Contests that end at month end

Some contests are funded by a vendor brand rather than Oasis directly. Those always run in calendar-month segments.

How segments work

1. A vendor-funded contest can start on any day, but each segment always ends at 23:59:59 on the last day of that month.
2. If the contest runs longer than one month, it's split into consecutive monthly segments. Each segment settles on its own — its progress, leaderboard, and any cap reset for the new segment.
3. No segment crosses the 1st of a month.

Note: This only applies to vendor-funded contests. A contest Oasis funds directly doesn't need to split this way.

What it means for payout timing

• Payroll earnings go out on the first biweekly payroll after the whole contest ends, not segment by segment. A contest that ends on October 31 is paid with the pay period that ends November 1.
• Store credit waits the same way: it posts the night that payroll is built.

Why this exists

Each closed segment becomes the vendor's bill for that month. Splitting a long-running vendor contest into months keeps that billing clean, and keeps your progress and rank scoped to a period that actually ends and settles.

Tip: If a vendor contest looks like it "restarted" partway through, that's expected — you're just seeing a new monthly segment, not a new contest.

See also weekly caps and partial weeks for what happens when a weekly cycle gets cut short by the month boundary.