Monat Global Corp
A real premium haircare brand with a genuinely strict income-claims policy - publishing a median annual commission of $8 for the 91.69% of its field who never leave the bottom rank, against a $59.99 renewal.
The median market partner earns $8 a year and owes $59.99 to renew - and the contract lets the company amend prices, the plan and your downline placement at its own discretion.
Can you actually make money with Monat?
No, and the two numbers that settle it sit in the same pair of documents. Monat's own 2025 disclosure puts the median annual commission at the bottom rank, where 91.69% of US market partners sit, at $8, on an average of $81. The renewal fee is $59.99 a year. That leaves the typical participant contractually behind before buying a single bottle, and before the $99 Starter Kit and the 200 PV monthly activity requirement.
The direction of travel matters as much as the level. Forty-four percent of US market partners earned nothing in 2025, up from 41% two years earlier, and the average has fallen from $888 to $758 to $665 across those two years while revenue went from roughly $804 million in 2019 to roughly $600 million in 2025. The pool and the per-head payout are shrinking together.
And the contract lets the counterparty rewrite the deal. Prices and the compensation plan may be amended at the company's sole and absolute discretion on 30 days' notice, and an internal review board reserves the right to transfer, restructure or modify downline placements for reasons including any conduct that negatively impacts the growth and well-being of the organization. Missing that $59.99 renewal by 46 days terminates the account, and the downline rolls up to your sponsor and is not replaced.
Some of this is genuinely good and the contrast is stark. The income-claims policy is the best-written on this site: a named list of banned phrases, named permitted alternatives, a requirement that any claim represent what a typical earner is likely to achieve, and a mandatory link to the income disclosure. Bonus buying and inventory loading are prohibited by name. The before-and-after photo standard is rigorous. Unopened, resalable stock is refundable at 90% for twelve months. Paid search is permitted, which is unusual here. And no regulator has ever found a pyramid.
mandatory Starter Kit, then $59.99 a year to renew and 200 PV a month to stay commission-active
- A renewal fee below the median commission it sits against. Fifty-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents a year against a published median of $8 puts the typical participant behind before any product moves at all.
- A sponsor bonus that does not scale with what the recruit spent. Paying $50 to $250 according to the size of the new person's Product Pack states plainly what the plan values, and the $150 Block Bonus needs a pack buyer underneath you.
- A contract the company cannot rewrite on its own. Prices, the plan and downline placements are all changeable at the company's discretion, and nobody can underwrite a business on terms the counterparty controls.
- A downline that survives a late payment. Forty-six days past a $59.99 renewal terminates the account and rolls the organization up to the sponsor, which puts a participant's only real asset behind a trivial fee.
That call is computed, not chosen - the rule reads three of the nine published dimension scores and is printed on the methodology page. It describes this company's plan and the figures it publishes about the people already in it. It is not a prediction about you, and nothing on this site is advice.
Legal status
LEGAL - no court or regulator has found Monat to be a pyramid scheme, no FTC action or consent order exists, and there has been no finding of liability in any of the hair-loss litigation. The file contains a Florida Attorney General Assurance of Voluntary Compliance signed 13 August 2020 with no admission of liability ($250,000 in costs plus $82,781 in consumer refunds and a five-year inspection right), a federal multidistrict proceeding still pending eight years after consolidation, two insider suits filed in 2024 and settled confidentially in January 2025 with no findings, and self-regulatory earnings-claim cases in consecutive years.
Confidence: Medium-High
Primary sources fetched directly where possible. Everything we could not verify is listed at the bottom of this page by name.
Follow the money
A Florida haircare and skincare company inside the family-controlled Alcora group, selling through US independent distributors called Market Partners on a plan combining block bonuses, sponsor bonuses that scale with the recruit’s entry purchase, and a VIP customer subscription program.
The product side is stronger than the reputation suggests and it should be said first. A major market-research firm ranked this the leading direct seller of premium haircare in October 2023. There are 5,723 Trustpilot reviews averaging 4.3. The research function is real - the vice president responsible holds 117 patents from a career at one of the world’s largest cosmetics groups. And the written rules are, in one specific respect, the best on this site: the income-claims policy carries an explicit prohibited-word list, banning "financial freedom," "time freedom," "residual income," "free car" and "free trip" outright while naming permitted alternatives, and the before-and-after photo standard requires the subject be identified, the products named, the duration disclosed and no touch-ups or stock imagery used. That is a company that has learned something and written it down.
Then the disclosure. Some 91.69% of US market partners sit at the bottom rank; their average annual commission is $81 and their median is $8. Forty-four percent earned nothing at all in 2025, up from 41% two years earlier, while the average across the whole field fell from $888 to $758 to $665. The mandatory annual renewal is $59.99. So the median participant pays roughly seven times more in fees than they receive in commission, before buying a single bottle of product and before the 200 PV a month required to stay commission-active - roughly $1,680 a year of purchasing at the market-partner discount if customer orders do not cover it.
