Creator tools

Creator tools

Vid Receipts Creator plans are built for YouTube content creators who want to use timestamped, rich-text annotations as engagement tools with their audience. Think of it as a verified annotation layer on your own videos.

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Who are Creator plans for?

If you're a YouTube creator, whether you make educational content, commentary, tutorials, or entertainment, Creator plans give you tools to:

• Claim your videos and channel: take ownership of your content on Vid Receipts
• Get a verified badge: stand out as the official creator

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The Creator Hub tab

Your home base for channel verification is the Creator Hub tab in your dashboard (previously "Channels", then "Creator"). It has two sections:

There's also a /creator portal page, which is where creator analytics will live.

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Verifying your channel

Verification is instant and proves you own a channel by signing in with YouTube, there's no manual review or waiting. Once a channel is verified, the receipts you post on that channel's own videos, as the persona the channel is bound to, carry a gold creator badge.

Channel limits by plan: Creator Pro can verify 1 channel. Creator Elite can verify unlimited channels, so you can manage separate verified identities for several YouTube channels from one account.

How it works:

1. Go to your dashboard → Creator Hub tab.
2. In Verified channels, click Connect a channel (or Verify this channel - see below).
3. Sign in with YouTube and pick the channel you want to verify. We confirm ownership directly with YouTube.
4. The channel appears under Verified channels right away. Pick the persona it should post as.

One-tap verify for the channel you already connected. If you've connected a YouTube channel for your feed, the Creator Hub tab recognizes it and offers Verify [your channel]? so you don't have to reconnect. Tap it to verify that same channel, or choose Use a different channel if your creator channel is a different one. Either way, YouTube still shows its account picker so you confirm exactly which channel you're verifying.

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Switching your verified channel

To keep verification tied to a channel you genuinely own, your plan's distinct-channel limit governs changing it. The number of different channels you can verify follows your plan (Creator Pro: one; Creator Elite: many), and disconnecting a channel doesn't reset that lifetime count. Reconnecting a channel you've verified before is always allowed, the limit only applies when you move to a new channel.

Holding several channels at once, and inviting other people to manage them, is the step above Creator Pro.

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Creator badge

The creator badge is a small gold rosette with a "Creator" label that appears next to your persona name on the receipts you post on your own channel's videos. It tells other users that:

• You're a confirmed YouTube channel owner
• The receipt is authored by the person who owns the video, posting as the persona that channel is bound to

The badge is scoped to your own videos and your bound persona: a receipt you post on someone else's video, or under a different (masked) persona on your own video, does not carry it.

There is nothing to apply for and nothing to wait on. Verifying a channel is the only step: from the moment YouTube confirms you own it, every receipt you post on that channel's videos as its bound persona carries the badge. Verified channels in the Creator Hub tab is where you check which channels are verified and which persona each one posts as.

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The gold badge

On videos your channel owns, your creator receipts carry a gold badge in the header: a gold rosette and "Creator" label that set an official creator note apart from a regular receipt at a glance. The card itself renders exactly like any other receipt in every state, only the badge is gold, and it stays high-contrast and easy to read in both light and dark mode. It's purely visual, so nothing about how the receipt works changes.

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Pin receipts

Pinning is not a Creator feature and never has been. On every plan, Free included, you can pin a receipt you wrote, and the owner or an admin of a custom feed can pin any receipt in that feed. Drafts are the exception: a draft has no published home to be pinned to, so the option is absent there and appears once the receipt is out of drafts.

A pinned receipt:

• Sorts to the top of the receipt list for that video, whichever sort order is chosen
• Carries a small Pinned marker in its header
• Draws attention to key timestamps, corrections, or additional context

Use cases include pinning corrections or clarifications, highlighting key moments, and surfacing community-submitted receipts worth amplifying.

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Engagement summary

The Creator Hub tab shows a quick engagement summary for each verified channel, so you can see how your receipts are landing at a glance:

• Receipts: how many you've posted on that channel's videos
• Validates and invalidates: how the community voted on them
• Comments: replies your receipts have drawn

Creator Elite additionally sees your top receipts by vote score, so your best-performing notes surface first. The engagement summary is live now; the deeper per-video analytics below is still being built.

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Creator analytics

Some of it is here and some of it is still being built, so it's worth being precise about which is which.

Live today. The engagement summary above is real data, on Creator Pro and up: receipts posted on the channel, validates, invalidates, and comments. On Creator Elite, the Analytics card in the Creator Portal shows those same figures alongside your ranked top receipts, each one a link to the video it sits on.

Still being built. The deeper per-video work:

• Receipt views and vote patterns broken down per video
• Comment activity and timestamp engagement (which moments generate the most receipts)
• Historical trends over time
• Analytics across several channels at once, and a CSV export of the figures

Check the changelog for updates as those land.

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AI moderation

Receipts and comments on your videos are screened against the content guidelines the same way on every plan, Free included. A Creator plan does not buy you a different check or a faster one.

How many checks you run is not part of it either. Moderation is unmetered on every plan, so nothing you or your audience posts is ever held back for want of a check.

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Comparing Creator plans

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If you downgrade or cancel

If you drop below Creator Pro, the following creator features are no longer active:

• Your verified badge stops appearing on new and existing receipts
• Your creator feed stops accepting new receipts and becomes inaccessible to visitors
• If you hold multiple verified channels (Elite only), all verified channel links are suspended

Pinned receipts are untouched by any of this. Pinning is available on every plan, so your pins stay pinned and you can still pin and unpin after the downgrade.

Your receipts and content are not deleted. If you resubscribe to a Creator plan, your verified channels and creator feed restore.

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Getting started as a creator

1. Sign up or upgrade to Creator Pro or Elite from Plans & billing.
2. Open your dashboard → Creator Hub tab.
3. Verify your channel in the Verified channels section, sign in with YouTube and pick your channel. Your verified badge goes live right away.
4. Pick the persona each verified channel posts as.

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