How can a designer get a Participation Payment?

Designers can get a Participation Payment through:

1. Project Invites

On each project, a customer has a limited number of participation payments which they can allocate to designers in the form of paid project invites. Paid project invites are a way of enticing designers who a customer likes or has previously worked with, to submit to their projects. If a designer accepts an invitation from a customer with an attached participation payment, they will be guaranteed to receive this payment once the project closes, unless the project is refunded.

1. They have worked with the designer before on a project
2. They are a top designer in our directories (especially for a particular design type) - see http://designers.designcrowd.com/
3. They have produced an excellent design that is displayed on their DesignCrowd designer portfolio.
4. They have a high positive feedback percentage (displayed in the designer rankings list and in the specific designer's portfolio)

Note: Project invites expire so when you are sent an invite indicating participation payment is attached, make sure you submit a design within the deadline to avoid forfeiture of the payment.

2. Bonus Payments
Bonus payments are designed to award hard-working designers which produce excellent quality and results but have not won the contest. These payments are awarded by the contest-holder once a project has completed. If the contest-holder fails to allocate the participation payments in a given project, the site determines which designers should be eligible to receive these payments based on:

• Quality of their work submitted
• The amount of effort they put in working with a customer (number of design revisions / variations etc)

A number of other factors are taken into consideration also, including looking to reward new talented designers as well as those who submit early to projects.

When the project closes and a winner is selected we will award the Participation Payments.  If your design meets our Minimum Design Standards and are awarded a participation payment at the end of a project, you will receive an email notifying you of this.