Set your tiers
You define up to four tiers on your Hive. The entry tier can be free or paid. Pricing the entry tier makes the Hive paid-only: Members need active access to a paid tier before they can copy. Each tier carries its own:
- monthly price: what the member pays; after the payment processor's fee, 90% becomes Captain earnings by default and HiveTrade keeps the rest as its platform share
- per-call cap: the most a single copied call can stake for that member
- budget cap: the most total money that member can put to work in your Hive
- member cap: a finite seat limit, defaulting to 5,000
Tiers work the same way on Polymarket and Kalshi Hives.
Paid tiers go on sale once you can get paid
You can create and price paid tiers at any time, but members can only buy them once the human Captain receiving the Hive's earnings has set up payouts with Stripe and verified their identity. Until both are ready, paid tiers are hidden from members. A free entry tier remains available, subject to its seat limit; a paid-only Hive has no free copying option. You still see the paid tiers in Hive HQ → Tiers, with the setup action that is needed.
Existing subscriptions continue. An active paid subscriber can still move to a strictly cheaper paid tier on the same Hive when new sales are unavailable; cancellation remains available, and a free downgrade is available when the Hive has a free entry tier.
This requirement applies on both exchanges, and to automated bot Hives the same way: a bot Hive's paid tiers go on sale once the Captain who runs it has set up payouts and verified their identity. Earnings go to that human Captain, not the bot. A bot Hive without a human payee cannot sell paid tiers.
Complete payout and identity setup
Open Hive HQ → Earnings. Follow Set up payouts and provide the country and account information requested. Payouts are available only in supported countries.
Use Verify your identity on the same page to complete the separate identity check. Returning from the check is not confirmation: wait until Hive HQ shows you as verified. If it asks for more information or says verification is not available where you live, follow the displayed instructions or contact support. A free-only Hive does not need this separate identity check, and it can go public without payouts (public vs private).
Price protection
A tier's monthly price is locked while it has a noncancelled paid subscription or a pending paid-tier switch holding a seat. Payment trouble or cancellation scheduled for period end does not immediately unlock it; expired complimentary access does not keep it locked. Free memberships alone do not lock a free tier's price.
Hive HQ shows when the price is locked. To offer a different price, add a new tier. Name, icon, budget caps and member cap remain editable. The price unlocks once no qualifying subscription or pending switch holds it. A refused price change does not save the other changes in that request either.
A member who is checking out also holds the tier's price (and one of its spots) for up to 31 minutes, preserving the price quoted in that Checkout. Hive HQ then says the price is locked while a member is checking out: try again in a few minutes. A tier cannot be removed while a member is checking out on it either.
Reorder tiers or offer a cheaper option
Use Add tier, then Move up or Move down to put the new tier in the right place. Order new or moved tiers from cheapest to most expensive; equal prices are allowed. Moving an existing tier keeps its subscribers, price and limits. To offer a cheaper price while the old price is locked, add a cheaper tier instead of changing the old one.
Putting a free tier first makes the Hive available for free copying again. Pricing the entry tier does not turn existing free membership into a purchase: those Members need paid access before new copies can be placed. Their existing positions are not sold by a tier edit.
How tiers pay you
A higher tier can allow higher caps; the Member still chooses their own budgets. A purchase does not automatically increase a budget or activate copying. You are paid by subscriptions to the tiers you price. There's no platform-wide ceiling on your tiers' caps; how you price and cap them is your decision. You never take a cut of a member's profit, and neither does HiveTrade. You can change your tiers at any time, subject to the price lock above.
Share Captain earnings with co-Captains
On a human-led Hive, the creator can set each co-Captain's percentage under Captain earnings split in Hive HQ → Settings → Co-captains. These percentages divide the Captain earnings after the payment processor and HiveTrade shares; they are not percentages of Members' trading profits. The creator keeps the remainder. Without a split, the human payee receives all Captain earnings.
Changes apply when future subscription payments are recorded, and do not redivide earnings already recorded. Each recipient needs their own payout setup and verified identity before they can be paid.
When earnings can be paid
Subscription earnings stay pending until the end of the paid subscription period. Eligible earnings are then sent through Stripe once payout setup, identity verification and any account review are complete. A refund before the period ends can reverse pending earnings. Pending or on hold does not mean money has reached your bank.
Download your payout statement
On the web, open Hive HQ → Earnings and choose Download payout statement (a CSV file). The download groups your recorded earnings by calendar month, including subscription revenue, platform fees, net amounts paid and the balance held at month end. Each payment uses the split in effect when HiveTrade recorded it.
A held amount is not a completed payout. The export is an informational summary, not an official tax document. Downloading it does not start a payout.
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No tier limit
Where you choose No tier limit, that tier ceiling does not apply. Members still choose their budgets, and account funds, exchange requirements and execution controls continue to limit orders. A seat limit is a separate setting.