And the contract is asymmetric in a way that matters more than any single number. Prices and the compensation plan may be amended at the company’s sole and absolute discretion on 30 days’ notice. An internal review board reserves the right to transfer, restructure or modify downline placements for reasons including "any conduct that negatively impacts the growth and well-being of the organization." Missing the $59.99 renewal by 16 days costs $100 to fix; missing it by 46 days destroys the downline entirely, which rolls up to the sponsor at no cost to the sponsor. Marketplace selling is prohibited by a clause that expressly survives termination, so leftover inventory cannot be liquidated even after you quit.
Where US market partners sat in 2025
Monat’s own published income disclosure statement. Percentages of US market partners; commissions are gross, and the disclosure states that expenses are not deducted.
| Product | Price | Pays |
|---|---|---|
| Starter Kit (mandatory) Required to enrol as a market partner everywhere except North Dakota, where the policies make it optional. Contains samples, workbook, magazine, price list and materials - not saleable inventory. |
from $99 one-time |
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| Product Packs (enrollment upsell) Buying a pack at enrollment includes the registration fee and Starter Kit, marketed as a "$99 saving." Note that the sponsor bonus paid on you rises from $50 to $250 with the size of the pack you buy. |
$199 / $249 / $400 / $650 one-time |
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| Annual renewal Roughly seven times the median annual commission at the rank where 91.69% of the field sits. Late by 16 days costs $100 to reinstate; late by 46 days forfeits the entire downline. |
$59.99 + tax annual |
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| 200 PV monthly activity requirement Required to stay commission-active. Roughly $1,680 a year at the market-partner discount if genuine customer orders do not cover it. |
~$140/mo recurring |
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| REJUVENIQE Oil Intensive $3.60 per millilitre for the flagship. About $32 of gross margin per bottle sold at retail, before shipping and samples. |
$108 retail (30 mL) per unit |
30% retail |
| VIP customer enrollment Gives the customer 15% off - but commits them to three qualifying orders at an $84 minimum, with a $25 break fee for canceling after the first and $19 after the second. |
$19.99 one-time |
15% to the MP |
| Business entity change Charged for each requested change to the business entity on the account. A small fee, listed here because the fee schedule is a fair guide to how the relationship is structured. |
$50 per change |
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| Reinstatement after a missed renewal Payable during the 15-day suspension period. After that the account terminates and the downline rolls up to the sponsor and is not replaced. |
$100 + tax as needed |
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Who runs it, and what they ran before
Began in direct selling as a distributor for an established company in Venezuela before co-founding this business. No regulatory action, fraud judgment or criminal proceeding against him could be located in any source reviewed - which, relative to the median founder profile in this category, cuts in his favor.
Launched a Latin American wellness direct-selling brand in 2001, thirteen years before Monat. That prior venture is still trading today as part of the same group - which is materially different from the usual pattern of a collapsed predecessor, and it deserves credit. No regulatory or criminal action against him could be located. The 2024 insider suits made serious allegations about his conduct; none was proven and both actions were dismissed.
Filed in Miami-Dade Circuit Court claiming roughly $8-16 million under a profit-sharing agreement, and alleging that the founders had extracted around $100 million through personal expenses, charged private aircraft and luxury travel to the company, paid $150,000 a month toward personal credit cards, created no-show jobs for family members and blocked his access to financial records when he requested an audit. The founders counterclaimed alleging gross mismanagement. All claims and counterclaims were dismissed with prejudice by joint stipulation on 27 January 2025, each side bearing its own fees, with settlement terms not public. No court found any allegation proven, in either direction.
A founding distributor filed separately in federal court in June 2024, alleging that her commissions had fallen to less than a quarter of their former level after repeated unexplained changes to the compensation structure, that she was warned her continued ability to work with the company depended on her willingness to "get in line," and that testimony she might give in other legal matters would affect her business. She was terminated in May 2024. The case settled through confidential mediation, reported at the end of January 2025. Again: nothing proven. Two senior insiders raising unilateral plan changes and pressure to stay quiet, independently, in the same year, is what a prospective participant should weigh - not the truth of any specific allegation.
Registered address
Doral, Florida, USA
Family-controlled through Alcora Corporation, with multiple Urdaneta family members holding positions across the group. No audited public accounts exist, so revenue figures are company statements or third-party estimates: roughly $804 million in 2019 against roughly $600 million in 2025. Two senior insiders - the former President and a founding distributor - filed suits in 2024 making allegations about how the company is run and how disputes are handled. Both settled confidentially in January 2025 with all claims dismissed and no allegation proven. They are recorded here because two independent insiders raising the same themes in the same year is a pattern datum, not because anything in them was established.
