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# Managing a sponsorship: sponsors, price, sharing, pausing, and ending

Go to **Dashboard** > **Sponsorships** to see every animal you've opened a sponsorship for, with its support, stewards, supporters and places filled. Each row has a **Sponsors** button, and its menu (the three dots) has **Edit**, **Pause**, **Share**, **Archive** and **End sponsorship**.

If you also sponsor animals yourself, choose the **Your sponsorships** tab.

## Your sponsorships at a glance

The top of the page shows **Monthly support**, **Stewards**, **Supporters** and **Updates due this week**. Stewards hold a place in an animal's circle. Supporters give any amount without a place.

Below, each animal has a row with its status (**Draft**, **Active** or **Paused**) and how full its circle is, like "6 of 8 places · $150 of $400 covered". The covered amount is what current stewards pay. A place held for an unclaimed gift, or for someone who hasn't confirmed their payment yet, counts as filled but isn't paid in yet.

![Sponsorships summary with monthly support, stewards, supporters and updates due, above Petunia's row](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/cce/9f5/2b9/5fa10.png?width=1600)

Sponsorships you ended are under **Ended sponsorships** at the bottom.

## See your sponsors

Select **Sponsors** on a row. People are grouped like this:

- **Current:** stewards and supporters, with how they pay (**Monthly** or **12 months**) and since when.
- **Awaiting confirmation:** someone paid without a Creatures account and hasn't confirmed their email yet.
- **Gift, awaiting claim:** a gift holds a place until it's claimed. It's listed under the name of the person who bought it and marked **Gift for someone else**.
- **Ended:** past sponsors.

**Download CSV** saves the list as a spreadsheet. If a payment fails, that sponsor shows a **Grace period** badge while the payment is retried for 7 days.

![Petunia's sponsors with two current stewards and Owen Fitzgerald awaiting confirmation](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/edd/a73/fda/b92b9.png?width=1088)

## Change the price or places

Select **Edit** from the menu. You can change the care cost or the number of places at any time, but not below the places already filled. New sponsors pay the new price. Current stewards keep paying what they signed up for, and the form tells you so before you save.

![Petunia's places raised to 12, with a notice that new sponsors pay $34 a month and current stewards keep paying $50](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/526/a60/34c/8da8f.png?width=1000)

Select **Save changes** when you're done. Your update schedule can't change once anyone sponsors the animal.

## Share it

Select **Share** from the menu. You can:

- Copy the **Sponsorship link** with **Copy link**. It opens the animal's profile with the sponsor choices showing.
- Select **Download QR code** for a flyer or the barn door.
- Copy a ready-made **Post** for social media with **Copy post**.

![Share Petunia's sponsorship with the sponsorship link and a Copy link button](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/6a4/aaa/302/eee10.png?width=780)

## Pause, archive or end

![Petunia's sponsorship menu open with Edit, Pause, Share, Archive and End sponsorship](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/be5/ffe/749/2b04f.png?width=1286)

- **Pause** stops new sponsors. Current sponsors keep going, and the profile says "Not accepting new sponsors right now." Select **Resume** to open it again.
- **Archive** tidies away a sponsorship that's no longer used. It works only when nobody sponsors the animal and no gift or unconfirmed payment is waiting.
- **End sponsorship** ends it for everyone. Edit the **Note to sponsors**, and leave **Also post this on Petunia's profile** checked if you want it public. Then select **End sponsorship**. Sponsors hear from you right away, their payments stop, and nothing is refunded. Creatures may ask you to confirm it's you first.

To end one person's sponsorship, open **Sponsors** and select **End sponsorship** on their row. You can add a note.

If the animal itself was adopted, released, moved or died, record that instead so sponsors get the right news. See [When a sponsored animal is adopted, released, moves, or passes away](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/when-a-sponsored-animal-is-adopted-released-moves-or-passes-away-10637hg/).

## Where the money goes

Sponsor payments arrive in the caretaker's [Creatures Wallet](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/your-creatures-wallet-balance-holds-and-getting-paid-1fpjuhg/) as sponsorship payments. Creatures keeps 5% of each one, unless you or your organization has Creatures Pro.

### Related information

- [Keeping sponsors updated: posts, notes, and reminders](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/caring-for-your-stewards-1cisb0e/)
- [Setting up a sponsorship for an animal in your care](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/offering-stewardship-of-your-animal-idhrr/)
- [When a sponsored animal is adopted, released, moves, or passes away](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/when-a-sponsored-animal-is-adopted-released-moves-or-passes-away-10637hg/)
- [Your Creatures Wallet: balance, holds, and getting paid](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/your-creatures-wallet-balance-holds-and-getting-paid-1fpjuhg/)