Invitations

An invitation is a brand-initiated collaboration offer. Instead of you applying to their public campaign, the brand reaches out to you directly — they saw your profile, like what you do, and want to skip the public queue.

Invitations live at /creators/dashboard/invitations.

How invitations differ from applications

	Application	Invitation
Initiated by	You	Brand
Visible to	Just the brand and you	Just the brand and you
Surface	Campaign feed	Invitations inbox
Best for	Open campaigns you discovered	Brands targeting your specific reach

If a brand has worked with you before, expect repeat invitations rather than new applications — they already trust you.

What an invitation contains

Each invitation card shows:

• Brand — name, logo initial, and a verified checkmark if the merchant has a published merchant profile. Click through to the merchant page in a new tab before responding.
• Campaign name — what the brand wants made.
• Sent date — when the brand reached out.
• Budget — the IDR amount they've set aside.
• Message — a free-form note from the brand. They often pitch why they want you specifically.
• Brief — the underlying campaign brief, the same content other creators would see if it were public.

If the merchant hasn't published a public merchant profile yet, you'll see "Merchant profile not published yet" in place of the brand link — the invitation is still legitimate, but you can't pre-vet the brand the same way.

Responding

While the invitation is in sent state, you have two actions:

• Accept — agrees to the collaboration. Ripllo mints a Collaboration record and prompts the brand to fund escrow. The invitation moves to accepted.
• Decline — politely passes. The invitation moves to declined; the brand sees that on their side.

After response, the action buttons disappear and the card shows the final status.

Check the brand first. The merchant link on the invitation opens their public merchant profile in a new tab. Use it — verified merchants with a track record reduce your risk.

Statuses

• sent — Waiting on you. Action buttons visible.
• accepted — You accepted. A collaboration was created (visit Collaborations to find it).
• declined — You declined. No further action.
• expired — Invitation had an expiry date and passed without a response.

Once accepted, the rest of the flow is identical to an application-led collaboration — escrow funding, draft uploads, approval, payout. See the Collaborations page for the full lifecycle.

When you might decline

Common reasons creators decline:

• The budget is below your rate card and you don't want to negotiate.
• The brand's product doesn't fit your audience or your personal brand.
• The timeline is too tight.
• The brand isn't verified and you can't gauge the risk.

Declining doesn't penalise you — brands send invitations as soft pitches, not contracts. A clean "not a fit this time" is fine.

What's next

• Collaborations — what happens after you accept.
• Profile — keep this current; it's what drives invitations.