Add the Contact It Came From
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A Contact is the brand, rep or seller a Product comes from, and the one who pays you for the review. Give a Contact their usual Fee and Turnaround once, and Tuskl fills in every Product they send you: the Fee you agreed, and the date your video is due.
Add a Contact
- Open Contacts in the side menu.
- Click Add Contact.
- Type their Name. That’s the only thing you have to fill in.
- If you know them, add:
- Fee: what they usually pay you per review. Tuskl uses it to fill in the Fee on their Products.
- Turnaround (Days): how many days you usually have to deliver, counted from when the product arrives. Tuskl uses it to work out each Product’s due date.
- Click Create Contact.
Email, Phone, Platform, Handle and Notes are there for your own reference.
Good to know: a Fee of 0 means “this Contact doesn’t pay a fee”, which is different from leaving it blank. Blank means you haven’t set one.
Link It to a Product
- When adding a Product: pick the Contact in the Contact field. If they’re new, click the + beside the field to create them without leaving the form.
- On a Product you’ve already added: open the Product, click Edit on the top card (Title, Creator and Contact), and choose the Contact.
- From the Contact’s page: click New Product on their Products tab, and the Contact is filled in for you.
When you pick a Contact, their Fee fills in the Product’s Fee. If you’ve already typed a Fee yourself, Tuskl leaves it alone.
Good to know: Self Purchased Products don’t have a Contact, because you bought them yourself.
How Your Due Date Gets Set
Your deadline starts when the product arrives, not when you add it to Tuskl. When you mark a Product Received, Tuskl adds the Contact’s Turnaround to the date it arrived and sets the due date. There’s more on that in Move a Product Forward a Step.
No Contact, or no Turnaround, means no automatic due date. You can always type one yourself in the Product’s Deadlines section, and Tuskl keeps a date you set by hand.
Changing a Contact’s Fee later only affects Products you add after that; the ones you already have keep the Fee they were given. Changing their Turnaround never moves a due date that’s already set.
Group Contacts Under a Company
If several reps work for the same agency or brand, add a Company (under Contacts in the side menu, then Companies) and pick it on each Contact. A Company can carry a default Fee and Turnaround too. A Contact who leaves theirs blank uses the Company’s, and the form says so with an Inherit from Company toggle.
See How a Contact Is Doing
Each Contact’s page shows running totals: how many Products they’ve sent, the Fees you agreed and collected, and what you got back from reselling or donating their items.