Paid Voting & Payments

On a paid vote page, voters pay for each vote they cast. This guide covers setting it up, what it costs, and where to see what you have earned. For the countries our team pays out manually, see Payouts.

How the money flows

1. A voter picks a nominee, enters their email, chooses how many votes to buy, and pays by card.
2. Izivote keeps a 10% platform fee on each vote. Card processing is Stripe’s, and it comes off wherever the payment lands: your own account in most countries, ours in the few our team pays out manually (where we deduct what Stripe charged us). Either way you net the price minus our 10% minus Stripe’s fee, and your real figures are on each page’s Vote Payment tab.
3. Where that money lands depends on your country:
   • Stripe (most countries): the payment goes straight into your own Stripe account, with our fee taken automatically. Stripe’s own card processing fee comes out there too, and Stripe pays your bank on its own schedule, so there is nothing to request and nothing to wait for on our side.
   • Manual (Nigeria today): we collect the payment, hold it briefly to clear, and you click Request Payout when you are ready. Our team then sends it to you.

Our rate is also shown as a platform fee badge on each page’s Vote Payment tab. If we ever agreed a different rate with you, that badge is the one to trust.

What it costs, in full

Voters pay exactly the price you set. We never add a booking fee at checkout, and we never break our fee out on the payment page: the number you choose is the number they are charged.

Here is every deduction on a USD 10.00 vote, on the Stripe path:

The voter’s whole payment lands in your own Stripe account, and both fees come out of it there: Stripe charges its own, and ours is taken as a platform fee on the same charge. You can see every charge and fee in your Stripe dashboard.

Want a round number after fees? Price the vote a little higher. To keep about USD 9.00 after a 10% platform fee and Stripe’s fee, price the vote around USD 10.40.

On the manual path (Nigeria today) it works out the same way, except the payment lands with us, so we deduct Stripe’s processing fee (2.9% plus a small fixed amount per payment) alongside our 10%. Because that fixed part does not shrink with the price, cheap votes lose proportionally more of their value to it, which is why there is a minimum price per vote.

Set up payments first

Open Payments in the sidebar (or Payout information on your Profile), then click Set up payments.

Pick your country and click Continue. Your country decides how you get paid:

• Stripe (most countries): you verify once with Stripe, then Stripe pays your bank account.
• Manual (Nigeria today): you give us your PayPal or bank details and our team sends it.

Both paths end in the same place: somewhere your earnings can reach you.

Countries we support

What you charge is never limited by where you are. On the Stripe path each vote page picks its own currency, and Stripe converts into your account whichever currency it settles in. On the manual path you choose one payout currency when you add your details, and all your pages price in that one, because we pay you from a single balance.

Not on the list? Paid voting is not available there yet. Free vote pages work everywhere.

Getting paid through Stripe

1. Pick your country. Continuing creates your Stripe payout account, which fixes the country, so check it first.
2. Click Continue to Stripe. You will land on Stripe’s own secure pages.
3. Fill in what Stripe asks for: your details, some form of ID, and the bank account you want to be paid into. It usually takes a few minutes. The account is yours, so you can sign in to Stripe any time afterwards.
4. Stripe sends you back to Izivote and your status updates.

Back on Payments setup you will see one of three states:

• Payments enabled - you are done. Vote payments now go straight into your Stripe account.
• Action needed - Stripe still wants something. The missing items are listed in plain English; click Complete verification to go back and finish. Use Use a different account if you started with the wrong one.
• Stripe is reviewing your details - nothing to do but wait. Click Refresh status to check again. Payouts switch on by themselves once Stripe approves.

A few things worth knowing:

• Your bank details are held by Stripe, not by Izivote. We never see them, and you manage them by signing in to Stripe .
• You choose what each vote page charges in, on the page itself, not here. If your Stripe account banks in a different currency, Stripe converts it for you.
• Verification can ask for more later (Stripe reviews accounts as they grow). If it does, you will see Action needed again on this page.

Getting paid manually (PayPal or bank transfer)

If your country uses the manual path:

1. Pick your country and click Continue.
2. Choose a payout method, PayPal or bank transfer.
3. Pick the currency you want to be paid in, one your account can accept, then fill in the recipient’s full name and the account details. All your vote pages will price in it, and it is fixed once paid voting starts.
4. Click Save payout details.

Set your price per vote

Open the vote page, go to the Vote Payment tab, and click Set Voting Amount (it is also on the Manage tab). Voters cannot pay anything until an amount is set.

Set the currency here too, per vote page, so different campaigns can charge in different currencies. Once a page has taken its first payment its currency is fixed, because that page’s earnings are recorded in it. The amount can still change at any time.

On the manual path every page prices in the payout currency you picked when you set up your details, so it is shown here rather than offered. Either way payouts have to be set up first.

There is a minimum per vote, and also a minimum per payment, because card networks will not process a charge worth only a few cents. If your price is below that minimum, voters simply have to buy a few votes at once, and the payment form tells them how many. Pricing a little higher avoids that, and loses less of each payment to the fixed part of the processing fee.

Where to see what you have earned

The Payments page, for your whole account

On Stripe, you see Your earnings: everything paid into your Stripe account so far, after our fee, one total per currency you charge in. There is no payout to request, so use Stripe dashboard to see balances, payouts, fees and their timing.

On the manual path, four figures across the top:

Below that, Earnings by Vote Page breaks the same money down per page. Click View on a row to jump to that page’s payment tab.

The Vote Payment tab, for one page

Each paid vote page has its own Vote Payment tab showing:

• Amount per vote - your current price.
• Gross Collected - everything voters have paid on this page.
• Your Total Earnings - your lifetime share after fees, with the % Share badge.

Refunds and disputes

If a card payment is refunded, or a voter disputes the charge with their bank, the votes bought with it are removed and the earnings come back out. On Stripe that happens in your own account, the same way any refund on it does. On the manual path, if we had already paid you for those votes, the amount is recorded as owed and our team will contact you to settle it.

Next: Payouts if our team pays you out manually, or Subscriptions & Plans.