Managing paid submission offers

What are submission offers?

Publishers will sometimes send special offers on individual submissions via Kavyar’s messaging tool. Offers may include cover placements, social posts, interviews, or other upgrades. They can be free or paid, and accepting an offer is optional. You can review what is included and the price before deciding whether to accept or decline.

Some submitters welcome these offers and enjoy negotiating placement, while others prefer not to consider paid upgrades. You can choose to have new paid offers automatically declined in your profile settings.

Change your preference

You can choose to have new paid offers automatically declined in your profile settings. Free offers remain available.

  1. Open Settings for the profile you want to manage, then select Profile.
  2. Find Submission offers and select Automatically decline paid offers.
  3. Choose Decline to automatically decline new paid offers, or Do not decline to leave new paid offers available for you to review.
  4. Select Save.

The setting defaults to Do not decline. Each profile has its own preference. If you manage an organization, change the setting on that organization's profile.

What this setting affects

  • New paid offers: While the setting is set to Decline, new paid offers sent to that profile are automatically declined.
  • Free offers: Free offers remain available.
  • Pending offers: Turning on automatic declines leaves existing pending offers unchanged.
  • Previously declined offers: Choosing Do not decline affects future offers. It does not reopen previously declined offers, which cannot be accepted or paid for.
  • Offer links: This setting does not block offer links you choose to open. Previously declined offers stay declined.
  • Publisher messages: Ordinary messages from publishers continue to work as usual.

Know Your Rights

When you submit your work on Kavyar, we support that submission and are here to help if you ever have a problem.

If you decline an offer, the publisher must still go forward with publishing as originally agreed.

If you have questions or concerns about how a publisher is handling your submission, please contact us.

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