Guide for creators
From the account to the payout: set up your profile and packages, answer requests, deliver and get paid. This guide walks the whole way through once. The screenshots come from the live panel.
Download this guide as PDF1. Creating an account and settling in
Your workplace is the creator panel. Profile, packages, orders and statements all live there — the page brands see is built from it automatically.
Step 1.1
Create an account
First name, last name, e-mail and a password — the first step needs no more. You set the language of the panel at the top right; it applies to you only.
Step 1.2
The dashboard
Four figures at the top: booking value of the last twelve months, what is waiting for you, what is in progress, what will be paid out next. "Waiting for you" is the point where a deadline is running. The cards below can be picked up by the handle and moved.
2. Your profile
The profile is split into fold-out cards, and each one says how far it is filled in. On the right the progress with whatever is still missing — brands search by exactly these details.
Step 2.1
The fold-out cards
Name and language, creator profile, your work, channels and services, payout, bio link, usage rights, absence. Right at the top sits your bio link, ready to copy.
Step 2.2
Images and texts
One square profile picture and three portrait images, plus display name, one-liner and "About you". What is not allowed in the pictures is written right at the fields.
3. Channels and services
Reach and engagement rate per channel are the most important basis for a brand's decision. Every channel you enter also unlocks the matching packages.
Step 3.1
Adding a channel
Platform, username, followers and engagement rate; a link to the profile is optional. Below that are the services without a channel — UGC, photo, video, usage rights. You switch those on.
4. Packages and prices
Which packages exist is given; what they cost is yours to decide. A package that is switched off is invisible to brands.
Step 4.1
Setting prices
Per row the category, your price, delivery time and state — plus "Edit price" and the switch that activates it. The defaults are calculated for mid-sized reach; with more reach you go above them.
Step 4.2
The usage rights price list
What paid ads, whitelisting, full buyout, exclusivity and the terms cost with you — as a percentage of the work or as a fixed amount. Without your own rates the greyed-in creatordeal defaults apply.
5. The bio link
A slim page without the shop header, meant for the bio on Instagram, TikTok and the like. Brands without an account write to you from there.
Step 5.1
Setting up the page
A switch decides whether your fixed prices are shown there or only "Send a request". Below it the legal notice: in the EU it has to be reachable from the bio page in two clicks.
6. Your orders
One list for everything. Colour and border show what is next; the tabs above separate open, to deliver, running and finished.
Step 6.1
The order list
At the top the band with whatever is pressing — new requests with a running deadline, open complaints. Every row shows brand, package, agreed usage rights, state, remaining time and amount; the legend below explains the colours.
7. Reading a request
At the top what the brand wants; below it what you commit to. What you set there is the contract — it goes into the chat afterwards and cannot be changed quietly.
Step 7.1
The brief
What should be made, the preferred date and the usage rights the brand has asked for. If something is missing, ask in the chat before you accept.
Step 7.2
The scope
Video production, on-site shoot, posting on your channels, service — and for posting, the channels as well. On the right you can watch how the brand will read your offer.
8. Accepting or sending a quote
With a package the price is fixed and you only accept. With a request for a quote you name it yourself. A deadline runs for your answer; without one the request expires.
Step 8.1
Sending a quote
Your price, and right below it what is left after commission. You can add extra items, a delivery time and a short description. If it does not suit you, decline with a reason — that is better than an expired deadline.
Step 8.2
Accepted — what now?
After the acceptance the order says "Waiting for the brand's payment". Do not start yet: the delivery deadline begins with the payment confirmation. On the right the whole course runs along, from request to payout.
9. The brand's counter-offer
The brand may put its own price against your quote. That goes back and forth until one side accepts or breaks off.
Step 9.1
Accept or counter
On the left the counter-offer with amount and reason, on the right your counter with a new price, usage rights and a line to go with it. While the brand is at the table, your response deadline is paused.
10. Delivering: preview, then the post
A booking that appears on your channel is delivered in two rounds: first the preview for release, then the link to the published post.
Step 10.1
Submitting the preview
Enter the link to the preview — Drive, Dropbox, WeTransfer or wherever you keep it. Not a link from this panel: nobody but you can open that. Nothing is published yet; the brand checks first.
Step 10.2
Sending the post link
Once the brand has accepted the preview you publish and send the public link. The brand then confirms that it is online — that triggers the payout. If you post on several channels, enter the links one after another.
11. Services: reporting the work as done
For a scope without a link and without a file — consulting, a shoot, an appointment on site — there is nothing to upload.
Step 11.1
Reporting instead of uploading
A short note is optional; the button says "Report work as done". The brand then has a review period — without an objection it is released automatically.
12. Submitting an add-on
For extra work beyond the brief. The add-on hangs on the same booking but is decided and paid separately.
Step 12.1
Charging for extra work
Describe what is being added and name the surcharge. The brand accepts and pays separately, or declines; the main booking is untouched. This is possible while the project is running — not before payment and not after it is finished.
13. Tenders
Brands publish a tender instead of asking one by one. You only see the tenders whose audience you match.
Step 13.1
Accept or pass
The "Tenders" tab shows platform, format, price per creator, free slots, running time and the usage rights included; "Show brief" folds out the text. With a fixed price you accept; with "collect quotes" you name a price. Payment comes in one go when the brand closes the tender.
14. Statements
What becomes of a released order: net basis, commission, your payout — and the credit note that goes with it.
Step 14.1
What arrives, and when
One row per order with date, basis, commission, payout and state. At the top you see which details we settle with you; if something is missing, the notice says where to add it. "Export" pulls the list as a file.
15. Verification and payout account
Two things have to be done once before money moves: verification with us and the payout account with Stripe. If either is missing, your balance only piles up.
Step 15.1
Verification
Account type, tax details and the documents that go with them — checked by creatordeal, not by a third party. Only the review team sees the documents, and every access is logged. Confirmed once, never again.
Step 15.2
Payout account
Payouts run through Stripe; your bank details sit there, not with us. If something is still missing there, the "Payout" card says so, with a button that resumes the setup.
16. Absence
Anyone on holiday should not miss a deadline.
Step 16.1
Entering time off
Enter the period in which you are not working. Brands then see you as away — better than a request whose response deadline runs out while you are gone.
