# Commissions and fees

> How InfluTo computes a creator's commission and the 10% platform fee, when commission is earned or reversed, the currency, and how rate changes apply.

You pay InfluTo nothing per month. For every purchase a creator brings you, you pay the creator's commission plus InfluTo's 10% platform fee, both calculated on the price of that purchase in US dollars. The amount is reserved from your prepaid [wallet](https://docs.influ.to/platform/wallet.md) when the purchase is verified and paid to the creator in the next monthly payout.

## How a commission is calculated

```text
commission    = price in USD × commission rate     (rounded to the cent)
platform fee  = price in USD × 10%                 (rounded to the cent)
you pay       = commission + platform fee
```

A $9.99 monthly subscription on a campaign paying 30%:

| | Amount |
|---|---|
| Creator commission: $9.99 × 30% = $2.997 | **$3.00** |
| Platform fee: $9.99 × 10% = $0.999 | **$1.00** |
| Reserved from your wallet | **$4.00** |
| Yours (before the store's fee) | $5.99 |

Every renewal repeats the same calculation. Two more examples:

| Purchase | Rate | Commission | Fee | You pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $49.99 yearly subscription | 25% | $12.50 | $5.00 | $17.50 |
| $4.99 weekly subscription | 40% | $2.00 | $0.50 | $2.50 |

The rate is set per campaign as a percentage (see [Create a campaign](https://docs.influ.to/platform/create-campaign.md)).

## The platform fee

- 10% of the purchase price in USD, on each payment that earns a commission: first payments, renewals and one-time purchases.
- No fee on purchases that no creator brought in. Organic sales cost you nothing.
- No fee when the commission is $0 — a 0% campaign used only for tracking, or a creator on a 0% custom rate whom you pay outside InfluTo.
- No monthly or setup fee. The only other money involved is your wallet balance, which stays yours until creators earn it.

## When commission is earned

| What happens | Commission |
|---|---|
| A free trial starts | Nothing yet |
| The trial converts, or the user buys without a trial | Yes |
| Each subscription renewal | Yes, at the rate locked when the user was acquired — unless the campaign pays on **First purchase only** |
| A one-time in-app purchase | Yes, once per purchase |
| A refund or chargeback | The commission for that payment is reversed |
| A sandbox, TestFlight or other test purchase | Never — tests don't touch money or stats |
| A purchase with no creator attached | Nothing, and no fee |

Purchases count only after InfluTo has verified them with the store, through [RevenueCat](https://docs.influ.to/integrations/revenuecat.md) or [store-direct](https://docs.influ.to/integrations/store-direct.md).

### The first creator keeps the user

Once a creator brings in a user — with a trial or a first payment — that user's later purchases and renewals stay with that creator, even if the person types another creator's code later. A code entered after someone's first purchase doesn't change who earns. How users are matched to creators in the first place is on [Attribution](https://docs.influ.to/advanced/attribution.md).

## Refunds and chargebacks

When the store reports a refund or chargeback, InfluTo reverses exactly what that payment credited — at the rate it was credited at, never the current one.

- **Not yet paid out:** the commission is removed from the creator's pending earnings and is never paid.
- **Already paid out:** the commission is deducted from the creator's next payout.

Which refunds are detected automatically:

- **RevenueCat apps:** refunds arrive as RevenueCat `REFUND` events.
- **Store-direct apps:** refunds of subscriptions and one-time purchases are reversed automatically on both stores (InfluTo checks with Apple and Google).

## Currency

Commissions and fees are always calculated in US dollars, whatever currency the user paid in.

- **RevenueCat apps:** InfluTo uses the USD price RevenueCat reports with each event.
- **Store-direct apps:** InfluTo converts the local price to USD at the exchange rate of the purchase date. A renewal three months later uses that later day's rate.

Wallet top-ups and creator payouts are in USD.

## Changing the commission rate

Change the rate on the campaign page in **Campaign Settings → Commission Percentage**, then **Save Settings**.

- **Increases apply immediately.** Creators on the campaign are emailed, and users acquired from then on earn the new rate. Applying them at once means nobody promoting during a notice period gets locked in at the lower rate.
- **Decreases are scheduled with 7 days' notice.** Creators are emailed when you schedule it. The new rate applies at the first hourly tick after the 7 days are up, and the campaign page shows "Scheduled: …% from …" until then.
- **To cancel a scheduled decrease**, click **Cancel change** on the campaign page, or enter the current rate again. Entering a different rate replaces the scheduled one.
- Every change is recorded: who asked for it, the old and new rate, when it was requested and when it applied.
- The same rules apply to changes made through the API and AI agents. There is no way to lower a rate without notice.

### Existing subscribers keep their rate

A subscriber's terms lock when they are acquired — the rate and whether the campaign pays on every payment or the first purchase only. Renewals keep the locked terms, one-time purchases use the rate in force at the time, and refunds reverse exactly what was credited. Nothing is recalculated afterwards, in either direction.

```text
Jan 1   Campaign at 30%
Jan 15  User A subscribes                → locked at 30%
Feb 1   You lower the rate to 25%        → applies Feb 8 after 7 days' notice
Feb 15  User B subscribes                → locked at 25%
March   Both renew                       → A earns 30%, B earns 25%
```

## Per-creator rates

You can give one creator a different rate from the rest of the campaign when you invite them. Today this is done through an AI agent: `influto_invite_creator` or `influto_invite_creators_batch` with `custom_commission_percentage`. The dashboard's invite form doesn't have this field yet.

- The custom rate replaces the campaign rate for that creator and follows the same lock-at-acquisition rule.
- Changing the campaign rate later doesn't change a creator's custom rate.
- A custom rate of 0 means you pay that creator outside InfluTo, and no platform fee is charged on their sales.

See [Invite creators](https://docs.influ.to/platform/invite-influencers.md#invite-with-an-ai-agent).

## Milestone bonuses

On top of commission, a campaign can pay up to five one-time bonuses for reaching a number of installs, trials or paid subscriptions — for example $40 for a creator's first 10 installs. Approved bonuses are paid from your wallet in the next monthly payout run. Rules and review: [Milestone bonuses](https://docs.influ.to/platform/create-campaign.md#milestone-bonuses).

## Where to see the numbers

- **Campaign page:** revenue and commission per campaign and per creator, plus **Referred Users** with what each referred user has paid and earned their creator.
- **Payouts:** each payout's commission, platform fee and total cost.
- **Billing:** every reservation and payment in the wallet's transaction history and CSV export.

## Next

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- [Wallet and payouts](https://docs.influ.to/platform/wallet.md) — Fund the wallet and see when creators get paid.
- [Create a campaign](https://docs.influ.to/platform/create-campaign.md) — Set the rate, the plan price and bonuses.
- [Analytics](https://docs.influ.to/platform/analytics.md) — Revenue and commission over time.
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