Meet PayoutProof — Dashboard said X. Bank got Y

What PayoutProof does

The dashboard said $412. The deposit was $296. Which platform do you trust next month?

PayoutProof is the offline ledger for creators paid by platforms that don't explain themselves. Every month, YouTube, TikTok, Amazon Associates, affiliate networks, and sponsors each show you a number — and weeks later, a different number lands in your bank. In March 2026, Amazon quietly cut Associates commissions by up to half and degraded the very reports affiliates used to check their earnings. Nobody announced it. People found out from their deposits.

PayoutProof keeps the record the platforms won't. For each platform, each month, you log two numbers: what the dashboard said when the period closed, and what actually arrived. The app computes the variance, tracks it over time, and surfaces patterns no single dashboard can — like a platform underpaying its own estimate four of the last six months, averaging 11 percent short.

A payout calendar knows each platform's schedule — AdSense around the 21st, Amazon roughly sixty days behind the earning month — so when a payout date passes with nothing logged, you find out that week, not at tax time.

PayoutProof is honest about the gray areas too. Some variance is legitimate: estimated figures that finalize lower, returns windows, currency conversion, carried-over thresholds. The adjustment log lets you tag known reasons, so your ledger separates expected reconciliation from actual shortfalls — and your receipts stay credible.

When a platform does come up short, the variance receipt turns the discrepancy into a clean, dated card: dashboard figure, deposit, percentage gap, six-month trend. It's the screenshot creators already post — now with the math done for you.

Everything stays on your phone. Your income never touches a server, there's no account to create, and no bank connection is required or requested.

• Per-platform monthly ledger: dashboard figure vs actual deposit • Automatic variance math with month-over-month trends • Payout calendar with per-platform schedules and missing-deposit flags • Platform trust score ranking who actually pays what they show • Adjustment log to tag legitimate reconciliation reasons • Variance receipt cards for the moment a platform comes up short • Year summary and CSV export for tax time • Fully offline — no account, no bank link, no server

A look inside

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What's inside

• Platform Ledger — Per platform, per month: log the dashboard figure when the period closes and the deposit when it lands. PayoutProof computes the variance in dollars and percent, keeps every restatement, and shows the running record each platform hopes you don't keep.
• Variance Receipt — The shareable moment: a clean, dated card — 'TikTok dashboard: $412 → deposit: $296 (-28%)' — with a six-month variance sparkline. Rendered for export at screenshot-friendly sizes; exactly what creators already post when platforms shortchange them.
• Payout Calendar — Each platform carries its payout rule (AdSense ~21st, Amazon ~60-day lag, TikTok mid-month) on a unified calendar. When a payout date passes with no deposit logged, the entry is flagged and a local notification fires — a missing deposit becomes a same-week discovery.
• Trust Score — Every platform gets a 0-100 trust score from its history of paying what it showed, with a ranked leaderboard and per-platform trend charts — 'underpaid estimate 4 of last 6 months, avg -11%' as a first-class stat.
• Adjustment Log — Tag legitimate variance — estimate finalization, returns window, currency conversion, threshold carryover, fees — against any entry. Adjusted variance is reported separately from raw variance, so the ledger distinguishes expected reconciliation from actual shortfall.
• Year Summary — A tax-time rollup: total expected vs total received per platform for the year, aggregate variance, and CSV export of the full ledger for a preparer or spreadsheet.

Why we built it

Creators are paid by 3-8 opaque platforms whose dashboards routinely disagree with what lands in the bank — and in March 2026 Amazon stealth-cut Associates commissions up to 50% while degrading its reporting. Nobody keeps a 'dashboard said X, deposit was Y' ledger across platforms, so underpayments and missing deposit…

What makes it different

Platform dashboards each show only their own numbers, restate figures retroactively, and (Amazon, March 2026) are being actively degraded — none shows expected-vs-deposited. Affilimate, Trackonomics, Levanta ($150-750/mo) and Strackr are subscription B2B API aggregators for professional publishers, and the very APIs t…

Who it's for

Freelancers, contractors, and small-business owners who want their numbers right at tax time without renting a SaaS to do it.

In one line: Dashboard said X. Bank got Y.

Try it

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