How the money moves

The full timeline

  1. A brand funds the campaign
  2. The money sits with the payment provider
  3. A creator posts and submits the clip
  4. The brand reviews for up to 72 hours
  5. Verified views accrue daily as pending
  6. Each day's views become payable 72 hours later
  7. The creator requests a payout in Bahraini dinars
  8. The campaign settles, and the brand gets the rest back

What a brand pays

Budget
What you decide creators can earn in total. Pre-funded before the campaign goes live.
Platform fee
10% of creator payouts, charged on top of the budget. Roya's only charge on a campaign.
Bahrain VAT on the fee
10% Bahrain VAT, on the fee only, never on your budget.

Example

Budget you setBHD 1000.000
Platform fee provision (10%)BHD 100.000
VAT on the fee (10%)BHD 10.000
Charged at fundingBHD 1110.000

If creators actually earn BHD 400.000

Fee Roya keeps (10% of BHD 400.000)BHD 40.000
VAT on that feeBHD 4.000
Refunded to you at settlementBHD 666.000

You're charged a provision, not a final fee. Roya only keeps 10% of what creators actually earned. Everything else — the unused budget and the unused fee — goes back to the card or account you funded from.

What a creator receives

  • 100% of the earned rate. No deduction, no service fee, no withdrawal fee charged by Roya.
  • Pending vs. payable
    • Pending — counted, still inside the 72-hour validation window.
    • Payable — finalised, no open fraud flag, withdrawable.
  • Views count from submission time — it's what makes the count checkable by both sides.
  • Minimum and maximum per clip are set per campaign and shown before you post.

Rails

Paying in (brands)

Cards, Benefit, BenefitPay and Apple Pay, through Tap Payments.

Paying out (creators)

Bahraini dinars to a Bahraini bank account through our payments partner, who runs a one-off identity check on your first payout. Where that isn't available, a domestic bank transfer.

Roya never holds your money as a spendable balance. Funds sit with the payment provider; our ledger records who is owed what.

Two windows, both 72 hours — and they're not the same thing

The review window: the brand has 72 hours to approve or reject. No action and no fraud flag means the clip is approved automatically.

The validation window: a day's views are finalised 72 hours after that day closes. This is what turns pending into payable.