Platforms and Revenue Share are often mentioned together because both exist for those who bring businesses to Conekta, but they solve different things: one is about operations between accounts, the other is about the partner's economics.
What Conekta Platforms solves
Platforms manages the operational relationship between a platform and its connected accounts: creating or connecting accounts, requesting permissions, generating charges on behalf of each business, and viewing their transactions. It's the layer that makes it possible for a marketplace or SaaS to integrate payments for many businesses at once.
What Revenue Share solves
Revenue Share handles the partner's commercial revenue: it calculates the share the partner is entitled to from the activity of the accounts it brought to Conekta and makes it easier to distribute. It isn't involved in processing payments; it works on the results.
The difference in one sentence
- Platforms: how a platform operates third-party accounts — relationships, permissions, and charges between accounts.
- Revenue Share: how much the partner earns from those accounts — calculation and distribution of its share.
Can I use both at the same time?
Yes, and it's the typical case for a marketplace: Platforms to operate its businesses' charges and Revenue Share to receive its share of that volume.
Do I need Platforms to have Revenue Share?
Not necessarily. A partner that only refers accounts — without operating charges on their behalf — can have a Revenue Share arrangement and track its portfolio from the Partner Center.
Where do I see my Revenue Share earnings?
Your portfolio's performance is available in the Partner Center; the details of your share arrangement are defined by your commercial agreement with Conekta.
Next step
If you operate third-party accounts, start with What is a connected account; if you're interested in tracking your portfolio, check What is the Partner Center.