Verification & payouts

Why verification matters, product moderation, and how you get paid

Three processes are often confused: author identity verification, each product’s moderation, and revisions to an already live course. They are separate below.

Author verification — why

Goal: confirm you are a real author and collect payout details. Without confirmed status:

you cannot Submit for moderation on a course, plan, or coaching offer;
payouts to your account are not set up.

This is not a “quality rating” of your workouts — that happens at product moderation.

Where to complete it

Author verification — from Account Edit author account or onboarding.

Typical sections (exact fields depend on country and payout method):

Legal name / company, contacts;
identity documents;
payout method — Stripe or manual transfer (fields change in the form);
bank or payment details.

Statuses

Dashboard status	Action
Not submitted	Complete and submit the form
Under review	Wait; usually a few business days
Confirmed	You can publish and receive payouts
Rejected	Read the comment, fix data, resubmit

Product moderation (course, plan, coaching)

Separate from verification, each product is reviewed for content and pricing.

Status	You	Buyer
Draft	Full editing	Does not see it
Under review	Wait; can withdraw	Does not see it
Approved	In catalog; further course edits via revision	Can purchase
Rejected	Comment on the product page	Does not see it
Archived	Off the storefront	Usually cannot buy (existing buyers per access rules)

Do not confuse with revision: a revision is a draft of the next version of an approved course while the catalog still shows the current one.

Course revisions (short)

Only for approved courses. Details: Revisions & moderation.

Edit a live course → changes accumulate in a revision draft.
Submit revision for moderation → after approval the catalog updates.

Payouts

Payouts in the author dashboard.

How it works

Buyers pay on FitSpace (cards, including international) — you don’t need your own merchant account.
After each sale your share sits on hold before it becomes available for the next payout batch:
- 14 calendar days for card, YooKassa, and Stripe (agent) sales — matching FitSpace’s voluntary refund if the buyer has not started using the product;
- 45 days for App Store and Google Play in-app purchases.
Once available, earnings are included in the next admin payout batch (not automatically the same day). Minimum payout is $10 or ₽1,000.
Stripe Connect authors may see a paid payout immediately for those charges — they appear in the payout history list.
The list shows amount, status, and period; download a receipt if attached.
Refunds issued after a payout was sent are deducted from a later batch.

What affects your amount

Product price and number of sales in the period.
Platform commission (often around 30% at signup — exact rate in your dashboard and Author agreement).
Payment processing fees.

Custom terms — contact or support chat in Account.

Summary: three processes

Process	Subject	Outcome
Verification	You as author	Right to publish and get paid
Product moderation	Course / plan / coaching	Catalog listing
Revision	Approved course	Update without breaking the live version

Common mistakes

Expecting payout the day of the first sale — check On hold, Available, and Payout history in the dashboard.
Mixing verification rejected with course rejected — different comments in different places.
Changing price on a live course without a revision — edits go through revision workflow.