Selling macros
Once you are an , any listing you publish can be paid instead of free.
The Creator Agreement, readable in full from the app, is the authoritative version of this page. Where they disagree, the Agreement wins.
Pricing
A listing is Free, or one of five fixed price tiers running from about 3 to 30 US dollars. You pick a tier, not an arbitrary number, and buyers see it converted into their own currency by Google Play.
Paid macros are bought once. There are no subscriptions, and a buyer can install what they bought as many times as they like.
The free edition
A paid listing can carry a second, free macro alongside it. It must be a separate macro that is useful on its own, not a demo that stops halfway.
It is optional, but listings with a free edition tend to sell better. The paid macro cannot also be its own free edition.
What you keep
Your share is 55% of what the buyer pays. Google takes roughly 15%, and MacroForge keeps the rest.
If Google changes its fee, your 55% does not move; the difference comes out of our share, not yours.
Google Play processes every payment. Your share of each sale is recorded in a ledger you can see in the creator console.
When a sale becomes payable
A sale becomes available on the 15th of the month after the month it was made in. Every sale in March becomes available on 15 April.
Until then it shows as on hold in your analytics rather than as available.
Getting paid
Once your available balance reaches 50 USD, Get paid in the creator console opens the payout form. Payouts are made monthly, by hand.
- Method: PayPal, bank transfer, or Wise.
- Send it to: the email on your PayPal or Wise account, or your IBAN or account number.
- Full name and Country, as they appear on the account receiving the money.
Filing a request does not change your balance; it drops once a person has reviewed the request and sent the payment. You can have one open request at a time, and the history below the form shows earlier ones as Waiting, Paid or Declined, with the moderator's note.
A request cannot be paid in its first 24 hours, and you are notified as soon as one is filed. If you get that notification without having asked for a payout, contact support immediately: someone else is in your account.
Before your first payout we may ask for identity and tax details. You are responsible for your own taxes; we only withhold where the law requires it. If none of our payment methods work in your country, contact us. Your balance stays on your account meanwhile.
Refunds
If a buyer is refunded or reverses a charge, that amount comes off your balance, whether or not it had become available. If it was already paid out, it is deducted from future earnings, and your balance can read negative until it is recovered.
We can also hold a payout while we look into suspected fraud or artificial sales, and will not pay for sales we conclude were not real.
If you stop
You can stop publishing whenever you like and ask us to remove your listings. People who already bought a paid listing keep access to what they bought, and your right to be paid for completed, non-refunded sales survives. Your balance does not expire.