Revenue

Revenue sits under INSIGHTS in the Pyre.Stream sidebar, beside Analytics rather than with the money settings, and it does two different jobs on one page.

The top of it is your tip money, live. Stripe’s own panels for the card tips it has moved for you, rendered inside Pyre, with your PayPal record beside them.

Below that is everything else you earn, pulled together from what the platforms are willing to tell us. That half is honest to the point of bluntness, because the page’s own subtitle sets the terms: Estimated earnings across platforms. Platform payout APIs are limited, so every figure is badged by how it was obtained.

Payment activity

The centrepiece card. Six tabs: five are Stripe’s own components, the sixth is Pyre’s own record of your PayPal tips.

Live from Stripe: Stripe's own views of the card money it has actually moved for you, rendered inside Pyre. The PayPal tab is Pyre's own record of your PayPal tips.

Tab	What it shows
Payments	Every card tip Stripe has settled for you, with its status.
Payouts	The transfers Stripe has sent to your bank, and the ones on the way.
Balances	What is available now and what is still pending in your Stripe balance.
Disputes	Every card tip a viewer has challenged, and what Stripe needs from you to answer it.
Tax documents	The tax forms Stripe has issued for your payouts. Download any of them here.
PayPal	Every PayPal tip Pyre has recorded for you.

Each tab loads the first time you open it, not when the page renders, so opening Revenue does not go and fetch five panels you were not asking for.

Disputes are yours, and Pyre cannot answer one

You are the merchant of record, so a dispute is between you and the card holder. Pyre never holds the money and cannot answer one for you.

That is not a disclaimer, it is how the money works. The card tip went into your own Stripe account, so the card holder’s bank is arguing with you and Stripe is the referee. Opening a row expands Stripe’s own evidence form in place, and what you submit goes to Stripe.

What Pyre can do is put the dispute where you will see it, next to the payment it came from, instead of leaving it in an email you missed.

Tax documents are shown, never filed

Pyre does not file anything for you and does not give tax advice. These are your account's documents, shown where the rest of your money lives.

Forms appear when Stripe issues them, on Stripe’s calendar rather than a Pyre one, so an empty year means Stripe has not issued anything for it yet. Whether a form is owed to you at all depends on your country and your volume, and that is a question for Stripe or for your accountant.

The PayPal tab is a different kind of thing

The five Stripe tabs are live from Stripe. The PayPal tab is not, and the difference matters:

Every PayPal tip Pyre has recorded for you. PayPal has no panels to embed, so this is Pyre's own record of what came in.

PayPal has nothing for Pyre to render, so what you get is our own row per captured PayPal tip, written when PayPal confirmed the payment. It is real data, but it is ours rather than PayPal’s, and it stops at what came in: PayPal balances and payouts are managed in your PayPal account. with an Open PayPal link for the rest.

Two more consequences worth holding on to. A PayPal tip never appears in the Stripe tabs, because it never touched Stripe. And the PayPal tab sits outside the live Stripe region on purpose: if Stripe cannot render at all, your PayPal history is untouched and still on screen.

The PayPal rail needs no setup journey

Connecting PayPal is one field and a button, so there is no verification, no review and no waiting: the moment your payee address is stored you can take PayPal tips. It settles straight into that PayPal account, and Pyre never holds the money there either. The whole rail is documented in Tips, and the card side is in Set up payouts.

The live panels need a payout account first

The Stripe half of this card only appears once you have a Stripe payout account, and that gate is deliberate: asking Stripe for one of these panels is what creates an account, so a creator who has never opted into card tips must not open one by clicking a tab.

An account mid verification is enough. You do not have to be finished to see your payments and your balance, because Stripe’s own panels explain what is still outstanding better than a Pyre banner could.

Where the panels cannot load you get a card that names the cause rather than an empty box, and each one keeps pointing at the place that can fix it:

What you see	What it means
No live Stripe views yet	Connect Stripe in Tips to see live payments, payouts and balances here.
Live Stripe views are not switched on	This deployment has no Stripe key, so Stripe cannot render its panels inside Pyre. Your tips and payouts are unaffected.
Stripe is still activating	The Pyre Stripe platform is not fully activated yet. Try again later.
Could not load the live Stripe views	Stripe did not answer just now. Everything below is unaffected, and there is a Retry.

