# Potential payout is decreased by about 50%

**URL:** https://forum.opendesktop.org/t/potential-payout-is-decreased-by-about-50/20993
**Category:** Payments
**Created:** [May 2, 2024, 8:21am UTC](https://forum.opendesktop.org/t/potential-payout-is-decreased-by-about-50/20993 "2024-05-02T08:21:02Z")
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### Author: ![sketu](https://forum.opendesktop.org/user_avatar/forum.opendesktop.org/sketu/32/116261_2.png) [@sketu](https://forum.opendesktop.org/u/sketu)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2024, 8:21am UTC](https://forum.opendesktop.org/t/potential-payout-is-decreased-by-about-50/20993/1 "2024-05-02T08:21:02Z")

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Hi everyone,

If I am wrong, please correct my mistakes, but my potential payout for April has decreased by 50%. I had around $1+, but today when I checked, it had decreased to $0.59. My total payout sum was around $2.93.

Thanks!

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### Author: ![moderatordesk](https://forum.opendesktop.org/user_avatar/forum.opendesktop.org/moderatordesk/32/118048_2.png) [@moderatordesk](https://forum.opendesktop.org/u/moderatordesk)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2024, 10:44am UTC](https://forum.opendesktop.org/t/potential-payout-is-decreased-by-about-50/20993/2 "2024-05-02T10:44:55Z")

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> [@SECTION FACTOR glitch or Issue in payment](https://forum.opendesktop.org/t/section-factor-glitch-or-issue-in-payment/20990):
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> Just two days back My section factor was around 0.35/0.37 and it was maintained from the last one or two months as my download counts raised. but all of sudden yesterday it fell down to 0.21 for no reason and today I’m just seeing that it again fell down to 0.20. I’m feeling like i’m being cheated. I’ve been using this platform from last two years almost, but never face such issues, but this time there is almost a drop of huge amount in payment. That’s really not fair. Any help would be appre…

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### Author: ![moderatordesk](https://forum.opendesktop.org/user_avatar/forum.opendesktop.org/moderatordesk/32/118048_2.png) [@moderatordesk](https://forum.opendesktop.org/u/moderatordesk)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2024, 10:45am UTC](https://forum.opendesktop.org/t/potential-payout-is-decreased-by-about-50/20993/3 "2024-05-02T10:45:18Z")

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Kindly read the thread

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### Author: ![moderatordesk](https://forum.opendesktop.org/user_avatar/forum.opendesktop.org/moderatordesk/32/118048_2.png) [@moderatordesk](https://forum.opendesktop.org/u/moderatordesk)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2024, 10:50am UTC](https://forum.opendesktop.org/t/potential-payout-is-decreased-by-about-50/20993/4 "2024-05-02T10:50:46Z")

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In Phone category huge creator there and also as far I know phone section got huge download so that’s why section factors low.

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### Author: ![sketu](https://forum.opendesktop.org/user_avatar/forum.opendesktop.org/sketu/32/116261_2.png) [@sketu](https://forum.opendesktop.org/u/sketu)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2024, 11:04am UTC](https://forum.opendesktop.org/t/potential-payout-is-decreased-by-about-50/20993/5 "2024-05-02T11:04:31Z")

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Thanks for letting me know. I didn’t knew that.

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### Author: ![system](https://forum.opendesktop.org/uploads/default/original/3X/a/d/ad3076071234bb6217475cbbbbb6f90348c090cd.png) [@system](https://forum.opendesktop.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2024, 11:04am UTC](https://forum.opendesktop.org/t/potential-payout-is-decreased-by-about-50/20993/6 "2024-05-03T11:04:37Z")

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