Billing and budget

Hyper bills restaurants for verified impact, not for booking creators. You set a budget goal for each campaign and pay only for the impact creators actually deliver - a post that can't be verified earns nothing and costs nothing. See running a brief for how a single campaign flows end-to-end.

Which agreement applies?

Verified influence costs $50 per IU. Campaign monthly goals start at $500 (10 IU); a goal is not a spending cap. Campaigns enrolled in card-on-file billing have no upfront deposit or recurring minimum charge: Hyper collects verified spend in $100 installments across each enrolled campaign, with smaller settlement charges. Existing campaigns retain their previous $500 monthly minimum agreement. Review your campaign's agreement before activation.

Card-on-file campaigns

• •After you save a card and explicitly accept the campaign agreement, verified spend is collected in $100 installments across all collaborations in a campaign. There is no upfront deposit or recurring minimum charge under this agreement.
• •A smaller settlement charge is due on each creator's day 14 from 7 a.m. Pacific, ahead of the evening creator payout run. Additional true-ups occur on the first and last creator day 30 in the monthly cohort; every collaboration settles its final measured remainder. Final remainders below $0.50 are waived, not deducted from creator earnings.
• •Set a monthly goal of at least $500 (10 IU). The goal guides creator allocation, not your maximum bill. You remain responsible for all verified influence from accepted collaborations, including spend above the goal. Pausing stops new allocations, not measurement or billing for work already accepted.
• •After all required posts have fresh 48-hour measurements, combined spend below 80% of the monthly goal can unlock one more creator. At 80% or above, an additional bounded batch requires your approval acknowledging that it may exceed the goal. Payment issues, missing measurements and available capacity can pause new allocations.
• •If a charge fails, the amount remains due. Update your card and use the billing recovery action. Creator earnings and their day-14/day-30 schedule do not change because a restaurant charge failed.

Existing monthly-minimum campaigns only

• •Campaigns on the previous agreement retain a minimum of $500 a month (10 IU). It is charged when you publish and on renewal while the campaign runs; it becomes that campaign's balance and creators draw it down as they deliver. Unspent IU carries forward. Each campaign has its own balance; your card is shared.
• •Turn the monthly renewal off from the campaign page: the campaign pauses at the end of the paid period and no further minimum is collected unless you resume it. Accepted work remains subject to measurement and billing.
• •Beyond the minimum, you pay only for verified impact, charged as it is measured (day 14, with a day-30 top-up for growth). If a post can't be measured, it isn't billed.
• •You set a budget goal per campaign. A strong result can carry a campaign past its goal - you only ever pay for impact that was verified, never a post that flopped. Once a campaign reaches its goal, Hyper stops inviting new creators; posts already live keep measuring.
• •Reports itemize each campaign's impact and the creators who delivered it, so you can see exactly where the spend went.

Adjusting your budget

• •Raise, lower, or pause your budget any time from your restaurant dashboard.
• •Pausing stops new briefs. In-flight briefs continue to their natural end.
• •If you change neighborhoods or goals, just spin up a new brief - no separate sales call required.

How IU is calculated

An IU (Influence Unit) is a weighted blend of a post's verified reach, likes, comments, and shares, divided to a clean per-post unit - every input is a number the platforms report automatically. The weighting follows how influence actually works: exposure counts, acknowledgement counts more, conversation more still, and propagation - shares - counts most, because that's how a restaurant spreads through someone's network.

Reach gates the calculation: if we cannot verify the required evidence, billing waits. For card-on-file campaigns, missing engagement metrics are not treated as verified zeros. Hyper never invents engagement.

Each IU is priced at $50. Your campaign goal is set in USD, so a $500 goal targets 10 IU of verified impact. A goal is not a maximum bill.