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| ====What is the cost of 1 credt?==== | ====What is the cost of 1 credt?==== | ||
| - | One credit is currently simply 1 Indian Rupee... approximately 0.011$ USD However, during some promotions we may have even a better rate. | + | One credit is currently simply 1 Indian Rupee... approximately 0.011$ USD However, during some promotions we may even have a better rate. |
| ====What comes free?==== | ====What comes free?==== | ||
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| ====What are charged? | ====What are charged? | ||
| - | Some credits are deducted for each chat message and for a " | + | Some credits are deducted for each chat message and for a " |
| + | ====Who pays?==== | ||
| + | While setting up the Geminar, firstly; the author has to pay for creating a Geminar. But for the Geminar itself, interaction costs (i.e. chats and beckons) can be passed on to the viewers. Also, the author can also (if he/she so wants) to charge an extra top-up from the viewers for chats and beckons. That additional amount are passed to the Author as his/her " | ||
| ====How to add credits? | ====How to add credits? | ||
| You can easily purchase credits (Rs 500/- or more) from one of the two payment gateways we have setup: Razorpay (useful for Indians) and Stripe (useful for those outside India) | You can easily purchase credits (Rs 500/- or more) from one of the two payment gateways we have setup: Razorpay (useful for Indians) and Stripe (useful for those outside India) | ||
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| We made this 2 step process because it should be possible for one Geminar account be funded by someone else. (Say a father wants to gift some credits to his daughter) | We made this 2 step process because it should be possible for one Geminar account be funded by someone else. (Say a father wants to gift some credits to his daughter) | ||
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| + | ====How to redeem earnings? | ||
| + | As explained earlier; authors may charge an additional amount over and above our platform fees. Those extra credits are accumulated as the // | ||
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| ====Gotchas!==== | ====Gotchas!==== | ||
| - | By default, we want to permit whatever you are doing to go ahead (as much as possible) without worrying about credits. We deduct credits //after// you have done the action. For example; you may have just 5 credits remaining in your account. But you then ended up broadcasting for 15 minutes. When it comes to deducting the credits, our server will note that your credits are now -10 (we assume here that the rate for broadcasting is 1 credit per minute) | + | By default, we want to permit whatever you are doing to go ahead (as much as possible) without worrying about credits. We deduct credits //after// you have done the action. For example; you may have just 5 credits remaining in your account. But you then ended up broadcasting for 15 minutes. When it comes to deducting the credits, our server will note that your credits are now -10 (we assume here that the rate for broadcasting is 1 credit per minute) |
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