Paying Creators in an Activation

If you enabled payments and conversions in your Activation settings, you can access the Make Payments Workflow step. Here, you can pay creators for conversions or completing tasks in your Activation directly.

You can learn more about the Make Payments step in this article.

What You'll Need

• The Payments module enabled in your Activation's settings. See Creating an Activation for more.
• Activated creators. Learn more with Activating Creators in Your Activation.
• If you're making payments through GRIN, available funds in your GRIN creator funds. See Depositing Funds for Creator Payments for more information.

How to Do It

You can access this step by navigating to Program > Activations > Your Activation > Workflow > Make Payments.

You can make payments for creators in the Activation from this workflow step. If you enabled the Payments module in your Activation settings and creators have posted content or created conversions, they will appear as payables in this step.

There are also a variety of other ways you can manage creators here. You can learn how with this article's sections on row actions and bulk actions.

Paying Creators

You can pay creators directly within your Activation once they finish their tasks or complete deliverables.

1. Hover over the creator you want to make a payment for and select the Make Payments row action.

2. Select one or more payables you'd like to pay out. 
3. Select how you'd like to make your payments: 
   1. Cash Payment: Make payments directly via GRIN with available creator funds in your account.
   2. Offline Payment: Make payments outside of GRIN.
4. Select Review Payments.
5. Make sure all the information that appears is correct, then select Record Payments.

Your creator has been paid! 

Row Actions

You can use row actions to work with an individual creator.

Select a creator's name to open a side panel with details about the creator's proposal. Any tasks, products, and other details they agreed to or chose for themselves will appear in this side panel.

You can freely edit or browse their selections with the following tabs:

• Tasks: Review the tasks the creator's agreed to as part of their proposal. You can also add or edit tasks here. These changes will be reflected in the creator's proposal on their Live Site, but you do not need to resend a proposal for them to review.
• Products: Similarly to the Tasks tab, you can review, add, or edit product orders the creator's placed via their proposal in this tab. These changes will be reflected in the creator's proposal on their Live Site, but you do not need to resend a proposal for them to review.
• Payments: Any payments you've made to the creator will appear in this tab. You can also make payments to the creator from here.
• Content Rights: The content rights the creator agreed to will appear here.
• Delivered Content: Any delivered content the creator has submitted as part of the Activation will appear here.

Hover over a creator to display other row actions. They are:

• View Content: Preview the creator's content from their connected social networks.

• Make Payments: Pay the creator. See Paying creators for more information.

• View content rights: View the content rights that the creator agreed to when they accepted the proposal.

• Add Note: Write a note for that creator that you or others with access to the Activation can view at any time. Creators will not see these notes.

Bulk Actions

If you want to manage multiple creators at once, you can use the available bulk actions. To display bulk actions, select the checkbox next to each creator you want to update.

The available bulk actions are:

• Make Payments: Pay the creators. See [Paying creators](/v1/docs/paying-creators-in-an-

• Tags: Edit the selected creators' tags. These are custom tags you can make yourself. Learn more with Managing tags.

• Sequences: Add creators to an existing email sequence. Learn more with Sequences.

• Send email: Compose and send creators an email.

• Edit:

  • Set relationship stage: Update creators' relationship stages. Learn more with Creating Relationship Stages

  • Set custom property: Update creators with custom properties. Learn more with Creating Custom Properties.

  • Change owner: Update the assigned GRIN user for the selected creators.

• More Options:

  • Send alert: Send creators an alert. Alerts are special communications that don't affect your send limits in GRIN. You can learn how to set these up with White labeling the creator experience.

  • Export: Download a CSV file of the table. Only the information of the creators you've currently selected will be exported. You can customize what information is exported with the table's Columns button.

  • Pause content & reporting: Tell GRIN to stop tracking creators' content posts, conversions, and other metrics for this Activation.

  • Unpause content & reporting: Tell GRIN to resume creators' tracking content posts, conversions, and other metrics for this Activation.

  • Remove proposal: Permanently remove creators and their proposals from the Activation. You will need to readd creators to the Activation and resend them a proposal if you want them in the Activation later.