What is a Participation Payment?

A Participation Payment is small payment (typically $10 or $20) paid to designers who submit to a design contest but who do not win. Designers can be allocated Participation Payments via an Invitation from customers, or as a bonus payment once a project is completed.

The number of Participation Payments on a given job is automatically determined by DesignCrowd based on the size of the budget. A design contest will have a limited number of Participation Payments or may have no Participation Payments at all.

Participation payments are only paid to designers once it has been determined that their submission meets DesignCrowd's Design Quality Standards. There is a maximum of one participation payment per designer, per project. To protect businesses against poor quality submissions, DesignCrowd reserves the right not to pay a participation payment to a particular designer.

Note: Participation payments on Committed / Guaranteed Projects are guaranteed and will definitely be paid. Participation payments on Refundable (non-guaranteed) projects may not be paid depending on the outcome of the project.