This article covers the Starter Edition billing. If you are on the Starter Agency Edition, please refer to the article on Starter Agency Edition billing.
Your first partner payout is charged once your first partner-driven actions are tracked, and your first impact.com fee is charged on the first day of your second month with impact.com, following a full calendar month since sign-up. Your monthly impact.com fees are calculated as 2.5% of the total monthly revenue generated by locked partner conversions, or 30 currency units — whichever is greater.
When you sign up with Starter Edition, you'll be required to provide credit card information. This allows impact.com to replenish your funding account and ensure any costs will be covered, preventing overdue payments. The system will automatically charge your credit card when your funding account balance falls 30 units below the total you owe, plus a mandatory 50 currency unit buffer.
impact.com won't charge your credit card if your funding account balance is sufficient, or if the total you owe partners + impact.com is less than 30 currency units.
Whenever partner or impact.com fees are due, the system will check your funding account for those fees plus the standard 50 currency units buffer. If your funding account is 30 currency units under this total, the system will charge your credit card to replenish your funding account with the amount required.
* This example uses USD as the currency.
May 12 — you sign up:
On May 12 you sign up for impact.com Starter Edition and complete your billing information. No partner costs or impact.com fees are due yet.
Funding account balance: $0
Total due: $0
Funding account deductions: $0
Credit card auto-charge: $0
May 30 — first conversions tracked:
By May 30 you managed to secure contracts with partners who drove traffic that resulted in conversions. As mutually decided in your contracts with the partners, you owe $25 in commissions. The $25 will be included in the total due on May 30 because the actions have already been tracked, but will only be deducted from your funding account once the actions lock.
Funding account balance: $0
Total due: $25 partner costs + $50 buffer
Funding account deductions: $0
Credit card auto-charge: $75
June 1 — first full calendar month begins:
On June 1, your first full calendar month with impact.com begins. No impact.com fees are due yet, because your first fee is charged on the first day of your 2nd month following a full calendar month since sign-up.
Funding account balance: $75
Total due: $0
Funding account deductions: $0 (Conversions didn't lock yet, so no deduction.)
Credit card auto-charge: $0 (Funding account balance now covers partner costs with buffer, so no replenish needed.)
June 20 — first conversions locked:
As mutually decided in your contracts with partners, the actions that were tracked on May 30 are locked on June 20. The partner costs will now be deducted from your funding account.
July 1 — first impact.com fee charged:
July 1 is the first day of your second month following a full calendar month since sign-up. Your first impact.com monthly usage fee is charged today, but will clear on July 2. Going forward, your monthly usage fee will be charged on the 1st of each month for usage of the previous month.
Funding account balance: $50
Total due: $30 impact.com fee
Funding account deductions: $0
Credit card auto-charge: $30 (Funding account balance doesn't cover impact.com fees AND buffer.)
July 2 — first impact.com fee cleared:
Funding account balance: $80
Total due: $0
Funding account deductions: $30 impact.com fee
Credit card auto-charge: $0 (Funding account balance is $50 after deductions, so sufficient buffer remains.)