AdSense Payment or how and when does AdSense pay
Some of the most important questions for website owners who use AdSense to generate revenue from ads are about how to receive their money. So in this article, I listed the most important questions that users of our Advanced Ads plugin keep asking me regarding AdSense payments.
What do I need to set up?
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Before getting paid by Google AdSense, you need to set up the payment information:
- the correct postal address (and confirm it)
- provide tax information (not applicable for all countries)
- select a payment method
AdSense will hold the money for you until you entered all the information. So you can start using AdSense and generate revenues from ads even before finishing the whole payment setup. You should see notifications in your AdSense backend until you finished the setup process, though.
AdSense earnings report as displayed in the WordPress dashboard by Advanced Ads
Install Advanced Ads to keep track of your AdSense payments directly within your WordPress backend.
When do I get paid by AdSense?
AdSense calculates your income for an entire month. After the month ends, AdSense takes a few weeks to review your earnings and identify false impressions and clicks before finalizing the payment. This review is normally done by the 20th of the succeeding month. Google AdSense sends payments in the last week of the following month.
In a nutshell, this is a typical payment timeline, which begins the month after you generated your revenue.
| 3rd of the month | Earnings are finalized, revenue for invalid clicks is reduced. Use click fraud protection to secure your AdSense account for invalid clicks. |
| 20th | Last chance to make changes to your payment method |
| 21st – 26th | The payment will be sent by AdSense; changes are no longer possible |
| 27th two months later | You can reissue another payment if you didn’t receive it |
Google AdSense payment dates
Timelines could shift depending on the timezone you are in or if the day a specific action is taken falls on a weekend or bank holiday.
The payment itself may take some time, depending on the payment method. Here are some Google AdSense payment methods and the time they take until the money reaches you:
| Checks by mail | 1-2 weeks |
| Wire transfer | 15 days |
| EFT payments / bank transfer | 7 business days |
| Western Union Quick Cash | you have 60 days to pick it up |
| Rapida payments | 15 days |
Google AdSense payment methods
What is a payment threshold?
A payment threshold is the minimal amount of earnings you need to gather in a row of months before getting paid. As you can see in the sample payment schedule below, you won’t get paid for the month you earned only $40, but when you made $90 the next month, you earned a total of $130 and are eligible to get paid by AdSense in the succeeding month.
The payment threshold is different by currency. Here are some sample values.
| U.S. Dollar | $100 |
| Euro | €70 |
| British Pound | £60 |
| Yen | ¥8000 |
| Australian Dollar | A$100 |
Google AdSense payment threshold
The payment threshold is probably the most important for you, but there are three other types of thresholds for earnings connected with actions in AdSense:
- Address verification threshold
- Payment method selection threshold
- Cancellation threshold
You can review the detailed list of thresholds, but as a rough orientation, the threshold for all of them is the equivalent amount of $10 or €10.
Why do my earnings decrease after the month?
The numbers you see in your performance reports are called estimated earnings. AdSense needs until the 3rd of the following month to finalize your earnings and display the result in your account under Payments > Transactions.
The reason for the difference between both numbers is invalid clicks and impressions. Google doesn’t disclose how they distinguish those clicks, but one of those invalid activities is clicking on ads on your own site. If you violate the AdSense policy too often, you might even get banned from the network and lose all outstanding payments.
Get Advanced Ads Pro to secure your AdSense account with the click fraud protection feature. It prevents users from deliberately or accidentally clicking on the same ads multiple times.
What is a payment hold, and how to issue one?
If you – for any reason – don’t want to get paid for the next payment period, you can increase your payment threshold or schedule the next payout to postpone the AdSense payment for some time.
Google AdSense Payment schedule options
You could hold payments for the current month only if you issued the hold before the 20th of that month.
What can I do if I didn’t receive my payment?
In case you didn’t receive your payment but did complete your payment information, your overall income is above the payment threshold and due for more than 60 days, and no issue is displayed in your AdSense dashboard, you can request a reissue from AdSense.
Sample AdSense payment schedule
In the following payment schedule, I included some basic examples and actions for the payment process.
| January | $40 | – | get started with AdSense; threshold not reached |
| February | $90 | – | threshold reached for the first time |
| March | $200 | $130 | getting paid for January and February |
| April | $250 | $200 | getting paid for March |
Do I get a payment receipt or invoice from AdSense?
If you are a business – and in most countries, you are when using Google AdSense on your site – you might want to get an invoice or payment receipt from AdSense for your tax office. You can find it in your payment history under Payments > View transactions.
From my own experience, I recommend checking with your accountant or tax office. Ask if they need more information, e.g., some stats from your performance report saying how many impressions or clicks you sold at which price.
How about taxes on AdSense income?
As long as your country collects taxes, they probably won’t make an exception with your AdSense earnings. The amount of taxes you have to pay is, of course, too individual by each country and personal situation, so I am not able to cover it here in general.
How can I check the AdSense payments in my WordPress backend
Use Advanced Ads to connect your site with Google AdSense to check out your AdSense revenue for the whole account, website, and individual ads directly from your WordPress site.
Do you have a question regarding AdSense payments? Reach out through our dedicated support team.
Have you just started using Google AdSense and are unsure if you did something wrong with your setup? Open now a thread in our forum and get free support.
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Starting in 2009, Thomas’ own word game website grew to 40 MM page impressions per month. He then built Advanced Ads to help his colleagues to place ads and test different ad positions and networks tests without any coding skills. Thomas now enjoys improving the product for our more than 150,000 users worldwide.
