Commissions & milestones

You create a commission for a customer with a description and an optional total price. The customer can be:

• Online, their email matches a BladeOS account, so they get a customer view and the payment handshake.
• Offline, just a name and email in your records; everything still works, you simply mark payments yourself.

Milestones are the payment stages of the build. With a total price set, one tap generates the common default: a 50% deposit up front and the 50% balance on completion.

• Fully editable: add, remove, reorder, rename, and re-amount milestones for any build.
• Each milestone is tied to a stage: on accept, in progress, or on completion.
• A milestone is pending, awaiting confirmation, paid, or waived.
• Once a milestone is marked paid it is locked (no edits or deletion).

For an online customer, each milestone follows a two-step confirmation:

1. The customer sees your payment methods and pays you directly, then taps "I’ve sent payment."
2. You confirm receipt, optionally attaching a progress photo and a note, and the milestone is marked paid.

For an offline customer there is no step 1; you mark the milestone paid directly. Either way you get a shared, timestamped record of the build.

On their commission page, the customer sees a "How to pay" panel with your active payment methods and instructions (revealed here only, never publicly), the milestone timeline with amounts and statuses, and any progress photos you attach. Your payment values are never shown on public pages.

When a buyer taps Buy now on an available, priced listing, BladeOS creates a commission for you automatically, a product order. It carries one payment stage for the full price and reserves the piece (its status becomes in progress) so it cannot be sold twice. It then follows the same handshake above, and once you confirm payment the listing is marked sold. Cancelling the order before payment returns the piece to available. See Listings & the marketplace for the buyer’s side.