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Preparing and sending an offer

Assembling terms against a creator's published rate, what happens when they change that rate while you are drafting, and why sending an offer is not an agreement.

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An offer is prepared first and sent second. Preparing one commits nothing. Sending it hands it to the offer engine, and the creator still has to accept it before anything is agreed.

The reason preparation is a separate step is the rate. A creator may change a published rate between the moment you start drafting against it and the moment you click send. The product captures which version of the rate you prepared against and compares it at submission, and it refuses an offer priced against a figure that has moved.

That refusal is deliberate and it is not smoothed over. Silently re-pricing your draft would send an offer at a price nobody chose to send.

BEFORE YOU START

  • A creator listing to prepare against, from the directory.
  • Access to the workspace.
  • The permissions the API asks for: preparing an offer and submitting one are separate, and submitting carries the tightest limit in the module because it commits your organisation to commercial terms.

STEPS

  1. Open Offers for the workspace, or go to /app/workspaces/{workspace}/marketplace/offers.
  2. Read the Offer engine column before assembling anything. It says whether a submission can be accepted at all, and why not when it cannot.
  3. If a band appears saying the creator changed the rate, read the new figure and choose "Re-confirm the new figure". That is recorded as your decision, at that moment.
  4. Choose "Send offer" to hand it to the offer engine.

WHAT YOU SHOULD SEE

Each preparation with its terms, its status and whether an offer engine can accept it. A preparation whose rate has moved carries a band above the table saying so.

WHAT THIS WILL NOT DO

  • It will not agree anything. A submitted preparation has been handed to the offer engine; the creator still has to accept it.
  • It will not re-price your draft for you. A rate that moved has to be re-confirmed by a person, as a separate act.
  • It will not turn a commission-only offer into a zero. A preparation with no fixed amount reads "No fixed amount".
  • It will not hide a control it cannot honour. Where no offer engine can accept a submission, the reason is shown rather than the button being removed — a hidden control teaches nobody why.
  • It will not withdraw an offer that has already gone out. That would only hide your copy of something the creator can still see, so it is refused and the refusal says so. Withdraw it in the offer itself.

IF IT DOES NOT WORK

  • "The creator changed this rate while you were preparing this offer" means exactly that. Re-confirm before sending.
  • A refusal saying the preparation has already been handed to the offer engine means it is out and this screen is not where to take it back.
  • A message saying the request did not complete means it may or may not have gone. Reload and check before trying again — an offer sent twice is two commitments.

COMMON QUESTIONS

Does sending an offer commit my organisation to anything?

Not by itself. Sending hands the offer to the creator; an agreement exists only once they accept it. What sending does commit you to is the terms as written, because acceptance takes them as they stand rather than reopening a negotiation.

The creator changed their rate while I was drafting. Why was I stopped?

Because the offer was assembled against the figure you were shown, and that figure is no longer what they publish. Sending it anyway would put a price in front of them they have already moved away from. Re-confirm and you are working from what is true now.

Can I take back an offer after sending it?

Not from the preparation screen — it is out. Withdrawal is a separate act on the offer itself, and it is deliberately not the same button, because retracting something a person is already reading is a different decision from editing a draft.

Why does preparing and sending exist as two steps rather than one?

Because assembling terms is reversible and handing them to somebody is not. Splitting them means a half-finished offer cannot escape by accident, and the moment of commitment is one you take deliberately.

  • Finding creators in the marketplace

    Browsing the creators who have consented to be found by businesses, reading the rates they publish to you, and why a blank audience figure stays blank.

  • Running a creator campaign

    Drafting a brief creators can apply to, opening it, deciding who applied, and why a fee on a campaign is not an agreement with anybody.

  • Deciding what creators promote for you

    Recording the products, services, events and pages a creator would be promoting, and why publishing one is a separate decision from adding it.