How long Polar takes to pay a Canadian digital seller

Last checked: 2026-09-27

US fee posts often stop at Polar’s headline sale fee. That tape is not first cash. Polar’s account-reviews page and payouts page describe later clocks: a first-payout review, a settlement delay, a minimum payout threshold, and a manual withdrawal. This page names those clocks. It does not reprint Polar’s floors, hold days, fee percentages, review duration, or chargeback rates. Recheck polar.sh/docs/merchant-of-record/account-reviews and polar.sh/docs/features/finance/payouts before you open an account. Not tax, legal, or accounting advice.

First payout waits on account review

Polar’s account-reviews page has a first-payout review heading. The same page also has headings for continuous reviews and chargeback management. Opening a Polar account still requires Polar’s own signup and identity checks. This guide does not copy the review steps, the duration, or the chargeback discussion.

The fetched HTML does not name Canada and does not name CAD. A Canadian seller is not a named row on those pages. Recheck them rather than treating a US-facing clock as a Canadian deposit.

The payouts page is a later clock

Polar’s payouts page has headings for payout delay, minimum payout thresholds, Stripe payout fees, and manual withdrawal. It also has a reverse-invoice section and a US tax-form section. Those headings are not first cash on the day of a sale. This guide does not reprint the delay, the floor, or the fee table.

KeepCAD 2026 maps Polar’s per-sale tape against that first-payout clock. The sales page keeps one Discover versus Stripe teaser. The rest of the tape is in the zip.

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Sources: polar.sh/docs/merchant-of-record/account-reviews and polar.sh/docs/features/finance/payouts (fetched 27 September 2026). Recheck them. The fetched HTML does not name Canada or CAD.

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