# Storagenode Payout Update: 2026 September **URL:** \ **Category:** Node Operators\ **Tags:** payouts\ **Created:** [September 11, 2026, 6:42am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/storagenode-payout-update-2026-september/32713 "2026-09-11T06:42:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 57
**Author:** ![Alexey](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/alexey/32/41_2.png) [@Alexey](https://forum.storj.io/u/Alexey)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2026, 4:24am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/storagenode-payout-update-2026-september/32713/57 "2026-09-13T04:24:50Z")
Hello @ykroshkin, Welcome to the forum! You may refresh the total earned and total held by restarting the node, it reads these values only on start. @arrogantrabbit is correct on many aspects: - we suggest to use only what you have now which will be online with Storj or without, only in that case any earnings will be a pure profit, because you already paying your invoices for that online hardware, so any return is a nice discount to your bills; - the statistic on the dashboard is estimated based on Avg Disk Used this month, but this metric is provided by satellites not regularly and sometimes not full, because it might take more than a day to calculate it and this process can fail. However, this metric is not used to calculate a payout, it’s used only to estimate usage accounted on the satellite and estimate a future payout on your dashboard. - the correct numbers are calculated from orders, which node sends to the satellites after successful upload or download, these orders are used to calculate a real payout in the end of each month. Before payout is completed you can see only estimations made by the node, and usually they should be close to what is going to be paid, but if it has missing data, the estimation will be wrong. When the payout is completed, satellites sends receipts to nodes and you can see them in the Payout History with real numbers and TX link, if your node was able to clear a minimum payout threshold. If the node was unable to clear it - the unpaid amount will be increased instead. - Starting September 1, 2026 the payout rates are reduced (see [Rightsizing Storj Network Payout Rates](https://forum.storj.io/t/rightsizing-storj-network-payout-rates/32391)), but I believe that the node is still use old rates to calculate estimations. I hope it will be fixed in a new release. The negative unpaid amount is a result of prepayments, see > [@Undistributed payout .. Negative?](https://forum.storj.io/t/undistributed-payout-negative/32680/6): > > This is a technical difficulty. We didn’t have time to update SNOs, and it’s hard to support our special Chapter 11 situation. Our database calculated what was the usage (owed) and what can we pay for the part of July which was before CH11 (0 USD can be paid today, due to the dependency on court) for We did pre-payment for the active nodes based on estimation. Which means we paid more what we should do based on the ledger. That’s why it’s negative. Assuming the screenshot is about July, I thi… and > [@Undistributed payout .. Negative?](https://forum.storj.io/t/undistributed-payout-negative/32680/8): > > Opposite. Positive “undistributed” means we didn’t pay what we should. Negative “undistributed” means we paid more than what we should (because we do pre-payment) I will check how can it be displayed better on web interface. For August: The boundary of 2026-07 and 2026-08 usage/payment report is moved to July 27th. (due to legal restrictions) from 1st of August. For August (+5 days) the full usage will be calculated, and difference compared to the pre-payment will be paid For September we w… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.storj.io/t/storagenode-payout-update-2026-september/32713)._