How many revisions should a brand get?

A revision is a small change to the post you already made. One round of those is a normal, fair part of a brand deal: the brand reads the draft or sees the post, sends its fixes in one message, and you make them. That is the whole allowance. It works because it is defined, and everything defined stays friendly.

Two things sit outside the round. First, your own mistakes: a misspelled name, a wrong price, a broken link. Fixing those is free, always, and it does not use up the round, because getting the facts right was part of the job you sold. Second, anything that changes the deliverable itself. That is not a revision, and the next section draws that line in plain words.

• ✓A revision: correct a fact, fix a tag or a caption line, swap in another photo or clip from the same visit, trim a few seconds, adjust wording the brief already covered.
• ✓New work: go back and reshoot, make a second post, change the angle or the script, post to another platform, hand over raw files, or turn the post into an ad. Each of those is a deliverable, and deliverables are what you charge for.
• ✓A taste change is not a correction: if the post matches the brief and the brand simply wishes it were different, that is a change of direction. Directions are priced, not apologized for.

Most revision fights are really naming fights. The brand says revision and means new work, because nobody wrote down which is which. The fix is boring and total: name both in the agreement, the same way a good creator brief names the deliverable, the must-mentions, and the deadline before anyone picks up a camera.

Illustrative example, labeled as such: you book a post at $100 and it takes two hours to visit, shoot, and edit. That is $50 an hour. Now the brand sends three more rounds of changes, an hour each. The price is still $100, but the job is now five hours, so you worked for $20 an hour. Nobody lowered your rate out loud. The revisions did it quietly.

Unlimited revisions also break the brief. If changes cost nothing, there is no reason to decide anything up front, so decisions arrive one round at a time, after the work is done. A defined round flips the incentive: the brand puts its real requirements in the brief, and you can price the job you were actually asked to do. It is the same principle as usage rights: scope that is not written down expands until it meets your free time.

• ✓Name the deliverable: one post or reel, plus the story if the deal includes one. If it is not on this line, it is not in the deal.
• ✓Name the round: one round of small fixes, sent in a single message, within a set window after you share the draft or post.
• ✓Separate corrections from changes: your factual mistakes are fixed free. Changes of direction, reshoots, and extra posts are priced before you start them.
• ✓Price the extra round: a flat fee or a percentage of the booking, stated now, so saying yes later takes one line instead of a negotiation.

The message itself can be short: "The booking covers one post and one round of small fixes, sent together. Corrections of my mistakes are always free. A reshoot or an extra post is new work, and I will quote it before starting." Send it in the same thread as the rate, the same way creators who get paid on time lock the deliverable and the payment in one written agreement. Brands you want to work with again will not blink. This is how professionals in every trade handle changes.

Magpie settles the revision question the same way it settles the payment question: by defining the work before the visit. A comped visit is 1 post or reel plus 1 story that shares the post, posted within 48 hours, honest and disclosed. A paid booking carries the deliverables written in its terms, at your own listed rate with a $50 floor, and you keep 97 percent. The brief carries direction, not a script, and your honest verdict stays yours, because an honest post is the product the business is buying.

Inside that frame, fixes are simple. A factual correction gets made, fast and free. A request for a different deliverable becomes a new booking at your rate, which is a compliment with a price attached, not an argument. And a clear delivery record feeds your Momentum, the points that raise your visibility to local businesses, so the creators who deliver clean, defined work are the ones who get booked again. The terms live on your profile too, which is why your creator profile is your rate card: the number, the deliverable, and the rules, all visible before anyone books.

One deliverable. One round. Your voice.

Take comped visits and paid bookings with the deliverable written down before you go, so a fix stays a fix and new work stays paid work.