Imvu Earn
Irmgard Rossie
IMVU is home to a massive and varied creator community, many of whom earn real life money through selling their creations in the IMVU catalog. For some who create as a hobby this means a little extra money here and there, but for others who treat their IMVU shop as their business it means actually earning a living!
Creator Payments are open to all creators who are able to verify their account and accept payments through PayPal. The account verification process includes providing us with identification details and a review of your catalog.
You will earn at a rate of 40 cents per 1,000 Credits*, based on the profits you have set for your products. So for example, for a product where your profit is 100 Credits, you will earn 4 cents each time it is purchased with real Credits. Sales made with Promotional Credits (also known as Promo Credits or Predits) continue to earn you one Developer Token per sale.
Once you have done that head over to Creator Payments (you must have accepted the Creator Agreement to view this page). To begin the account verification process click on the Account Verification Page link or the Submit Request link, as shown below:
This will bring up the Account Verification window which you can use to provide us with the details needed to verify your account. You only need to do this once. All Creators will need to supply us with their full name, physical address (no P.O. boxes), phone number and PayPal email. All Creators will also need to complete tax-related documents as per IRS requirements.*
Once you have completed your information and uploaded the relevant documents, hit the Submit button. You will be assigned a unique verification ID for your request and will receive a confirmation message (and email) to notify you that your request has been received.
Yes! After you have signed up to Creator Payments you can set what percentage of your earnings you wish to receive in cash or Credits. You can earn 100% cash, 100% Credits or anything in between. Use the slider on the Creator Payments page to set your desired distribution.
Questions regarding the Creator Payment program are submitted through the Creator Payments page rather than the Help Centre. Click the link near the top of the page to go to the Creator Payments help ticket page.
As well as sections in your sales reports for cash balance events and your pended cash schedule, you can download a CSV file containing details of all transactions that earned you cash from the Creator Payments page. Select the month you wish to download reports for the click the Download Report button.
Creators will be able to earn VCOIN by creating NFTs with IMVU Studio if they are part of the Earn Money Program and can purchase VCOIN. Learn about the Earn Money Program here. There may be some restrictions on countries and US states where VCOIN can be purchased or withdrawn. See full list here.
All users can send VCOIN, receive VCOIN, and convert VCOIN to Credits. All users who can purchase VCOIN can purchase NFTs on IMVU. VCOIN earned through Gigs or gifted by friends can be used to purchase NFTs on IMVU
Similar to our current Shop and other online marketplaces, we have standard fees that go towards the submission, listing, transaction, royalty, and platform supporting NFTs on IMVU. See below for an explanation of each fee.
A platform fee covers the cost related to future investments in the IMVU platform, ongoing research & development, maintenance of the servers that all IMVU experiences use, as well as platform-wide customer support, user and experience moderation, and user acquisition.
NFTs on IMVU rely on smart contracts, which use blockchain technology to track ownership of NFTs. These contracts behave similarly to how property and vehicle titles are used to track ownership of physical items.
A smart contract is a piece of programming that lives on the blockchain and executes automatically, without the input of a centralized source. They are used to track ownership of digital items, similar to how property and vehicle titles are used to track ownership of physical items.
On IMVU, smart contracts are primarily used to automatically guarantee royalties to Creators no matter whether the sale happens on our platform or somewhere else. If your creation is sold, you get a piece of it.
The 2nd problem is that they've transformed it. Now the only rooms that show in the search are rooms with "moderator and owner's present" ONLY. They delete rooms of owner's who were inactive for too long, removing all my favorite hangouts. You can imagine how often unfair ejections and bans happen in rooms where the owner's 10 twelve year old friends are the only ones present until you join...
I was in other place from 2007-2011 but after 2010 they took away voice , Took away mature adult things even bonk many people had adult pass verification , Dj could not stream music like they used to. A lot of things were taken away that friends were not logging in anymore. People got tired of clique groups that report things for no reason that these group some how had power it got people vanished if you did not fit in they find ways to cross others. Things got old and it scared people away but that place need to stop these group but I don't go on thier but that in the past this the present and second life is home. Many of us came to Second life For freedom so we can be ourselves to voice , listen to music and play music and have fun with laughs just hanging out finding the kind good people on the same level.
