If you have uploaded work to other marketplaces, you can list the same files here without taking them down elsewhere. That is not an oversight in our terms — it is a deliberate choice, and it is worth explaining why.
The honest case against exclusivity
Exclusivity benefits a platform more than it benefits an artist. It reduces your options, concentrates your income risk in one place, and only makes sense to accept if the platform can guarantee enough volume to replace what you give up elsewhere. We are not in a position to make that guarantee, and we would rather not ask for something we have not earned.
Artists who sell in multiple places are also, generally, more active and more invested in their work. They are not waiting for one platform to perform — they are building a practice. That is the kind of contributor we want here.
How the economics actually work
Every purchase on Picster runs through credits. One credit costs €0.15, and prices in other currencies — Australian dollars, for example — are converted from that euro base at the live exchange rate, so there is no guessing about what a buyer in a different country pays.
The commission split is a flat 50 percent. If a buyer spends credits that amount to €2.00 on your file, €1.00 goes into your wallet. No tiered percentages, no exclusivity bonus, no penalty for also selling elsewhere.
Buyers top up credits in one-off amounts — there is no subscription required. They buy what they need when they need it. That keeps the barrier low for occasional buyers, which in practice means more transactions rather than fewer.
Getting paid and getting noticed
When your wallet balance is ready, you request a payout directly inside the app. There is no minimum holding period designed to delay payments, and no complicated threshold structure to decode.
On the visibility side, we run a human-curated featured queue. Work does not surface in that queue simply because it is exclusive to Picster — it surfaces because someone on our team looked at it and thought it was worth highlighting. Exclusivity would not change that process. We are not going to feature weaker work because it happens to be locked to us.
The practical result of all this:
- You keep your existing distribution wherever it is
- You earn the same 50 percent here regardless
- Featured placement is based on the work, not on contractual loyalty
- Payouts sit in your wallet until you ask for them
We think that is a fair arrangement. If Picster turns out to be worth your time, you will know from the actual numbers in your wallet — not because you signed away your flexibility to find out.
