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Offers and what was agreed

Reading an offer's full revision history, seeing whose turn it is, understanding why agreed terms cannot be edited, and why "accepted" and "payable" are always shown as two separate facts.

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An offer is a negotiation with a history. Every revision either party proposed is kept, oldest first, and nothing is ever edited in place — a change is a new revision with its own author, message and timestamp.

Both parties see the same history. Everything in a negotiation was said by one side to the other, so there is nothing here one of you may read and the other may not. What differs is what each of you may do next, and that is shown as whose turn it is.

The most important thing on the page is that accepted is not paid. Terms can be agreed by a creator who has never connected a payout account, so every offer states separately whether a payment could actually reach you. Agreeing terms transfers nothing, and this product holds no money at any point.

BEFORE YOU START

  • A creator profile on this account.
  • An offer opened against one of your services by a business. Nothing here creates an offer for you.

STEPS

  1. Open Offers, or go to /app/creator/offers.
  2. Read the table for the state of each offer, whose turn it is and whether a payment could reach you.
  3. Open an offer to read every revision in order.
  4. Read the agreed terms, if any, and the note about payability beside them.

WHAT YOU SHOULD SEE

Each offer with its state, whose turn it is while it is still open, how many revisions it has been through, and whether it is payable. Inside, every revision with who proposed it and when, and — once accepted — the frozen terms with the party who accepted them and the moment they did.

WHAT THIS WILL NOT DO

  • It will not tell you money is on its way. Acceptance and payability are separate facts and the page never lets the first stand for the second.
  • It will not hold money for you. Social Studio never takes custody of a payment at any point.
  • It will not let anyone edit agreed terms. They are frozen for both parties and for this product; a change is a new offer.
  • It will not hide a signature mismatch. Agreed terms are stored with a hash checked on every read, and a record that no longer matches its own hash is reported rather than quietly rendered as fine.
  • It will not let you counter, accept or decline from this page yet. The creator account interface that records those is not published on the web.

IF IT DOES NOT WORK

  • "No offer" means nothing has been proposed to you. Offers are opened by businesses; this product does not generate them on your behalf.
  • An offer showing "lapsed" has passed its expiry even though its stored status still says open. The clock is asked directly, so a sweep that has not run yet cannot make a lapsed offer look live.
  • "Whose turn: —" on a closed offer is correct. Whose turn it was stops being meaningful once an offer closes, and is not left pointing at whoever happened to be waiting.
  • "An agreed record no longer matches its own signature" means exactly that. Raise it before acting on those terms.
  • An offer marked accepted and not payable is a normal state, and the reasons are listed with it.

COMMON QUESTIONS

Can I edit the terms after they are agreed?

No, and not because a control is missing. Agreed terms are written to a record the database itself refuses to update, so there is no path through this product that rewrites them. If both parties want different terms, the offer is closed and a new one is opened, and the old history stays readable.

Why does it say accepted but not payable?

Because they are two separate facts and this page will not merge them. Terms can be agreed by a creator who has never connected a payout account, so the offer states whether a payment could actually reach you alongside whether the terms were agreed. Agreeing terms transfers nothing; this product holds no money at any point.

Can the business see something in the history that I cannot?

No. Everything in a negotiation was said by one side to the other, so both parties read the same revisions in the same order. What differs is what each of you may do next, and that is shown as whose turn it is rather than by hiding anything.

Does a counteroffer replace the previous terms?

It adds a revision, it does not overwrite one. Every version either party proposed is kept, oldest first, with its own author, message and timestamp, so a disagreement about what was offered can be settled by reading rather than by recollection.

  • Why a payment cannot reach you yet

    Reading your payout standing: why it is a gate and not a balance, which refusals you can act on and which are not yours to fix, and what Social Studio does and does not store about your payout account.

  • Publishing your services and rates

    Reading your rate cards and packages, seeing exactly what a public viewer sees of them, and why a commission preference is never an amount this product owes you.

  • Opportunities addressed to you

    Reading invitations businesses have sent to your marketplace listings and the campaigns you applied for, why nothing here is ranked or matched, and why the business is not named on the list.