Artist Payout Terms
These Artist Payout Terms explain how earnings are tracked, held, and paid when you sell through D'arc Adder. They work together with our Artist Terms. Questions: tattd@darcadder.com.
Revenue split (artist share / platform share)
For each eligible order line attributed to your designs, payout amounts are driven by the priced sheet breakdown generated at checkout finalisation. The platform splits attributable product revenue between an artist pool and a platform pool using per-sheet artist and platform amounts frozen on the order snapshot in GBP. Roughly speaking, artist earnings work out to about 70% of that attributed product-side split and platform fees to about 30%, before adjustments for refunds, disputes, or corrections.
Our system occasionally applies a trial-pack discount to the customer's total when a cart includes several sheets — larger trial packs get better value automatically. When that happens, the artist and platform amounts on each sheet are scaled by the same discount factor the customer sees, so artist earnings and platform fees move proportionally rather than one side absorbing the discount.
If the priced sheet breakdown ever produces zero pools while the order still has a positive total, our backend applies a fallback that allocates 70% of that amount to the artist pool and 30% to the platform pool, then divides among artists in the cart as our software describes.
Your dashboard and ledger are informational; internal records and Stripe data govern if there is ever a discrepancy to resolve.
Currency
During the UK-only MVP, customer prices and payout accounting are in GBP.
Stripe Connect
Payouts are sent through Stripe Connect. You must finish Stripe onboarding and keep payout details accurate. We do not store your full bank login on our servers beyond what Stripe shows in your dashboards.
Earning lifecycle
- Pending: a qualifying sale has been recorded but the amount is not yet eligible for payout.
- Available: the amount passed our safety waiting period (see below) and is eligible to be swept into the next payout run, subject to rules and minimum balance.
- Paid: Stripe has confirmed the transfer toward your Connect account for that batch window.
Safety period before funds become available
We hold new sale earnings as pending for seven days, subject to refunds, chargebacks, fulfilment disputes, or suspected fraud. After that window, amounts move to available when our jobs and rules permit.
Payout schedule
We process payouts biweekly on Fridays when our automated payout job runs successfully.
Minimum payout
We pay out when your available balance is at least £10. Smaller balances roll forward until you cross the threshold.
Payout readiness
You must be in good standing: Stripe payouts enabled, no blocking compliance issues we are aware of, and payout status acceptable to run transfers. Restricted or disabled accounts may not receive payouts until resolved.
Failed payouts
If a payout fails at Stripe (for example due to stale bank info), eligible amounts remain owed internally. Fix your Stripe details so we can retry on a later run.
Adjustments
Refunds, chargebacks, fraud reversals, shipping corrections, or accounting fixes may reduce or reverse earnings. We may net negative balances against future cycles where the rules allow.
Multi-artist orders
When several artists appear in one buyer checkout, you only earn on the portions linked to your own designs according to internal allocation logic. Other artists' earnings remain private from you.
Taxes
You are responsible for declaring and paying any taxes on payouts and sales income in your jurisdictions.
UI and records
Screens in the payouts area describe pending, available, and paid states. Figures should match ledger entries; if anything looks wrong, email support with examples.