Who can use this

A signed-in account with Author or Influencer enabled.

Before you start

My Blurbly has no general retail marketplace, service escrow, member wallet or automatic Creator payout. Service-order proposals and one-time Payfast checkout appear only when Marketplace service ordering is explicitly enabled.

Only records authorized for your buyer or seller account appear. A listed service, enquiry, tracked click or application does not create money.

Steps

1. Open Dashboard → Promote & Grow → Business Journey. The six stages use saved role, service, campaign, commission and payout records.
2. Complete public Author or Influencer proof. General Affiliate Programme applications remain closed; the separately reviewed Founding Member programme is available from Founding Members.
3. Authors can create structured Creator opportunities and browse public Influencer profiles. Influencers can publish services on their profile or apply to open campaign opportunities.
4. Keep enquiries and service orders separate. An enquiry is private contact permission only. On an enabled, priced Influencer listing, a signed-in buyer can instead propose a service order with a brief and target date.
5. Open Marketplace Orders. Before accepting, the seller must read and explicitly select the seller-terms checkbox; it starts unchecked. Declining does not require agreement. Acceptance does not collect money. If one-time checkout is enabled, the buyer separately confirms the order terms before My Blurbly prepares the Payfast hand-off.
6. Treat the Payfast browser return as pending evidence only. The order shows paid only after a separately verified server notification. The platform-fee and expected-seller split are terms snapshots, not escrow or proof of payout.
7. For selected Creator campaigns, use the saved brief, rights, disclosure and compensation terms. Submit deliverable evidence and source-labelled results for Author review.
8. Open Affiliate & Founding Member Status. Eligible plans can create a self-managed destination with a mandatory disclosure. Its outbound clicks do not prove a sale or commission. Submitted external earning evidence starts pending and only a trusted review can confirm or reverse it.
9. Open Earnings & Payout Evidence. Affiliate evidence shows pending, confirmed or reversed without becoming withdrawable money. Campaign settlement states and Founding Member commissions remain separate records.
10. Treat membership payment history as money you paid to My Blurbly. It never counts as marketplace revenue, commission or earnings.

What happens next

You can distinguish an enquiry, proposed or accepted service order, verified provider payment, manual seller-settlement state, reviewed affiliate evidence, campaign earning and Founding Member commission without treating one as proof of another.

Common problems

A service enquiry has no payment button.

That is expected. Enquiries never become orders automatically. Use the separate service-order proposal on an eligible listing when that capability is enabled.

An accepted order has no Payfast button.

Checkout is fail-closed. It appears only when the Marketplace policy and complete Payfast sandbox or production configuration are active. No payment was inferred.

I returned from Payfast but the order is still pending.

Do not retry blindly. A browser return cannot mark an order paid; the verified Payfast server notification must be processed first.

I submitted a dispute or refund review.

This creates a manual-review record only. It does not automatically refund Payfast, reverse the payment or pay or debit the seller.

An affiliate destination has clicks but no earnings.

Clicks are activity evidence only. Submit supportable external earning evidence separately; it starts pending and only trusted review can confirm or reverse it. No state creates a wallet or payout.

A campaign says manual paid.

An Author recorded an external settlement reference. My Blurbly did not process or independently verify the transfer.

A Founding Member commission is pending or has no payout.

A qualifying commission remains pending for 14 days. After validation it becomes approved and is due 30 days after the earning month ends. The USD 25 minimum and verified manual payout details apply; Wise is not required. Invalid transactions are reversed, and an already-paid reversal becomes a future negative adjustment where legally permitted.