Why is my Discogs sales total higher than what I was paid?
The Discogs help pages give 3 common reasons. The first to rule out: Discogs takes its fees, and the taxes on them, out of the buyer's payment before it reaches you, so what you receive is less than the order total.
Is it broken, or just quiet?
A number can fall because fewer people came, or because something stopped counting them. Below are the causes the Discogs help pages give, and how to check each one yourself.
What causes it?
Discogs takes its fees, and the taxes on them, out of the buyer's payment before it reaches you, so what you receive is less than the order total.
In the Discogs help:
Discogs fees and associated taxes will be removed from the buyer’s payment automatically.
What Are The Fees For Selling On Discogs?, read 2026-11-12.Taxes charged on the Discogs fee go to Discogs, not to you, which is one more part of the order you do not keep.
In the Discogs help:
Fee taxes, such as UK VAT, EU VAT, AU GST, NZ GST, and JCT will be directed to Discogs.
PayPal Payments Solution FAQ, read 2026-11-12.Cancelling an order does not by itself return the selling fee and taxes, so they can stay taken after the sale is gone.
In the Discogs help:
Cancellation of the order is not refunding automatically the selling fee and taxes.
Understanding The Discogs Selling Fee, read 2026-11-12.
How do I check it myself?
Export your orders for the days in question to see the selling fees taken from each one.
In the Discogs help:
If you need to review recent selling fees, we recommend using the Order Export and selecting the desired timeframe.
PayPal Payments Solution FAQ, read 2026-11-12.For a whole month, Discogs offers a fee statement with totals you can set beside your sales.
In the Discogs help:
The Monthly Platform Fee Statement includes the most important columns as well as totals for amount data.
How Can I Get A Detailed Overview Of My Transaction History?, read 2026-11-12.Check the messages from your payment provider as well, as Discogs advises.
In the Discogs help:
Please always check the communication received from your payment provider.
PayPal Payments Solution FAQ, read 2026-11-12.
How would I know the day it starts?
- Feder reads your sales and your marketplace orders from Discogs each day and compares each day with your own history.
- It tells you when sales go quiet or either number moves outside its usual range.
Some numbers are too quiet to judge daily, such as a form filled in a few times a week. Until there is enough of your own history to judge a change, Feder says it is still learning and scores nothing, rather than guessing.
See what Feder reads from Discogs, which feeds Money. Feder only reads. It never changes anything in Discogs.
What else goes wrong with these numbers?
- Why did my Discogs orders drop?Discogs
- Why did my Discogs sales total drop?Discogs
- Why did Google Analytics stop collecting data?Google Analytics
- Why aren't my key events showing in Google Analytics?Google Analytics
- Why does Google Analytics show (not set)?Google Analytics
See every question.
Where do these answers come from?
Every cause and check on this page comes from the Discogs help pages, quoted above with the date we read them. Last reviewed 2026-11-12. We read them again by 2027-11-12. If one changes, this page changes or comes down.