Pricing
Two figures for a facility, a share for a partner, nothing for a nurse
A facility pays to unlock a portfolio and pays a placement fee, and the first comes off the second. A sponsoring institution earns a share of what is left, released as the nurse actually arrives and stays. How all of it works is set out below; the amounts themselves are shown to registered facilities and partners.
A nurse pays nothing, at any stage
Not to register, not to be verified, not to be placed. This is not a policy that can be decided differently next quarter: a candidate cannot be recorded as a payer at all, and the zero-candidate-fee guard runs on every checkout before a payment provider is contacted. There is no checkout, no basket and no price on any screen a nurse can reach. The hiring facility bears the cost of recruitment in full and signs an attestation to that effect before it can transact — and where a training partner has advanced costs on a nurse's behalf, the placing facility refunds them rather than her.
The portfolio unlock — once per nurse
Unlocking one candidate's rendered portfolio is charged at a platform setting rather than a constant in the code: what applies is the figure set at the moment of your checkout, and your portal shows it before you pay. A portfolio is charged once per facility and candidate pair, enforced by a partial unique index in the database rather than by a rule in an application — a second look costs nothing, and neither does returning to the same file a month later. What you buy is access to a file, not a page view.
The placement fee — negotiated, and a standard rate where it is not
Three figures decide it, most specific first: the amount set when the placement is opened, then the fee negotiated with your facility, then the platform's standard rate where neither was agreed. The standard rate is a floor under the process rather than a price list — it exists so that no placement can be opened without a fee on it.
Portfolio fees come off the placement fee
The net placement fee is the negotiated fee minus every portfolio fee already paid for that nurse. You do not pay twice for the same person. The credit is re-derived from every settled purchase rather than added to a running total, so a webhook delivered twice, a retried capture, or a purchase made before the contract existed all land exactly once. The credited total is capped at the negotiated fee: a facility that unlocked several portfolios and then agreed a small fee reaches a zero net fee rather than a constraint error.
A partner's share is reckoned on the net, not the gross
A sponsoring institution's entitlement is the net placement fee multiplied by its share percentage, unless a different share was agreed with the institution or set on the placement when it opened. Both the net fee and the entitlement are generated columns in the database: the application sets the two inputs and reads the two outputs, and never computes either. A partner and the platform read the same number out of the same place, which is the only version of a revenue share anyone can be expected to trust.
Released across five milestones, in equal parts
Contract signed, visa issued, arrival, and two further points once she is in post — an equal part of the entitlement at each, rather than one payment on signature. A schedule that does not total a whole is refused outright, because one falling short would strand money in escrow forever. Reaching a milestone earns the money into escrow; a finance administrator releases it to the partner's registered mobile money or bank destination. There is one payout per milestone, so re-confirming a milestone already reached is a no-op rather than a second payment.
How the money moves
The provider is chosen by the payer's country: Pesapal in East Africa, Stripe elsewhere, PayPal on request. Whichever route it came by, settlement converges on one function, and every provider's word is signature-verified or re-queried rather than taken from the browser's return trip. Money never touches a float anywhere here — decimal in the database, decimal in the application, decimal strings across the API — and the single conversion into Stripe's minor units happens in one place.
Every amount on this platform is a default until something else is agreed. The portfolio fee and its currency, the standard placement fee, and the default partner share are platform settings an administrator here can change; a placement fee agreed with your facility, and a share agreed with your institution, override them. What applies to you is what your contract says and what your portal shows you before you pay — not what a marketing page said in the year you read it.
Start where you fit
Registering opens the directory and the attestation for a facility, and the sponsorship tools for an institution. Nothing is charged for looking, and nothing is charged to a nurse at all.
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