In short
As a creator you can run paid polls, answer fan proposals and list your shows for businesses. Boon holds the money people pay until you deliver and the review window of 3 days ends, then pays you the money minus Boon's 10% fee. If you decline, or miss your delivery date, the people who paid get their money back, minus a small network fee, and you aren't paid. If a payer reports a problem, the money is held until one of Boon's admins decides. You are responsible for what you make, for what you promise, and for disclosing adverts and sponsorships.
1. Who we are
Boon is run by [operator name, still to come], company number [company number, still to come], at [address, still to come] ("Boon", "we", "us"). Contact: [contact email, still to come].
2. What these terms cover
These terms apply when you use Boon as a creator: your creator page, polls, fan proposals made to you, updates, delivery, payouts and shows in the showroom.
You also agree to the acceptable use rules, and the fan terms when you vote or back as a fan. For each showroom deal, you also accept the showroom deal conditions. Our privacy notice explains what we do with your information.
3. Becoming a creator
- Anyone with an account can set up a creator page. Boon doesn't approve creators.
- Boon doesn't check who you are, and doesn't check anything you say about yourself or your audience.
- You must be at least [minimum age, still to come].
- Your creator page is public. It shows your name, handle, picture, tagline, bio and category, and the ratings people give your work.
- Use your own name, or a name you have the right to use. Don't pretend to be someone else. See the acceptable use rules.
- Business or private person. Boon doesn't ask today whether you act as a business (a trader) or as a private person. [trader status, still to come].
4. Your wallet and payouts
- You sign in and are paid through your own Solana wallet. Boon pays to the wallet you signed in with. Check that it's a wallet you control. Boon can't reverse a payment sent to it.
- Payouts are in USDC on the Solana network. Boon pays the network fee for sending payouts to you, out of its fee.
- Refunds work differently: Boon takes a fixed 0.01 USDC off every refund and keeps it, so Boon doesn't pay to send it. It never comes out of what you receive.
- Test networks. Boon runs only on test networks today, with test tokens that have no value.
5. Boon's fee
Boon's fee is 10%. It is taken from what you receive: for a poll, from the money for the chosen option; for a proposal, from everything backed; for a deal, from the agreed price. For a deal, both sides see the split before they agree.
Boon also keeps 10% from the refunds to fans who voted for options you didn't choose (section 6.4). That fee goes to Boon, not to you.
Not yet decided: whether the fee rate is fixed when people pay. For deals, the rate is saved with the agreed terms. For polls and proposals, the code uses the rate in force when the money is released.
6. Paid polls
6.1 Creating a poll
You set the question, two to six options, a price (fixed, or a minimum from 1 USDC), when voting closes (within 90 days) and the delivery date (within 365 days, and after voting closes). You can add pictures and short clips to options.
Make each option something you're ready to make by the delivery date. Fans pay on the strength of your options.
6.2 While voting is open
One person has one vote. Paying more doesn't add weight. You can see how the votes split. Fans see only their own vote, how many people voted and the total paid. Don't share the split with fans while voting is open, and don't vote in your own poll, from any account.
6.3 Choosing what to make
After voting closes, you choose one option to make. You may choose any option, not only the one with the most votes. Be honest about how you choose: if you promised to make the winner, make the winner.
6.4 What happens to the money when you choose
- Fans who voted for other options get their money back at once, minus Boon's 10% fee.
- The money for your chosen option stays held until delivery and the review window. That is the only money you can receive from the poll, minus Boon's 10% fee.
6.5 Declining, and missed dates
- You can decline the poll before you deliver. Every remaining payer gets their money back, minus the network fee. Fans already refunded for other options don't get the 10% fee back.
- If you miss the delivery date, you can no longer deliver or be paid. Each remaining payer can take their own money back, minus the network fee. You can also refund them all.
7. Fan proposals
- Fans can propose ideas to you, with a goal and a minimum contribution, and other fans can back them.
- You have 14 days to accept or decline. With no answer, backers can take their money back, minus the network fee.
- You can accept even if the goal isn't reached. When you accept, you set a delivery date within 365 days. You are then committing to make what the proposal describes, by that date.
- If you decline, before or after accepting, every backer gets their money back, minus the network fee.
