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Version 2026-10-21.1 · Effective October 21, 2026

Interim launch version 2026-10-21.1. Effective date: October 21, 2026.

These terms are for anyone who pays a Creator or Seller through a Much Obliged page or link: a Supporter (one-time or monthly support), a Member (a creator-priced Membership), or a Buyer (an offer, a way to get a Creative Work, a service or job a Seller set up for you, a Payment Request or a Quick Sale order). You do not need a Much Obliged account. By paying, or by confirming a Payment Request you will pay the Seller for directly, you agree to these terms and to the Privacy Policy.

1. Who you are paying

You are paying the Creator or Seller, not Much Obliged. Every payment through Much Obliged is charged directly on the Creator's or Seller's own Stripe account. A Seller may instead ask you to pay them directly, outside Much Obliged (section 6, item 7). The Creator or Seller is the merchant: their Stripe business name appears at checkout and on your card statement, their receipt settings apply, and they are responsible for what they offered, for delivering it, and for any refund.

MUCH OBLIGED CO. LLC ("Much Obliged") is the software. Much Obliged's fee on your payment is $0. Much Obliged never receives, holds, routes or escrows your money, and is not a party to your purchase. Stripe processes the payment under Stripe's own terms and privacy policy. Stripe's processing fee is charged to the Creator, not added to your payment.

Much Obliged is not a charitable-donation or fundraising platform. A payment through Much Obliged is a payment to the Creator or Seller for their work or for what they offer. Much Obliged does not represent that any payment made through it is a charitable contribution or is tax-deductible.

You do not have to be in the United States to pay a Creator. Whether a payment from your country or with your payment method can be accepted depends on Stripe and on the Creator's account; Much Obliged does not promise that payments can be accepted from everywhere.

2. What Much Obliged does and does not verify

Much Obliged records what Stripe confirms: that a payment was made, and later whether it was refunded or disputed. Much Obliged does not verify what a Creator promises, delivers, ships or performs; does not inspect goods; does not confirm shipments or deliveries with any carrier; and does not confirm that a service was performed. Where a page says a Creator "marked" or "recorded" something, that is the Creator's statement.

3. One-time support

You choose an amount between $1 and $1,000 and pay once through Stripe Checkout. You may leave a name and a short note for the Creator. The Creator sees your note, and the name and email you gave at checkout. Nothing is delivered in exchange unless the Creator says so on their page.

4. Monthly support

  • Monthly support is a recurring payment of the amount you choose (between $1 and $1,000), charged to your card each month on the Creator's Stripe account until you cancel. You will see "every month. Cancel anytime." before you pay and again in Stripe Checkout.
  • How to manage or cancel. Your confirmation page has a Manage or cancel button that opens the Creator's Stripe billing portal, where you can cancel, change your card, and see your invoices. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the month you have already paid for. Save that page. Anyone who has its link can manage that one subscription, so keep it private. If you lose it, ask the Creator to end your support; they can do that from their dashboard.
  • Receipts and failed-payment notices come from Stripe under the Creator's settings.
  • Much Obliged does not charge a fee on any renewal.

5. Memberships

  • A Membership is a recurring monthly payment at a price the Creator set, charged on the Creator's Stripe account until you cancel, in exchange for access to something the Creator owns and operates. The benefits are the Creator's promises; Much Obliged handles the payment and keeps track of whether your Membership is paid.
  • Access follows paid time. Your access runs to the end of the period you actually paid for. If you cancel, or a renewal fails, you keep access until that date and then it stops. If a renewal later succeeds, access resumes. Your confirmation page shows the date your Membership is active through.
  • How you get access. Depending on the Creator: they handle it themselves and can see that you are an active member; private instructions appear on your membership page once Stripe confirms your payment; or a Much Obliged bot gives you a role in the Creator's Discord server. For Discord, you connect your Discord account through Discord's own login; Much Obliged keeps your Discord user ID and username to manage the role and does not keep your Discord login or messages. When your paid time ends, the role is removed; you are never removed from the server by Much Obliged.
  • Discord problems. If Discord is unavailable or the Creator's server is misconfigured, Much Obliged records the problem and keeps trying; your payment record is never changed by a Discord failure. Reconnecting Discord from your membership page often fixes it.
  • Manage or cancel works the same way as for monthly support (section 4), from your confirmation page. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the paid period.

