I started selling apps on the app-store in October. I didn't receive any money from Apple in November and waited patiently until December, I wrote to them:"Where is my money?". Not like that of course. It was a friendly mail.

After a few days I received a reply stating that my banking information wasn't filled out... Hmmm... I did fill it out, and the web-interface on iTunes Connect did say that everything was OK. I had 3 Green check marks for contract, banking, and tax information. Anyway, I resent the information to the iTunes Payment department and they took care of everything for me, and told me everything was fine and that I would receive money by the end of January.

January came and went and I looked at my bank account at the end of the month and noticed that the amounts transfered from Apple were quite small. It turns out my US royalty payment, which is the majority of my income, was missing. Contacting Apple about this revealed that they had not received a W8BEN form from me back in September which I did sent. I did sent it by snail mail so I would be unsurprised if it had gone lost somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic. Who knows?

To anyone who doesn't know: The W8BEN form is a form on which you sign some legal tax stuff and give Apple your American tax number if you are not an American citizen.

Originally, I thought I was not going to get my money because Apple resets all accounts in January. After asking them about this it seems that everything is OK.

So in short: To any developers out there. Fill out the W8BEN and send it by email to Apple. Also check you accounts. If you do not receive anything from Apple, don't wait an extra month before you contact them.