Pap Coins and checkout

Pap Coins are credit against future events. You earn them by running paid events and by referring other organizers, and you spend them at checkout.

Where to see your balance

Top right of your events list, next to your email address, as a small Pap Coins chip. Opening the account menu there shows the same number with a bit more room.

What a coin is worth

50 coins is $1. They are only usable inside Papped; there is no cash-out.

Earning them

• 5% back on every paid event. When a payment goes through you get 5% of it back in coins, with a small minimum so a tiny event still earns something rather than nothing.
• 150 coins when a referral runs their first paid event, which is $3, and the person you referred gets the same. See refer and earn.

Free events do not earn coins. There is no payment to take a percentage of. They earn something else: see below.

They expire

Coins are good for 30 days after you earn them. Every time new coins land, the clock restarts for your whole balance, so a busy organizer never loses any. A balance that sits untouched for 30 days expires and disappears. Your account menu shows the date, and your receipts and reward emails say it too.

Spending them

Coins apply automatically at checkout, on the payment step when you launch a paid event. You do not enter a code or opt in, and there is nothing to click: the discount is already in the total you are shown.

One rule worth knowing: coins can cover at most half of any one checkout. A large balance does not make an event free; it takes half off, and the rest carries forward to the next event. That keeps a balance useful across several events instead of being spent all at once.

Checkout itself

You pay once per event, before it goes live. There is no subscription, and no card is stored. Payment is handled by our payment provider on their own page, so your card details never touch Papped.

Events up to 5 guests never reach checkout at all. See creating an event for what makes an event paid.

After a free event: 20% off the next one

When a free event ends, the summary email carries 20% off your next paid event, on any plan, valid for 7 days. Nothing to enter: it sits on your account and the create form shows the reduced price until it runs out. It is one discount per account at a time, and it is spent the moment the next paid event launches.

Your event can earn coins too

The shared gallery invites guests to start their own event. When one of them

does, and runs their first paid event, you both earn 150 Pap Coins ($3

off) - you because your event did the recruiting, they as a welcome. It

happens automatically; there is nothing to set up. One reward per person you

recruit, and if they signed up with someone's referral code instead, the code

wins - nobody is rewarded twice for the same signup.