We launched the TDS Author Payment Program back in February, and have since introduced a serious replace—with a much more inclusive incomes tier—just last month. At present we’re joyful to share that the Program, which has already seen dozens of authors obtain their first payout, is now much more streamlined and user-friendly due to a brand new Stripe integration.
Beginning this week, each current and new authors can join their Stripe account to their creator profile on our Contributor Portal. This can guarantee funds are extra well timed, much less clunky, and visual in the identical place the place authors additionally draft articles, verify their stats, and talk with our staff. All different components of the Program stay the identical—together with the circumstances for eligibility and the precise standards articles have to fulfill to earn on TDS (you may all the time overview the main points we’ve shared in our announcement post).
We’ve already contacted all present individuals within the Creator Fee Program with directions on subsequent steps, and everybody becoming a member of TDS as a contributor (hey, that could be you!) going ahead will even be invited to attach their Stripe account. In the event you’ve printed with us earlier than and joined the Creator Fee Program, you may go forward and full the method in a couple of minutes — you’ll find detailed instructions in our FAQs.
Lastly, a observe on the cost schedule: we’ll course of funds to our authors on the fifteenth of every month following their article’s 30-day incomes window. For instance, for those who printed an article on April 18, 2025, your earnings window would final till Might 18, 2025. At that time you’ll already see the estimated payout in your analytics dashboard, and the cost shall be processed within the subsequent payout cycle beginning June 15, 2025. You possibly can be taught extra about our payout cycle here.
We sit up for increasingly authors becoming a member of and having fun with the advantages of the Creator Fee Program; for those who ever have any questions on it, be happy to achieve out at [email protected].
