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title: Payout System
description: How Stripe Connect onboarding, the pending to available 7-day clearing, held-until-onboard balances, the weekly $25 payout, and refund clawback work for Edgaze creators.
source: https://www.edgaze.ai/docs/payout-system
last_updated: 2026-03-15
section: legal
---
# Payout System

> How Stripe Connect onboarding, the pending to available 7-day clearing, held-until-onboard balances, the weekly $25 payout, and refund clawback work for Edgaze creators.

## Overview

Edgaze supports a "sell now, onboard later" model where creators may publish and sell before completing payout onboarding. Earnings from successful per-run sales accrue at **80% of creator margin**. Payout release still requires Stripe Connect onboarding, verification, and eligibility.

Read [Creator Earnings Guide](/docs/billing/creator-earnings-guide) and [Creator Earnings](/docs/creator-earnings) for how earnings are recorded and paid out.

## Stripe Connect

Stripe Connect is used for creator onboarding, verification, connected account status, and payout rails. Stripe may require identity, tax, bank, country, sanctions, and compliance information.

Edgaze may use Stripe account status, payout readiness, details submitted, restrictions, and live account verification to determine whether creator funds can be routed or released.

## Earnings Lifecycle

Each successful run sale moves through:

**pending, then 7-day clearing, then available, then payout**

### Pending (clearing)

When a buyer's run settles successfully, your margin share is recorded immediately as **pending**. Pending earnings clear automatically after a **7-day clearing period**, which covers the window in which a payment can still be refunded or disputed.

### Available

Once a sale has cleared the 7-day window, its amount becomes **available**, eligible to be paid out on the next weekly payout run, subject to onboarding and the minimum payout threshold below.

### Payout

Available balances are paid out on a **weekly payout run**. A payout is sent when your available balance is at least the **$25 minimum**. If your available balance is below $25, it carries forward and is paid on a later run once it reaches the threshold.

## Held Until Onboarding

You can earn before connecting a Stripe account. Earnings still accrue and still clear from pending to available on the normal 7-day schedule, but they are **held** and cannot be paid out until you complete Stripe Connect onboarding.

Held balances are durable: they stay on your account, are never lost, and are not time-limited by an in-app countdown. When you finish onboarding and your connected account is payout-ready, your accumulated available balance is released and paid on the next weekly payout run.

In short, "no connected account" means "hold reliably, release on onboard," not "forfeit earnings."

## Refunds and Clawback

Refunds claw back only from **still-pending** earnings.

- If a sale is refunded while it is still pending, the pending amount for that sale is reversed.
- If a sale is refunded after it has already cleared and been **paid out**, the refund is **not** clawed back from you and **never drives your balance negative**. Edgaze absorbs that portion.

Successful per-run charges are generally final. Read [Refund Policy](/docs/refund-policy).

## Available and Paid Status

When payout setup is complete and a sale has cleared, Edgaze marks the amount available. It is then paid out on the next weekly run via a Stripe Connect transfer to your connected account.

Each weekly payout is keyed uniquely per creator and period, so a retried or repeated run never pays you twice and never double-records a withdrawal.

Edgaze records payout events for display and accounting, but Stripe performs the actual movement of funds to your bank.

## Holds and Reviews

Edgaze may delay, hold, reserve, reverse, or adjust payout-related records for refunds, disputes, chargebacks, fraud, suspicious activity, sanctions, account restrictions, processor requirements, legal requests, or platform errors.

## No Stored Value Account

Creator balances shown in Edgaze are dashboard and accounting records. They are not a deposit account, bank account, stored value facility, wallet, or money transmission account provided by Edgaze.

## Creator Responsibilities

Creators should complete payout onboarding promptly, keep Stripe information accurate, monitor disputes, avoid misleading products, and maintain compliance with Edgaze and Stripe policies.

## Related Policies

- [Creator Terms](/docs/creator-terms)
- [Creator Earnings](/docs/creator-earnings)
- [Marketplace Fees](/docs/marketplace-fees)
- [Billing guides](/docs/billing)
- [Chargeback Policy](/docs/chargeback-policy)