Why Gate spot sale proceeds are below gross trade value
A spot sale's gross traded value can exceed its net proceeds when a trading fee is deducted from the sale receipts. To reconcile Gate sale proceeds, establish the completed trade value and confirm how the actual fee affected the asset credited to your account.
Distinguish the sale from the balance
The order request describes what you wanted to sell. Executions describe what sold, and the account history describes the resulting asset movements. Those are connected records, but they are not interchangeable. An unfilled portion of a sell order cannot produce sale proceeds merely because it remains visible in the order details.
Begin with the filled quantity and its execution prices. If the sale occurred through several fills, total their gross values before comparing the result with an account credit. Keep the original asset symbols alongside every amount, since a quantity of the sold asset and an amount of the quote asset cannot be subtracted directly.
A hypothetical sale receipt
Gate's public base spot taker rate is 0.1%, checked 2026-10-10. This reference does not confirm your account tier, discount selection, regional eligibility or the schedule for a particular product. Verify the rate attached to your own execution before treating a calculated amount as a missing credit.
Suppose a hypothetical completed sale exchanges 8 units at 25 USDT per unit. Gross proceeds are 8 × 25 = 200 USDT. Assuming the entire sale takes liquidity and the charge is deducted in USDT at the reference rate, the example trading fee is 200 × 0.001 = 0.2 USDT. Net proceeds for those selected components are 200 - 0.2 = 199.8 USDT.
The example assumes no other deduction, conversion or adjustment. It is not a statement that Gate always deducts every spot fee from quote proceeds. If your receipt names another fee asset, follow that actual debit rather than forcing the sale into the illustration. A discount requires evidence of its application as well as its advertised availability.
Do not subtract a charge twice
A field described as amount received may already be net of the fee. Subtracting the fee receipt again would create a shortfall that never occurred. Conversely, a gross turnover figure does not prove that the whole amount should appear as a spendable credit. Read the field definition and compare the associated ledger entry.
A useful worksheet keeps gross proceeds, recorded fee and net credit in separate columns. Only combine them after identifying the asset of each entry and whether a displayed subtotal already includes a deduction. Preserve the source labels instead of renaming every amount “sale value,” which removes the distinction you need to solve the problem.
Market movement is another question
If your expected proceeds came from a price seen before execution, the difference may involve execution price as well as fees. Rebuild gross value from the actual fills first. The market can move, and a larger market order may trade across available prices, so an earlier quote is not a substitute for a completed receipt.
A limit price sets a price condition but does not establish that the entire requested quantity traded. Check the remaining quantity before deciding that the missing proceeds represent a charge. Separate the unexecuted amount from any genuine discrepancy in the proceeds of the portion that did sell.
Sale receipt checklist
- [ ] Identify the completed sell executions and exclude the unfilled remainder.
- [ ] Rebuild gross proceeds from executed quantities and prices.
- [ ] Confirm the fee amount, fee asset and applicable account treatment.
- [ ] Establish whether the displayed proceeds are already net of charges.
- [ ] Match the resulting credit to the corresponding account movement.
Make an unresolved shortfall traceable
If the reconstructed credit still disagrees with the account entry, preserve both values with their labels and the execution references. Explain whether you are disputing the fee itself or the credit after an agreed fee. That distinction lets a support review focus on the transaction instead of guessing what your expected amount represented.
The Gate venue overview and public rates page provide context for the fee comparison. Read slippage to understand why a difference between an expected price and the completed sale price belongs in a separate part of the explanation.