iTunes Connect, check total sales?

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From the Apple User Guide for the Financial Reports (available at bottom of iTunes Connect page):

We do not store or regenerate the data after the periods have expired (14 rolling days and 13 rolling weeks); you will need to download and store this data on a regular basis if you intend to use it in the future.

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From the "Sales and Trends" iTunes Connect FAQ

How long are reports available for download? Weekly Report: Thirteen (13) rolling weeks prior to the current week are available for download.

Daily Report: Seven (7) rolling days prior to the current day are available for download.

Information is only available for the periods following the date when the reporting was activated in iTunes Connect. Reporting is generally activated prior to any sales on the App Store.

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So the answer is: no. It's so ridiculous -- 500GB of storage costs peanuts (yes I know IT storage costs more, redundancy, management, backups, archiving, blah blah, etc.), but it's still cheap. Apple could keep a "total shipped" record and it wouldn't hurt them.

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You need to store you own records, Apple only stores a limited amount for documented time periods.

But if you look at your financial reports, they may contain data covering earlier months.

Added: In fact, for the correct sales or download numbers, one should only use the monthly financial reports, as Apple says that the daily and weekly trend reports should only be used for estimation purposes.

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You might want to have a look in the section "Payments and Financial Reports" within iTunes Connect. There's an overview of your total sales within the "Summary" tab . However this view is only updated on a monthly basis.

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The iOS iTunesConnect app will show you data for the prior 26 (and 13 and 5 etc) weeks. This can help if you missed some weekly data from the ITC www mothership.

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I don't rely on Apple, I just check my Google analytics report for total uniques and just infer from that.

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There is now. We (appfigures.com) are actually in the process of testing functionality that uses all of the data sets Apple gives (along with some magic) to give you an accurate all-time total for all metrics (downloads, sales, updates, etc).

We have this in beta right now so if you'd like to give it a try contact us directly through the site and we'll get you in. We're hoping to make this available to all users very soon.

FYI - This new feature works even if you've just opened a new appFigures account.

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Now, apple provides reports until 2008. So, i downloaded the previous years, months, weeks and days reports and concatenated them together with excel to get the total downloads and updates using excel filters.

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You can view sales by day, week, month and year by clicking the date in the top right hand corner of the Sales and Trends report for your app in iTunes Connect.

it seems to go back a few years, so should show you the figures you need.

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it seems apple has updated the available periods as below from AppStoreReportingInstructions :

Reports are only available at certain times and only retained for certain periods. Reports should be downloaded regularly for your records.

• Daily reports include data for the previous day in the selected territory and are retained for 30 days.

• Weekly reports include data starting on Monday and ending on Sunday of the previous week. Weekly reports are available on Mondays and retained for 26 weeks.

• Monthly reports are available five days after the month’s end date and are retained for 12 months.

• Yearly reports are available six days after the year’s end date and are retained indefinitely.

• All reports are generally available by 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time (PT).

Apple does not store or regenerate the data after these periods have expired.