Your plan, and the referral code
What you are paying for, what happens when you fill your allowance, how to change plan or card, and the code that pays you a quarter of what anybody you bring in pays — every month, for a year.
Help ▸ Your Plan… opens one window with both halves of the money conversation: what B/side costs you, and what it can pay you.
If whoever runs your B/side does not charge for it, this window says so and there is nothing else to do.
What the plans are
Two questions decide it: do you share the project with anybody, and does anyone else need to finish it in other software?
| you work alone | other people are on the project | |
|---|---|---|
| exports for the internet | Creator | Studio |
| hands work to another facility — AAF, EDL, ProRes, change lists | Editor seat | Production, per show |
Free is three projects and 50 GB, with the same timeline, trims, effects and exports for the internet as everything else. It is not a trial and it does not expire.
What a plan adds, in the editor
Nothing a plan adds is hidden from you. Where something is part of a plan you are not on, the plan's name sits beside it — Creator, Editor seat, Studio — in the menus, in the Command Palette and in the Export window. Choose it and B/side shows you what it does, with a few seconds of it working, and Upgrade to Creator (or whichever plan has it). The upgrade goes to the same terms and box as choosing the plan here.
| on Creator and up | on Editor seat and Production | on Studio and Production |
|---|---|---|
| more than three projects; captions and subtitles; opening an AAF, Premiere project or Avid bin; every track of a recording with more than two channels of sound; OBS recordings coming in by themselves | AAF, EDL, change list and ProRes master | other people on the project |
A recording with more than two channels of sound — an OBS recording with game, microphone and Discord on separate tracks, or a field recorder's named channels — comes in whole on every plan. On Free, cutting it in brings its picture and its first track; the rest are there, untouched, the day you are on Creator. A timeline can have as many sound tracks as you like on any plan, and a mono or stereo clip is cut in whole on any plan.
The window shows the real prices, read from the billing system rather than written into the editor, so what you see is what you will be charged. It opens on Yearly: a year costs ten months on every size — two months free — and each yearly price also says what it comes to a month. Monthly is one click away.
Transcripts
Every paid plan includes transcript hours each month: Creator 2, Editor seat 3, Studio 10, Production 25. They reset on the 1st and do not roll over. After them, transcription is $0.60 an hour of audio, on the same bill. The Free plan does not include transcription. When you queue a transcript, B/side says how many of this month's included hours you have left.
Beta testers — anybody who signed the Early Access agreement — also get $5 of transcription free, about 8 hours of audio, once. It is spent after your plan's included hours and before anything is billed, so it works on the Free plan too.
Sizes, and what happens when you fill one
Each plan comes in sizes — how much footage you keep in the cloud. You pick one, so you know the bill before the month starts rather than finding out afterwards.
Go over it and the extra is charged by the gigabyte for that month. Your footage is not blocked and nothing stops working. And if the next size up would have cost less than the overage, we say so, with both numbers — being quietly billed more than your own upgrade would have cost is not something you should have to notice yourself.
A Production includes four editing seats: the people who cut, editors and assistants. Each one after that is $29 a month. Producers, executives and anyone who only watches or leaves notes are never counted, however many there are.
On a Production, the first terabyte of proxies is not billed at all. A 10 TB shoot makes about 250 GB of proxies, so on a normal show there is no storage line on the invoice.
Use beyond your plan, and your monthly limit
Some things are counted rather than unlimited: transcript hours, AI voice-over characters, and storage above your size. Each paid plan includes an amount every month, and the window shows, under Use beyond your plan, how much of each you have used this month and what the next hour, the next 1,000 characters or the next gigabyte costs.
You set a monthly limit on usage charges in the same place: type a figure and choose Set Limit. It is $10 until you change it, and nothing above it is charged, whichever of the three it comes from. A voice-over take that would go past it says so before it is made, and offers to raise the limit there and then. Included amounts do not carry over to the next month.
Usage charges start on November 18, 2026, for accounts on a paid plan that signed up on their own. Until then nothing past a plan is charged. Beta testers, and anybody on the Free plan, are never charged for usage.
Changing plan, card or anything else
Manage billing goes to Stripe, which is where your card, your invoices, your VAT or tax number and changing size live. B/side never sees your card number — the window hands you over and Stripe hands you back.
Cancelling, or pausing instead
Cancel Plan… in this window asks why, in one tap. On a monthly plan, two answers come with one offer each:
- I'm between projects: pause the plan for one, two or three months instead. Nothing is charged while it is paused and every project and all your footage stay as they are; you have what Free includes. Your billing date stays the same, and the plan comes back by itself on the date shown, or sooner with Resume Now.
