Unfortunately, payments by check are currently only available to a limited number of countries. Though we may offer payments by check to other countries in the future, we do not have a date for when this may become available.
Cash your check
Because policies vary between banks, we're not able to determine if a specific bank is able to accept your Ad Manager checks.
All payment checks are issued by Citibank. If you receive checks in U.S. dollars, please inquire at your bank regarding whether they have a correspondent relationship with Citibank. This relationship is required in order to process our U.S. dollar checks.
Delivery options
All checks are sent via Standard Delivery.
We anticipate that publishers will receive their checks approximately 2-4 weeks after the mailing date; however, it may take longer depending on the postal service in your location.
Standard delivery payments sent to the countries listed below will be mailed by a local courier service. There will be no charge for mailing payments in this manner and we anticipate that the payments will arrive within 10-30 days of the check date.
- Argentina
- Bolivia
- Chile
- Colombia
- Ecuador
- India
- Mexico
- Paraguay
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
Publishers in China will have standard delivery payments mailed by Hong Kong post.
Ad Manager publishers in India will receive standard delivery checks mailed via the local courier service-Blue Dart-for no additional charge. Checks mailed by Blue Dart should arrive within 10-30 days of the check date. Blue Dart is not able to service all areas throughout India. If you live in a location they don't service, your check will be sent by Registered Post and should reach you within 2-3 weeks of the mailing date. Tracking numbers will be available for Blue Dart payments. Blue Dart tracking numbers will typically be visible by the 10th of any month and can be tracked on bluedart.com.
Deadline to cash check
Within a few minutes of your request, you will see a new line item appear on your Transactions page indicating that your request is being processed. Once the funds have been returned to your account, the status of this line item will update to ‘Automatic payment: check. Status: Stopped’.
Please understand that it can take up to 15 days to process a check reissue request. Provided that you have no other action required for payment, your check will be reissued the following day after the funds are returned.
If you do not deposit your check within 12 months after it was issued, your revenue will be credited back to your account and your payments will be put on hold. You can access publisher support from within the product to let us know why you weren't able to receive the payment. We'll then release the hold, to allow you to receive the next payment:
- Click the help icon
from the upper-right corner.
- Click Support options to open the "Contact publisher support" menu in the Help Center.
