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ClickBank vendor pay wait is not CAKE advertiser settlement
Grab one ClickBank hop account export. Mark the vendor-payout date. Subtract the approval date. That span is CB approved-paid lag days. Pin approvals beside the span so volume stays honest.
Pair: Approved-to-paid lag on Traffic. CAKE twin: CK approved-paid. Hold twin: payout hold share.
Hop account columns
Approval date — Day ClickBank flipped the sale to approved on the hop account export.
Vendor-payout date — Day vendor cash posted for that sale on the same export.
Approvals — Sales on that ClickBank approval→vendor-payout slice.
CB approved-paid lag days = vendor-payout date − approval date. Rising CB approved-paid lag days means chase the ClickBank vendor-pay desk — blank chips stay blank.
What not to do
Skip inventing CB approved-paid lag days. Skip dropping hold-mix tallies into approval/payout boxes. Skip pasting CAKE settlement CSVs into ClickBank fields. Skip fusing accounts when one ClickBank hop owns the export.
Related: Traffic, CK approved-paid, payout hold share, pending-to-approved.
Procedure
- Type approved day, paid day, and approvals.
- Read CB approved-paid lag days.
- Chase vendor-pay cadence when CB approved-paid lag days are material.
Failure modes
- Inventing CB approved-paid lag days.
- Dumping payout-hold mix into approve/pay boxes.
- Folding CAKE settlement rows into ClickBank boxes.
Worked example
None on this page yet. When one lands it will be a real case: what broke, the number, and what changed. Not a composite.
Glossary
- CB approved-paid lag days
- Paid day − approved day on one ClickBank hop account export.
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FAQ
- Is this CAKE approved-to-paid lag?
- ClickBank hop account export vs CAKE advertiser settlement export. [Approved-to-paid lag](/manuals/cake-approved-to-paid-lag) stays on CAKE. Approval / vendor-payout dates never leave ClickBank here.
- Is this ClickBank payout hold share?
- Vendor-pay wait vs hold mix. [Payout hold share](/manuals/clickbank-payout-hold-share) ratios held payouts. Here you only measure vendor-payout date minus approval date on approvals.
- What CB approved-paid lag days should I invent?
- None. Source approval date, vendor-payout date, and approvals from the same ClickBank hop account export.