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Understanding Transaction Types

Written by Melisa | KNKY

Your Finance Transaction History shows every payment, refund, and payout flowing through your agency account. Each row is tagged with a transaction type that tells you what happened — a subscription, a tip, a paid message unlock, a refund, a payout, and so on. This article is the reference guide to every type you'll encounter.

How to read a transaction row

Each transaction in your Finance feed shows the same fields:

  • Date and time the transaction happened

  • Status badge (typically Completed)

  • Transaction ID with a copy icon — useful for support tickets

  • Type — the label this article is about

  • Buyer (the fan, when it's an incoming transaction) or Payment method (for outgoing payouts)

  • Amount in the format ($gross) +$agency_share

Understanding the Amount field

The Amount field shows two values side by side:

  • The number in parentheses is the gross transaction value — what the fan actually paid

  • The number with the plus sign is your agency's share — what landed in your wallet after KNKY's platform fee and the creator's split

All transaction types at a glance

Type

Category

What it represents

Subscription

Earnings

A fan's first subscription to a creator

SubscriptionRenewal

Earnings

Automatic renewal of an existing subscription

Tip

Engagement

A fan tipping the creator

Media Purchase

Engagement

A fan unlocking paid media in chat

ChatFee

Services

A fee tied to chat-based services

Ticket

Services

Payment for an event ticket

Service

Services

A paid service request (voice, video, custom, rating, etc.)

Refund

Reversals

A refund issued to a fan

Chargeback

Reversals

A payment reversed by the fan's bank or payment provider

Withdraw

Payouts

An outgoing payout from your agency wallet

Earnings — subscription revenue

Subscription

A fan's first-time subscription to one of your creators. Triggers once per fan-creator relationship.

  • Buyer: the fan's username

  • Amount: the subscription price, with your agency share calculated against the agreed split

  • Frequency: one row per new fan signup

SubscriptionRenewal

An automatic renewal of an existing subscription. Triggers every billing cycle (typically monthly) for as long as the fan keeps the subscription active.

  • Buyer: the fan's username (same fan as the original Subscription row)

  • Amount: the recurring subscription price

  • Frequency: one row per renewal cycle, per fan, per creator

Engagement — content and tips

Tip

A fan voluntarily sending money to the creator. Tips can be initiated from several places — inside a chat, on a post, on a stream, etc.

  • Buyer: the fan's username

  • Amount: the tip amount

  • Frequency: as often as the fan tips

Media Purchase

A fan paying to unlock paid media in chat — typically locked photos, videos, or voice notes the creator sent as a paid message.

  • Buyer: the fan's username

  • Amount: the price set on the locked content

  • Where it originates: the chat thread between the fan and the creator

Services — paid creator services

Services on KNKY cover paid offerings creators can sell — voice calls, video calls, personalized content, ratings, and custom requests.

Service

A fan paying for a service request to a creator. This is the generic category covering most paid services on the platform.

  • Buyer: the fan's username

  • Amount: the service price (fixed or fan-set, depending on how the creator configured the service)

ChatFee

A fee charged for a chat-based interaction or service. The exact scope of ChatFee is being clarified with the product team — it most likely covers paid voice or video services initiated directly from chat, but the boundary between ChatFee and Service isn't always obvious from the feed alone.

  • Buyer: the fan's username

  • Amount: the chat-fee charge

Ticket

A fan paying for an event ticket — typically tied to a scheduled event or live stream the creator set up.

  • Buyer: the fan's username

  • Amount: the ticket price (free events may show $0.00 / +$0.00)

ℹ️ About $0 Ticket entries: if you see a Ticket row with $0.00 / +$0.00, it usually means a fan registered for a free event the creator set up. These are tracked for engagement analytics even though no money moved.

Reversals — refunds and chargebacks

Reversals reduce your agency's earnings retroactively. They appear in the feed alongside other transactions and subtract from your balance.

Refund

A refund issued to a fan, removing the funds from the agency and creator wallets. Refunds can be triggered for several reasons — a service the creator couldn't deliver, a wallet top-up that needs to be reversed, a $1 card verification charge being refunded, etc.

  • Buyer: the original fan who paid

  • Amount: shown as negative — the refunded value is removed from your share

  • Frequency: as needed, usually tied back to a specific earlier transaction

Chargeback

A payment forcibly reversed by the fan's bank or payment provider. This isn't the agency or creator issuing a refund — the fan disputed the charge with their bank, and the bank pulled the money back.

  • Buyer: the fan whose payment was disputed

  • Amount: negative — the chargeback amount is removed from your agency share

  • Often associated with: subscription rebills that the fan no longer remembers signing up for, or payment-card disputes

⚠️ Chargebacks are different from refunds in two important ways:

  1. You can't prevent them once initiated — the bank's decision is final from the platform's perspective

  2. Excessive chargebacks can affect your processor relationship — too many disputes against your agency's transactions can put your payout pipeline at risk

Payouts — money leaving your wallet

Withdraw

An outgoing payout from your agency wallet to your linked MassPay account. Initiated via the Transfer action in the Finance section.

  • Payment method: Wallet (the source of the funds)

  • Amount: shown as a single negative value (e.g. -$1,832.00) reflecting the outflow

  • Frequency: as often as you initiate transfers

For everything about how payouts work — minimums, timing, the 14-day hold on earnings before they become available — see Getting Paid as an Agency on KNKY and What is MassPay?

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