- It costs too much: 30% off for your next three months, then the usual price. The window shows both prices first.
Each offer can be taken once. Cancel My Plan is on every step, and saying no to an offer cancels at once. A yearly plan is not offered either.
Cancel and you keep everything until the end of the period you have paid for. After that the account is Free again: your projects and your cuts are still there, and you can still export them.
From November 18, 2026, footage above the Free plan's 50 GB follows the Early Access Agreement once a paid plan ends. The footage you used most recently stays, up to 50 GB. The rest is kept as it is for 30 days, with an email when they start and another 7 days before they end, listing what stays and what moves. Choose a plan in that time and nothing happens. After 30 days the editing copies above 50 GB leave the cloud (they are made again from your drives when you come back), and camera originals you kept in the cloud move to long-term storage for a year, then are deleted, with an email 30 days before.
Coming back to a paid plan brings them back by itself: the originals return from long-term storage, and their editing copies are made again from them. It costs $0.01 per GB for each month they were held (a month started counts), plus $0.01 per GB, added once to your next invoice; an email says how much. It can take up to 12 hours. Footage that was only on your own drives comes back when you plug the drive in and choose Media ▸ Find Missing Footage….
When the Early Access Agreement changes, B/side shows the new version the next time you sign in. If you would rather not accept it, Close My Account instead… on that screen closes the account, any paid plan stops renewing, and the unused part of what you paid in advance is refunded to your card.
If a payment fails, nothing is taken away. The window says the card needs a look and everything keeps working while you sort it out. Losing access to a cut in the middle of a show over an expired card would be the worse failure.
The referral code
Every account has one, whether or not you pay for anything. Somebody who signs up with your code means you earn a quarter of what they actually pay, every month, for twelve months.
Copy link is the one to use. It gives you something like app.bside.video/r/K9J2M4 — paste that in a video description, a bio or a message, and anybody who follows it is credited to you when they sign up, without having to remember a code or type it anywhere. The bare code is there too, for reading out loud.
The link only has to be followed once, at any point before they sign up. It is credited the moment they have an account, and it cannot be moved afterwards — so somebody who followed your link and then somebody else's is yours, and the other way round too.
So one person on Creator is $2.25 a month to you. One on Studio is $12.25 a month. Ten people on Studio is $1,470 over the year.
What the window shows you, always:
- Yours now — earned, and waiting to be paid.
- Clearing — earned in the last 30 days. A commission clears a month after the invoice, because an invoice can be refunded in that time and a commission on money that came back is money we would have to ask you for.
- Earned in total, and anything already paid out.
It also says exactly what has to happen before the next payment: paid out at $50, or after 90 days if the balance is over $10, so a small balance is never stranded. The payment fee is ours, not taken out of what you are owed.
Choosing a plan, and cancelling
Choosing a paid plan shows its price and how it renews before anything is charged: it renews automatically, monthly or yearly, until you cancel. Tick I agree to automatic renewal on these terms, then Continue to Payment opens Stripe's checkout, where you pay by card. B/side never sees your card.
You get an email saying what you signed up for. A yearly plan gets a reminder about five weeks before it renews, and every plan gets a reminder at least once a year.
To cancel, open Your plan ▸ Manage billing and choose Cancel, or email kev@postmanifest.com. You keep the plan until the end of the period you have paid for, and moving to Free deletes nothing. Paid plans are for customers in the United States for now.
Getting paid
Under Getting paid, choose the country you are paid in and press Set Up Payouts with Stripe…. Stripe's own page asks for your bank and tax details (B/side never sees them) and brings you back. From then on payments go to your bank through Stripe, Stripe sends your tax form, and Open Your Stripe Account… shows your payouts and forms. If Stripe cannot pay you where you are, choose Somewhere else and be paid by PayPal, Wise or a bank transfer we arrange by email instead.
Every payment is listed there afterwards, with its date, the amount and the payment's reference, so you can match it to what arrived. If you also test B/side, approved bounty credits are added to the same balance and paid together, once B/side has revenue.
Three things worth saying plainly, because affiliate programmes are usually vague about them:
- It is a quarter of what they pay, not of the list price. If they had a free first month, that month earns nothing — there is nothing to share.
- A refund cancels that month's commission. It comes off the balance; we never ask for money back.
- Production is not in the programme. A television show arrives through a post house on a negotiated agreement rather than through a link, so there is no commission on one.
Signing up through your own code does not work, and a signup that looks like the same person twice is flagged for a person to look at rather than voided automatically — if it was genuinely somebody else, we would rather ask than quietly cancel it.