How Muchsy works
Muchsy is where a business and a creator agree on a collab in writing, carry it out, and prove it happened. A business posts what it is offering — a meal, a stay, a treatment, a paid campaign, or a mix. Creators nearby apply. One is chosen, the terms are locked, and the collab is only finished when the post is verified live or the content files are approved. Muchsy is free to join, and works the same way in every country.
You decide what you give, what you get, and by when. Nothing is left to a direct-message thread that both sides remember differently.
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Post your offer
Say what you want: a post on their channels, content files (UGC) for your own use, or both. Say how they get what they need — they visit you, you ship it, or nothing has to change hands at all. Then the deadline, the value of what you're giving, any fee, and — for files — where you may use them and for how long. Barter, cash, or both. A few minutes, and nothing to pay.
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Review who applies
Creators apply. Each profile says what they offer — posts, files, or both — with their city, niche, self-declared audience where they have one, and, once they have a few collabs behind them, a public completion score. A creator who only makes files may have no audience at all; that is not a gap in their profile. You choose; nobody is assigned to you.
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Accept, and the terms are frozen
The moment you accept, the deliverables, deadline, stated value, any cash amount and the usage rights you set are copied onto the collab itself. Editing your original offer afterwards cannot change a deal that is already running — in either direction.
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In person, shipped, or remote
If it's in person, the creator arrives with a QR voucher and you scan it — that scan is the proof the visit happened, and it starts the clock. If you ship, the clock starts when the creator confirms the parcel arrived, so a parcel you never sent cannot count against them. If it's remote, the clock started when you accepted. There is no voucher on the last two.
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Check the work, then complete
The creator submits the live post link, the files, or both. You check the post is up and correctly disclosed as an ad, or you look at the files, then complete the collab. You can send it back for changes twice; after that it's approve or call it off. If you say nothing for seven days after a submission, it completes on its own — silence can't cost a creator work they did. Where money is involved you record that you paid and the creator confirms it arrived; only their confirmation closes it, and Muchsy never touches the money. Then both sides review each other.
You can see the full deal before you commit to anything, and your track record — not your follower count — is what makes businesses say yes.
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Build your profile
Your city, your niches, and what you offer: posts on your own channels, content files (UGC) for a business to use, or both. If you post, link at least one of Instagram, TikTok, YouTube or Facebook and give a follower count for a platform you linked. If you only make files, a portfolio or website link is enough and no follower count is asked for — plenty of good UGC creators have no audience. Counts are self-declared: we don't connect to those platforms to verify them, and we'd rather tell you that than pretend otherwise.
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Apply in one click
Browse offers and apply. A message is optional. Before you apply you can see what's wanted, whether it's a post or files or both, whether you have to go in person, and by when — plus, for files, what the business may use them for and for how long.
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Get accepted, and the terms lock
If the business picks you, everything you agreed to — deliverables, deadline, stated value, any fee, and the usage rights on any files — is copied onto the collab at that moment and cannot be rewritten later.
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Get what you need
In person, you show a QR voucher and the business scans it; your deadline starts there, and cancelling before it is scanned costs you nothing. If they're shipping, you confirm when it arrives, and that is what starts your deadline — you're never on the clock for a parcel that never came. Remote, the clock started when they accepted. Only in-person collabs have a voucher.
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Deliver, then get credit
Submit the live post link, the files, or both. The business can ask for changes at most twice; if it says nothing for seven days after you submit, the collab completes on its own. On a paid collab the business records that it paid and you confirm the money arrived — only your confirmation closes it, and if it never arrives you can flag that. Muchsy never holds the money. Once the collab is complete, your public track record grows.
You don't need an audience to take part. If you know people who'd like a place, you can share it — and get something back when the people you send actually walk through the door.
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Pick a business
Browse what's on offer near you. Each one says what you'd earn and what your friends get. You don't have to have been there, and nobody has to approve you.
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Get your own link
One tap. The link is yours, and every person who uses it is counted against your name — that count is what proves you brought real customers, not just clicks.
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Share it however you like
A message, a story, a group chat. The text we hand you already says you get a reward if someone uses it, so the disclosure travels with the link and you never have to remember it.
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They walk in and get scanned
Your friend shows their code at the counter. Nothing is earned from a tap, a click or a signup — only from someone who actually turned up and was served. That is the honest limit of it.
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Collect what you earned
Once you've brought the number the business set, your reward lands in your wallet — something from their counter, or cash. Show the QR to collect it in person. Muchsy never holds the money: a cash reward is paid to you by the business directly.
The three kinds of offer
Muchsy never handles, holds or processes money. Where a collab involves cash, it is agreed on Muchsy and paid directly between the two parties, by whatever method they choose.
Barter
Goods or services instead of cash — a dinner, a hotel night, a treatment, a class. The business states what it is worth so both sides have a written figure.
Paid
A cash fee for the content. The amount and currency are stated on the offer and locked onto the collab when it is accepted.
