Payment Engine

ViewsBase works out what each creator is owed and keeps the ledger. It does not move money. You pay creators your usual way, then mark the posts paid. There is no fee on creator pay.

Offers

An offer is how a creator is paid in one campaign. Set it when you add a creator (Add creator) or later with Edit offer. In the offer editor, How they are paid has four choices.

By views (CPM)

Set Rate per 1K views (CPM) and Cap per post. The amount for a post is:

amount = min(finalized views, cap) x rate / 1000

The cap is in views or in dollars, or you choose No cap. A dollar cap is the most one post can earn. It works out to a view cap of cap ÷ rate × 1000.

Example: under the cap. 320,000 views, $0.50 per 1K views, cap of 500,000 views. The post earns 320000 x 0.50 / 1000 = $160.00.

Example: over the cap. 1,200,000 views, $0.50 per 1K views, cap of 500,000 views. The post earns 500000 x 0.50 / 1000 = $250.00. Later growth does not change it.

Rate tiers. Add more than one tier when the rate depends on the post, for example the share of viewers from the US. Each tier has a name, a rate, a cap and a Requirement you write. Choosing the tier is manual. Open the post, choose Set price or Edit offer, pick the tier and save. If you turn on Settings → Analytics from creators → Apply verified tiers automatically, a high-confidence reading of the creator's analytics can pick the tier for you. You can still change it.

Fixed amount per post

Set Amount per post ($). Each qualifying post earns that amount. There is no period limit and no view bonus.

Per post, plus a view bonus

Set the base amount, how many base payments each period includes, the period length, the minimum views per post, the counting window per post, and when the first period starts (UTC). Then choose View bonus: No bonus, CPM bonus or milestones.

For example, $300 for up to 20 qualifying posts each 30 days means $15 per post, not a guaranteed $300. Each post must reach its minimum views inside its counting window.

• A post's publish time picks its period.
• The first qualifying posts to finish get the base slots. Unused slots do not carry forward.
• Posts beyond the base limit can still earn bonuses.
• Milestones are total bonuses, not extra payments. If $100 is set at 100K views and $250 at 250K views, a post at 250K earns a $250 bonus. With a base slot, that post earns $265.
• A CPM bonus uses all views inside the window, with an optional dollar cap on the bonus.
• A single payment is final when the counting window closes. Reaching a milestone does not pay at once.
• New terms apply to future posts. Each post keeps the terms it was created with. The period start and length cannot change after the offer has posts.

No CPM ($0)

Choose No CPM ($0) for owned accounts or unpaid collaborators. Their posts stay tracked and visible. Nothing is owed. A creator with no offer at all shows Needs an offer, and their posts wait for a price.

An offer change applies to future posts. Existing posts keep the offer they were created with.

What counts as ready to pay

A post is Ready to pay when it is:

• Finalized, with a frozen final view count
• Unpaid and not rejected
• Priced, so it has an amount above $0
• Not held for a views spike review

Posts that are Live, Needs a price, Held for review, Complete with $0 or rejected are not counted. See Post Lifecycle.

Views spike hold

A post whose views jumped without the comments and shares to match is held until you check it. Can pay now, the creator rows, payout files and payment requests leave it out. Mark paid, Mark these as paid after a file, and Mark paid on a payment request or in Discord refuse a held post and say which one. Nothing is marked paid. Choose Approve or Reject on the post or from Needs you. After Approve, the post is Ready to pay. A payment that was recorded before a post was flagged is never changed. See Views spike hold.

The Payments tab

Payments lists each creator with what they are owed. Filter it with Ready to pay, Missing details, Locked, Paid and All.

• Mark paid opens a dialog for the creator's ready posts. Add an optional payment reference such as a wire reference. After you confirm, a message says "Marked $X paid for @handle" with Undo for 10 seconds. The creator is told only after those 10 seconds.
• More → Send to Discord… sends the creator a payment summary in their Discord channel. See Discord payment requests.
• More → Copy summary copies the summary as text.
• Export CSV makes payout files. See Payout files.
• Ask to update payout details emails creators who still need to add details. See Ask creators to update payout details.

Payment history lists every payment, with its reference. A paid post keeps its amount. Nothing recomputes it. To reverse a wrong payment, choose Mark as unpaid on its history row and give a reason. The posts return to Ready to pay and the history keeps a line that says who reversed it and why. If the creator was told, they get a short correction.

Payout methods

A creator saves one set of details for each method on their Payouts page. Saving needs a 6-digit code by email.

Older details, such as free-text bank details, show Older details — please update to the creator. They stay in the ledger but stay out of batch files.

What each campaign pays with

In Settings → Payouts → Payout methods, a campaign admin turns methods on or off. Crypto is set for each network and token. All methods are on by default, and at least one stays on. Turning a method off deletes nothing. Creators who chose it are asked to choose another.

A creator chooses one saved method for each campaign. If only one saved method fits, ViewsBase chooses it. On the team side, a creator row shows:

• The method and its details when a method is chosen.
• No payout method chosen when several fit and none is chosen.
• Payout method not accepted by this campaign when the creator's choice was turned off.
• No payout method this campaign accepts when none of their saved methods fit.

You can still pay outside ViewsBase and mark the posts paid while a creator has not chosen.

Change warnings and locks

• When a creator changes saved details, or changes the method for a campaign, you see New payout details with the date for 72 hours. Press I checked these details when you have talked to the creator. The badge then shows who checked it. A warning never holds money.
• Adding a new method next to others emails the creator a lock link.
• A creator can press Wasn't me in the email. That locks every method of the account and signs out every session. A locked creator shows under Locked, and payments for them are refused. A workspace admin presses Unlock on the creator's row after the creator confirms their details.
• A changed sign-in email shows Sign-in email changed for 72 hours.

Ask creators to update payout details

On Payments, choose Ask to update payout details. ViewsBase lists creators with no details, older details, or no method chosen. Choose who gets an email with a link to their payout form. You can ask each creator once every 7 days. A creator with no ViewsBase account cannot get the email. The list says to ask them in Discord.

Payout files

Choose Export CSV on Payments, on a payment request or on an agency client's payments. It comes with Scale and up. Pick who is in the file and the format:

• One per creator and One per post: a CSV with amounts, payout details and a memo reference.
• Wise batch: one multi-currency bank file for bank details in USD, EUR, GBP and INR, and one Send by email file for creators paid through a Wise email. Upload each in Wise under Payments, Batch. You pay the USD amount, and Wise takes its fee from it. Wise refunds an email payment that the creator does not claim in 1 week. SWIFT bank details have no Wise columns, so those creators are paid another way.
• PayPal: one PayPal Payouts file in USD.

The dialog shows a Bank memo reference and lists who is left out and why: locked creators, creators with no details or no method chosen, older details and creators paid another way. Downloading never marks anything paid. After you pay, choose Mark these as paid to record exactly the posts in the file.

Discord payment requests

When a creator has a Discord channel on their record, More → Send to Discord… shows a preview. Pick the posts. The creator gets the summary in their channel, and a request waits under Payment requests at the top of Payments. The message has Mark paid and Cancel buttons. Long summaries split into numbered messages, and only the last one has the buttons.

Marking the request paid from Discord or from ViewsBase records the payment once. If you pay the same posts another way, the request closes and its Discord message changes to Paid.

What payments exclude

• Posts that are still Live
• Posts that Need a price
• Posts Held for review after a views spike
• Rejected posts
• Posts with a final amount of $0