When Checkout Opens
Public checkout opens when FPT's launch gates are satisfied: the platform is production-ready, and so is the payment and payout infrastructure behind it. Until every one of them is met, FPT takes no public payment at all.
FPT does not publish a launch date before it can hold one. Everything that decides whether you pass, what you may trade and what you are paid is already published — those are the rules on this site, and they are the part of the offer you can read and judge today. What is not open is checkout.
There is no list to join, no reservation to make and no place to hold. The community on Discord is where the opening is announced first, and joining it is not a purchase and confers no priority.
What Counts Toward the 100
A purchase counts when an FPT account was created before checkout, an FPT Scale evaluation was bought at founding pricing using the code FOUNDER, payment was successfully captured, and that payment has not since been refunded or charged back. Each purchase counts once whatever the account size, and the count runs across the whole program rather than per person.
Only purchases completed after public checkout opens are counted. Abandoned checkouts, declined payments, refunded purchases and charged-back purchases do not count.
The launch opens the count; the count does not cause the launch. Reaching 100 does not bring a date forward, and being below 100 does not delay one.
If the Date Moves
A launch date, once announced, is the date FPT intends to open on. If the gates above are not met by then, the date moves and FPT says so — by email to the address on your FPT account, and on the site. There is no window to extend and no deadline running against you, because no money is being held: a date that moves costs you nothing, and there is nothing to refund.
Your account, the published rules and the founding price are unaffected by a change of date.
Activation
Once checkout is open, your evaluation is activated when your purchase completes: the "Coming soon" labels come off the trading surfaces and your evaluation rules begin. There is no five-day activation allowance and no comparable grace period; activation is subject only to ordinary technical availability. On a monthly plan, activation starts your prepaid first month and the second charge lands 30 days later.
The discretionary refund window closes when you place your first simulated trade, not at activation — see Canceling, Refunds and Payment Problems.
The purchase terms are stated in full in Founder Purchase and Launch Terms.