How to create a commitment

A commitment starts as a draft. While it is a draft, nothing is binding and nothing is saved to your payment method — you can change any part of it or abandon it entirely.

• Goal. Write what you will do in plain language. The clearer and more specific the goal, the easier it is to prove later.
• Deadlines. Pick the goal deadline (when the work must be done) and review the proof deadline (the last moment to upload evidence).
• Proof scope. Commitery generates a description of what acceptable evidence looks like. Read it carefully — this is the standard your upload will be judged against in Proof and review.
• Amount. Set the conditional amount attached to the goal. A higher amount raises the cost of not following through; it is not charged at checkout and is not a fee.

• You review the commitment text, deadline, proof deadline, proof scope, and commitment amount.
• You accept the Commitment Agreement and payment terms and authorize Commitery to charge the amount only if the commitment is later deemed not completed.
• Your payment method is saved securely as the default for this and future commitments. Commitery does not receive or store full card details.
• Once checkout succeeds, the draft becomes an active commitment and the deadlines are locked in.

The authorization at checkout is conditional. You are not paying now, and you are not pre-paying into a balance. You are giving Commitery permission to charge the saved payment method later, but only if a specific chain of events occurs.

• The proof review must conclude that the goal was not completed.
• The 48-hour product dispute window must close without a successful dispute.
• The 14-day EU withdrawal period must no longer block the charge.
• If any of these does not hold — you complete the goal, you withdraw in time, or a dispute succeeds — no charge is submitted.

If checkout happens through a Creator link or Creator challenge, Commitery shows the Creator attribution before the commitment is created. A successful checkout can establish or update your Creator attribution for future commitments.

Creator attribution never changes the amount you set, the proof scope, or how your commitment is reviewed. It only affects who may receive a referral allocation if a charge later succeeds and qualifies. See Creator attribution.

A commitment may have a deadline inside the statutory withdrawal period. In that case, Commitery can still review the commitment, but the final charge is delayed until the withdrawal period no longer blocks the charge.

This means a very short commitment can be reviewed and even receive a failed verdict before any charge is possible. The review result is recorded, but the charge waits until every protection window has passed.