Paid messages | EVVA

A paid message is a normal chat message with files attached and a price on it. The fan sees a locked bubble and pays to open it. Only the creator side of a chat can price a message — a fan cannot.

Sending one

In the chat, attach one or more files from your Vault.
Set a price. Chat prices are in US dollars, from $1.00** to **$ 10,000.00.
Optionally blur the preview, set it to open once, set an expiry, and add a caption of up to 200 characters per file. You can mark some files as a free sample.
Send it.

Sending a paid message charges nobody. It creates a locked message; the money moves later, when the fan pays to unlock it.

What you will keep

Before you send, you can ask for a quote. It gives you the tidied-up price, a list of any attached files this fan has already bought, and an estimate of your share as a range.

EVVA will not tell you a single “you keep X%” figure before a sale, because it does not know one yet. Your share depends on how the sale is attributed, and the two cases pay differently — 75% where the sale is attributed to you, 50% where it is attributed to the platform. Which one applies is decided when the order is placed, from evidence that does not exist while you are typing a price. The quote shows the range for that reason.

The exact amount is settled with the order. Your earnings screens are where the real figure lands. See the creator earnings and payouts terms for how payouts work.

Refusals when sending

“You already sent this media to this member for free, so it cannot be sold to them” — you cannot charge a fan for a file you already gave them. The refusal lists which files. Remove those and send the rest.
“a paid message must carry at least one attachment” — a price with nothing attached is refused. A price is a price for a file.
“This member can already open this file from another message, so it cannot be sent with a lifetime” — see Disappearing messages.
A priced video that has not finished processing into a playable version is refused. Wait for it to finish, then send.
A malformed price is named precisely: “Enter an amount in whole cents, with no decimal point.”, “Amounts in chat are in USD.”, “The smallest amount is $1.00.", "The largest amount is$ 10,000.00.”
If you send a field the paid-message form does not recognise, it is refused by name rather than silently ignored — because a quietly dropped setting on a message that charges money means you would believe you configured something you did not.

Unlocking one, as a fan

The bubble shows as locked, with a blurred still if the creator chose that. Press Unlock and pay. Once the payment goes through, the files are yours to open from that message for good.

What you may see instead:

“You already have access to this message” — you bought it already. Open the media rather than paying again.
Not found — the message does not exist, was withdrawn, was never for sale, belongs to somebody else’s chat, or is your own. All five give the same answer on purpose.

Seeing whether it sold

Your own view of the message tells you whether it has been bought. The fan’s view shows their unlock and a reference for their own purchase.

A chat message is sold to one person, so your own view of it is the whole answer. On a mass message, where one priced copy went to a whole audience, See who bought lists the recipients who paid to unlock it.