6. Payment Requests (Sale Links) — applies only if the Seller sent you one

A Payment Request is a private checkout a Seller created for something you and the Seller already agreed on outside Much Obliged. The page shows you the total agreed price, what you are buying, how you get it, and the Seller's terms, before you pay, and asks you to confirm them before you continue to payment; Much Obliged keeps a record of that confirmation with the sale. The page may also show photos, details, known flaws, what is included, dates and how to reach the Seller: all of these are the Seller's own description, which Much Obliged does not check. Much Obliged keeps a fixed record of what the Payment Request stated when the Seller created it. If the Seller recorded a place for a pickup or delivery, your page shows it, with any directions, once you have paid something or confirmed a deal you pay the Seller for directly; a day or time the Seller records is shown before you pay and may be changed by the Seller, and your page shows the current plan. The Seller chose how long a first payment can be started on the link (between one hour and 30 days); after that, ask the Seller for a new one. That time limit does not apply to a balance after a paid deposit. Payment Requests, and each feature within them, may not be available in every case.

  1. You are buying from the Seller. The Seller is responsible for the item or the work, for handing it over, delivering it, shipping it or performing it, and for any refund. Much Obliged is the software and never holds your payment.
  2. Physical items. The Seller's return policy is shown before you pay: sold as is (inspect the item at handoff; no returns), returns within a stated number of days of handoff or delivery, or the Seller's own words. For pickup or the Seller's delivery, once the full price is paid (through Stripe, or recorded by the Seller as paid to them directly) the Seller has a six-digit handoff PIN. When you have the item, the Seller tells you the PIN and you enter it on your payment page, in the browser you paid or confirmed the deal with; that records the handoff. The Seller may instead show you a code to scan with your camera, which opens your payment page with the PIN filled in for you to confirm. If the item is one the Seller is making for you (a commission), your page shows when the Seller expects it to be ready and when the Seller says it is ready; Much Obliged did not see or check the work. Enter it only once you have the item. Your page never shows the PIN. You may also confirm on your page that you received the item.
  3. Services. The Seller's own cancellation and refund terms are shown before you pay, exactly as the Seller wrote them. When the Seller marks the work complete, your page shows that the Seller said so. Much Obliged did not verify the work.
  4. Deposits and balance. If the Seller set a deposit, your first payment is the deposit and your second is the remaining balance, through the same link. If the Seller stated when the balance is due, that is the Seller's term, shown before you pay the deposit; Much Obliged adds no interest, no late fee and no reminder, and never charges you automatically. A deposit is a real payment to the Seller when it succeeds. It is not a card hold, an authorization, escrow, a reservation held by Much Obliged, or financing. Whether it is refundable if the deal does not go ahead depends on the Seller's stated terms and applicable law; Much Obliged does not add any rule of its own. If the Seller refunds your deposit in full, no balance is due through that link.
  5. Shipping. If the Seller ships, the total shown includes the shipping charge, and the page shows the date by which the Seller has committed to ship. You enter your shipping address in Stripe Checkout; Much Obliged records it for the Seller so they can send the item. The Seller ships it themselves. Your page shows what the Seller records: the date shipped, the carrier and the tracking number, and later that the Seller believes it was delivered. Much Obliged does not verify any of that with the carrier. If the Seller tells you they cannot ship by that date, your payment page shows the new date or the reason there is none, and two buttons: wait, or cancel for a full refund including shipping. Either costs you nothing. A cancelled order is refunded by the Seller, not by Much Obliged. If the ship-by date passes and the Seller has recorded neither a delay nor a shipment, your page says so and tells you how to reach the Seller. You are responsible for entering an accurate address. It cannot be changed after you pay; if it is wrong, ask the Seller to refund you and send a new Payment Request.
  6. One item, one payment. If someone else is checking out the same item, you will be asked to try again shortly. Your payment is confirmed only when Stripe confirms it; returning to the page is not confirmation. In the rare case that a payment is recorded that could not have been intended (for example, the item was already paid for), a person at Much Obliged reviews it and may contact the Seller. Much Obliged does not refund it itself: the money is in the Seller's Stripe account, any refund comes from the Seller, and you can dispute the payment with your card issuer.
  7. Paying the Seller directly. A Seller may ask you to pay them directly - in cash, by Zelle, Venmo, Cash App, PayPal, check, bank transfer or another way - for the whole price or for one stage of it. Where the whole Payment Request is paid directly, your page shows how the Seller asked to be paid and asks you to confirm the terms instead of paying there; by confirming, you agree to these terms and to the Privacy Policy, and Much Obliged keeps a record of your confirmation as it does for a card payment. When the Seller records that you paid, your page shows it as "Recorded by" the Seller: that is the Seller's own statement. Much Obliged did not process, hold, check or verify that payment, cannot refund or reverse it, and cannot take part in any dispute about it with a bank or payment app; card-network dispute rights may not apply to it. It is between you and the Seller. Keep your own proof of what you paid. If the Seller records something you did not pay, or you paid and the Seller has not recorded it, contact the Seller, and you can use Report this page.

