These Founding Member Offer Terms ("Offer Terms") apply to the launch offer run by Daytime Consulting on Soda (the "Offer"). They add to our Terms of Service and our Refund & Cancellation Policy. If there is a conflict, these Offer Terms apply to the Offer.
In short: a limited number of the first businesses approved on Soda get free months, a permanent Founding Member badge and a free boost. Your spot is saved when you submit your application.
1. What Founding Members get
While the Offer is running, each qualifying business receives:
- Free months of its Soda subscription. They start when the business is approved: the subscription starts on approval and the first payment is taken when the free months end.
- A permanent Founding Member badge on its company page and next to its name in the directory.
- One free boost to promote a listing or auction.
- The option of free white-glove onboarding while we offer it (see section 6).
The number of businesses, the number of free months and the boost length are shown on our pricing and Apply pages when you submit your application, and those are the ones that apply to you. At launch the Offer is for the first 250 businesses, with 2 months free and a free 24-hour boost.
2. Who qualifies
- The Offer is for businesses (one per company), not individual people. Employees added to a company that is already a Founding Member share its badge; they do not get separate free months.
- The business must apply through our normal application, pass verification and be approved under our Verification Policy. Approval is never guaranteed by the Offer.
- A business that has been a member before, or that was created to obtain the Offer again, does not qualify.
3. How spots are saved
- Your spot is saved when you submit your application, not when you are approved, so you don't lose it while we review your documents.
- If your application is declined or withdrawn, the spot is released and offered to the next business.
- If you are approved, the free months, badge and boost are added to your account automatically and we let you know.
- We don't publish how many spots are left. Once all spots are saved, new applications are not part of the Offer, unless a released spot is available when they are submitted.
4. Free months
- Free months work like any other free months on Soda: they move your first charge to a later date, apply to monthly and yearly plans, and have no cash value. They cannot be refunded, exchanged for cash or transferred.
- We email you about 7 days before your first charge so you can check your plan and billing period.
- Referrals stack. If you applied with a valid referral code, the referral month is added on top of the Offer's free months, under our Referral Program Terms.
- If you cancel before your first charge, you are not charged. Unused free months stay with your business account if you subscribe again, unless the account was closed for a breach of our Terms.
5. The badge and the free boost
- The Founding Member badge is permanent while your business remains a member in good standing. We may remove it if your account is closed or suspended for a breach of our Terms of Service or Community Guidelines.
- The free boost never expires. It can be used on any eligible listing or auction of your business, has no cash value and cannot be transferred or exchanged.
6. Optional white-glove onboarding
- While we offer it, a Founding Member can ask our onboarding team to help move its existing inventory onto Soda. It's optional: you can always set up your listings yourself instead, and choosing "I'll do it myself" doesn't affect the rest of the Offer.
- You share your watch list and photos in whatever form you keep them, usually on a short call. Our team then prepares your listings as private drafts in your inventory, up to a reasonable limit per business.
- Prepared drafts are never published by us and have no price until you add one. You are responsible for every listing you publish: before publishing, you confirm you have checked the details (such as condition, set, link count and aftermarket parts) and that they are accurate.
- Only send us material you are entitled to share. You keep your rights in your photos and descriptions; you allow us to use them to prepare your drafts.
- The service is provided free, once per business, on a reasonable-efforts basis and without any guarantee of timing. We may change, limit or stop offering it at any time; drafts already in your inventory stay yours.
7. Abuse
We may refuse or remove the Offer, including free months not yet used, the badge and the free boost, where we reasonably believe it was obtained by misleading information, duplicate or connected accounts, or any other abuse. Free months already used are not charged back unless the abuse involved fraud.
8. Changes and ending the Offer
We may change or end the Offer at any time, for example when all spots are saved. Changes never affect a business whose application was submitted before the change: it keeps the Offer that was shown when it applied. If we make a material change to these Offer Terms, we will update the date and version at the top of this page.
9. Contact
Questions about the Offer: use our contact form or Help & support in your account.