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- One Mahalo Dollar equals: $0.75 in American Currency
- Payment Requests can be Made: Once a Month
- Mahalo Files Requests: Once a Month
- Expect Paymenty: The 15th of the Following Month
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There are several ways on Mahalo where you can earn Mahalo Dollars, once you have earned M$150, you can request a payment. Here is how payments work.
Earn Mahalo Dollars in Answers
Many questions on Mahalo Answers have tips attached. When your response is chosen as "Best Answer" for that question - either by the person who asked the question or the community - we will deposit the tip into your Mahalo account.Earn Mahalo Dollars in Tasks
Sometimes, there are specific portions of a Mahalo page that our internal staff will assign to the community for Mahalo Dollars, these are called Tasks. These will include contributing to a page's Guide Note, adding Fast Facts, or even building an entire page from scratch. If you complete these tasks to the satisfaction of Mahalo's editorial team, you will receive the tip.Earn Mahalo Dollars as a Manager
When you manage Mahalo Topic Pages you in charge of keeping the page free of bad links and updated so readers can find the latest and best information regarding the topic. The better the page is, the more traffic it will generate. Mahalo rewards page managers with 50% of the page revenue in Mahalo Dollars.-
Earn Mahalo Dollars
Mahaloians who have already read how Mahalo works know that there are three corners on Mahalo where you can earn Mahalo Dollars, (Mahalo Answers, Mahalo Tasks, Page Management). Mahalo users will need to earn M$150 Mahalo dollars before submitting a payment request.
Mahalo Dollars can be used as currency on Mahalo, you can add a tip to questions you ask on Mahalo Answers, you can help fund current questions and much more!
You can also cash out your dollars, Follow through to the end of this page and you will learn how you can exchange your earned Mahalo Dollars into the local currency for where you reside.
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Step 1: Open a PayPal Account
- PayPal is a safe and secure service for accepting payments and making payments online and currently the only option of payment on Mahalo.com.
- If you already have a PayPal account you can skip this step.
- Go to the PayPal: Official PayPal.com website.
- Select Sign Up.
- Choose your country or region.
- Choose your language.
- Choose your PayPal account type.
- You probably want to select Personal.
- Fill in your personal information.
- First name.
- Last name.
- Email address.
- Full address.
- Including street, city, state, country and zip code.
- Phone number.
- Password.
- The minimum password length is eight characters. You will have to retype your password to ensure it is correct.
- Read the User Agreement and Privacy Policy.
- Link your PayPal account to a bank account or credit card.
- Activate your account.
- You should receive an email from PayPal. Simply follow the provided link to confirm your account information.
- For more information on PayPal, check out Mahalo's How to Use PayPal page.
Step 2: Request Payment
The Payment Request Form is found inside your Mahalo Profile directly under your avatar and above your statistics. Click "Request Payment" and the form will expand. Fill out your PayPal email address and the amount you would like Mahalo to send you.
After you make the request, the amount will be removed from your balance.
Step 3: The W-8/W-9 Form
Because Mahalo is dealing with real dollars, all steps need to be made to ensure transactions between us and our users are done legally and are documented for the Internal Revenue Service. In order to receive a payment, American residents will need to fill out an IRS W-9 Form and non-US citizens will need to complete a W-8.These are the steps you'll need to take:
- Make Payment Request from your profile.
- For American Residents: Download the W9 Form from the IRS - If you need help filling out the form view How to Fill Out a W-9.
- For Non-American Residents Download the W8 Form from the IRS - If you need help filling out the form view How to Fill Out a W-8
- Submit your completed form using one of the formats.
- Mail: 902 Colorado Ave. Santa Monica, CA 90401
- Fax: Fax number will be provided upon request.
- Email: Print out the form > Fill out the form > Scan the form back onto your computer and email it back to the Mahalo representative who sent you the form.
- NOTE: When you send in your W8/W9, PLEASE include your username, so we will know which account to approve
- Once Mahalo has received the appropriate form, you will receive payment in accordance with the regular pay schedule.
Step 4: Receiving a Payment
Every month on the 15th Mahalo sends out all payment requests, in most scenarios the money does arrive to PayPal accounts on the same day. Warning: there are cases where there can be an unexpected delays between the bank, Mahalo and/or PayPal. We thank users for their patience and to wait until the 22nd of the month before reporting a payment not received.
With minimal delay, American dollars will appear within your PayPal account and it is our thanks for helping us build Mahalo a truly human powered search engine.
Payment not Received?
Did your payment fail to arrive? Check this list to help determine why?1. What Day did you request a payment? It's important to remember you receive your payment the 15th of the following month. So if you made a request May 29th, you will receive your payment on June 15th. However if you made a request on June 1st, you will have to wait until July 15th.
2. What Day is it today? Is it a weekend? We would love that all payments appear exactly on the 15th, but weekends and holidays can delay transactions. Also make note that between banks, Paypal and Mahalo there could be delays. A general rule of thumb is to allow 7 additional days after the 15th for any problems to be ironed out.
3. Did you need to fill out a W-8 or W-9 form? You will need to fill out a W-8 form (if you are not a US citizen) or a W-9 (if you are a US citizen) before your first payment can be processed. If you were not notified send an email to contact@mahalo.com and request information about your payment. If you did fill out an appropriate form, remember that your payment request will reset to the day we receive the W-8 or W-9, So if you request on May 29th, but we don't receive your W-9 until June 1st, you won't get paid until July 15th.
4. Was there a problem with your account? You may not have been paid because Mahalo found questionable activity within your account. When payment requests are made, Mahalo does a full audit on the requesting account to determine if the user earned the money in his account. If Mahalo finds any signs of abuse/cheating/gaming the account holder will be notified.
If you still have a payment issue contact our editorial director Lon and he will address the issue. We sincerely ask that if your payment doesn't arrive on the 15th of the month for your patience, and trust, that it is not far behind. It takes time to convert Mahalo Dollars into currency for your bank account, if your money is not in your account by the 15th, we insist you wait a few more days before contacting Mahalo Staff.
