# Your creator dashboard and earnings

> Understand generation activity, product adoption, sales and payout records.

Canonical: https://maruaudio.com/help/creator-dashboard-and-earnings
Documentation index: https://maruaudio.com/help/llms.txt

Open [Earnings](https://maruaudio.com/account/earnings) to review sales, balances and payout records. To understand how people use a generation feature, open the module's settings instead. Someone who generates a sound has not necessarily bought your product.

## Read the right number

| Your question | Where to look and what it tells you |
| --- | --- |
| Are people generating new sounds? | Module settings show generation jobs, generating users and metered credits for the displayed period. This counts generation, not everyone who plays the instrument. |
| Are customers activating the installed plugin? | Licensing reports show trials, activated computers and active seats. They do not count every offline session. |
| Has someone bought the product? | Review orders and creator sale records. Ask about installation separately if a customer reports a problem. |
| How much can I receive? | Review the earnings balance, adjustments, holds and payout records. A sale can be recorded before its money is available for payout. |

For example, a beatbox may have many people playing its prepared kit and fewer using generation. Its generation user count describes the latter group.

## Account connections and privacy

[Creator apps](https://maruaudio.com/account/apps) manages apps you own. [Connected apps](https://maruaudio.com/account/connections) manages permissions you have granted to other apps. They serve different roles.

You can recognize a returning user within your app. That does not let you browse their private projects or see what they do in other apps. See [Maru sign-in for your product](https://maruaudio.com/help/creator-apps.md).

## Understand earnings

The [earnings page](https://maruaudio.com/account/earnings) provides the available seller setup, balances, sales, ledger and payout records. Review the displayed fees, holds, adjustments and payout conditions before treating a sale as spendable income.

**Payouts are arranged with Maru during the beta.** Connecting your payout account completes setup; it does not start automatic transfers. Pending earnings are still held, available earnings have cleared the hold, and paid earnings have a recorded payout. Ask Maru to confirm the transfer date and reference for your payout.

## Use the information to improve the product

Compare the stage people reach with the help they request: a purchase without a successful install suggests a different problem from a generation request that fails. Ask for feedback about the musical result as well as reviewing counts.

If a sale or payout appears to be missing, [contact Maru](https://maruaudio.com/contact#help) with the product, reporting period and relevant order or payout reference. Do not include bank credentials. [Selling on Maru](https://maruaudio.com/help/selling-on-maru.md) and [maintaining your products](https://maruaudio.com/help/maintaining-your-products.md) connect reporting to the release lifecycle.