The total dollar amount visualized on your Stem dashboard includes earnings from both pending and finalized contracts. Stem's payments, however, are consensus-based, so we only pay out finalized earnings each month. Any earnings that you may not be seeing visualized in your monthly Stem payment are likely attributed to pending releases.
In order for earnings to be paid out on a contract, all shareholders will need to log in to Stem and accept their splits within the platform. Please see our article "How do I accept my splits?" for more details.