Payout Fee Policy

🌐 This article has been translated from Korean for your convenience. If there is any discrepancy, the Korean version prevails.

What is a payout fee?

When you withdraw the revenue you earned on POSTYPE as cash, a payout fee is charged as a platform usage fee. The payout fee is made up of two types of fees.

  • Base fee: A standard fee charged depending on the type of revenue.
  • Discovery fee: An additional fee charged when a post is sold through discovery features (main feed, recommended posts, search results, Open Channel, etc.).
  • On top of these fees, 10% of the payout fee amount is charged as value-added tax (VAT) on the fee.
  • CharacterTalk revenue is subject to 3.3% income tax.

 

What is the base fee for each type of revenue?

The base fee for each type of revenue is as follows.

  • Creator channel post sales·sponsorship: 13%
  • Open Channel post sales·sponsorship: 30% 
  • Membership recurring sponsorship: 13%
  • Request sponsorship: 13%
  • Request sales: 10%
  • CharacterTalk revenue payouts: As separately notified

 

What is a discovery fee?

  • When a post is sold through discovery features such as the main feed, search results, recommended posts, or Open Channel, 17% of the post sales revenue is charged as a discovery fee. 

When a discovery fee is charged

  • If, at the time a reader purchases a post, there is a record that the reader accessed the channel via a discovery feature (main feed, recommended posts, search results, Open Channel, etc.) within the last 72 hours from the time of purchase.

When a discovery fee is NOT charged

  • When the post is sold through non-discovery paths such as the subscription feed, user collections, direct URL sharing, etc.
  • When revenue other than post sales (such as membership recurring sponsorship, request sales, etc.) is generated, even if the reader came in through a discovery feature.
  • When a post is published directly to an Open Channel.

 

What is value-added tax (VAT)?

  • Value-added tax (VAT) is a tax imposed at a certain rate (10%) on the added value newly created at each stage where goods or services are produced or distributed, in accordance with tax law.
  • For payout fees incurred in transactions between POSTYPE and creators, 10% of the fee amount is additionally charged as VAT on the fee.

 

 

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What is income tax?

  • Income tax is a tax that, under tax law, is withheld and paid to the government by the payer when income is generated.

  • When CharacterTalk revenue is paid out, 3.3% of the final revenue amount (3% income tax + 0.3% local income tax) is withheld at source.

 

 

Others

For transactions made before May 2025, the discovery fee is not charged, and the following base fees apply.

  • Post sales·sponsorship: 10%
  • Membership recurring sponsorship: 10%
  • Request sponsorship: 10%
  • Request sales: 10%
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