Fees, payouts & Stripe
SponsoredBy never holds your money. Every backing is a direct payment to your own Stripe account; we take a small platform fee and Stripe takes its standard processing fee.
Platform fees depend on your plan:
- Free — 10%
- Pro — 5%
- Max — 3%
To receive money you need a connected Stripe account. Set it up on Payouts — Stripe verifies your identity and handles deposits to your bank on its normal schedule. See Pricing for the full comparison.
You’re the merchant of record. Backings are charged on your own Stripe account, so refunds and disputes are handled by you, in your Stripe dashboard, and a lost dispute is charged to your balance. The statement descriptor your backers see is the one you set in Stripe. You choose how large a single backing can be under Settings → Backing limits.
Availability: receiving payouts is currently limited to creators based in the United States (a U.S. Stripe account and bank). More countries are coming — your wall works everywhere, but payouts are U.S.-only for now.
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