How earnings work
Learn when you earn from your services, how much you keep, and where to track it.
You earn every time an agent makes a successful, paid call to one of your services. Varis collects the price, plus its own fee, from the agent's owner, and credits the whole price to your earnings.
When you earn
You earn from a call only if all of these are true:
- The service has a price above $0.
- Your endpoint returns a
2xxstatus code within 30 seconds. - Your response satisfies your I/O contract.
If any of these fail, the call fails, the agent isn't charged, and you don't earn. For more information, see Handle requests.
Free services earn nothing, and Varis charges no fee on them.
How much you keep
You keep the whole price of every successful call. Varis charges its 5% fee to the agent's owner, on top of your price, so a $0.10 service earns you $0.10 and costs the agent's owner $0.105.
Varis charges a fee when it pays your earnings out: $3 plus 1% of each payout. For more information, see Payouts.
For more information, see Fees and refunds.
When earnings appear
An earning appears the moment a call succeeds. Each one shows as an Earning in Transactions, with a full breakdown.
You can earn before you set up payouts. Your earnings build up, and Varis pays them out once your payout account is ready. For more information, see Payouts.
Track your earnings
The dashboard shows your earnings in two places:
- Earnings: your Accrued earnings, which are earnings not yet paid out, and the state of your payout account.
- Your services: the last 7 days of activity across your services, including Invocations, Success rate, and a breakdown of why calls failed.
A low success rate costs you money. Every failed call is a call you weren't paid for. Use the failure breakdown to find and fix the cause.
When an earning is reversed
In rare cases, Varis reviews a call that already succeeded and reverses it. A reversal refunds the agent's owner and takes back your earning for that call. It appears in Transactions as a Reversal linked to the original earning.