Take briefs, agree terms, deliver protected files, and get paid — without leaving the platform your work already lives on.
Commissions are now open to verified artists on Kylee. You can list the work you take, receive complete briefs, lock the terms on acceptance, deliver a watermarked preview, and release the finished files once payment is confirmed. Every step is recorded on the job.
Here's how it works.
Set out the work you take
You define up to eight commission types in your settings — "Single character render," "Reference sheet," whatever you actually sell. Each one becomes a card on your profile:
A price, in one of six currencies. One figure rather than a range, because it's the figure the job books at when you accept.
Up to 12 inclusions, so what the buyer is getting is written down before anyone talks.
Up to 10 add-ons — "+$40 per extra character," "+$25 commercial use" — so variable work doesn't need eight near-identical cards.
Turnaround and included revisions, both of which become part of the agreement automatically.
Up to four examples per type, pulled from your own posts or uploaded to the card.
Sales, set per line with their own end dates. A discount stops applying the moment it expires, so no stale sale sits on your profile.
Editing a card doesn't move anything already in flight. Each inquiry freezes what that buyer was shown, so a change applies to the next person and to nobody in your queue.
Choose when you get paid
Each commission type carries its own payment terms:
Up front — the full price before you start.
Split — half on acceptance, half before the files unlock.
On delivery — nothing until the work is done.
The choice drives the job. A commission with a deposit due sits and waits for it, and confirming that deposit is what starts the work, so neither of you has to wonder whose turn it is.
Briefs arrive complete
Nobody can open with "how much for a thing?" To reach you at all, a buyer has to pick a commission type, tick their add-ons, write the brief, and attach up to six references.
Before they type a word, the form shows them your do-not-draw list — up to 20 entries — and requires them to affirm that every character is an adult. That attestation is timestamped against the job, along with the exact version of your terms they agreed to. Edit your terms mid-job and the version they signed off on stays pinned to their commission.
The inquiry arrives showing the price you'd be booking at, add-ons included.
Accepting is the agreement. Declining is one click.
Accept, and the job books at exactly the price that buyer saw. Your revision ceiling and a due date calculated from your turnaround are written onto it in the same moment, and nothing about the deal can drift afterwards in either direction.
Decline, and you pick a reason from a list: queue is full, not my style, don't draw that, scope is too big, no time, brief needs more detail. Composing "I don't draw this" for a stranger is the friction that leads artists to answer nothing at all — and unanswered is the outcome this feature exists to fix. One tap tells the buyer whether to rewrite or look elsewhere.
Declined, expired and cancelled inquiries never count against your capacity, so turning down bad-fit work is always free.
Deliver watermarked. Unlock when payment lands.
This is the part you can't get from a DM.
When you upload a final, your browser produces two files: a watermarked, downscaled preview and your clean original. The preview goes to the buyer immediately, so they can see the piece is finished, judge it, and approve it. The original stays in private storage — the buyer never receives those bytes, so there's nothing for them to strip.
It unlocks at one moment only: when you confirm the final payment arrived.
Up to 10 files per delivery, up to 1 GB per original. Video works too; its preview is a single watermarked frame.
Payment is recorded from both sides
Your buyer pays you with a method you already use — PayPal, Ko-fi, up to six saved methods. What's new is the record around it. The buyer marks that they sent the payment, you confirm it landed, and both are permanent events on the job. Deposits, finals and extras are tracked separately, because real commissions were never a single paid/unpaid flag.
Your payment details are rendered by the platform from your saved record, never from a message someone typed. Change one and every open thread gets a system notice. A payment link pasted into chat gets a warning banner.
One rule stays yours to hold: only confirm payments you've seen arrive in your own account. Confirming is what releases the files.
Nothing stalls indefinitely
An unanswered inquiry expires after 14 days, which frees the buyer and clears your inbox.
Delivered work auto-completes after 14 days of buyer silence, so a slot isn't held hostage by someone who stopped replying.
A commission that goes quiet mid-job gets a nudge.
Either side can close out delivered work, so if your buyer says "perfect, thanks!" and moves on, you're not holding the slot for a fortnight. Closing doesn't seal the thread either — a buyer with a real problem can still raise it in writing.
A dashboard that reports on the work
Confirmed earnings — money you pressed confirm on, refunds netted off, broken out by month. Money a buyer merely says they sent is a separate, actionable number, never folded into the headline.
Totals per currency, never summed across them. There's no invented exchange rate anywhere in this system.
Workload — what's overdue, what's due this week, how many inquiries are unanswered and how old the oldest one is, and which jobs have hit their revision ceiling.
Per-type performance — inquiries, acceptance rate, add-on attach rate, average value. Which of your cards actually sells.
Your funnel — completion rate, on-time rate, median response time, median turnaround, repeat buyers, and why you declined what you declined.
Rates only appear once there's enough history behind them. Three jobs and one decline is one decline, not a 33% decline rate.
The thread is the record
Every status on a commission moved because one of you clicked something, and the thread always says which of you. Nothing in it is rewritten or deleted.
Kylee isn't a party to your deal and doesn't arbitrate disagreements between you. But if something goes wrong, you have an exact account of what was agreed, what was shown, and what each of you said happened, and when.
How many at once
Commissions are for verified artists, and buyers need a logged-in account with a verified email. Buyers are capped at five open inquiries at a time, three a day, and one open inquiry per artist, so no single person can bury you.
How many jobs you can run concurrently depends on your membership: one on Standard, six on Pro, unlimited on Ultra. Three things about that, on purpose:
Inquiries are never gated. You always see who wants to hire you, at every tier.
It's capacity, not a quota. Finish a job and the slot comes back.
Nobody gets stranded. If a membership lapses mid-job, work already in progress finishes normally. Only new accepts pause.
When you're full, your profile says so and the button turns off, so no buyer wastes a brief on a queue that can't take it.
Getting started
Setup is one page. Add your commission types, payment methods, terms and do-not-draw list in your commission settings, and the cards go live on your profile.
If you'd rather see it before you list anything, the How commissions work page covers both sides, and there's a walkthrough of a sample commission from brief to finished files, seen from the artist's side. All of it works on a phone, which is where a lot of you will be answering these anyway.