Creator income tracker

What this tracker does

Creators are often paid by many companies at once: ad revenue from YouTube or TikTok, music royalties from a distributor, affiliate commissions, brand deals and memberships. This tracker keeps one list of every payment you receive. It adds them up for the year by type of income, by platform or payer and by month, lets you download the list as a spreadsheet (CSV) and sends the yearly totals to the creator tax calculator in one click.

How to use it

• Add each payment when it reaches you: the date, who paid you, the type of income and the amount in U.S. dollars.
• Products or services you receive in exchange for a post count as income at their fair market value, so add them as a sponsorship.
• Pick a year to see its totals. The average per month uses the months that have passed so far.
• Download the CSV now and then. It opens in Excel, Google Sheets or Numbers and is your backup.

Why keeping records matters

Income from ads, sponsors, affiliate links and memberships is taxable self-employment income in the U.S. even when you receive no tax form. Platforms and payment apps send Form 1099-K only above $20,000 and 200 transactions in a year, and a brand may or may not send a Form 1099-NEC, so your own records are often the only complete list. The IRS asks every business to keep records that show its income; a simple log plus the statements from each platform does that.

Private by design

Your entries are saved only in this browser on this device (local storage). They are not sent to CentDaily or anyone else, and there is no account. That also means clearing your browser data deletes them, and they do not appear on your other devices, so keep the CSV as a backup. On a shared computer, use the "Delete all entries" button when you are done.

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