Hybrid
Both — for example a meal plus a fee. This exists because it is what most real collabs actually look like once the two sides talk honestly.
What can happen to a collab
Every collab has one status at any moment, and every change is recorded. There are only three ways a collab can end badly, and all three are visible rather than silent — nobody's reputation moves without them being told by email.
- Accepted
- The business chose an applicant. The terms are now snapshotted onto the collab. In person, a voucher exists; shipped or remote, the work simply starts.
- Redeemed
- In-person collabs only: the business scanned the voucher. The visit happened and the deadline is now running. (A shipped collab's clock starts when the creator confirms receipt; a remote one's at acceptance.)
- Submitted
- The creator has delivered — the live post link with an ad-disclosure attestation, the content files, or both — for the business to check.
- Completed
- The business confirmed the post is live. The collab counts as a success for both sides and reviews open.
- Cancelled
- Called off before the voucher was redeemed. This penalizes nobody — no visit happened and nothing was consumed.
- No-show
- The voucher expired without ever being redeemed. The business can mark this, and it counts against the creator's record.
- Expired
- The voucher was redeemed but no post was submitted within the deadline plus a three-day grace period. Recorded automatically, and it counts against the creator's record.
Why this is harder to game than a DM
Public completion scores
Your score is simply completed collabs divided by completed plus failed ones. It appears once you have at least three outcomes — below that you show as "New here", because one bad week shouldn't define someone with two collabs.
Deliverables in writing, frozen at yes
What must be published, in what format, and by when, is agreed before anyone commits and cannot be edited afterwards. This is the single most common cause of barter deals going wrong.
The post is the finish line
A visit is not a completed collab. Only a published, verified post completes one — which is the entire reason this platform exists.
Records you can actually use
Every completed collab stays on your record with what was agreed, what it was worth and the link that proved it. That history is yours to point at — when a business is deciding whether to accept you, and whenever you need to show what you have actually delivered.
Common questions
›What's the difference between a post and UGC?
A post is published on the creator's own channels — the collab completes when the live post is verified. UGC (user-generated content) is photos or videos the creator makes for you, to use on your own socials, website or ads — the collab completes when you approve the files. When you post an offer you tick one or both, and you set the usage rights for any files: where you may use them, and for how long.
›Does the creator have to come to my business?
Only if you say so. An offer can be in person (the creator visits and shows a QR voucher you scan), shipped (you mail the product, and the deadline starts when they confirm it arrived), or fully remote (the brief is enough, and the deadline starts when you accept). Creators anywhere can work with you on the last two.
›How does payment work on a paid collab?
Directly between you, by whatever method you agree — e-transfer, PayPal, invoice. Muchsy never holds the money. Once the work is approved, you record that you paid and the creator confirms it arrived; only the creator's confirmation closes it. If a creator says they were never paid, that reaches our team, but we cannot recover money we never held. For remote deals, creators are advised to send a watermarked preview first and the final files after payment.
›What does it cost?
Muchsy is free to join and free to use. Any money in a paid or hybrid collab moves directly between the business and the creator — it never passes through Muchsy.
›Which countries does it work in?
All of them. You choose your country and type your city, and offers carry their own currency. There is no waiting list and no country gate.
›Do I need a lot of followers?
No. A business with one location needs people who can actually walk in, not the largest possible audience. A creator with a small, genuinely local following is often the better choice, and completion score is shown alongside audience size for exactly that reason.
›Do I need any followers at all to share a discount?
None. Sharing a business's discount is open to anyone with an account — no audience, no posts, no camera, and no approval. You are not listed anywhere unless you choose to complete a creator profile; sharing on its own never puts you in the creator directory.
›When do I actually earn something for sharing?
Only when someone you sent walks in and is scanned at the counter. Clicks, taps and signups earn nothing — which is deliberate, because it is also what makes the count mean something to the business paying for it. The business sets what you earn and how many customers it takes, and both are shown before you take the link.
›Are follower counts verified?
Not today. They are self-declared, and profiles show them as such. What Muchsy does verify is behaviour: whether someone turned up, and whether the post actually went live.
›Who checks the ad disclosure?
The creator confirms they included it when submitting, and the business checks the live post before completing. Disclosure is a legal requirement in most countries — FTC in the US, ASA in the UK, Ad Standards in Canada and their equivalents elsewhere — not a Muchsy house rule.
›What if the business never scans my voucher?
Then the collab was never redeemed, and it cannot count against you as a missed post. An unredeemed voucher eventually lapses rather than turning into a penalty for work you were never able to start.
›Can a business change the deal after I accept?
No. The deliverables, deadline, stated value and cash amount are copied onto the collab when you accept, and the collab is what both sides are held to.
›What happens if I delete my account?
Your profile is hidden immediately and your offers close, then your personal details are erased after a 30-day grace period during which logging back in cancels the deletion. Completed collabs and reviews stay, with your name removed, because the other party's track record is theirs and shouldn't vanish.
Ready to try it?
Post your first offer, or find your first collab. It takes a few minutes and costs nothing.