I understand this already but my point is being missed. When looking at the shifts, the reward stated was about 0.086. When looking at the payment section, the reward was 10% this amount. I had mined for about 10 days. I hadn't mined since the start of the block but that should be irrelevant because the payout method doesn't base anything on time but rather shares submitted. Has my reward gone missing? Why is there a major difference in the stated reward and the actual payout. Am i not understanding something here? Can someone please actually just explain it instead of telling to the read links that I have already read or copy and pasting something from kanos site?
You're misunderstanding what the number is on the shifts page.
If you scroll to the bottom, you see it says:
* The Rewarded value unit is satoshis per 1000diff share
So your reward is NOT .086 BTC. It is .0000000086 BTC per 1000 diff share. If you had 1000 shares in that shift, thats 0.0000086 BTC for that shift. If you had 100,000 shares, it is 0.00086 BTC, etc.