Each Shorts payout month is decided by its own 90-day window. Enter your views and see which months clear 10 million.
Payout windows
- Above 10M
- Thin buffer (under 5% above)
- Below 10M
- Your pace changes
Each window is the 90 days ending on the 15th of the month before the payout month, as described in YouTube Help. Help does not spell out time zones or whether the boundary day is counted, so allow a day of slack.
Every day sits inside about three of these windows, so one strong or weak stretch moves several payouts at once.
Your numbers
The 28-day option only sets your current daily pace. The payout test always uses a 90-day window.
Pace changes
Optional. Add a stretch where your daily views will differ from today, such as a break or a burst of uploads. Where dates overlap, the row further down wins.
Result
Falling below the line pauses Shorts revenue sharing only. The channel stays in the Partner Program and long-form earnings continue.
Projections are arithmetic on the numbers you enter, not a forecast of your views. For days before today the tool uses your average pace, because it has no daily view history.
What each part of the tool shows
The timeline at the top is drawn before you type anything, because the windows come from the calendar, not from your channel. Each bar is the 90-day stretch YouTube measures for one payout month, so the February bar runs from October 18 to January 15, and the Today marker shows how far away the first window is. The bars stagger on purpose: a single day falls inside roughly three of them, and hovering or tapping the timeline names the payouts that day counts toward.
In the numbers panel, choose whether your view count covers the last 90 days or the last 28, then enter the qualified Shorts views you see in YouTube Studio. The tool divides that total by the number of days to get a daily pace and sets it against the 111,112 views a day a full window needs. With the 28-day option that total only estimates your current pace, and every payout result is still calculated over its own 90-day window. The optional earnings field takes what those Shorts paid over the same period, in any currency, and is used only to size what a month below the line could cost.
Pace changes describe a stretch that will not look like today. Add a row, set the dates and the daily views, and the timeline shades that range across every bar it touches while the row names the payouts it counts toward. A channel with 9,000,000 views over the last 90 days runs at 100,000 a day and lands 1,000,000 short of the line in every window. Add 31 days at 135,000 a day from December 16 to January 15 and the tool projects February, March and April at 10.09M, under 1% above the line, while May stays at 9.00M because its window opens the day after the burst ends.
The result block opens with a verdict for the nearest payout month: projected views, how far that sits from the line, how many days remain before the window opens or closes, and a trend line naming the months that clear 10 million and the first that does not, with the extra daily views needed to close that gap. Under it, one card per month repeats the window dates, shows a meter with a mark at 10M, gives the daily pace still needed, and, when you entered earnings, adds an estimated exposure figure scaled from your own number for any month that falls short.
The February card also carries the January 31 reminder to accept the updated Shorts Monetization Module in YouTube Studio, since earnings from features tied to a module you have not accepted stop on February 1. Copy summary turns the whole result into plain text for a note or a chat.