Guide
Affiliate and Collaborator Payouts
SoundSync-managed recipient settlement policy, after-fee examples, funding and current availability.
Current program availability
Affiliate and collaborator agreements, invitations, and referral tools are available through controlled rollout. General sale accounting, automated recipient notifications, and live recipient transfers are not enabled. An accepted agreement or displayed estimate is not confirmation that earnings are accruing or a payment has been authorized. Confirm account availability with SoundSync before relying on the financial workflow.
Current availability
Affiliate and collaborator programs support versioned agreements, referral activity, sale allocations, recipient balances, and settlement for enrolled accounts. Live participation requires explicit acceptance by both the developer owner and recipient of the current terms and payout policy, plus verified payout details. A calculator preview or invitation acceptance alone does not authorize live payments; availability follows the account's rollout and payout readiness.
Separate shares and verified funding
SoundSync manages recipient settlement on SoundSync-collected sales. The 10% SoundSync fee is deducted first; ordinary managed-checkout processing is covered by SoundSync, not deducted again from recipients. The accepted affiliate share comes next, then collaborator shares and the developer remainder are kept separate. Eligible payouts follow the 1st and 15th schedule and minimum 14-day hold, with payment, destination, refund, dispute, and account checks. Externally collected reseller or partner sales remain unfunded estimates in this settlement system, and SoundSync does not cover their processing fees. No automatic cross-provider or currency conversion is promised.
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An after-fee split example
| Step | Amount |
|---|---|
| Discounted pre-tax product revenue | $100.00 |
| SoundSync fee, with processing included | $10.00 |
| Remaining revenue | $90.00 |
| Illustrative affiliate share: 20% of $90 | $18.00 |
| Illustrative collaborator share: 25% of the remaining $72 | $18.00 |
| Developer remainder | $54.00 |
How to read the example
The 20% and 25% rates are examples, not defaults or extra SoundSync fees. The affiliate share comes first; collaborators share the remainder and the developer receives the residual. Tax is not part of the split, and ordinary SoundSync-checkout processing is not separately deducted.
A preview is a calculation, not collected funds or a transfer. Saved sale allocations, reversal records, and payment references establish the account amounts. Legacy records keep their original basis rather than being silently recalculated under current rates.
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Read recipient balances correctly
| Amount or state | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Accrued | Original shares assigned from eligible captured sales |
| Reversed | Original shares removed by refunds or dispute adjustments |
| Paid | Completed recipient transfers, net of recorded reversals |
| Reserved / submitted | Committed or provider-pending payment, not confirmed arrival |
| Held | Outstanding amounts not yet eligible under the hold, refund, dispute, or account checks |
| Eligible | Funded balance currently available to the supported payout run |
| Unfunded | External-sale estimate; no SoundSync-held payment backs it |
Refunds use the original allocation
Refunds use the accepted agreement version and saved allocation at the sale, not today's rate. Developers can select whole products or the full order within the 14-day initial-purchase window. SoundSync retains its original fee, the developer covers actual additional refund charges, and original affiliate/collaborator shares are reversed. Paid shares are recovered from future earnings; unrelated product earnings are not rewritten.
External collections stay separate
A reseller receipt can support fulfillment and an agreed commission estimate without putting money in SoundSync custody. Those amounts do not enter funded recipient payouts. The external seller covers its own processing and tax obligations. No external import automatically triggers a money transfer, converts a currency, or creates a SoundSync MoR sale.
Destination setup is not a transfer
Account-specific destination setup and provider readiness do not enable general recipient payments. General program transfers and accounting are not enabled. Do not promise automatic PayPal-to-Stripe recipient settlement from a preview or accepted invitation. Developer payouts use the separately documented Stripe Connect process.
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