Pay creators and handle disclosure
By Starcovery. Updated .
Fund the creators who accept your proposal, pay the Starcovery invoice, and set the disclosure statement each creator reads before they post.
To pay creators in Starcovery, request funding for the creators who accepted your proposal and pay the invoice the Starcovery team emails you, and the Starcovery team pays each funded creator after they post. To handle disclosure, write a disclosure statement on the campaign before you send proposals, and each creator reads it in the proposal under Label.
This page covers the Starcovery Payouts steps, what each step costs, and where to read the disclosure rules. Starcovery gives no legal advice.
Steps
Find creators
Search from a brief on the web, or over MCP, REST, or the CLI. Save the creators you want to a campaign. See Search and Campaigns.
Write the proposal
On the campaign's Proposal page, set What they post, the platforms the one payment covers, Pay per creator in whole dollars, the Creator posting date, and the Disclosure statement. What the creator sees shows the proposal as each creator reads it.
Under More Options, set the visibility and the Declassifying date. On a public campaign, signed-in visitors read the campaign details from that date. On a private campaign, the name and pay per creator join the going rate no earlier than that date, and only if your market information answer allows it.
Send the proposal
Choose Send Proposal. The Starcovery team sends the proposals from its staff queue. The campaign needs a contract, a disclosure statement, and at least one creator with 1,000 or more followers. A creator posting date, when set, needs to be today or a later day in UTC.
Once Starcovery starts sending, the contract and the disclosure statement are locked. Visibility and the declassifying date stay editable.
Read the answers
Each creator accepts or declines. The campaign shows how many creators answered.
Request funding
On Campaign funding, answer the market information question: can Starcovery show this campaign's name and pay per creator in the going rate other organizations and creators see? The answer sets the platform fee, as Prices lists, and locks while a funding request is open or the campaign holds funds.
Choose Request Funding. The request covers the creators who accepted and are not yet funded: the pay per creator times those creators, plus the platform fee. Only an owner or admin of the organization requests funding.
Pay the invoice
The Starcovery team emails an invoice for the requested amount. The campaign is funded once the invoice is paid.
Creators post
Each funded creator posts, by the creator posting date when one is set. Starcovery records each live post on the campaign, one per platform, with its view count and engagement count.
Starcovery pays the creators
After a funded creator posts, the Starcovery team pays that creator. The campaign shows Paid out. once every funded creator is paid.
Over REST, set contract, disclosure, and marketInformation with POST /api/campaigns or PATCH /api/campaigns/{campaignId}, then call POST /api/campaigns/{campaignId}/send and POST /api/campaigns/{campaignId}/fund. See Send and funding requests.
Disclosure
The disclosure statement is one text of up to 4,000 characters per campaign. A campaign without one cannot be sent. Each creator reads it in the proposal under Label. Over the API, set it as "disclosure": {"statement": "<text>"} on create or update.
In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) publishes the Endorsement Guides. Two FTC pages explain them:
Starcovery gives no legal advice. Ask your counsel what your statement needs to say.
How a creator gets paid
A creator receives payouts through a payout account. The creator verifies a handle, then an owner or admin of the creator's organization chooses Set Up Payouts on Payout account. The Starcovery team sends a secure link that collects a government photo ID, a proof of address, a bank statement, and a tax form, and sends payouts only once the tax form is on file.
Payout accounts are available in Canada, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the countries of the European Economic Area. Payouts lists each transfer and the amount paid to date.
Live example
skincare creators is a published search page: a ranked list of creators for the brief "skincare creators", each with platform, followers, average views, and engagement on views. Each creator name opens the creator page, such as @janethechemist.
To hire from it, run the brief on the web, save the creators you pick to a campaign, and follow the steps above.
Prices
A credit costs $0.05. Send Proposal and the funding request spend no credits.
| Step | Price |
|---|---|
| Search within the daily grant | Free |
| Search past the daily grant | 1 credit |
Search thread turn on the web, over MCP thread_turn, or with starcovery thread | 1 use for the turn, from the daily grant and then 1 credit, plus up to 3 searches and exclusions in all, each billed like a search |
| Campaign generate | One search, billed like a search |
| Private campaign | 1 credit at creation, or when a public campaign becomes private |
| Creator pay | The pay per creator, for each funded creator |
| Platform fee, market information answer Yes | None |
| Platform fee, answer Not for up to 18 months | 1% to 18% of the creator pool, one percent per month held |
| Platform fee, answer No | 20% of the creator pool |
The creator pool is the pay per creator times the funded creators. For example, two creators at $300 each make a $600 pool. A 6-month hold adds a $36 fee, for an invoice of $636. Prepaid credit packs are on Pricing. See Pay for API calls without a subscription for the credit ledger.
Frequently asked questions
How do I pay a creator for a sponsored post?
Request funding for the creators who accepted your proposal, then pay the invoice the Starcovery team emails you. The Starcovery team pays each funded creator after they post.
Do I pay creators directly?
No. You pay the Starcovery invoice, and the Starcovery team pays the creators.
When does a creator get paid?
After the creator posts. Starcovery records the post on the campaign, and the Starcovery team then pays the creator.
What should a paid partnership disclosure say?
Starcovery gives no legal advice. Read the FTC pages under Disclosure, and ask your counsel.
Can I change the disclosure after I send the proposal?
No. The contract and the disclosure statement lock once Starcovery starts sending the proposals.
Who in my organization can fund a campaign?
An owner or admin. Another member gets Funding needs an owner or an admin, and over the API, 403 organization_funding_forbidden.
Can I keep what I pay creators out of the going rate?
Yes. Answer No to the market information question for a 20% platform fee, and the campaign's name and pay per creator never join the going rate. Answer Not for up to 18 months to hold them back that many months after your funding request, for a fee of that many percent.
Which countries can creators get paid in?
Canada, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the countries of the European Economic Area.
Find a creator's email address
See whether Starcovery has a creator's email address, reveal it for 1 credit, and read it on the web, in a CSV export, or over the API.
How much to pay a creator by follower tier
Starcovery publishes no rate per follower tier. Set a pay per creator from the going rate, run one campaign per tier, and pay creators after they post.