Venva supports two sides of P2P trading: offer-makers and offer-takers. Understanding the difference is important because Venva’s trading fees apply differently depending on how the trade was created and which role you played in it.
In simple terms, the offer-maker is the side who created the offer, and the offer-taker is the side who opened it.
What is an offer-maker?
An offer-maker is the user who creates and publishes a P2P offer.
For example, if you create a sell offer for Bank Transfer, Amazon Gift Card, or any other payment method, and another trader opens that offer, you are the offer-maker.
Offer-makers control the structure of the trade, including things such as:
payment method
trade range
pricing or margin
payment window
offer terms
The user who creates and publishes the offer is the offer-maker.
What is an offer-taker?
An offer-taker is the user who opens an existing offer created by someone else.
If you browse an available P2P offer and start the trade from that listing, you are the offer-taker.
The offer-taker does not define the offer settings. Instead, they choose to trade against the terms already created by the offer-maker.
How Venva charges each side
Venva only charges trading fees on successful trades.
Offer-maker fees
If you are the offer-maker, Venva charges a fee when the trade completes successfully.
Current offer-maker fees are:
0.25% for bank transfers and digital currency
0.5% for mobile money, gift cards, online wallets, debit or credit cards, cash payment, and goods and services
Offer-taker fees
If you are the offer-taker, Venva charges:
0%
That means offer-takers do not pay Venva trading fees.
Venva’s trading fees apply to successful offer-maker trades, while offer-taker fees are 0%.
When a fee is charged
A Venva trading fee is only charged when:
the trade is successful
you were the offer-maker in that trade
the trade falls under a fee-based payment method category
Venva does not charge trading fees on:
failed trades
cancelled trades
disputed trades that do not complete
offer-taker activity
This keeps the model simple: Venva only makes money when the offer-maker completes a successful trade.
Trading volume and fee deductions
Venva uses a trading volume system for offer-maker activity. When an offer-maker fee is charged, it is reflected inside your trading volume records.
You can review this inside:
Trading Volume
Topup History
These areas help you track:
remaining trading volume
fee deductions
offer-maker fee history
related trade references
Trading Volume shows your remaining volume available for offer-maker trading activity.
Topup History records offer-maker fee deductions and related trade volume activity.
Example
If you create a Bank Transfer sell offer and another trader opens it:
you are the offer-maker
the other trader is the offer-taker
if the trade completes successfully, Venva charges your offer-maker fee based on that payment category
the offer-taker pays 0%
If instead you open someone else’s offer, then you are the offer-taker and Venva does not charge you a trading fee.
Why it matters
Understanding offer-maker vs offer-taker activity helps you read your trade results more clearly, understand when Venva fees apply, and track how successful trades affect your trading volume. This is especially important for vendors managing many offers across different payment methods and margins.