What happens when someone purchases my work?

When your contents are purchased,  a part of the Sales (☆) will be paid in “Earned Credits” as your royalty.

When a purchase is made, a notification email will be sent to your registered email address.

Sales processing is done automatically, so you do not have to do anything at this time. Your current earnings and sales history can be checked on your “Account Page” (login required).

☆The term “Sales” means the sales amount in the case of the Single Purchase on the PIXTA website, or the amount per download calculated by dividing the monthly price of the plan by the plan’s maximum downloadable number in the case of Subscription Plan with 10 or less downloads per month, or the amount we received from the Distribution Organization after deducting the Distribution Organization’s prescribed fees in the case of compensation paid by the Distribution Organization based on the Compensation System for Public Transmission for Educational Purposes etc. All the sales amount mentioned above subject to the Royalty Rate are excluding tax.  If the terms and conditions for the Royalty Rate, the amount subject to the Royalty Rate, the number of Earned Credits etc. are separately designated, the royalty shall be subject to such terms and conditions.  

Upon calculating the Earned Credits, in the case where the currency unit of sales is Japanese yen, the amount subject to the Royalty Rate will be first multiplied by 1/100, in the case of a foreign currency, the amount will be converted into Japanese yen at the rate published by the financial institution specified by Pixta at the time when the sales is accounted, then will be multiplied by 1/100. Only in the case of the sales price in US dollar set on the PIXTA website, the amount subject to the Royalty Rate is multiplied by 1. 

As for the Subscription Plan with 11 or more downloads per month (including any sales of the Content  under the terms and conditions discretionally designated by Pixta with the Earned Credits granted to the Contributor Member under the Subscription), a specific amount of the Earned Credits will be granted for each download, regardless of the sales amount.

● About Usage of Works

Content sold on PIXTA is royalty free (RF) content for which we do not require the customers for usage records. Please be noted that we cannot answer any questions about the use of purchased contents.

Royalty Rate

When your contents are purchased, you will receive the“Earned Credits” based on your Royalty Rate, which is determined by your registration status and sales performance (Contributor Rank）. Your earnings are calculated with the price and your Royalty Rate in accordance with the Contributor Agreement.

»Selling price of Photo and Illustration »Selling price of Footage

* Regarding royalties for the downloads in the Subscription service, please see here.

When you have accumulated Earned Credits in the amount of 50 credits or more, you can convert them for cash at a rate of ¥100 per 1 credit.

● Royalty rates when photo or illustration is purchased

Non-Exclusive or subscription plans (10 download per 30 days) Exclusive Contributor Other Subscription Plans
Normal royalty rate 22～42% 30～53% 0.25〜0.55 Credits
When purchased with the exclusive sale option 30～48% – 0.27〜0.50 Credits
When purchased with the Extended License (Photo&Illustration ONLY) The Sales subject to the Royalty Rate are the regular selling price + Extended License fee. (excluding tax) –

*When your contents are purchased under the Subscription, the Earned Credits mentioned above will be granted for each “download” of the contents.
*As used herein, the term “download” means an initial download of each contents, exclusive of the re-download(s) of the same contents (in case of the multi-seat license plan, the re-downloads of the same contents within the same multi-seat group) that the User is allowed to have from his or her Account Page as many times as he or she likes during a certain period after the initial download is done.

● Royalty rates when footage is purchased

Normal Royalty rate 40%
When purchased with the exclusive sale option 50%

For details of Footage Subscription Plans and Royalty Rate, please check here.

Sales Patterns and Records in Sales History

When a work is purchased, the details will be recorded in Sales History on your account page.

Sales Patterns Example of a record in Sales History Notes
When purchased with
a normal license		 An icon will be displayed for the size of the image that was purchased.
When purchased with an
Extended License		 + Icons will be displayed for the size of the image that was purchased and for the Extended License.
When an Extended License is purchased for previously purchased content An icon will be displayed for the Extended License only.
When a previously purchased work is changed to a larger size → Icons will be displayed for the original size and the modified size.

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About Payments

Earned Credits received from content sales can be converted for cash at a rate of ¥100 per 1 credit once you have accumulated 50 credits or more.

*Your earnings from content sales are subject to income tax (Earned Credits received from affiliates are not subject to this).

*Once you have made a payment request, you cannot cancel it later.

● Payment Process

If you have Earned Credits in the amount of 50 credits or more, you can request payment at any time.

We offer two payment options: Paypal or Payoneer.
Before you request a payment, you will need to complete “Payment Settings” in advance, so please register in “Sales & Payment” → “Payment Settings” from your “Account Page” (login required).

*If you choose Payoneer as your Payment Method, the amount of royalties in Japanese Yen will be exchanged at the JPY-USD rate as applied by Payoneer to the amount in US dollar, which will be transferred to your Payoneer account, subject to the conversion fee to be deducted in the amount equivalent to 2% of the amount of royalties in US dollar.
The applied JPY-USD rate shall be the rate of an external financial institution determined by Payoneer in accordance with the date of our exchange order, which may be different from the date of your conversion application or payment date.

When you complete the above process, you can request a payment by “Sales & Payment” → “Request Payment” from your “Account Page”.

After you complete the payment request, you will receive an email listing the amount to be paid and the expected date of the payment, so please save it until the payment is completed.

The payment will be processed on 15th of the month after the next from your request. (in the event of a weekend or holiday, it will fall on the next business day).

The Contributor Member shall acknowledge that Pixta fulfills its obligation to pay royalty by making payment to the bank account information registered by the Contributor Member.