- If you miss the delivery date, you can no longer deliver or be paid, and backers can take their money back, minus the network fee.
- After delivery and the review window, you receive everything backed, minus Boon's 10% fee.
Proposals are public. Backers' names and amounts show on the proposal.
8. Updates
After you accept a poll option or a proposal, you can post updates while you make the work, with text, a link, a picture or a clip. Only you and the people whose money is going to you can see them. Updates must follow the acceptable use rules.
9. Delivery
When the work is ready, submit proof of delivery before your delivery date: a link to the work, with an optional note, and possibly a file. Only the people who paid can see the link, the note and the file.
The proof must really show the work you promised. A link that doesn't work, or work that isn't what was described, can be reported.
You can't deliver after the delivery date. Boon's wording to fans promises them their money back then, so the code refuses a late delivery.
10. The review window
After you deliver, a review window of 3 days follows. The length is saved with your delivery, so a later change doesn't affect it.
During the window, the people whose money is waiting to go to you can rate your work and report a problem. There is no "reject" button. A request for changes doesn't pause the window.
11. Payouts
- With no report, Boon releases the money automatically when the review window ends: the total minus Boon's 10% fee, to your wallet.
- With a report, the money is held until one of Boon's admins decides. There is no deadline for that decision. The admin either releases the money to you, minus the fee, or refunds every payer for that poll or proposal. Boon doesn't keep its fee from that refund: the payers get everything back, minus the network fee.
- Nothing is decided automatically by the number of reports or the ratings.
- A payout can't be reversed once sent. If Boon pays you by mistake, [recovery of mistaken payments, still to come].
12. Your work and your rights
- You must own, or have permission to use, everything you post and deliver: music, clips, pictures, words and anything else.
- Not yet decided: who owns delivered work, and what fans and businesses may do with it. Until this is decided: you keep all rights in your work. Fans who paid may view or use it for their own personal, non-commercial enjoyment. For showroom deals, the deal terms say what the business may do.
- You give Boon a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, show, copy (for example as smaller pictures) and send what you post, only to run Boon and to show your page, polls, proposals and shows. [licence duration, still to come].
13. Listing shows in the showroom
- You can list your own shows in the showroom: a one-off or recurring show, with its description, category, audience, an example link, schedule or dates, a cover picture, and which offers you take (guest, sponsorship, advertising, placement).
- Boon doesn't produce, host or broadcast your shows. You are responsible for them.
- What you say about your audience, including its size, must be true and not misleading. Boon doesn't check it.
- No approval is needed to list a show.
- You can pause a listing. Businesses can send you requests, which don't expire.
- Each deal follows the showroom deal conditions. You accept them for each set of deal terms you agree.
- Advertising disclosure. When a deal is for a sponsorship, an advert or a placement, you must tell your audience clearly, in the way the rules where your audience lives require, for example "#ad". This is your responsibility. Boon doesn't add disclosures for you.
14. Tax
You are responsible for any tax on what you receive. Boon doesn't take off tax.
15. Bans and hidden content
Boon's admins can hide your content from public pages, or ban your account, if you break these terms or the acceptable use rules. A ban stops new actions, such as creating polls, accepting, delivering and messaging. A ban never stops money going back to the people who paid.
A ban doesn't hold your payouts by itself. An admin can hold an item's money by deciding a report. If you are banned while money is held for work you haven't delivered, an admin decides each case.
One admin can ban. There are no partial bans. Not yet decided: how you can appeal.
16. Boon's role
Boon runs the website, builds payments, holds the money and pays it out, and its admins decide reports. Boon doesn't make your work, and isn't your employer, agent or partner. Your agreement to make the work is with the people who pay for it.
17. Liability
[liability terms, still to come].
Nothing in these terms limits or excludes any liability that the law doesn't allow to be limited or excluded.
18. Changes to these terms
Boon may change these terms. A new version has a new version number, and you'll be asked to accept it before your next action. A change doesn't alter the rules for money already paid. [notice period, still to come].
19. Complaints about Boon
Contact [contact email, still to come]. [complaint handling, still to come].
20. Law
These terms are governed by [governing law, still to come]. [courts, still to come].