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2026-06-10-marketplace-fee-10-percent

Decisioncanonicalverified 2026-06-26

DECISION.2026-06-10.MARKETPLACE-FEE-10-PERCENT

Marketplace fee disclosure copy: 10% platform fee (not 25%) — fixed across 7 user-facing surfaces

Decision

Correct marketplace fee disclosure copy across all CA-portal and admin-portal surfaces to "10% platform fee" / "Keep 90%" — matching the canonical 90/10 split. Backend math was already correct; only the copy was wrong.

Why

Backend payout math is 90/10 (90% CA, 10% platform fee) + 10% §194J TDS on the CA share, verified in weekly-payout-batch.ts. Several CA-portal and admin-portal surfaces still displayed "25% platform cut" / "Keep 75%" — drift from before the rate was settled. Risk: CAs joining the panel under a wrong impression of take-home, and admin metrics readers misinterpreting payout math.

Impact

  • 7 sites corrected: CaEarningsView.tsx (subhead + column header), ReviewDrawer.tsx, PayoutsQueue.tsx (empty-state body + column header), legal/tos/page.tsx, CaSignUpPitch.tsx ("Keep 75%" → "Keep 90%", "Platform fee 25%" → "Platform fee 10%").
  • Backend math unchanged.
  • Marketing legal/ca-panel/page.tsx already correct (90/10).
  • Affects marketplace-economics, pillar-ca-portal, pillar-admin, and copy-strings.
  • Reaffirms 2026-05-30-marketplace-90-10-split at the copy layer.

Status

Active.

Sources

  • .context/wiki/decisions/* § "2026-06-10 — Marketplace fee disclosure copy: 10% platform fee (not 25%) — fixed across 7 user-facing surfaces"

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