Merchant terms

Version 1.0 draft, pending legal review.

What you pay for

You pay a revenue share on platform-driven sales only. A sale is platform-driven when we can show it started on GiftsFeed, by one of three independent signals: a single-use discount code we issued, an identifier we attached to the cart, or the referring link recorded on the order.

Sales that do not carry one of those signals are your organic sales, and you owe nothing on them. We do not charge on your existing traffic, your email list, or your paid campaigns.

The discount you fund

Your revenue share funds a discount we pass to the shopper. On the default terms, a 20 percent share funds a 15 percent shopper discount, which leaves 5 percent to us. The share is calculated on the net after that discount, not on the list price.

A worked example on a $100 order at default terms: the shopper pays $85, your revenue share is $17, and you keep $68. If a publisher drove the visit, their share comes out of our $17, not out of your $68.

Refunds and returns

A refund reverses the commission. Partial refunds reverse pro rata against the refunded line items, not the whole order. Shipping-only refunds and goodwill credits do not reverse a commission, because the goods were kept.

Reversals are netted against your next invoice. Where a reversal arrives after we have paid a publisher, we carry it as an offset rather than clawing back from you twice.

Holds

We hold publisher payouts for the length of your actual return window rather than a fixed period, because a 90-day guarantee and a 30-day gadget are different risks. Your window is set when you onboard and shown in your dashboard.

Billing

Revenue share is billed through Shopify's Billing API against a usage cap you approve. If a month's commissions would exceed the cap, we notify you and request a new approval rather than failing the charge silently.

Listing and delisting

We list products from your public catalog and write our own descriptions for them. We never republish your product copy. You can have any product delisted, or your entire catalog delisted, on request and without notice.

We can also delist. The usual reasons are stock data we cannot trust, a checkout that loses our attribution, or a return rate that makes the commission unworkable.