6A. Offers and Creative Work — applies if you buy or ask through a Creator's offer or work page

  1. You are buying from, or writing to, the Creator. An offer page or a Creative Work page shows the Creator's own description, price and terms, which Much Obliged does not check. Buying through one is a payment to the Creator on their own Stripe account, recorded as a Payment Request, and sections 1, 2, 6 and 8 apply to it: the Creator delivers what they offered, handles any refund, and Much Obliged never holds your payment.
  2. Licenses. If you buy a license with set terms for a Creative Work, the license is between you and the Creator, on the terms shown before you pay, which you agree to at checkout. Much Obliged keeps the terms you agreed to, a fingerprint of them and when you agreed, and is not a party to the license. The page shows the Creator's statement that they have the rights to offer it; Much Obliged does not verify who owns the copyright or who made the work. An exclusive license is never sold on the page: it is agreed with the Creator directly.
  3. Prints, originals and commissions are physical items or work the Creator makes, and section 6 applies to how you get them, the Creator's return or service terms, and any deposit.
  4. Inquiries and requests. If you send an inquiry, a license request or a commission request, nothing is charged and nothing is agreed. The Creator receives what you send and may reply; anything you then agree is between you and the Creator.

6B. Series and ongoing services — applies if a Seller set one up for you

  1. A series is a set number of sessions you accept once. You pay as the Seller set it up - all up front, a deposit and the exact balance, or one session at a time - and each payment works like a Payment Request (section 6).
  2. An ongoing service continues until you stop it. You pay the monthly price shown before you start, charged to your card each month on the Seller's own Stripe account, until you stop it. You can stop it any time from its page; it ends at the end of the period you have already paid for, and no new monthly period begins. Charges already made are not refunded automatically: refunds are the Seller's decision (section 8). Keep the page's link private.

7. Quick Sale — applies only if you buy from a Seller in person

  1. You are buying from the Seller. You order from the Seller's menu on your own phone, or the Seller rings up your order and you pay on your own phone. A single order has a maximum amount.
  2. Paying through Stripe. You pay the Seller directly through Stripe Checkout on the Seller's own Stripe account; Much Obliged's fee is $0 and Much Obliged never holds your payment. Your order is paid only when Stripe confirms it. The page in the browser you paid with shows your receipt; whether Stripe also emails you one depends on the Seller's Stripe settings.
  3. Paid is not handed over. The Seller records when you have what you bought.
  4. Paying in cash or another way. If you pay the Seller in cash or another way outside Much Obliged, that payment is between you and the Seller. Much Obliged did not process or check it, and it cannot be refunded or disputed through Stripe; the Seller's record of it is the Seller's own statement.
  5. Refunds of a Quick Sale are the Seller's decision (section 8).

8. Refunds and disputes

  • Refunds for any payment to a Creator or Seller are the Creator's or Seller's decision, issued from their own Stripe account, or, for money you paid a Seller directly, given back by the Seller themselves. Contact them first. Much Obliged cannot refund a Creator's or Seller's payment on their behalf.
  • Disputes. If you believe a payment was unauthorized or you did not receive what you paid for and the Creator or Seller will not help, you may dispute the payment with your card issuer. Disputes are handled between your issuer, Stripe and the Creator or Seller. Much Obliged records the result but does not decide disputes. While a dispute is open, Much Obliged does not revoke Membership access you already paid for.

9. Reporting a problem

Every Creator page, offer and Creative Work page, Payment Request page and confirmation page has a Report this page link. Reports go to Much Obliged. Tell us what is wrong; you can leave an email if you would like a reply. A report does not automatically remove anything or refund anything.

10. Your information

The Privacy Policy explains what Much Obliged keeps (for example, the email and name Stripe reports for support and Memberships, your note, your Discord ID if you connect it, a shipping address if you entered one, the details you give a Creator through an offer or a Creative Work page, the license terms you agreed to, and your confirmation of a Payment Request's terms) and what the Creator or Seller sees. Card details go to Stripe only. Much Obliged collects nothing about how you paid a Seller directly; what the Seller records about it is their own statement.

11. Much Obliged's role, in one paragraph

Much Obliged provides the pages and the checkout, confirms payments with Stripe, records what happened, and, for Memberships, keeps track of paid time and manages a Discord role if the Creator uses one. Much Obliged does not sell you anything on these pages, does not hold your money, and does not guarantee what any Creator or Seller will do. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Much Obliged is not liable to you for a Creator's or Seller's acts or omissions. Nothing here limits any non-waivable rights you have under the consumer-protection laws where you live.

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