28 rules, in the order a post meets them: 6 when a creator claims, 12 when a post is submitted, 6 while its views are measured and 4 when the money is worked out.
What you read when you claim is what you are paid under.
When a post is forfeited or rejected, the record says why.
The bounty page shows its own window, floor, hold and cap with their values.
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What is checked and fixed the moment a creator takes a bounty.
The rate, cap, view floor, hold, fee, brief, approved statements, hard rules, link mode, disclosure tag and submit window are copied onto the claim when it is made. A brand that changes its bounty later cannot change a claim that already exists.
What you can do. Read the terms before you claim. They are the terms you are paid under.
A bounty can set minimum followers and minimum account age, and can limit claims to X Premium accounts. The numbers are the ones captured when the X account was connected. The defaults are 500 followers and an account at least 6 months old.
What you can do. Pick a bounty whose requirements your account meets. The claim is refused with the exact requirement it missed.
A creator confirms their age when connecting an X account. The minimum is 18.
What you can do. Confirm your age when you connect the account.
An X handle can be connected to one ViewPayout account at a time. Several X accounts can sit under one login, and each one is verified and paid on its own.
What you can do. Connect each X account once, from the login that will receive its earnings.
An X account can claim a bounty once. A claim is free, reserves nothing and does not stop anyone else from claiming.
What you can do. Use the claim you already have to submit your post.
A bounty can be claimed for a number of hours after it opens, set by the brand and shown on each bounty page, and only while it is open. A closed bounty refuses new claims.
What you can do. Claim while the bounty shows slots left.
What a post must be when its creator submits it.
Only a post made after the claim counts. A post that was already up when you claimed is refused.
What you can do. Claim first, then publish a new post.
The post's link must arrive within 60 minutes of the post going up by default. The window is part of the frozen terms.
What you can do. Submit the link as soon as you post.
The author of the post must be the X account that made the claim.
What you can do. Post from the account you claimed with.
ViewPayout must be able to read the post, and it must not have been edited since it went up.
What you can do. Make the post public and publish a fresh one if you edited it.
Once a post backs a claim, no other claim anywhere on ViewPayout can use it, so a post cannot be sold twice.
What you can do. Publish a separate post for each claim.
When the last slot is taken, later submissions are refused. The slot check, the limit on posts per creator and the brand reservation happen in one step, so two posts cannot take the last slot.
What you can do. Submit early. A post refused for a full bounty costs nothing.
When a bounty sets a link mode, a post may point only at the tracked link ViewPayout generates for the claim or at an address on the brand's own site, any other link is refused, and the bounty can require the tracked link to be present. A bounty with no link mode does not check links.
What you can do. Use your tracked link and remove every other link.
When a bounty requires disclosure, the post must carry the tag #ViewPayout.
What you can do. Add #ViewPayout to the post text.
A post is accepted only if its worst-case cost can be reserved from the brand's prepaid balance. If it cannot, nothing is charged and no slot is used.
What you can do. Submit again inside the window once the brand has added funds.
A reviewer holds the post up against the brief, the statements the brand approved, its hard rules, the disclosure tag and the rest of the bounty's posts. A near copy of another creator's post fails. A post that fails earns nothing and frees its slot.
What you can do. Write your own post that follows the brief, and use the draft checker before you publish.
When the automated review passes a creator's first post, a person approves it before it is measured. A person also decides on any post the reviewer cannot judge, and on any post that could cost the brand more than $12. The post is not paid until they decide. A person can approve the post or reject it, and a rejected post earns nothing.
What you can do. Wait for the decision. An approved post goes on to be measured and paid as normal.
A creator can run 5 draft checks a day on each bounty. A draft check is advice and never binds the later review.
What you can do. Check your draft before posting. The count resets each day, in UTC.
What keeps a post eligible while its views are measured.
If the post is deleted while the hold runs, it earns nothing. If it is set to private, measuring pauses, and a post still private when the hold ends earns nothing.
What you can do. Leave the post public until the hold ends.
The wording of the post is recorded when it is submitted. If the post is edited afterwards, it earns nothing.
What you can do. Do not edit the post after you submit it.
ViewPayout reads the post every hour for the first 48 hours, then once a day until the hold ends. A reading that cannot be taken is never invented.
What you can do. Nothing to do. The best reading before the hold ends is the one you are paid on.
When the hold ends, ViewPayout compares each post's views with its likes, replies and reposts, and with the creator's own earlier settled posts. Views with almost no engagement, or views far above the creator's usual, freeze the payout. A flag never rejects a post by itself: a person looks at it and decides.
What you can do. Nothing to do. A person decides, and an approved post is paid as normal.
A brand can reject a post that is waiting for review or being measured. The post earns nothing, the reserved money goes back to the brand and the slot is freed.
What you can do. Follow the brief and the brand's hard rules.
When a person rejects a post that the screen flagged, the post earns nothing and the reserved money goes back to the brand.
What you can do. Post real content for a real audience.
How the money is worked out and released.
A post must reach the bounty's view floor (1,000 views by default) before it earns anything. Under it the payout is zero, and the brand pays nothing either.
What you can do. Check the floor before you claim.
The payout is worked out from the highest view count read before the hold ends, never from a later drop.
What you can do. Nothing to do.
The gross is the smaller of the cap and the views at the rate. The creator receives the gross minus 15%, and the brand pays the gross plus 15%. Both fees round down to the cent.
What you can do. Use the payout calculator on the pricing page to see your share before you claim.
A creator can request a cashout once the available balance is at least $25, after finishing payout setup. Money in a hold is not available. An operator approves each cashout and it is paid in US dollars.
What you can do. Finish payout setup, then request a cashout once the balance reaches the minimum.
See how a post is measured on view verification, the arithmetic on payouts and fees, or the short answers on the FAQ.