Paying
Accepting and paying a proposal
What the link is, what you are agreeing to, and why you do not need an account.
You do not need to join anything
The link is the whole thing: read, accept and pay on one page, with no form to fill and no password to invent. Accepting quietly sets up a brand account from the details the creator already had for you, so afterwards you can sign in with just your email to follow the work.
A creator has sent you a priced offer as a link. You can read it, accept it, sign it and pay from that page. There is nothing to install and nothing to join.
What is on the page
The offer as the creator wrote it: what they will make, what it costs, when it is due, and what you are allowed to do with the result afterwards.
Read the last one carefully. Usage rights say where you may use the work and for how long, and they are the term most likely to matter six months from now. They are the creator's to set, and this is the moment to ask for something different if the campaign needs it.
What you pay
Three lines, and the total is what leaves your account.
| Line | What it is |
|---|---|
| The creator's fee | What they quoted, and what they receive |
| Sales tax | Only when the creator is registered for it |
| Platform fee | CollabNordic's fee, on the creator's fee only |
If your company is registered for sales tax you can usually reclaim that line, so your real cost is the fee plus the platform fee.
Where the money goes
Not to the creator. Payment funds an escrow: the money is held, and the creator can see that it exists, which is what lets them start work without an advance.
It is released when you approve the finished work. If you say nothing for 14 days after the creator says the job is done, it is released automatically. That period is fixed and is stated in the Terms.
So the thing worth diarising is the review, not the payment.
Signing
Accepting and paying is the signature. There is no separate signing step: both sides' agreement is recorded against the contract at the moment the payment is confirmed, and the finished document names the creator's business and yours, taken from the details the creator already holds for you. Nothing is asked at checkout, because a form between an offer and a card is where deals die.
After you have paid
The work becomes a live collaboration. A welcome email confirms the contract and carries the receipt, and signing in with your email address, a one-time code, no password, opens the contract itself: the chat, the deliverables as they arrive, and the buttons to approve or send work back.
The creator submits each piece, you approve it or send it back with a note about what needs to change, and the contract completes when everything is in and approved.
Feedback is required when you send something back. That is not a formality: a decline with no reason gives the creator nothing to act on and starts the disagreement that neither side wanted.