Payment Schedules

hCaptcha Payouts run quarterly on a 60 day trailing basis. To illustrate what this means, please see the table below.

Traffic Between	Reconciliation Date	Payout Date
Dec 15th 2018 - Jan 15th 2019	No later than Mar 15th 2019	Mar 15th 2019
Jan 15th 2019 - Apr 15th 2019	No later than Jun 15th 2019	Jun 15th 2019
Apr 15th 2019 - Jul 15th 2019	No later than Jul 15th 2019	Sep 15th 2019
Jul 15th 2019 - Oct 15th 2019	No later than Dec 14th 2019*	Dec 17th 2019**
Oct 15th 2019 - Jan 15th 2020	No later than Mar 23rd 2020***	Mar 20-23th 2020***
Jan 15th 2020 - Apr 15th 2020	No later than Jun 16th 2020*	Jun 15-19th 2020****
Apr 15th 2020 - Jul 15th 2020	No later than Sep 14th 2020*	Sep 15th 2020
Jul 15th 2020 - Oct 15th 2020	No later than Dec 14th 2020*	Dec 15th 2020

* Please Note: we are currently working on a major backend transition to near-real-time reconciliation. Periodic reconciliations will run less frequently than usual through Q4 2020. This does not affect payout schedules or dates.

** When the 15th falls on a weekend, the Payout Date is instead the 17th.

*** COVID-19 ADVISORY: Due to reduced staff capacity related to COVID-19, reconciliation has been rescheduled to allow additional time to complete our standard verification. Payouts are expected to start on Friday and complete on the following Monday.

**** Due to maintenance by PayPal of their REST APIs during the payout window, not all payouts were completed on Jun 15th. Any payouts scheduled for Jun 15th (Pacific time) but not executed due to PayPal API errors were re-run by Jun 19th (Pacific time).

Payouts run throughout the day on the Payout Date, and are in general completed by midnight Pacific time. If an account has been flagged for review, it may take up to five additional business days to release a payment.
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As a reminder, only accurate human traffic is eligible for payouts. You can see more details on this in our FAQ, linked below. Available balance must also meet a minimum threshold in order to be eligible for payout, currently 10 HMT.

Real-time estimates do not reflect final accuracy or humanity, and thus your final earnings may vary substantially up or down from numbers shown in the Dashboard prior to your first reconciliation.

After each reconciliation, your per-sitekey estimates will be updated and the accuracy of future predictions should increase, unless your site has a material change in user behavior.

What does Reconciliation mean?

Reconciliation is the process whereby traffic is analyzed after the fact to verify its humanity and accuracy, once all data from all reporting sites is in. You can read more details in our FAQ as well as our blog posts, e.g. How hCaptcha Calculates Rewards.

Are you planning to speed this process up?

Yes, we are currently working on a variety of improvements to our backend systems that we expect will eventually allow us to offer both faster reconciliation, more rapid estimation accuracy, and faster payouts. We are currently working to speed up reconciliation first, and expect to make some announcements in this area in the next few months.