Guide

Collabs & Listings

The collabs marketplace is where artists find each other. A listing tells others what you're looking for or offering. Here's how to create one and what each field means.

Three kinds of collab listing

  • Feature — you're looking for (or offering) a guest verse, hook, or contribution on a track.
  • Open verse — a song of yours with a verse still free on it, put out for someone to hop on, with a license and revision terms.
  • Beat — a finished instrumental looking for an artist to write to it. The mirror of an open verse: same idea, except nobody has sung on it yet.
Tip: Beats need their audio and a BPM. Both are how people find them — the board filters on tempo, and a beat nobody can hear is a description of a beat.

What a beat asks for

A beat makes one offer, and you pick which:

  • Free — anyone can take it. No money, no split.
  • Royalty split — you keep a share of the finished song instead of a fee.
  • Flat price — a one-off fee in dollars, plus the license it comes with.

It is one or the other, never both: a beat asking for $80 and half the song is two offers on one instrumental, and the second one is the one nobody reads. Features and open verses are different — a guest verse can be paid and take points as well, because that is a real deal people do.

Price a beat and you also choose a license: Lease (they use it, you carry on selling it), Non-exclusive (the same, sold as its own licence) or Exclusive(they get it outright and you take it down). A free or split beat has no license field, because a license answers "what do I get for the money" and there is no money.

We never touch the money

A price on a listing is a number you are stating, not a checkout. verses.lol holds no payment for listings and takes no cut — you and the buyer settle it directly, exactly as you would a royalty split. Agree the terms and the delivery before anything changes hands.

Creating your first listing

Head to the collabs marketplace and choose to create a listing, then fill in the details:

  • Title & description — what you want, in plain terms.
  • Genres — up to five, so the right people find you.
  • Audio preview & cover art — a clip and image to represent the listing. Required on open verses and beats, optional on features. Covers are 5MB on Free and 20MB on Premium, resized before upload either way.
  • Details — BPM range, key, and turnaround, so expectations are clear up front. Worth filling in on any listing, since the board filters on the first two; required on a beat.
  • The deal — a price, a royalty split, or free. On a beat that's one choice of three; on a feature or open verse you can name a price and offer a split alongside it.
Tip: Free previews cap at 30s; Premium runs the full track, with no length limit at all — just a 50MB ceiling on the finished clip. Keep previews representative of the finished work.

Previews are trimmed in your browser and uploaded as MP3, so the file you post is far smaller than the one you picked. Source files up to 75MB and 15 min can be loaded into the trimmer. If you do not move the handles at all, your original file is posted untouched.

The preview can come straight from your Vault instead of a fresh upload. Attach a track and the listing follows it — promote a new version and the preview updates with it.

Browsing the board

The collabs board is open to anyone, signed in or not. Filters and search run instantly against what's already on screen:

  • All / Features / Opens / Beats — the three kinds of listing.
  • Tags — pick any number of genres; a listing matches on any one of them.
  • Key — pick any number; a listing matches on any one of them.
  • BPM — a tempo range. Leave either end blank to leave it open. A listing matches if its own tempo overlaps yours, so a beat posted as 130–160 answers a search for 140–150.
  • All Prices / Free / Royalty split / Paid — one per kind of offer. A split isn't "free": it has its own bucket. The price slider is a dollar range, so split listings sit outside it once you narrow it.
  • Newest First / Oldest First.
  • Search — matches title, artist and genre.

Key and BPM filter every kind of listing, not just beats — anything that recorded them. A listing that left them blank isn't shown while one of those two filters is set.

Promoted listings sort above the rest for 24 hours — $1.99USD one-off (or the equivalent in your local currency), or one free promotion a month on Premium. It's a tier break, not a separate row: inside each half the sort you picked still applies.

Managing active listings

Free accounts keep 3 listings active at once; Premium keeps 10. At the limit, complete or remove one to free a slot. A listing marked in progress still holds its slot — only completing or deleting it gives the slot back.

Posting itself is rate limited on every plan: 12 new listings an hour and 30a day, counted across collabs and services together. It's an anti-spam floor, not a tier perk — deleting and reposting still counts.

Collab listings come off the board after a while

A collab listing shows on the board for 14 days from when it was posted. After that it stops appearing to people browsing collabs — a board of month-old asks is a board nobody trusts. A listing whose turnaround date has passed comes off the same way.

Nothing is deleted when that happens, and you are told twice: once 3 days before, while a repost still keeps it on the board without a gap, and once on the day it comes off. Both emails list the affected listings and link straight to your dashboard.

Your dashboard marks it Expired instead of Active, and shows a Repost button. Reposting gives it another 14 days and sorts it as new — it is the same listing, not a copy, so its messages, ratings, link and attached Vault track all carry over.

  • You can only repost once a listing has actually come off the board. Until then it is already there, and Promote is the way to move it up.
  • An expired listing still holds its active slot until you remove it, and it still shows on your profile.
  • If the turnaround date is what took it off the board, editing that date is the fix — reposting won't bring it back on its own.

Deals are between you and the other artist

verses.lol connects you, but it isn't part of your transaction and doesn't hold payment. Agree on terms, delivery, and any royalty split directly with the other person, and put important details in writing. See Messaging for etiquette.

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