Contracts, Tax, and Banking — or how to get money from Apple

If you plan to sell your apps on the App Store, then after getting access to iTunes Connect you must sign the Paid Applications agreement: fill in your banking details and the tax form.

The full text of this post was not preserved in the web archive — only the announcement and key points recovered from the April 2014 archive listing. What follows is the recovered part.

The key steps I had to go through (from memory and from the announcement):

1. Contracts, Tax, and Banking in iTunes Connect — the section where you sign the Paid Applications agreement. Without it, no money from sales is credited to you.
2. Banking — your bank account details for payouts. You will need the bank’s SWIFT code and correspondent account number.
3. Tax Forms — the tax form (for non-US developers, W-8BEN), confirming that you do not pay US taxes. Without it, Apple withholds up to 30–40%.
4. After signing, the agreement goes into Pending status — review takes a few days.

If you are going through this process right now — write to me, I am happy to share my experience: imaximus.gs@gmail.com.