Every one of them adds the same reassurance, because the tab strip stays where it is: Your PayPal tips are unaffected: they are listed in the PayPal tab above.

There is no link to the Stripe dashboard, anywhere

Not in this pane and not in the payout journey. The account is yours and you can sign in to Stripe directly whenever you want to, but nothing in Pyre hands you that door, because the point of running Stripe’s panels inside Pyre is that you did not have to leave to use them.

Everything below the tip money

The rest of the page is the cross-platform picture, and it is the half where Pyre is guessing. It leads with the reason:

No platform exposes a real cross-platform payout API. Twitch, Kick and TikTok give us counts (subs, bits, follows) but not money; YouTube gives money only to owner/MCN accounts.

So every figure carries a provenance badge, and the badge is the most important thing about it:

Badge	Where the number came from
REAL	Our billing ledger, or a YouTube owner account figure. Exact.
ESTIMATED	Your platform counts multiplied by your split heuristics. An estimate, never your actual payout.
IMPORTED	A payout CSV you uploaded. Exact, and it supersedes the estimate for the period it covers.

The why estimated? link beside the legend opens the same explanation in full, in place.

Earnings this period is the headline, over the window you pick in the page header (7d, 30d or 90d), with the same length before it as a comparison. The comparison appears only when the whole period is in one currency, because a change measured across two currencies would not mean anything. Read the note under the figure before you read the figure: Tips, memberships and merch are exact (REAL); platform shares are estimated unless you import a CSV. Each currency is totalled separately: amounts in different currencies are never added together.

Data availability is the per-platform honesty key, and it is worth reading once:

Source	What Pyre can actually get
Twitch	No payout API: estimated from sub/bit counts.
YouTube	Real only for owner/MCN accounts; solo channels are estimated or CSV.
Kick	No revenue API (CSV / manual only).
TikTok	No revenue API (CSV / manual only).
Tips and Merch	Our own billing ledger (exact).

Breakdown by source is the same money as a table, one row per source and kind, with the amount and its provenance side by side.

Payout tracking reconciles what a platform said it would pay against what arrived, and it starts empty: No payouts tracked yet. Import a CSV to reconcile platform payouts against your estimate.

Benchmark cohort is one switch, off until you turn it on: Contribute your anonymised, category-level numbers to the peer benchmark, and see where you sit in it.

It gates the benchmark and nothing else. Your own Analytics page works either way, and turning this off never hides anything from you. The card is also honest about the state of the benchmark itself: The benchmark is not running yet: there is no cohort to compare against, so joining stores your choice and shows you nothing today. It will start showing a percentile once enough creators have joined.

Replace an estimate with a real figure

1. Export the payout report from Twitch or YouTube Studio, or from Kick or TikTok if you have one.

2. Press Import CSV in the page header, or Import payout CSV on the Data availability card. Both open the same dialog.

3. Pick the source and choose the file. Cells are validated and sanitised before anything is stored.

4. Import. The rows land marked IMPORTED and supersede the estimate for the period they cover, so the same money is never counted twice.

What this page will not do

• It will not turn an estimate into a promise. An ESTIMATED figure is your counts times a heuristic, and no amount of it becoming a nicer number makes it your payout.
• It will not add up two currencies. Each one is totalled separately, always.
• It will not show PayPal balances or PayPal payouts. Those live at PayPal, and the tab says so instead of pretending.
• It will not answer a dispute for you. It puts Stripe’s evidence form in front of you, and the answer is yours to write.
• It will not file your taxes or advise you on them. It shows you the documents Stripe issued.

Related

• Set up payouts, the three step journey that makes the live panels appear at all.
• Tips, the tip form, the presets, the goals and the alert.
• Your public page, where a viewer actually sends the tip.