Pending, then final

Explains: D-BUD-22, D-JL-15, D-021-16, D-021-20

Your own screens show the latest figures as soon as they are counted. What a publisher sees follows a stricter rule, so that a click it has seen as paid can never later turn unpaid.

Pending until the hour is settled

Every click a publisher can see is pending until the hour it was counted in is settled: counted, but neither paid nor unpaid. It then becomes final, paid or unpaid, and a final click never changes (D-BUD-22).

An hour is settled only once nothing about its clicks can change: the hour has closed, every click that will ever be counted in it has been saved, and the pass that measures spend against budgets has run for it. A late click, one saved more than an hour after it happened, is counted in the hour it was saved in, so it can never reopen an hour a publisher has already seen as final (D-021-16, D-021-20).

Why your figures move before a publisher's do

The figures on your customers, campaigns and publishers read the latest counts, which are always measured against every budget before you can see them: no screen ever shows a customer billed more than their budget, not even briefly (D-JL-15). A publisher's statement waits for the hour to settle instead, because a publisher is owed a number that will not move.

What settles slowly

If the Clicks screen says the oldest unsettled hour is far behind, publishers' figures are final only up to that hour. The usual cause is the figures lane running behind; it is shown on the Clicks screen with the age of the figures.