How experts get paid

Canonset pays you for every approved answer, and on hourly projects for the time you spend on each answer you send. Payouts go out every Monday for what you earned by Sunday 11:59 pm Pacific, by direct deposit through Stripe. Money you've earned is always paid, whatever happens to your account.

What is paid

Every project shows its pay before you join it: an amount per accepted answer, or an hourly rate for the time measured on our server while a task is open in your browser, with a cap per answer. Your pay is fixed when you claim a task.

• Per-answer projects pay each approved answer.
• Hourly projects pay the measured time on every answer you submit at each review decision, approved, returned or not accepted, unless it is rejected for breaking the original-work or confidentiality rules or not being a genuine attempt. Each decision pays the time since the last, and the cap counts every round.
• Projects that pay reviewers pay every review at the project's reviewer rate.
• Training time our team asks of you is paid at the project's rate.
• An approved paid trial pays its fee.
• A role's referral bonus is paid once the person you referred has 10 approved tasks at 70% quality or more.

When

Payday is every Monday: everything you earned by Sunday 11:59 pm Pacific goes out together, and banks usually show it within 2 business days. We pay no later than 30 days after the work is accepted (per-answer projects) or submitted (hourly projects). Your Earnings page shows each answer and payout; we email you when one is sent.

How

Payouts go by direct deposit through Stripe, our payments provider, once you set up payouts from your Earnings page; until then, by bank transfer. Stripe collects your identity, bank and tax details on its own page; we never see your bank numbers. Before your first payout you give a Form W-9 through Stripe, and we issue a Form 1099-NEC when the law requires one.

We charge no fees. We never ask you for money or for payment details outside your account.

Returned, not accepted or replaced

• Returned with notes. Fix the answer and send it again. A per-answer project pays it once approved; an hourly project pays each round's time, counted from when you reopen the answer, not while it waited.
• Not accepted. A per-answer project doesn't pay it, and the notes say why; an hourly project still pays your time, unless the answer breaks the rules. You can ask for a second look within 14 days, and an answer approved then pays what an approval pays, less anything already paid. See When an answer is returned or not accepted.
• Replaced after delivery. If a client returns a delivered answer and a reviewer replaces it, what you were paid stays yours. It counts in your quality score like a rejection.

If we later confirm that paid work broke the original-work or confidentiality rules, the expert agreement lets us deduct that amount from future payouts or ask you to repay it.

Your status

Under the expert agreement you are an independent contractor, not an employee: no salary or benefits, no minimum hours, and you decide whether, when and how much to work. You handle your own taxes; we don't withhold tax unless the law requires it. The full terms: https://canonset.com/policies/expert-agreement.

If a payout looks wrong, tell us within 60 days and we review it. A person answers within one business day.

Questions: support@canonset.com.