Kill Fee Percent Unaccepted Pitch Lookup

Reconcile actual commissioned-story cancellation fee against explicit caller contract trigger/rate and paid advance, retaining possible credit/refund; not assumed entitlement for an unaccepted pitch, legal contract interpretation or universal kill fee.

Description

A commissioned-story cancellation fee depends on an explicit contract trigger and rate.

A commissioned-story cancellation fee depends on an explicit contract trigger and rate. An already paid advance can leave a signed balance.^[1]

Enter nonnegative safe-integer same-currency fee/advance, integer basis points 0–10000 and caller trigger flag. Use exact rational rounding and return gross/signed balance.

When to use Kill Fee Percent Unaccepted Pitch Lookup

Use Kill Fee Percent Unaccepted Pitch Lookup when you need to evaluate the supplied records under the calculation and evidence rules below. No entitlement for an unaccepted pitch, contract interpretation or universal kill fee is inferred.

Prepare the actual editorial, source, layout, timing or audience records requested. Supply explicit house-policy limits and preserve missing evidence.

How to use Kill Fee Percent Unaccepted Pitch Lookup and understand its results

Prepare the actual editorial, source, layout, timing or audience records requested. Supply explicit house-policy limits and preserve missing evidence.
Enter contractedStoryFeeMinor, callerKillFeeBasisPoints, alreadyPaidAdvanceMinor, callerKillFeeTriggerSatisfied using the field table and calculation rules, then run the tool.
Read callerGrossKillFeeMinor, signedKillFeeLessAdvanceMinor. The explanation below defines the units, signs, ordering and any flags or placeholder values.
If the tool reports an input issue, correct the values and run it again. Apply the stated assumptions when interpreting a successfully returned result.

Input field	Meaning	Value type; see rules below	Requirement
contractedStoryFeeMinor	Contracted story fee minor	number	Required
callerKillFeeBasisPoints	Caller kill fee basis points	number	Required
alreadyPaidAdvanceMinor	Already paid advance minor	number	Required
callerKillFeeTriggerSatisfied	Caller kill fee trigger satisfied	boolean	Required

Enter nonnegative safe-integer same-currency fee/advance, integer basis points 0–10000 and caller trigger flag. Use exact rational rounding and return gross/signed balance.

gross=trigger?roundHalfUp(contractFee×rateBP/10000):0; balance=gross−advance

Units, indexing, boundary conditions and exceptional cases are defined in the calculation rules above.

Output field	Meaning	Value type
callerGrossKillFeeMinor	Caller gross kill fee minor	number
signedKillFeeLessAdvanceMinor	Signed kill fee less advance minor	number

json

{
  "input": {
    "contractedStoryFeeMinor": 1000,
    "callerKillFeeBasisPoints": 2500,
    "alreadyPaidAdvanceMinor": 100,
    "callerKillFeeTriggerSatisfied": true
  },
  "output": {
    "callerGrossKillFeeMinor": 250,
    "signedKillFeeLessAdvanceMinor": 150
  }
}

Limitations and assumptions

No entitlement for an unaccepted pitch, contract interpretation or universal kill fee is inferred.

Numeric inputs, where present, must be finite. Follow the calculation-specific rules for overflow, underflow and exceptional cases. Missing required fields, extra fields, wrong value types and violations of the calculation rules are input errors.

Alternative or Complementary methods

Use Pitch Accept Rate Percent Freelance Calculator: Acceptance among decided pitches excludes pending and withdrawn records. Missing decisions should remain visible. For a complementary task, use Expenses per Story Cap Policy Lookup: Expense preapproval and an unapproved-overage cap define separate budgets. Signed margins retain underspend and overspend.

References

Kill Fee Percent Unaccepted Pitch Lookup — tool.io

Similar or alternative tools

Pitch Accept Rate Percent Freelance Calculator
Acceptance among decided pitches excludes pending and withdrawn records. Missing decisions should remain visible.
Expenses per Story Cap Policy Lookup
Expense preapproval and an unapproved-overage cap define separate budgets. Signed margins retain underspend and overspend.