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Paying for Reach

Most of what Fyndow charges for is tied to a transaction — a booking, an order, a sale that money actually changes hands on. Reach is different. A Happening — an event, a promotion, or an ad — is a way to put something in front of people before any money moves, and there are two ways it can travel: free inside a community you belong to, or paid when you want it on the public feed. This page explains where that line sits, why it's drawn the way it is, and how the payment works.

The short version: you pay for reach, not for status. Posting is open to everyone. What costs money is distribution to the wider public — and that cost is the same whether you're a neighbour announcing a cleanup day or an established business promoting a sale.

Two channels, one boundary​

Every Happening picks an audience when it's created, and that choice is where free and paid divide.

Community reach is free​

A Happening posted to a community is visible only to that community's approved members. It costs nothing, it goes live the moment you post it, and it's moderated by the community the same way the rest of community content is. This is the everyday channel: telling the people who already belong to your space what's coming up. There's no payment and no review step, because the audience is small, known, and already opted in.

Public reach is paid​

A Happening posted to the public feed is visible to everyone on Fyndow, surfaced with awareness of where people are so that what's nearby shows up for them. That broad, location-aware distribution is the thing you're paying for. Public reach is paid once, per post — a single charge to publish that Happening, not a subscription and not an auction.

The distinction is deliberate. Reaching the people who already follow you or already joined your community should never have a toll on it. Reaching strangers — the wider audience that makes the public feed valuable — is the scarce thing, and it's what the fee buys.

One flat price, the same for everyone​

The fee to put a Happening on the public feed is flat and uniform. It does not change based on:

  • Who you are. A private individual posting an event pays the same as a national chain posting an ad. There is no "verified discount," no premium tier, no pay-more-to-rank-higher.
  • What you're posting. An event, a promotion, and an ad all cost the same to reach the public. The platform doesn't price commercial intent differently from community spirit.
  • How polished it is. A finished poster (flyer mode) and a Fyndow-composed card cost the same. You're paying for distribution, not for production.

This is what "pay for reach, not for status" means in practice. On a lot of platforms, visibility is something you climb toward — bid higher, buy a bigger package, earn a badge — and the loudest voice belongs to the biggest budget. Fyndow flips that: anyone who's willing to pay the same flat fee gets the same shot at the public feed. Reach is a thing you buy outright, not a ladder you out-spend others to climb.

Review is a quality gate, not a price tier​

Paying gets a public Happening into review — it does not buy a guarantee of publication, and it does not buy a better position. Before any public Happening goes live, Fyndow reviews it. That review is a quality gate: it keeps the public feed clear of spam, scams, and content that simply doesn't belong, so the feed stays worth opening. It is not an editorial judgement of your taste or your business.

Most posts pass and go live. If one is declined, you're told why and you can fix it and resubmit at no extra charge — paying for reach is paying for a slot on the public feed, not for each attempt at approval.

So the money buys you distribution under a quality bar, and the bar is the same for everyone who pays it.

How the payment fits the rest of money on Fyndow​

Paying for reach is a charge to Fyndow — it's the one place on the platform where you're buying something from Fyndow itself rather than from another person or business. That makes it different from everything else in this section:

  • When you book a service or buy a product, your money flows to the provider, with Fyndow taking a transparent platform fee. See How Providers Get Paid.
  • When something goes wrong with a purchase, the refund, cancellation, and dispute rules in Refunds & Cancellations and Disputes & Chargebacks protect both sides.
  • When you pay for reach, you're purchasing a publishing slot directly from the platform. Because it's a publishing fee rather than a transaction between two people, it isn't governed by provider refund templates — once a Happening has been reviewed and gone live, the reach has been delivered.

A practical consequence worth knowing: the cost of a public Happening is paid up front, when you submit it for review, which is why a public post starts life as a draft and only enters review once payment is taken. Community posts skip all of this — there's nothing to pay, so there's nothing to wait for.

Choosing free or paid​

There's no single right answer; it depends on who you're trying to reach.

You want to reach…UseCostGoes live
The members of a community you belong toCommunity reachFreeImmediately
Everyone on Fyndow, including people who don't follow you yetPublic reachFlat per-post feeAfter review

A good rule of thumb: if the people who need to know already share a space with you, post to the community and keep it free. If the whole point is to be discovered by people who've never heard of you, that's exactly what public reach is for — and what the flat fee pays for.

The full picture of how Happenings work — the three types, flyer versus compose, the lifecycle, reactions and comments — is in Happenings. This page is only the money half of that story.