● Referral Carveout: If the sale of a Product is to a User referred from graphical or text links displayed on products, promotions, emails and/or web properties other than the Site, Zazzle will retain a referral carveout fee of twenty percent (20%) of your Gross Royalty* for the Product.
In other words, for anything that shows up in your Royalty Report as a 3rd Party or Self referral, 20% of your gross royalty (NOT the gross sale amount) is deducted as the "carve-out".
That’s a good question. I would not know unfortunately. 🤔
Not sure, but that 5% on the second scale may be in reference to an envelope or other extra item, depending on what the product was. For example, I know that there is an option on some items for the customer to check (or not)
Not sure if this is the answer or not. I had been wondering the same thing when I figured this was probably it.
● Referral Carveout: If the sale of a Product is to a User referred from graphical or text links displayed on products, promotions, emails and/or web properties other than the Site, Zazzle will retain a referral carveout fee of twenty percent (20%) of your Gross Royalty* for the Product.
In other words, for anything that shows up in your Royalty Report as a 3rd Party or Self referral, 20% of your gross royalty (NOT the gross sale amount) is deducted as the "carve-out".
It's stated here in the Royalty section.
It seems to imply that it's the same fee whether it's a self referral or a 3rd party one.
Yes. Doesn't matter, either way it's 20% of the gross royalty.
So in your example above, if it's a self-referral, $0.20 (20% of $1) is deducted for the carveout, but you earn the $1.50 (15% of $10) as the referrer so still come out $1.30 ahead.
If you're in the promoter program, the royalty stays the same. 10% of $10 = $1 and the carveout is still $0.20 (20% of $1) but you'd earn $3.00 (30% x $10) as the referral instead, coming out $2.80 ahead.
So I guess in the case of 3rd party referrals we get less than we would if they calculated it the way I thought
I guess that depends on the actual numbers. I tried your way on two real-life items, address labels at $20.25/20% and a lighted wall sign at $225/17.2%. If you deduct 15% of the sale price before calculating the royalty, you def earn less than taking 20% of the gross royalty.
