How you earn
Colby pays you $2.00 for every accepted hour your companies record, on top of what Colby pays each company, with no end date.
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The fee
Colby pays you $2.00 for every accepted hour your companies record. It comes on top of what Colby pays the company, so it never comes out of the company's pay.
Your fee is the same whatever rate a company has. A company at a higher rate earns you $2.00 per accepted hour, and so does a company at a lower one.
Which companies count
Your companies are the ones credited to you. A company is credited to you in one of two ways:
- Through your link. The owner opens your invite link, sees Invited by with your name, and leaves their number. An owner who signs up through your link is recorded as yours.
- Through Send to Colby. You send Colby the owner's details from People, or with Refer a company in Share. Colby takes it from there, and the company stays on your list with Colby's progress.
Send your link rather than the main website's address, so there is no question about who brought the company in. If a company is already talking with Colby when you send it, Colby checks who referred it and lets you know.
If your link carries a rate, the owner sees it on the invite page with a note that Colby confirms it in the Order Form. That rate is what the company is offered. It does not change your fee.
Accepted, in review, rejected
Every video is reviewed. Your portal shows each company's hours in three states:
| State | What it means | Earns your fee? |
|---|---|---|
| Accepted | Reviewed and accepted. | Yes, $2.00 per accepted hour. |
| In review | Uploaded and waiting for review. Today labels it as waiting for the buyer. | Not yet. It becomes accepted or rejected. |
| Rejected | Reviewed and not accepted. | No. It doesn't count for the company or for you. |
| Not uploaded | Still on the phone. | No. It has to be uploaded and reviewed first. |
Parts of an hour count as parts. Thirty accepted minutes is half an accepted hour.
The math
Example
One company, one stretch of recording
Recorded and uploaded: 100 hours.
Reviewed so far: 90 hours. Accepted: 72. Rejected: 18.
Still in review: 10 hours.
Your fee so far: 72 accepted hours times $2.00 per accepted hour.
The 10 hours in review add to it only if they are accepted.
For bigger examples, see earnings examples.
No end date
You earn the fee on every accepted hour of every company you bring in, for as long as it records. There is no cutoff after a set number of months or hours. Each company you bring in stays yours.
This is why the companies that keep recording matter most. A company that records steadily for a year earns you many times what one that stops after six weeks does. See what moves your earnings.
What earns nothing
- A sign-up, a signed contract or a shipped phone on its own.
- Recorded hours that are rejected.
- Hours still in review, until they are accepted.
- Hours that never get uploaded.
- Companies credited to someone else.
Who pays you
Colby pays you. Your signed Referral Agreement governs your fee, including when fees are paid. Read it in Documents in your portal.
For a question about your fee or your agreement, reply to Colby's email about your sign-up or agreement, or write to the money and agreement contact named under the support button in your portal. Support handles sign-in, phones and the recording app, never money.
Where you see it
| Portal view | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Today | Your companies' accepted, in-review and rejected hours over the last 7 days, and your fees so far. |
| Companies | Each company, where it stands, its rate, kits sent, its recorded hours (before review) and your fee. |
| Earnings | For each company: accepted hours so far in the current calendar month, hours waiting for review over the last 7 days, what you earn per accepted hour and the fee so far. Your fee terms are beside it. |
| Documents | Your signed Referral Agreement. |
Hours move from in review to accepted or rejected as review finishes, so the numbers in Today and Earnings change from day to day. Look at the trend over a few weeks, not one day.
Questions
Do I earn on hours still in review?
Only once they are accepted.
Does the company's rate change what I earn?
No. You earn $2.00 per accepted hour at any rate. The rate matters to the owner, not to your fee.
Do I earn more on a bigger company?
Not more per hour. A bigger company records more hours, so more of them are accepted.
What happens when a company stops recording?
It stops adding accepted hours, so it stops adding to your fee. It is still credited to you.
Can I see why hours were rejected?
Not yet. Today shows rejected hours in total, and Earnings shows accepted hours by company. Recorder-by-recorder results with video playback are coming. Until then, ask the owner which notes the crew got.