How a Deal Gets Closed
Paying is accepting. What the offer actually records, what only lives in the chat, and what can still change afterwards.
What this guide covers
What an offer actually is
A creator’s offer arrives already priced and already waiting for your payment. Paying is how you accept it. There is no separate accept button.
| What you see | What it means |
|---|---|
| Waiting Payment | They have offered. Pay to accept, or edit to counter |
| Waiting Influencer Approval | You countered. The ball is with them |
| Rejected | One of you ended it |
| Paid and Scheduled | Accepted and funded. Work can start |
The four things an offer actually records
Everything else you agree lives in the chat. It is binding between you, but no field holds it and no timer checks it.
| On the offer | Only in your brief and the chat |
|---|---|
| Price | Number of posts |
| Expected delivery date | Format, Reel against Story |
| Duration, Permanent or Temporary | Usage rights, including paid ads |
| Bio URL | Required tags, hashtags, disclosure, exclusivity |
Usage rights are the expensive one. If you intend to run the content as a paid ad, or keep using it for a year, say so in the chat and agree a price for it before you pay. The offer form has nowhere to record the difference, and after payment it is a renegotiation rather than a right.
Countering an offer
Edit on the offer card opens the same four fields. Submitting sends it to the creator to accept or reject.
Price
At least the minimum, which is $10.
Expected delivery date
Must be after today, and at least about 24 hours ahead. You can’t expect influencers to publish your content today.
Duration
Permanent, or Temporary for more than four hours.
Bio URL
If you want your link in their bio.
A rejection of your counter does not end the deal: the original terms stand and you can still pay them. The creator can also counter back, which puts it in your court again.
Why your message was blocked
Contact details are hidden in the chat until the offer is paid. It is not personal and it is not a fault.
| Situation | Can contact details be shared? |
|---|---|
| The offer is not paid | No. Your message is not sent and a pop-up explains why |
| The offer is paid | Yes. Sharing opens up |
| A gifting conversation | Yes, never masked |
| You are on the Ultimate plan | Yes, open messaging |
The filter looks for emails, phone numbers, links, handles and apps like WhatsApp or PayPal, so an ordinary message with a number in it can be caught. Rephrase without the number.
Every night an automated check reads recent unpaid offer chats and flags attempts to share contacts for a human to review. Repeated attempts can pause an account. If you need to send a shipping address, pay first; sharing unlocks the moment you do.
Changing terms after you have paid
Price is locked once the money is in escrow, unless you both agree a revision.
| You want to | What happens |
|---|---|
| Raise the price | Edit creates a revision request. You pay the difference, which is held for the revision |
| Lower the price | Sent at once, no payment. The difference returns to your wallet if they accept |
| Move the date | Part of the same revision request |
| Cancel the deal | Not possible. There is no cancel button on either side |
If the creator rejects the revision, the old terms stand and any extra money you paid goes back to your wallet, not your card.
Watch the clock while you negotiate a revision. The approval window keeps running, so a long back and forth can hit the deadline and refund the deal underneath you.
Reading a creator before you pay
The best predictor of how a deal goes is already visible during the negotiation.
How fast they replied
The most undervalued signal. A creator who took a week to answer a message will take a week after you pay.
Whether they read the brief
An offer that names your product and proposes something specific is worth more than a lower price.
Their reviews and past collaborations
Checked by our team before they appear. Two completed deals beats a larger account with none.
Whether they push for contact details
A creator steering the conversation off-platform before payment is the one risk the escrow cannot protect you from.
The most common refund on the platform is a creator who accepted and then went quiet, and the warning sign was almost always already there in the negotiation.
From their first offer to work starting
What happens, and where the point of commitment is.
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