Fund the right people for the job.

Set a bountiii you choose, and the whole of it goes to the people who help you hire. Here is exactly how it works, and where your money sits at every step.

Post a bountiii See live bountiiis

Posting starts with a free employer account. Nothing is charged until you fund a role.

How it works, and where your money sits

You set the bountiii and fund it
You choose what the role is worth. Nothing goes live until it is funded.
Held through Stripe from this moment, not in a bountiii bank account.
A community shares the role
Anyone can share a tracked link. Candidates apply directly to you.
Still held. Sharing a role is never paid, so nothing has moved.
You hire
You see every application, you interview, and you decide.
Still held. Nothing is released until the retention period you set has passed.
Your hire stays
They complete the qualifying retention period you set when you posted the role.

If they stay: The bountiii is shared across the verified referral path.
If they leave, or you hire elsewhere: Take the role down before the period ends and the bountiii is returned to you in full.

See the full detail on how your money is handled

Where does your hiring spend actually go?

The same hire, three very different ways to pay for it, and three very different places the money ends up.

Traditional agency

15–25% of first-year salary

The fee is dictated to you, tied to a salary you don't set.
It is paid to an intermediary.
Nothing comes back to you, or to anyone who helped.

Paid job ads

Hundreds to thousands, upfront

You pay per listing, whether or not anyone suitable applies.
There is no guarantee of a hire.
The spend goes to a listings business, not to a person.

bountiii

You set the bountiii, from £750

You decide what the role is worth to you.
The whole bountiii goes to the people who helped you hire, plus a transparent service fee and VAT.
You only pay the bountiii out on a successful hire who stays past the qualifying period.

Agency fees of 15–25% of first-year salary are a typical, illustrative market range, not a quote.

Oh, and another thing, the person you need may not be looking for a job

A job ad only reaches people who are already searching. A bountiii travels through people, so it can reach someone who had no idea your role existed.

How a role reaches someone who was not looking

Someone browsing bountiiis spots a senior role. They are not right for it, and they are not looking themselves.
They remember a friend whose father runs a company, and they pass it on.
The friend mentions it to her father. He was not thinking of moving at all, and now he is considering it.

Why a bountiii can be passed on three times

In that example the first person had never met the eventual candidate. A single-step referral scheme could not have reached him. Letting a bountiii be passed on up to three times is what allows a role to travel beyond any one person's immediate contacts, and it is why a share goes to each person on the verified referral path, not only the last one.

No candidate database, and no cold approach

bountiii keeps no library of profiles to search or sell. The role travels to the person, and their details never travel to you until they choose to apply. The introduction comes from someone who already knows them, not from a stranger who bought their contact details.

Reach depends on people choosing to share a role, so no particular reach or result is promised. Nothing is paid for sharing alone: the bountiii is shared only after a successful hire completes the qualifying retention period.

See the cost for your own role

Set the salary and the bountiii for a role you're hiring. Watch what you'd pay, and where every pound goes.

Annual salary for this role£35,000

Bountiii you would set£1,000

Minimum bountiii is £750.

What an agency would charge

A typical 15–25% of first-year salary, paid to the agency and never returned.

Likely agency fee: £5,250 – £7,000
Reaches the people who helped: Nothing

What you would pay with bountiii

Bountiii: goes to the people who helped: £1,000
Service fee (9%): £90
VAT on the service fee (20%): £18
Total you pay: £1,108

How the bountiii is shared

Shown for a full three-step referral path. Each share is a proportion of the bountiii.

First referrer: £500
Second referrer: £300
Third referrer: £200

On a shorter referral path, the unfilled deeper shares are retained rather than redistributed.

bountiii compared to an agency for this role

Goes to a community with bountiii

£1,000

Goes to an agency instead

£5,250 – £7,000

With bountiii the money reaches real people in the community your hire comes from, wherever that is. With an agency, the whole fee goes to the intermediary.

How your money is handled

Posting a role means depositing real money up front. Here is exactly where it goes, when it moves, and what happens if no hire is made.

Stripe processes every payment

Every payment, refund, and payout is processed through Stripe, a global payments provider used by millions of businesses. Your deposit goes to Stripe, not to a bountiii account: bountiii does not hold the refundable bounty in its own bank account.

