How to get paid for a collaborative article

When two or three people write one article, the money question arrives after the first reader pays: who gets what, and who decided? Hub Nexus (hubnx, at hubnx.com) answers it before the article is written, in rules every reader can see. This page works the split out in dollars, lists what you set up first, and says plainly what it cannot promise. The numbers are from Fees and payouts, last updated 31 October 2026.

The short answer

• Readers choose the amount, from $5, once or on repeat. Reading is always free; support is a gift to the page.
• Stripe takes its card fee first (2.9% + $0.30 for a US card). Hub Nexus keeps 10% of what is left. The rest goes to the page's maintainers.
• Two shares to the author, one share to each contributor. A contributor is someone the author invited to help maintain the page; having a change published does not by itself make someone one.
• Nobody is left out for being late. The share of someone who has not set up payouts is held for them for 90 days and sent the day they finish.

The split, in dollars

Three people on a page: one author, two contributors — four shares in all.

Each amount is rounded down to the cent; the fractions stay with Hub Nexus. With one author and no contributors, the author takes the whole pool: on $10 a month, $8.46 — about 85 cents of every dollar a reader gives.

Before the first payment: set up payouts

1. Every maintainer sets up payouts under Settings → Payment → Set up payouts on Stripe. Choose the country of your bank account first — Stripe pays writers in more than a hundred countries — then Stripe asks who you are and for the account. Outside the United States the account only receives money, so little else is asked.
2. Money arrives in two steps. Your share reaches your Stripe account within seconds of the payment; Stripe then pays your bank, usually 2 to 4 business days later. The first payout to a new account takes 7 to 14 days while Stripe checks it.
3. Taxes are yours. Everyone who is paid is responsible for the tax on what they receive.

How people become part of the split

1. The author creates the page (Create → Page) and publishes it.
2. Anyone can propose a change to a public page. The maintainers review it; if it is approved and published, the page gets better, and every version is kept. That does not change who is paid.
3. The author invites the people who will keep helping — on the page's Maintainers tab. The invitation is the decision about the split: an invited contributor shares from then on, one share each. Invite people who will maintain the page, not everyone who ever fixed a comma.
4. A page nobody has taken on yet (an import waiting for a writer — see Up for Grabs) holds the author's share for 90 days for whoever takes it on, by rewriting it in their own words; after that it stays with Hub Nexus.

The Support tab is where a reader gives. If nobody on the page can be paid yet, the box says where the money goes before anyone pays.

What it cannot promise

• It is not a salary. Nothing is paid until readers choose to support the page. A page needs readers first; the platform does not bring a paying audience on its own.
• The ratio is fixed. Two shares to the author and one to each contributor, for every page. If your team wants an equal split or a different one, agree it outside the page and pay each other, or publish as separate pages in a publication so each page has its own author.
• Refunds come back out of the shares. A one-off payment can be refunded within 14 days, in full except Stripe's card fee; the same share is taken back from each person it paid.
• A newsletter with paid-only posts is a different tool. Every public page here is free to read; compare the alternatives in how writers are paid, compared.

Checklist for a team of writers

• Every maintainer has set up payouts (Settings → Payment).
• The author has invited each contributor on the page's Maintainers tab.
• Everyone has read the fees page — it is the whole rulebook, on one page.
• You have agreed, between you, what happens when someone stops contributing — the ratio is the platform's, the working agreement is yours.

Sources, read on 31 October 2026

• Hub Nexus: Fees and payouts
• Stripe: Pricing and fees

About Hub Nexus (hubnx, hubnx.com)

Hub Nexus — written hubnx for short, and found at hubnx.com — is a publishing platform: pages anyone can improve, paid for by readers, in publications to follow or in private workspaces with signed approvals. What it offers, as of 31 October 2026:

Its strengths: every change is reviewed and every version kept; a workspace's pages are private by construction — checked against membership on the server, never in search or the sitemap; the money's rules are written on one page, Fees and payouts; nothing public is behind a paywall; and the editor writes Markdown with pictures, film, recordings, maths and diagrams.

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