of your sales on a monthly basis and the data will never leave your hard drive. As we've learned with AppViz, there are also a lot of developers who do not trust a third-party with their iTunes Connect credentials. Why?īeanCounter is useful, and it suits our needs. It's also the first alpha release we've ever released outside of the Iconfactory.
#BEANCOUNTER PDF#
Both the charts and reports can be printed as PDF files and mailed/distributed as appropriate for your business. The data for both the charts and report can be organized by product, a group of products or by partner in various date ranges. Once we have accurate earnings, we use the data to plot charts and produce reports. That rate is then applied to one or more months of sales and result in earnings which are accurate to a fractional cent (we use decimal numbers throughout the application to ensure accuracy.) You then manually reconcile the deposit amounts from iTunes Connect to compute the exact exchange rate. No way to get the number of sales for a single product in a single region - How much do you owe fucking Lodsys for in-app upgrades in the US?īeanCounter reads all the monthly financial reports through an import process.Hard to visualize the earnings across multiple regions - How do launch sales for Product E in Japan compare to the US?.No way to compute partner splits - How much we owe a partner who gets 50% of Product D earnings?.No aggregate reporting of multiple SKUs - How much did we earn with Product C and all its in-app purchases?.No per-product reporting in a common currency - How much did we earn in all regions with Product A vs.What Problems Does This App Solve?Īs the Iconfactory has moved a significant part of our business to the App Store, we encountered some major discrepancies with the iTunes Connect financial reports: As a way to thank my pal John Gruber for providing data in my book on building and marketing iOS apps, I've donated the app's proceeds to his family's charity. :-)Ī majority of the sales for Safety Light came from a link at Daring Fireball at the end of December 2009, but there was also a small blip in April 2012 thanks to a mention in Reader's Digest. Now you know how well a flashlight app can sell in the iOS App Store. BeanCounter Introduction Show Me The Money!įor a quick demo, open the TestData/SafetyLight.beans document after you build the BeanCounter app.
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