# Discount codes

> A discount is your money, including when the platform issues the code. What that means for a single session, and what it does to a package for its whole life.

Source: https://www.revquix.com/docs/mentors/discount-codes
Last verified: 2026-09-03

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You can issue codes - **coupons**, in the product's own wording - that reduce the price of your
services. Before you do, there is one fact that decides whether a code is a good idea:

> **Warning** - A discount comes out of your earnings
>
> A code reduces the price, and you are paid a percentage of the price. There is no platform subsidy
> and no proportional fee reduction to leave you whole. A 20% code is a 20% cut to what you receive.

## Including platform codes

This surprises people, so it is worth stating on its own: **a code the platform runs on your service
is also your money.**

If a campaign applies a discount to your listing, the reduced price is what you are paid a
percentage of. The platform is not funding the difference. Treat any code applied to your services -
whoever created it - as a decision about your own rate.

## On a package, a discount is permanent for that sale

This is the part that costs mentors real money without their noticing.

A package's payout is escrowed at purchase and split between the sessions in it. That escrow is
calculated from the **discounted** price, and it is frozen onto the buyer's entitlement.

So a 20% code does not discount the first session. It discounts **every redemption for the entire
life of that package.**

1. A ₹10,000 package sells for ₹8,000 with a 20% code.
2. Your net is calculated from ₹8,000, not ₹10,000.
3. That smaller net is split across the sessions and frozen.
4. Every session the buyer redeems - this month or in eleven months - releases the smaller slice.

The service editor shows the split twice for exactly this reason: once at your full price, and again
at the discounted price. If the two differ, the second one is what you will actually be paid.

> **Note** - Turning the code off later does not fix a package already sold
>
> The entitlement was written at purchase. Ending a campaign stops new packages from being discounted;
> it cannot raise the value of one already in someone's account.

## Practical use

Codes work best where the discount buys something back:

- **A first session at a lower rate**, to convert someone who is unsure.
- **A short campaign** you can end, on a single-session service rather than a package.

They work worst as a standing discount on a long-validity package, which is a year of your time sold
at a reduced rate to a buyer who has already committed.

- [Package earnings](https://www.revquix.com/docs/mentors/package-earnings) - The split, and when each slice is released.

- [Pricing and what you keep](https://www.revquix.com/docs/mentors/pricing-and-what-you-keep) - The two fees, with worked numbers.