Group Revenue page doesn't account for sales commissions

[ForbiddenJ]

There is a discrepancy between the amount of Robux my Forbidden Arts group has apparently earned and the amount it actually has earned. This mostly stems from the ancient commissions system, leading me to think the website programmers forgot to account for it when making this page.

I have only ever had three products for sale on this group, a Donor T-Shirt, a Mega Donor T-Shirt, and ForbiddenJ Follower T-Shirt, and the only time I’ve ever used the group funds was for the payout shown. I’ve paid for other group purchases out my personal funds.

So what’s the deal here?

I’ve developed a table of the number of items sold as of March 13, 2020, along with their prices and revenue, based on the log of sales, and the fact that a 30% marketplace fee is taken out. Pending sales are omitted.

Product	Price	Sold	Earned	After Fee
Donor T-Shirt	50	59	2,950	2,065
Mega Donor T-Shirt	300	7	2,100	1,470
ForbiddenJ Follower T-Shirt	10	1	10	7

That would come out to 3,542‬ Robux.
Subtract 286 for the payout, and the final total is…

3,256

The displayed revenue is 3,261 Robux, which isn’t far off from my calculations. However, since my group actually has 2,751 Robux, this would mean I’m somehow missing 505 Robux.

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"But wait! There’s a 10% commission that’s taken out when your items are sold in third-party games. Is this just a visual bug?"

There is a commission system, and in fact, pretty much all of them had commissions taken out because they were sold in games that didn’t belong to the group.

Let’s assume that every sale had the 10% commission taken out, leaving me with the remaining 60%:

Product	Price	Sold	Earned	After Fee and Commission
Donor T-Shirt	50	59	2,950	1,770
Mega Donor T-Shirt	300	7	2,100	1,260
ForbiddenJ Follower T-Shirt	10	1	10	6

That would come out as 3,036‬ Robux. Subtract 286 for the payout, and the grand total is…

2,750

Meaning my group inexplicably has 1 extra Robux, which is not far off from what my group actually has.

So yeah, the group revenue page clearly doesn’t account for sales commissions.

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Edit (February 9, 2021):

At some point later, I looked at the lone sale of the ForbiddenJ Follower T-Shirt. I figured that since the t-shirt isn’t featured in my game, it didn’t have a commission taken out, which could explain why the group had 1 more. The purchaser likely bought the product direct from its page.

Sorry I didn’t mention this before.

[Polyheximal]

I’m fairly sure this was reported here:

Group funds does not match Revenue Summary: visual or burning our robux?

Hello, this is a continuation of this topic: It was briefly discussed and so far I’ve received no logical explanation for it, and it’s quote critical, as I’ve got over 50K missing robux. (That’s a half of devex.) So, heres the problem: You see, recently I’ve made a new group for a new game that I’ve released. The group is only 2 weeks old. [image] Those are the funds. You see, if we do simple math we can see that: I’ve got 264,059 ROBUX from sales from my game. I’ve paid out 36,50…

Although this post wasn’t marked as a solution, there may be some relevancy to the issue:

@buildthomas

With “full review” I meant finding out how many times each game pass and product was sold, multiply that with their after-tax value (if you do it *0.7 you assume everything got exactly 30% tax, which may be incorrect for irregular prices), and then summing all of that together, then deducting from that all of the payouts you have done for the group, and comparing the resulting value with your current group funds.

(although you also need to take into account that some pending sales may not have come through yet)

[codedcosmetics]

This is STILL not possible to see. I am a developer who makes most of my revenue from third party sales (hats,hair etc…) I also own a clothing mall where I feature other designers clothing and this is something that should be added or fixed soon. But it counts as “Sale of Goods” on the sales page.

I did test this, with a new group. I bought a hat inside my game and got 10% of 120 back. However this does not show up in the sales log.

Maybe add a “Commissions” page on groups? This would be super helpful!