Marketplace and platform incentives on Scrip.
Scrip runs the incentive ledger behind marketplaces and platforms. Milestone bonuses, credits, and referral rewards stay correct for sellers, creators, and drivers, through every payout, refund, and reversal. You keep your stack. Scrip keeps the books.
SCRIP LEDGERIncentive infrastructure for marketplace and platform teams.
Scrip fits when incentives are how you grow supply or demand, and they have to stay correct. You’re a fit if:
- You own growth or marketplace operations, with sellers, creators, drivers, hosts, buyers, or partners on one or more sides, and incentives drive their behavior.
- Your incentive logic is more than one flat payout: milestones over a window, cohorts, referrals, tiers, credits, promos that stack.
- Incentives come out of real budgets (platform, campaign, or partner co-op), and finance needs to see what was spent, on whom, and why.
- An order or payout can be refunded, disputed, or flagged for fraud after the incentive has paid out, and the clawback has to be exact.
Any incentive you can describe in data.
Orders, payouts, sign-ups, listings, completed rides: each enters Scrip as an event, and your rules decide what it earns and who it pays. The shapes below are common across marketplaces, not a fixed menu. Scrip runs whatever rules you define.
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Milestone & activity bonuses
Pay out when a seller or driver crosses a threshold inside a window, the Quest- or Challenge-style bonus you already run.$200 to a seller after 50 orders in 30 days. - 02
Guarantees & earnings floors
Promise a minimum, then top up the difference when activity falls short.Earn at least $1,150 for 100 trips this week, or we make up the gap. - 03
Onboarding & sign-up bonuses
Time-boxed incentives for a defined cohort: new drivers in a launch city, sellers who joined in March.$300 for a new driver's first 20 trips in 14 days. - 04
Platform credits & promo balances
Issue spendable credit, then track, expire, and reconcile it.$25 credit after a first completed order, expires in 60 days. - 05
Referral & two-sided rewards
Reward referrer and referred across sides, only when the referral is real.$50 each when a referred seller makes their first sale. - 06
Loyalty, tiers & status
Promote sellers and hosts by volume or activity, then apply tier perks or rates.Top-tier hosts earn a reduced fee and a quarterly bonus. - 07
Partner- & merchant-funded offers
Bring co-funded offers in as events; Scrip runs the ledger and budget accounting around them.Brand-funded $10 bonus on orders at a partner store.
Incentives get earned, then unwound.
A marketplace incentive isn’t a single moment. An order completes and moves a seller toward a milestone, the bonus pays out, then days later the order is refunded. Now the bonus has to come back, the counter has to roll back, and it all has to land on the right recipient and budget. Scrip ties every incentive to the event that created it and reverses the exact amount when that event reverses. Every step is a journal entry, so the balance always ties out.
- Per-side balances. Every seller, buyer, driver, and partner has its own balance, isolated at the ledger.
- Budget-aware. Each incentive draws from a budget (platform, campaign, or partner co-op), so finance sees cost per program, cohort, or campaign.
- Exact clawbacks. Refunds, disputes, and fraud reversals claw back the precise incentive they created, traced to the original event.
Ops runs campaigns. Engineering sends events. One ledger.
Engineering integrates once: send the events you already emit, like order.completed or payout.released, to the API. From there, ops launches and edits campaigns, budgets, cohorts, and rates from the dashboard, no deploy required. Both run on one ledger, so an ops-launched promo is as auditable and reversible as anything your engineers build.
Scrip works alongside any payments or payouts stack that can send an event, and never moves money itself. Built-in incentives from those providers are usually basic; Scrip is for programs that need programmable rules, budgets, cohorts, reversals, and an audit trail.
Marketplaces & platforms, answered.
See if Scrip fits your platform.
Tell us how your incentives are earned, paid, and reversed today, and we’ll map it to Scrip. Request access for a founder conversation, or read the docs.
Marketplaces and platforms push incentives, multi-party payouts, and accounting together at scale. The same ledger runs cards & banking, retail & ecommerce, and subscriptions & SaaS programs too.