Sales and payouts

How selling works

Cloosi lets you sell your tracks directly to your listeners. When someone buys one of your tracks, the money goes straight to your connected Stripe account — Cloosi never holds your earnings. You keep the vast majority of every sale.

• You set your own price for each track (with an optional minimum price for pay-what-you-want).
• Fans pay by card through a secure Stripe checkout.
• Buyers can download their tracks anytime from My purchases in their dashboard.
• Your share of each sale lands in your Stripe account automatically.

Getting set up with payouts

To receive money from sales, you need to connect a Stripe account. Stripe is the payment processor Cloosi uses — it's free to set up and handles all the secure payment and payout plumbing.

1. Go to your artist dashboard and open the Payouts tab.
2. Click Connect Stripe. You'll be taken to Stripe to create or link an account.
3. Complete Stripe's onboarding: they'll ask for your legal name, date of birth, address, and bank account details. This is required by financial regulations (Know Your Customer) and usually takes just a few minutes.
4. Once Stripe confirms your account, you'll be redirected back to Cloosi and your payout status will show as active.
5. That's it — any tracks you've marked for sale can now be purchased, and your earnings flow directly to your bank account on Stripe's payout schedule (typically 2–7 business days after each sale, depending on your country).

Fees and commission

Two small deductions come out of each sale before it reaches you:

Rewarding your growth: once your lifetime sales on Cloosi reach $1,000, the commission automatically drops from 15% to 10% — permanently. No action needed on your end; the lower rate applies to every sale after you cross the threshold.

Example breakdown

Here's what a $2.00 track sale looks like at the standard 15% commission rate:

After $1,000 in lifetime sales, that same $2.00 sale would pay you $1.44.

How this compares

Here's how selling on Cloosi stacks up against other places fans buy music:

The big difference is directness. On Cloosi, every sale goes straight to your own Stripe account — there's no platform-held balance to wait on and no marketplace payout cycle. Apple and Beatport route your sales through labels and distributors; Bandcamp lets artists sell directly, but holds the money until its own payout run.

Bandcamp announced in August 2025 that it is moving artist payouts to a Stripe-powered system (you can read their announcement on setting up a Stripe payout account). Once that transition finishes, Bandcamp's model will look a lot like what Cloosi already does today — so Cloosi's setup isn't behind the industry; it's where the industry is heading.

One nuance: Bandcamp currently still supports PayPal payouts for artists in countries where Stripe isn't available yet (see their payment-options article). And while Bandcamp's standard digital rate matches Cloosi's starting 15%, Cloosi drops to 10% permanently after $1,000 in lifetime sales — with a fully transparent fee breakdown on every sale.

Tracking your sales

Your artist dashboard has everything you need to follow your earnings:

• Sales tab — every purchase of your tracks, with the sale amount and your payout.
• Payouts tab — your available and pending balance, plus the status of your Stripe connection.

Funds from a sale become available after Stripe's settlement window (about 7 days), then pay out to your bank on Stripe's schedule.

Common questions