Creator & Payments Terms

Your work stays yours

You keep ownership and copyright in everything you publish. Publishing on 3types, or receiving tips through it, does not transfer any ownership of your work to us. We hold only the operating licence described in the Terms.

Eligibility

To receive creator payments you will need to be 18 or over, hold an account in good standing, publish original work you have the rights to, and complete verification with our payment provider, including identity and, where required, tax information. We may require additional checks.

Payment provider

Payments will be handled by a third-party payment provider. 3types will not see or store card or bank details. The provider's own terms, verification requirements and restricted-business rules will apply to you in addition to these terms. The provider is not yet named here because it is not yet contracted.

Platform commission

During a Founding Period, 3types intends to charge a 0% 3types platform commission on eligible creator tips, excluding third-party processing fees, taxes, currency conversion and other unavoidable charges. After the Founding Period, 3types currently intends to introduce a 10% platform commission on eligible creator transactions.

The Founding Period is a temporary promotional period. No end date is fixed yet, and we will give notice before the applicable platform commission changes. The fee that actually applies will be disclosed in-product before you can send or receive any payment.

Still to be confirmed

The following are not yet decided and are deliberately left as TBD rather than invented: the payment provider, the merchant of record arrangement, the minimum payout threshold, and the supported payout currencies. They will be published here before payments are enabled.

Processing fees, currency and taxes

A 0% platform commission does not mean a tip arrives in full. Payment processing fees, currency conversion, payout fees and any applicable taxes may be deducted or charged, and are outside our control. You are responsible for your own tax reporting and any VAT or income tax due on what you receive.

Monetisation eligibility is separate from publishing eligibility

Whether a work may be published and whether it may earn money are two different questions. Content that is permitted under our Content Guidelines may still be excluded from tipping and other monetisation, by content category, where required by our payment provider, applicable law, or app-store and other distribution rules.

In particular, mature and sexually explicit writing is not automatically monetisable. Tipping will not be enabled by default for it. We may enable, restrict or withdraw monetisation for a category, a work or an account at any time where necessary, and we do not promise that all permitted content will be eligible for payments.

Prohibited transactions

No payments for prohibited content, no using tips to launder money or evade sanctions, no self-tipping or circular payments to inflate earnings, no selling access to content that breaches our guidelines, and no soliciting payments off-platform in a way that misleads readers.

Refunds, chargebacks and holds

Tips are voluntary and generally non-refundable once processed, except where required by law or where fraud, error or a prohibited transaction is identified. Chargebacks, reversals and associated fees may be deducted from your balance. We or our payment provider may hold, delay, reverse or refuse a payment where legally or contractually necessary, including for verification, fraud, sanctions or tax reasons.

Ending monetisation

You can turn off tipping at any time. We may withdraw monetisation for breaches of these terms, the Terms or the Content Guidelines, or where our payment provider requires it. Amounts genuinely earned and payable will still be paid out where we are lawfully able to do so.

Contact

Creator and general support: support@3types.app. This address is being set up and is not confirmed as operational yet.

Founder input still required: payment provider selection, merchant of record arrangement, Founding Period start date and notice mechanism, minimum payout threshold and schedule, supported payout currencies and countries, and the legal entity name, company number and registered notice address.