Sell art commissions without an invite code

This one is for the artist with a client already asking and nowhere to send them. Not for the backer or the bonder; the rest of the series walks those seats. This is the shortest path from a finished piece to money in your balance, on a platform that does not ask who vouched for you.

Why is there no code?

Because a sealed post does not need one. The marketplaces that gate artist access do it to keep their listings clean, and that is a fair goal for a listing. openmog has no listing to protect: a sealed post is just a post whose payoff costs money to see. The piece is public in tease form, the artwork is sealed, and the only person who has to trust you is the client who already does. There is nothing for a code to guard, so there is no code.

How does the commission run?

1. Take the ask in chat. The client messages you with what they want, and you agree the piece and the price there. Messages go from one person to another, and nothing automated answers in your place.
2. Make the piece. Same as it ever was.
3. Post it sealed. Write the post, attach the artwork, and mark it sealed. Choose pay to reveal and set the price you agreed. The composer shows the all-in number the client will see before you commit to anything. A sketch, a crop or a description can stay public as the tease; the full piece is the payload.
4. Send the link. It works anywhere you can paste it. The client already has an account from the chat; the link opens straight to the tease and the reveal button.
5. They reveal, you are paid. One tap, one charge, and the full-resolution artwork unlocks for them while the full price is credited to you.

What does the client pay?

You set what you receive and receive 100% of it. openmog’s fee, 10% of each payment with a 75 cent minimum, is included in the price the client sees, not deducted from you. Set a $30 commission and the client’s confirm button shows $33.34; $30.00 lands in your balance. A $7 piece charges $7.78 and credits you $7.00. Reveal prices run $5 to $1,000. Credits land as pending, become withdrawable seven days later, and withdrawals start at $50.

Is the seal real?

Yes, and not because the image is blurred. The sealed artwork is never sent to a browser that has not paid, sealed media lives in storage that public URLs do not reach, and search indexes only the public tease, so nothing sealed can leak through a result either. What the client sees before paying is exactly what you left public, and nothing more.

What a reveal is not

It is not exclusive. A pay-to-reveal post never goes public, but anyone who wants the piece can pay the same price for their own look. For fan art, a character sheet or a piece you were going to share anyway, that is extra income from a post that keeps earning after the client has theirs. For a private commission, say so up front and price accordingly, because the platform will sell a second look to a second buyer.

It is also not a queue. There is no request form, no proposal step and no dispute desk; the conversation is yours to run, in chat, the way most commission artists already run it on a social feed. What openmog adds is the part that used to need a code: the delivery and the payment, in one post. The VGen comparison covers the marketplace side.

When to crowdfund instead

A commission has one buyer; some pieces have a crowd. A group illustration, a print run, the full set behind a preview: seal it behind a goal of $20 to $1,000 with a deadline of at most five days, and the piece opens for everyone the moment the goal is met. Backing places a hold, not a charge, so a campaign that misses charges nobody and the piece stays sealed. Start with the client in front of you, though; the reveal is the fastest first sale on the platform, and your first sealed post covers the rest.

Or watch one run first: the sealed feed shows every sealed post live right now. And if you are bringing a client and want a hand with the first one, write to support@openmog.com and we will set it up with you.