What you pay when you post a role

At posting you are charged the following through Stripe. Only the bounty is refundable.

Bounty (refundable referrer pool): The full fixed employer-funded bounty. It is the refundable referrer pool, processed through Stripe and allocated across the verified referral path on a confirmed hire after the qualifying retention period, or returned to you in full if no qualifying hire is made. bountiii does not hold the refundable bounty in its own bank account.
Service fee (9% of the bounty, non-refundable): A separate fee charged on top of the bounty, taken at posting and earned because we begin providing listing, referral tracking, referral verification and platform administration at that point. It is not refunded if the role does not fill, if a hire leaves on or before the last day of the qualifying retention period you set for the role, or if the role is cancelled, unless a refund is required by law.
VAT (20% of the service fee): Value Added Tax at 20%, applied to the net service fee only. It is added on top of the bounty and is never taken from the refundable referrer pool.

When the bounty is paid out

The fixed employer-funded bounty is allocated across the verified referral path only after a confirmed hire and only after the qualifying retention period. Until then, the money stays with Stripe.

Qualifying retention period

You decide how long a hire has to stay before the bountiii is released, and that term is fixed before anyone shares the role.

The whole number of days, counted from the hire's start date, before the fixed employer-funded bountiii is released across the verified referral path. Choose any value from 0 to 180 days. This term is locked once the role is published, and it is shown to everyone before they share the role.

If no hire is made, or a hire leaves early

If the role is not filled, or a hire leaves on or before the end of the qualifying retention period, the bounty is returned to you in full. The service fee and its VAT are not refundable, because the platform service is provided from the point of posting, unless a refund is required by law.

What cannot happen to your money

No one can invoice you. The only amounts you are ever charged are the bountiii you set, the service fee and the VAT, all itemised before you pay.
The bountiii cannot be released early. It is allocated only after a confirmed hire completes the qualifying retention period you set.
You can take the role down at any time before a hire completes that period, and the bountiii is refunded in full.
Nothing is ever paid for sharing a role on its own, and no one pays anything to take part, so no one gains by sending you unsuitable candidates.

Before you pay

The full Fee Terms are published in advance and shown again on the funding screen for every role, and you must accept them before any payment is taken.

Fee Terms

Questions employers ask before funding a role

The answers that matter when real money is involved. The full Fee Terms are shown on the funding screen for every role, and you must accept them before any payment is taken.

Who holds my money?: Stripe does. Your payment is taken and held through Stripe, a global payments provider used by millions of businesses. bountiii does not hold the refundable bountiii in its own bank account.
What if I never make a hire?: The bountiii is returned to you in full. Only the service fee and its VAT are kept, because the listing, the referral tracking and the referral verification all start the moment your role goes live.
What if my hire leaves early?: If they leave on or before the last day of the qualifying retention period, the bountiii is returned to you in full. A share is released only once a hire has completed the period.
Can I take the role down after I have funded it?: Yes, at any time before a hire completes the qualifying retention period. The bountiii is refunded to your original payment method, processed through Stripe. After that point the bountiii is committed to the verified referral path and can no longer be refunded.
What if I hire someone who was not referred through bountiii?: Take the role down and the bountiii is returned to you in full, as long as you do it before a hire completes the qualifying retention period. That holds whether you hired through your own channels or a candidate applied directly with no referral. You pay only the service fee and its VAT.
What if nobody shares my role?: Then no bountiii is paid and the full amount comes back to you. Reach depends on people choosing to share a role, so no particular reach or result is promised.
Who gets paid, and when?: Only the people on the verified referral path that led to your hire, and only after that hire completes the qualifying retention period. Each share is a proportion of the bountiii you set, so the amount you committed never grows.
Does bountiii have any say in who I hire?: No. You see every application, you interview, and you decide. bountiii makes the introduction and verifies the referral path. Every hiring decision, and every legal duty that comes with it, stays with you.
Could I be charged more than I agreed to?: No. The bountiii, the service fee and the VAT are itemised on the funding screen before you pay, and no payment is taken until you accept the Fee Terms. There is no charge per application and no extra fee on a successful hire.

Ready to hire on your terms?

Set a bountiii you choose, and let the people who know the right person make the introduction.