What counts as a verified user
By the Tesor team · The canonical definition · Updated June 2026.
The definition
A unique, authenticated human who came through an approved creator's tracked link, completed the one first action chosen for the campaign, survived a 7-day settlement window, and passed fraud and anomaly checks. Anonymous, duplicate, fraudulent, or undisclosed-promotion traffic does not count.
This is the same wording used in our Terms. When we say we drive you 50 verified users, this is exactly what we are counting.
The Tesor guarantee is 50 verified users in 30 days, or a full refund. A number like that is only honest if “verified” means something specific, so this page is the canonical definition. Every word is deliberate: a verified user is not a click, an impression, or a raw signup. It is a real human who arrived through an approved creator, did the one thing you chose to count, and then survived the checks that separate a genuine user from noise.
The settling to verified lifecycle
A user does not become verified the instant they sign up. They settle into it. Each event moves through the same five stages, and only what comes out the far end counts.
- 01
Arrived
A real person clicks an approved creator's tracked link and lands on your product. The link is what ties the visit to a specific, vetted creator and campaign.
- 02
First action + #ad disclosure
They complete the one first action you chose for the campaign, the single moment you defined as real engagement. The promotion that brought them is a paid partnership and is disclosed (#ad); undisclosed promotion never counts.
- 03
7-day settlement window
The event is held for 7 days. Refunds, chargebacks, bot patterns, and duplicate or self-referred signups get time to surface before anything is counted.
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Deduped and fraud-screened
We remove duplicates and run fraud and anomaly checks. Anonymous, duplicate, or fraudulent traffic is dropped here.
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Verified
What survives is a verified user: it counts toward your 50 and toward the creator's payment. We guarantee the arrival and the first action, not what happens after.
The arrival and the first action are what we guarantee. Retention, revenue, and anything after that first action are a function of your product, not the campaign.
Provisional vs settled
Between the first action and the end of the settlement window, a user is provisional: they have done the action, but they have not yet cleared the 7-day window or the dedupe and fraud screen. A settled user has passed both. Only settled users count toward your 50, and creators are paid only once the verified users they drove have settled. This is why the count you see can move down as well as up during a campaign: provisional events that turn out to be duplicates or fraud never settle.
What does not count
As the definition states plainly, the following never count as verified users:
- Anonymous traffic: visits and clicks with no authenticated human behind them.
- Duplicates: the same person counted more than once, removed during deduplication.
- Fraudulent traffic: bots, anomalies, and self-referred or manipulated signups caught by fraud screening.
- Undisclosed promotion: creator promotion that is not disclosed as a paid partnership (#ad). It does not count and is not paid.
FAQ
What counts as a verified user?
A unique, authenticated human who came through an approved creator's tracked link, completed the one first action chosen for the campaign, survived a 7-day settlement window, and passed fraud and anomaly checks. Anonymous, duplicate, fraudulent, or undisclosed-promotion traffic does not count.
What is the difference between a provisional and a settled user?
A provisional user has arrived through a tracked link and completed the chosen first action, but is still inside the 7-day settlement window and has not yet cleared deduplication and fraud screening. A settled, verified user has passed that window and those checks. Only settled users count toward the 50 and toward creator payment.
What is the 7-day settlement window?
After a user completes the first action, their event is held for 7 days before it can count. The window gives refunds, chargebacks, bot patterns, and duplicate or self-referred signups time to surface, so a verified user reflects a real human rather than a transient or fraudulent event.
Does Tesor guarantee retention or revenue?
No. We guarantee qualified arrival and the one chosen first action, not retention, revenue, or any outcome after that action. What happens after the first action is a function of your product, and that is yours to own.
Does undisclosed promotion count?
No. All creator promotion is paid partnership and must be disclosed (#ad). Undisclosed promotion does not count and is not paid.
Read the full program terms for how acceptance, escrow, and the conditional guarantee fit together.
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