I left IMVU within a week, because I couldn't customize my avatar enough, and all I got was random chats with guys in Romania who wanted to rant about burning gypsy villages and stuff, and tell me how stupid I was for not being a man.
I just remembered IMVU charging a whole lot of credits for Premium Names. Having to pay 500,000 Credits from a 2 letter Premium Name, 500,000 Credits for 3 letter Premium Name, and 150,000 Credits for any other Premium Names. I remember when you could use certain actions for free then latter on they made you have to buy VIP to use those actions.
I joined IMVU after i joined Second Life to see how making clothes work there. The seams on clothes in IMVU go up your belly button and down your spine instead of along your sides so I could not take my (before mesh) clothes there without some serious chopping up in photoshop. I had a lot of fun shopping there and getting banned from rooms just for being a neko. IMVU is a strange game all the guys ask you is do you like sex. Over and over like it is the greatest question since sliced bread. They can have 10 rooms open at the same time asking 10 different girls that same dumb question. When they cant do anything about it without a adult pass, and all the animations are terrible. Its basically a endless money pit of credits going on shopping for cute stuff you cant wear anywhere because rooms have too many rules and they can only fit 10 people aka the owners friends not you.
I purchased a super expensive naked suit that just got deleted after one day because i had no adult pass, and SL lets you be naked free. I also heard it is illegal to take money out of IMVU even when you are a creator you have to do dodgey back door deals with third party banks with no recourse if they rip you off. It seemed wrong that its super easy to buy IMVU money (there is cards even at the supermarket), yet super duper hard to take your hard earned money out. Given that at the time it was easy to take money out from SL (back then) (& still is easier and much safer). I decided Second Life was a better use of my time.
I started out on IMVU probably back in 2007 or 2008, back in the bobblehead days, I actually liked it a lot back then. This was before their mass migration to SL. I used to watch a show called Gossip Girl and it had a tie in with Second Life. People always remember CSI and the Office, but there were other shows that had tie ins that didn't make SL look terrible. I tried it out from there and was wowed.
I kinda never looked back. A couple years ago, i tried it again, since I kept running into so many transplants telling me how awesome it was. First, I tried to reopen my old account. I couldn't remember any of my account details or my password or the email i used. So I started a new account and was instantly greeted by a bunch of popups and it triggered a migraine after about 1 hour.
Oh crap... based on some comments here, I probably would hate being on IMVU today then. Popups upon first login? Never got that from any other metaverse I've tried so far, not even VRChat. Never had an issue with the learning curve of SL. Mechanically, SL isn't much different from playing RPG's or flight simulators IMO. That's why I got that part quickly. It's the creative end of things that took longer for me to figure out... but that one never ends, really. That's what hooked me to SL (and a bit later with Open Sim, the weirdo hypergrid cousin), along with some of the social aspects it encourages in world.
Another thing that turned me off: You have to pay for everything. Are you an adult? It costs $20 to get an adult badge. You want these jeans? They cost coins, but not the regular coins, the other coins..the ones you have to pay for. I hate two currency systems.
I never left SL for IMVU. What I did do was check IMVU out around 20 years ago. When I found out Anshe had her fingers in that pie (as well as many others) I left and never looked back. I never logged in much to begin with since the graphics didn't hold a candle to Active Worlds, much less SL.
Speaking of creating content, how do developers make money? Well unlike some platforms, you gotta spend a little bit of money to make money, but unless you put the time and effort and have a little bit of talent, it may not pay off.
To become a content creator, you must first purchase your name. When you initially sign up, you have a guest tag on your name. Purchasing your name removes this. After you have done this, you need to go to the creator program tab and sign up to become a creator. The education center has a wealth of knowledge on how to get started after that. You will need to also have a few credits on hand in order to submit your first product as there is a submission fee. Once someone purchases your product, you will earn the amount of credits you set as a mark-up for your product or the equivalent cash value depending on how you have your earnings distribution set up. Cash earnings is 40% of credit earnings so 1000 credits is equal to $1.00 which means you only earn $.40 for every 1000 credits you earn. This is because users rarely spend full price on their credits as IMVU often has sales on their credits.
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