Feature Overview
Fulfilling shipping contracts is your primary method for clearing out warehouse inventory and funding your industrial upgrades. If you have been waiting for a massive cash explosion or a giant lump-sum payment drop the exact millisecond a contract finishes, you might feel like your earnings have gone missing. However, this is not an error! Lumber Inc operates on a fluid Incremental Payout Model where transportation revenue is distributed continuously rather than as a single end-of-order bonus.
How to Access
You can monitor this financial behavior live by keeping an eye on your Main Cash Counter (top bar of your screen) while watching delivery trucks depart from your automated Order Board bay.
Core Mechanics
The shipping board system handles invoicing and payments through a progressive delivery framework built around these specific parameters:
Step-by-Step Payouts: You do not receive your cash payment in one giant lump sum at the very end of a contract. Instead, money is added to your account step by step while the order is being actively delivered. Every single time a cargo truck leaves your storage yard packed with lumber, a calculated partial fraction of the total cash value is instantly deposited into your treasury.
The Final Reward Split: Because 100% of the contractual cash value has already been trickled into your bank account during the transit process, completing an order fully rewards you with Biz Points, not extra cash. The final pop-up serves as your administrative bonus, while the physical cash is already yours.
Numerical Rounding: If you are watching your top bar closely and the numbers do not seem to budge as a truck departs, this is due to system interface limitations. The game's currency display automatically rounds up small digits to keep the layout scannable. Rest assured, your fractional cash is still accurately registered behind the scenes.
Tips and Strategies
Don't Wait Around for Completions: Since cash flows into your vault dynamically with every truck departure, you don't need to babysit a contract to get your money. Spend your cash on machine upgrades the second you have enough, even if a giant order is only halfway delivered!
Automate Samuel for Continuous Income: To keep this incremental cash pipeline running smoothly without manual tapping, make leveling up your sales manager, Samuel, a top priority. His automated recurring order skill keeps trucks driving back and forth, turning your inventory into a steady stream of passive revenue.