Your share
You keep 85% of the amount collected for every trip sale and completed paid review. Platix keeps 15%.
Once the combined revenue from completed trip sales and paid reviews, after refunds and excluding taxes, passes $500 in a calendar month, your share rises to 90% — and it applies to both categories for that entire month, including qualifying activity before you crossed the line.
What your share is worked out on.
- The price, before tax. Your share is a percentage of what the buyer paid for the trip or review. Sales tax, VAT, or GST added at checkout isn't counted, either in your share or toward the $500.
- Fees come out of Platix's share, not yours. Platix pays Stripe's payment-processing and payout fees. They are never deducted from your 85% or 90%. There are no monthly fees and no listing fees.
- Refunds and chargebacks are deducted. A refund or chargeback comes out of your current or future earnings.
For example, a $40 trip earns you $34 at 85%, or $36 in a month above $500. If the buyer also pays $3 in sales tax, your earnings stay the same.
When earnings become payable
- Trip sales: once the buyer's 14-day refund window has closed and the payment has settled.
- Paid reviews: 7 days after the review is completed.
Either one is payable only while no refund, dispute, or investigation is open on it.
When the 90% share is credited. If trip sales alone pass $500, the extra 5% is credited during the month. If you only pass $500 once reviews are counted, the extra share is credited 14 days after the month ends, so late refunds are counted first. If refunds later bring the month back to $500 or less, the extra share is reversed and comes out of later earnings.
Weekly payouts
Platix pays every Friday, or the next business day after a holiday. Each payout is one transfer covering everything payable from trip sales and paid reviews, sent when that combined balance is at least $20. A smaller balance rolls forward to the next week.
Platix sends each payout to your Stripe account, and Stripe then pays it to your bank on its own schedule. Your payout history in Creator Studio shows what Platix sent; the Stripe payout dashboard shows when it reached your bank.
If Stripe can't pay your bank, for example because a bank detail is wrong, the money stays in your Stripe balance. Payout setup shows Action required, and Platix emails you. Update your bank details from Open payout dashboard, and Stripe pays it out again. You can keep selling meanwhile.
Payout setup
Platix uses Stripe to process payments and send your payouts. You can sell trips and take paid reviews before you set up payouts: your earnings wait in Creator Studio and are included in the first weekly payout after your setup is complete. Set it up in Creator Studio > Earnings > Payout setup. Payout setup is available to creators in the United States.
Set up payouts explains each step and status.
Where to see it
Open the dedicated Creator Studio workspace from the account menu to see your earnings:
- Lifetime earnings from trip sales
- This month's earnings
- What's not yet paid
- Per-trip breakdown — price, number of sales, and what each trip earned
- Human Itinerary Review earnings, completion state, and payout details
- Public fork counts, so you can see which free trips draw people in
- Payout history
Buyers' names and emails aren't on Earnings. Buyers who shared them are in Creator Studio > Buyers; see Your buyers and their contact details.
Holds
Platix may hold earnings while your payout setup is incomplete or needs attention, while it investigates fraud, self-dealing, a rights complaint, or a complaint or safety concern about a review, or where the law requires. Held earnings are paid once the issue is resolved.
Taxes
You are responsible for your own taxes on what you earn. Stripe collects the tax information Platix needs during payout setup, and where the law requires, Platix issues an IRS Form 1099 through Stripe. See Tax forms.
Platix acts as the merchant of record for premium-trip sales and paid reviews. Applicable sales tax, VAT, or GST is calculated at checkout where Stripe Tax is enabled.
If a trip is refunded
The refund is deducted from your earnings, and the buyer loses access. A private copy they already forked stays with them, private and unsellable. If the earning was already paid, the refund is taken from later earnings.
Changes to these terms
We may change revenue shares or payout terms, but you get at least 30 days' notice of anything that reduces your share or delays payouts, and changes never apply retroactively to sales or reviews already made. The full terms are in Sections 12 and 13 of the Terms of Service, which you accept with the Terms (see Seller terms).