Role Credits

To employees and everyone who creates products and services:

Get featured on your products and build reputation on customer reviews.

A company sends you a Role invitation. You create a Virthium profile and provide your role and contribution. Your journey starts here.

Your name and role are proudly displayed on product pages, as if you were a cast member in a film.

People click on your name to see your profile…

It shows the products you worked on, the roles you played, and the reviews your products received.

You own your account, just like you own your LinkedIn profile.

If you're in the Top 10, that's not because of your résumé, your connections, or your manager's opinion of you. It's because customers who buy your products are happier with their purchases than customers who buy other people's products.

Case in point: you wouldn't judge a content creator on YouTube by their résumé. They earn reputation through likes their videos receive. Virthium works the same way—except you're getting product reviews instead of content likes.

Your customers will know who you are, and you will know your customers. Click on their names. See what they do. They have Virthium profiles too. It's a network.

Remember that feeling when someone has liked and commented on your post? This time, it's a real customer review for an actual product you contributed to.

You don't have to create content to get public recognition. You can earn it by doing the same work you're already doing.

To business owners:

Engage employees by featuring them on product pages, as the superstars they are.

List your product on Virthium, invite your employees to share their roles, and add a widget to your site.

Role Credits give your employees a whole new reason to care about the product.

• It has their names on it.
• It's linked to their public profiles.
• It's part of their professional legacy, their portfolio.
• Success is measured by customer reviews.

Everyone is personally invested in working together and making the best product possible because everyone wants those 5-star reviews.

Did you contribute? Add your own role.

Have external contributors—consultants, inventors, or collaborators? Send them a Role invitation too. They don't have to be employees to be credited for their work.

Customers feel safer buying your product.

When customers see Role Credits, they see people who put their own reputation behind the product they created.

Employees know everything about their product. They simply wouldn't attach their names to something they knew was bad or unsafe. It shows confidence and trustworthiness. It's real skin in the game, not a marketing gimmick.

A website visitor looks at the employee profiles. They see real people with a history of making successful products that customers love. They click the buy button. Smart decision.

Role Attribution and its impact:

Virthium adopts the same “role attribution” principle used by movie studios and book publishers, as well as platforms such as Reddit, GitHub, YouTube, Stack Overflow, Quora, and others.

Role attribution has motivated millions of people to voluntarily post content, contribute to open-source projects, and answer questions online. People receive public recognition for their work in the form of views, likes, upvotes, and comments. The ownership of this feedback is a powerful motivator.

Virthium provides the same level of ownership and recognition. The only difference is that our users post products instead of content and receive customer reviews instead of upvotes and likes.

Getting the reviews:

We provide a unique Feedback Rebates program that allows any business to get unbiased customer reviews for their products and services.

A rebate is like a digital check that the company offers to all potential customers for their purchase. Customers can cash (redeem) this check on Virthium by leaving an honest review after purchase.

A Feedback Rebate offer may look like this:

10% is just an example. Businesses can set their own rebate value.

Virthium guarantees these rebates whether it's a 1-star or a 5-star review. The customer simply clicks a special link and leaves a review to receive their cashback. They cannot leave a review without buying the product first. Learn more.

Why doesn't the rebate bias reviews:

A rebate is a sale incentive (not a review incentive). Businesses offer it before (not after) the sale, just like any other “% OFF” sale discount. Sale incentives don’t bias reviews because they are reciprocated by the purchase, not the review.

In other words, a customer doesn't feel obligated to leave a better review than the product deserves just because they got it “on sale.”

To customers:

Role Credits and Feedback Rebates can make your shopping experience safer.

Companies are always trying to sell you things—but how do you know you won't regret your purchase?

Look at the Role Credits.

Employees won't jeopardize their own reputation to sell you a bad product.

They created it. They know everything about it—all its flaws. If they accepted the credit, they must genuinely believe that the product is good. No one wants their name on a product that gets bad reviews.

In combination with Feedback Rebates and Virthium-verified reviews, you can better assess both the quality of the product and the company's intentions for selling it.

Put simply: a business that is trying to scam people won't offer Feedback Rebates to customers or Role Credits to employees. If it did, it would quickly receive a lot of negative reviews, lose money, and damage its reputation.

When you see Role Credits and Feedback Rebates, it means the company and its employees are confident that you'll leave a 5-star review after purchase. They're betting money and reputation on you being happy with the product. They wouldn't do that if the product were bad.

How we make money:

We charge a 25% transaction fee to process Feedback Rebates.

The fee is high enough to prevent price manipulation, but low enough to allow any business to get plenty of reviews without any additional cost.

How is that possible?

Because not all customers redeem their rebates. Unclaimed rebates cover the transaction fees for those who do. The program pays for itself.

All our users, without exception, have saved money by switching from “% OFF” discounts to Feedback Rebates. For most businesses, this is truly a no-cost proposition. Learn more.

The transaction fee is our only revenue source. It pays the bills and lets us serve our users. We don't accept any income that could compromise our independence and integrity.

We don't run ads. We don't sell access to users. We don't sell data. Never will. You're safe here.

Why you can trust us:

Virthium reputation can only be earned, not bought.

This is not a promise. We built it this way.

We simply don't have any features that would allow someone to get special treatment and make their product look better than it is.

Anyone can list their products for free, invite employees, and offer Feedback Rebates. There are no subscriptions, ads, tiers, or paid placement options. Offering bigger rebates will not improve reputation, only reduce the price at which the product competes.

The only way to do better on the platform is to make better products and receive better reviews. There is no other strategy. Customer opinion is the only measure of success and the best product for the best price always wins.

Who should not join:

Virthium is for people who make products and provide services. It's not for:

• Resellers

• Dropshippers

• Copycats (those who sell other people's products as their own)

If you are a reseller or dropshipper, please contact your supplier and let them know about Virthium. You can earn 20% commission for your referral. Learn more.

How to get started:

If you have a Shopify store: Install our app and get everything set up in minutes.

If you own a local business in the U.S.: Create a listing on Virthium.

If your business is not in the U.S., or if you're using an e-commerce platform other than Shopify: Contact us. Virthium is in active development, and we have additional integration options coming soon.

If you're an employee: Consider pitching this idea inside your company. You can earn a 20% commission for your referral. Learn more.

If you'd like to invest, promote, or get involved: Let us know. Virthium is the first and only platform of its kind. We're looking for early adopters and out-of-the-box thinkers to help us make online reputation reliable and trustworthy.