Prize Coins

Network prizes redeemed on your wall, reimbursed at face value.

Prize Coin redemption

LootHQ runs a network-wide monthly leaderboard and awards winners Prize Coins. Users redeem those Prize Coins on your wall for your own currency, and you need to change nothing to support it.

You are paid, not charged. LootHQ funds every prize. When a user redeems Prize Coins on your wall, we credit your wallet the full face value of those coins (1,000 coins = $1.00) at the moment of redemption. You are never made to fund a prize you didn't offer; you are reimbursed for the points you issue.

It arrives as a normal postback. Same URL, same macros, a fresh transaction_id. Your handler does not need to distinguish it. The one difference is behind the scenes: we retry a prize redemption for about 3.7 days rather than the usual ~41 hours, because unlike a conversion there is no other record for you to reconcile it from afterwards.

Prize redemptions are reviewed before issuance and need no special handling on your side.

Turn the board on and we pay you 5% more

Prize Coin redemption works on every active placement whether or not you do anything; there is no switch to receive it. But if you display the leaderboard, every prize redemption on that wall pays you 105% of face value instead of 100%. The extra 5% is funded by LootHQ and lands as a separate Leaderboard bonus line in your earnings.

Dashboard → Placements → your placement → toggle Network Leaderboard on. It adds a Leaderboard tab to your wall so your users can see where they rank and what they're competing for, and it takes effect on the next wall load, with no cache to wait out and nothing to redeploy. Off by default on every placement, and not available on Offers API placements (the board is a wall UI surface).

The board never names another site. It shows handles and avatars only, with no publisher, no placement and no cross-site comparisons, so it cannot send your users anywhere.

Optional: telling the two apart

If you want to distinguish a prize redemption from an ordinary conversion postback (to label it differently in your own ledger, say), add the optional {source} macro to your postback URL. It resolves to prize on a prize redemption and is empty on every other postback. Branch on source === "prize"; it never resolves to offer. It is purely additive: leaving it out changes nothing, and existing handlers are unaffected.

Prize Coins have no cash value and cannot be withdrawn; redeeming them on a wall is the only way they can be spent. Full rules are in the contest terms.