Quote from: Retired on September 18, 2017, 11:03:37 PM

Quote from: referex_mo on September 18, 2017, 08:20:58 PM

Quote from: Retired on September 18, 2017, 08:05:18 PM

I was referring to programs where the payout is not certain or not sure to happen, like the payment per sale scheme you described.

It was basically a question of whether those funds are locked in the account for that usage or can the contract be programmed to return on an specific date.

Sorry misunderstood the question. The way we envision that working is that managers will need to be able to commit a certain # of referrals based on payout for a specific period of time. These details will then be available to people who send these referrals to signify that the referral managers payouts are liquid so to say.

We are also debating on reputation systems on the contract that will gradually provide advertisers with further benefits, e.g. shorter lock in time.

Actually advertisers have incentives to keep the addresses funded. If they fail to keep funding the address, people will see there aren't enough funds and stop promoting them.

That's for sure but that alone is not enough. Referral programs often spiral out of control - one of their intentions from the beginning i.e. "virality". It's very possible that while the advertiser has run out of funds - referrals are still continuing to be made for which funds are not allocated. Which is why alongside with main release of the project will be APIs that allow disabling of promotion when advertisers cannot provide funds among other functionality.