Pricing for artists

Set up your prices correctly once, and clients see the price as soon as they paste their script and can order right away. For jobs you choose to handle by quote, you set the price yourself.

1. 1

   Open the page and save

   In the left menu of your dashboard, click “Pricing & Features” under Finance. The page is made of collapsible sections; click a section's heading to open it.

   • You enter prices in USD; clients see them in their own currency.
   • Each section has a “Save” button at the bottom; whichever one you press, all settings on the page are saved together. There is no auto-save.
   • After saving, the button briefly turns green and shows “Saved”.
2. 2

   Choose your order methods

   In the “Order Methods” section you switch on or off the ways clients can reach you:

   • Quick Order: the client sees the price instantly and pays right away. If you turn it off, your prices aren't shown, you work by quote only, and the other pricing sections on the page are hidden.
   • Offer-Based: clients can request a custom offer from you.
   • Auto-Offer: available when both Quick Order and Offer-Based are on. If you don't answer an offer request that includes a script within 30 minutes, the system sends a price on your behalf: your calculated price minus the discount you set (default 10%, at most 50%).
   • Chat: clients can send you messages.
3. 3

   Fill in the pricing tiers

   In the “Pricing Tiers” table you enter a price and a delivery time for 5, 50, 500, 2,500, 5,000, 10,000, 25,000 and 50,000 words.

   • Each tier has a minimum (e.g. $5 for 5 words, $30 for 500 words, $800 for 50,000 words). A lower price won't be saved; you can also leave a tier empty.
   • Delivery time is entered in hours (defaults range from 24 to 480 hours).
   • For scripts between two tiers, price and delivery time are calculated proportionally; above the largest tier, that tier's per-word price applies.
   • The price of the smallest tier is your minimum order: shorter scripts are charged that price too.
   • For each tier the table shows the per-word price, the platform commission and your earning.
4. 4

   Request quotes for long scripts

   If you want to discuss the price of very long jobs yourself, turn on “Request a quote above a certain word count”.

   • When you turn it on, the limit defaults to 50,000 words; you can set any number you like.
   • For scripts above the limit, the client sees no price and requests a quote from you.
   • Tiers above the limit are hidden from the table.
5. 5

   Set your media usage rights

   In the “Media Usage Rights” section you enter an extra charge, as a percentage, depending on where the recording will be published. Personal use is the base price; the others are added on top of it.

   • Defaults: Local +35%, National +50%, International +100%, All Rights +200% (you can enter 0 to 500%).
   • Example: with a base price of $100 and National at +50%, the client pays $150.
   • If you tick “Quote Only” for a media type, Quick Order is closed for it; the client requests a quote from you instead.
6. 6

   Set revisions and extra services

   In “Free Revisions” you choose how many free reading revisions you give with Quick Order (0–10, default 1). In “Extra Services” you switch on the services clients can add to an order and enter their charge as a percentage.

   • Defaults: Synchronization 50%, Alternative Reading 50%, Audio Splitting 30%, Text Redaction 30%, Additional Revision 50%.
   • Extra services are charged on the base price, before the media charge is added.
   • A service you switch off isn't offered to clients. The client chooses how many alternative readings and additional revisions they want; the charge is multiplied by that number.
   • Text revisions don't depend on this setting: they always cost 50% of the project price.
7. 7

   Enter your retainer capacity

   The “Max retainers at the same time” field below the “Pricing Tiers” section limits how many fixed-price monthly retainers you can run at once.

   • Enter a number from 1 to 50; leave it empty for unlimited.
   • Active, paused and notice-given retainers count toward your capacity.
   • While your capacity is full, clients can't send you a new retainer offer.
8. 8

   Check with the price simulator

   In the “Price Simulator” at the end of the page you pick a word count, media usage and extra services and see what the client would pay, the commission and your earning.

   • The simulator doesn't save anything; it only shows the calculation.
   • If Quick Order is on and no tier has a price, Quick Order is disabled and your profile is unpublished. Once you enter prices and save, your profile is published again (if it's approved and complete).