Local Screens ships in stages. Stage one — live now — is the player, the drag-and-drop editor, POS-synced menu boards and a basic QR offer a host runs on their own. Performance based advertising and the offer marketplace described here are stage two: a shared marketplace where outside businesses list offers, screens auto-select what qualifies, and money moves between a business, a host and this platform. That needs payment holds, fraud checks and review tooling a single-host QR code doesn't. This page is the plan, labelled coming soon, not a switch you can flip today.
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Performance based advertising for your screens is coming: an offer marketplace that pays on the sale
Performance based advertising is coming to Local Screens. In whatever ad time a host leaves unsold, a screen will be able to show offers that pay only when a viewer actually buys — not a flat rate for a play. Hosts stay in control of what shows and keep the stated commission in full; businesses list an offer and pay only for a result. The offer marketplace is coming soon; here's exactly how both sides of it will work.
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Why offers are still coming
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For hosts: unsold time that only pays when it sells
Every screen has ad time nobody's bought yet. Once this ships, that time will be able to carry performance based advertising instead of sitting blank — offers that pay a commission only on an actual sale, never a flat rate just for showing up. It's performance advertising built for a room instead of a browser: nothing here ever bumps a paid ad slot or runs during the time a host has set aside for their own content. A host who leaves no time unsold simply never sees an offer.
ComingOffers that pay only on a sale
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What a host will control
Nothing runs without the host's say. A host will be able to turn offers off entirely, hand-pick which ones to run, or auto-select from categories they've already approved — the same category rules that already govern every screen. Every offer will carry its own code and QR, unique to that screen, so a scan or a code entered at checkout traces straight back to the screen that showed it. A viewer has 30 days from that scan to complete the purchase, and each customer counts once per offer, so a single sale can't be credited twice. Every offer will show a plain disclosure strip — "Offer from {Owner}" — so nobody mistakes a paid listing for the host's own content.
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For businesses: list an offer, pay for a result
A verified business will be able to list an offer and set how it pays: a percent of each sale, or a flat bounty per qualified conversion. Every offer goes through verification and a human review against our offer policy first — no MLM structures, no unsupported health or income claims — and regulated categories are blocked from the marketplace for now. This is performance based advertising in the plainest sense: a business pays an affiliate commission-style rate only when a sale happens, closer to an earn commission arrangement than to buying a media slot.
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Commission that's always covered
A business listing an offer will prefund a commission balance before the offer can go live, and the offer pauses itself automatically the moment that balance can't cover the next commission — so a host's earned commission is never left waiting on someone else's cash flow. The host receives the commission exactly as stated, in full. On top of that commission, the business pays a platform fee equal to 20% of the commission for running the listing, review and payout — the fee sits on top of what the host is paid, it's never taken out of it. This is the part of performance based advertising that keeps it honest for hosts: the money to pay a commission exists before the offer ever plays. We aren't publishing a host commission rate for our own offers described below; every other offer's terms are visible before a host turns it on.
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Three ways we'll confirm a sale happened
A business will be able to report a sale three ways: a signed webhook call from its own checkout, a Stripe connection that detects a matching sale on its own, or a monthly manual report for businesses without either — held for 60 days and spot-audited before it pays out. Cost per acquisition advertising, and performance based advertising generally, only works if the acquisition is real, so all three paths feed the same fraud checks before a commission is released.
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Built to catch the obvious cheats
A handful of checks will run before a commission pays out: a host or business can't earn a commission by buying from themselves, each customer counts once per offer no matter how many times they scan, a leaked or shared code gets flagged instead of paying out quietly, and every payment is held until the refund window passes — at least 30 days — before it's final. Performance based advertising only works if the sale is real, so these checks run before money moves.
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The first offers will be ours
The first performance based advertising offers on the marketplace will be Houston IT Developers' own: AI Phone 360, our AI receptionist; Amelia's Agent; and HITD IT support and managed services. Each one will be clearly labelled as a Houston IT Developers product or service, the same disclosure strip every other offer carries, so nothing about them is presented as a neutral listing. We aren't stating a host commission rate for these particular offers on this page; a host will see the exact terms before turning any offer on.
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Part of the same account, no separate plan
Performance based advertising won't need a new plan or a new login. It'll run inside the same Host Free or Host Pro account a screen already uses, on the same dashboard as the rest of what that screen does — the editor, menu boards, and once it ships, the Local Swap Network and outside ad sales described on Advertise on local screens. Results will show up on the screen's own dashboard, with scans and sales traced the same careful way as the rest of the platform's attribution. Full plan details are on Pricing.
A little more clarity
Frequently asked questions
Real answers before you make a decision.
Can a host turn on performance based advertising today?
Not yet. The offer marketplace described on this page is coming; today a host's screen shows only their own content, never an outside offer.
Is performance based advertising the same as the ad time described on Advertise on local screens?
No. That page describes businesses paying to run a paid ad on a screen. This page describes offers that pay a host a commission only when a viewer buys — pay for performance advertising, for the time a host leaves unsold rather than the time it sells as a paid ad.
Is this the same thing as performance based marketing agencies run for e-commerce brands?
The idea is the same — pay on a result, not on exposure — but this version is built for a physical screen: a scan or code at checkout, not a browser cookie or an ad click.
How will a host make sure offers don't replace paid ads?
They can't. Offers will only ever run in unsold time — never in a slot a paid advertiser has bought, and never during the time a host has set aside for their own content.
What happens if two people scan the same offer's QR code?
Each customer counts once per offer. A second scan or purchase by someone who already converted on that offer won't generate a second commission.
How long does a viewer have to buy after scanning?
30 days from the scan or code entry. A purchase after that window won't be attributed to the offer.
Can any business list an offer?
Once it opens, any verified business will be able to apply. Every offer will go through human review against our offer policy first, and regulated categories will be blocked from listing at first.
What if the business listing an offer runs out of money to pay commissions?
The offer pauses itself automatically the moment its prefunded commission balance can't cover the next payout, so a host is never left waiting on a commission that isn't funded.
Does the host or the business pay the platform fee?
The business listing the offer does. The fee equals 20% of the commission and is paid on top of what goes to the host — it's added to what the business pays, never subtracted from what the host receives.
How does a business report that a sale happened?
Three ways: a signed webhook from its own checkout, a Stripe connection that detects the sale automatically, or a monthly manual report, which is held for 60 days and spot-audited before it pays out.
Will Ads and Pixels' own services be sold this way?
Yes — the first offers in the marketplace will be Houston IT Developers' own AI Phone 360, Amelia's Agent, and HITD IT support and managed services, each labelled as a Houston IT Developers product or service like any other offer.
Your next move
Be first in line when performance based advertising opens.
Add your first screen free today, and the offer marketplace unlocks in the same account the moment it ships.