It depends on the split's charge schedule. Cashout splits charge when a cashout is detected. Earnings splits charge on a fixed cycle you pick when you create the split: weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly or monthly.

Every schedule boundary is UTC midnight.

Weekly and bi-weekly always bill on Mondays. This is fixed policy, not a per-split setting — the start date decides when accrual begins, not which weekday you are billed.

Boundaries tick at midnight UTC, which is late afternoon in the US. A charge dated Monday is generated Sunday evening Pacific.

This is the single most common surprise with scheduled billing. Nothing has gone wrong — the cycle is correct, you are just seeing it in a different time zone.

Ledger invoice emails are held until 5:00 AM Pacific on the boundary date, so the email arrives at a reasonable hour even though the invoice was generated the evening before.

A schedule charges at the first boundary after the start date, not on it.

A semi-monthly split starting 1 August first charges on 16 August. A weekly split starting on a Monday first charges the following Monday. This is deliberate: it gives a full period to accrue before the creator sees a bill.

Bi-weekly bills every other Monday. Melon enforces a minimum gap of 13 days between charges, so a short cycle never causes two charges in consecutive weeks.

A split set to manual never charges automatically. The balance still accrues and stays visible; nothing is collected until someone triggers it. This is used to pause billing during a reconciliation without losing data.