Earnings
How the number is built
Section titled “How the number is built”Flotera keeps its own count rather than copying a total from the marketplace: the price of each running deal multiplied by the time it ran, sampled every 2 minutes, before the marketplace’s cut.
That sampling is why totals carry a ≈. At the very start and end of a rental
the 2-minute window can land either side of the boundary, so the figure errs
in both directions by a few pennies — not in one direction, and not by more
than a sample.
Why it differs from the marketplace’s figure
Section titled “Why it differs from the marketplace’s figure”Both are correct; they answer different questions.
| The marketplace shows | Flotera shows | |
|---|---|---|
| Cut | usually gross | net of commission |
| Currency | its own | converted to dollars |
| Rate | today’s | the rate at the moment of accrual |
What it refuses to guess
Section titled “What it refuses to guess”Some amounts have no recorded deal currency, or the marketplace publishes no rate for them now. Those are left out of the conversion and reported separately, with a breakdown of which.
Substituting someone else’s rate would be inventing money. A visible gap is more useful than a confident wrong total.
Occupancy
Section titled “Occupancy”Next to earnings sits the question that actually explains them: was the machine idle because of your price, or because the market was quiet?
The occupancy figure compares your fleet against the market for the same card class over the same window. A fleet at 20% occupancy in a market running at 70% is a pricing problem; both at 20% is a market problem, and dropping your price will not fix it.
When counting starts
Section titled “When counting starts”Counting begins with the first sync that sees a machine linked to a marketplace. The first honest full day appears the next day — before that there is nothing to show, and the page says so rather than showing a zero that looks like a bad day.
If a day shows our accrual as absent but the marketplace reported a figure, the chart marks that too, instead of quietly dropping it.