The veteran's checklist
Eight questions that decide whether this is a business or a transfer mechanism. Same eight, every review.
| Question | Answer |
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| Who legally owns it? |
WATCH
Monat Global Corp, a brand of Alcora Corporation, family-controlled by the Urdaneta family from Doral, Florida. No audited public accounts; revenue figures are company statements or estimates.
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| What does it really cost? |
CONCERN
$99 mandatory Starter Kit, $59.99 a year to renew, and 200 PV a month - roughly $1,680 a year - to stay commission-active if customer orders do not cover it.
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| Published income disclosure? |
CONCERN
Yes, with medians alongside averages and a stated zero-earner rate. It shows 91.69% of US market partners at the bottom rank earning an average of $81 and a median of $8 for the year, and 44% earning nothing.
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| Regulatory action against the company, ever? |
WATCH
No FTC action, no consent order and no pyramid finding in eleven years. A Florida attorney general assurance of voluntary compliance in August 2020 - $250,000 in costs, $82,781 in refunds, a five-year inspection right, no admission of liability.
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| What happened with the hair-loss lawsuits? |
WATCH
They were consolidated into a federal multidistrict proceeding in Florida and thirteen actions were still pending as of June 2026. There has been no finding of liability and no approved settlement - unresolved rather than decided either way.
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| Can the company change the deal after you sign? |
RED
Yes. It may amend the agreement, the compensation plan and prices at its sole and absolute discretion on 30 days’ notice, and an internal review board reserves the right to transfer, restructure or modify downline placements.
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| Can you get your money back? |
WATCH
90% on unopened resalable product returned within twelve months under the policy as published in 2019, shipping excluded; several states extend refund rights on the business pack beyond a year by statute. The current percentage and window could not be confirmed.
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| Merchant play or miner play? |
WATCH
Miner, though not extremely so. Retail at 30% and VIP at 15% are workable rates - but the $150 Block Bonus requires sponsoring a pack-buying partner, and the sponsor bonus rises from $50 to $250 with the size of your recruit’s entry purchase.
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What has to be true for you to get paid
| To cover | You need |
|---|---|
| Enrol and hold the business one year | $99 + $59.99 mandatory Starter Kit, then the annual renewal |
| Stay commission-active every month | ~$140/mo 200 PV, about $1,680 a year if customer orders do not cover it |
| Cover that $1,680 from retail margin alone | ~$5,600 of retail sales at the 30% market-partner retail rate |
| Beat the $59.99 renewal from commissions | ~7x the median outcome against a median annual commission of $8 at the bottom rank |
Read this twice
This is the shortest arithmetic on the site and it comes entirely from the company’s own document. The 2025 income disclosure states that 91.69% of US market partners sit at the bottom rank, where the average annual commission is $81 and the median is $8. The annual renewal is $59.99 plus tax and it is mandatory. So for the typical participant - not the unlucky one, the median one - the renewal fee alone is roughly seven times the entire year’s commission, before the $99 Starter Kit, before the 200 PV a month needed to stay commission-active, and before shipping, samples, tools or events. The disclosure itself lists those categories and says in terms that "in some cases, these costs and expenses may exceed the amounts earned." Two honest caveats belong here. The 200 PV can in principle be met by genuine customer orders rather than self-purchase, and someone with a real customer base is not spending that money at all - the retail rate is 30%, which is workable, and the VIP program at 15% is a real recurring structure. And the buyback is genuine: 90% on unopened resalable product returned within a year under the policy as published in 2019, though the current percentage and window could not be confirmed. But the direction of travel is the thing to weigh. Average income across the field has fallen from $888 to $758 to $665 in two years while the share earning nothing rose from 41% to 44%, and revenue has fallen from roughly $804 million in 2019 to roughly $600 million in 2025. The pool is shrinking and the field is being paid less out of it each year.
Run your own numbers
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A blend of the 30% retail and 15% VIP rates on a customer spending roughly $85/month. Cost is the 200 PV monthly activity requirement plus the $59.99 renewal spread monthly; the $99 Starter Kit is one-time and excluded. Paid search is permitted here, so the ad-spend slider is live. Published median at the rank where 91.69% sit: $8 a year. Your own subscription cost of $145/mo is included.
What it costs to replace this yourself
Monat’s own published retail prices against typical open-market equivalents at comparable positioning. Comparators are given as bands because formulations and sizes differ, and because the most common consumer criticism in the review corpus is not that the products are bad but that they are not distinguishable enough from far cheaper alternatives to justify the gap.
| What they sell you | What you'd use instead | Your cost |
|---|---|---|
| REJUVENIQE Oil Intensive - $108 (30 mL) | Premium multi-oil hair and scalp treatment, same volume | ~$22-45 |
| Shampoo, salon-positioned | Salon-brand sulphate-free shampoo, same size | ~$18-32 |
| Conditioner, salon-positioned | Matching salon-brand conditioner | ~$18-32 |
| Leave-in treatment / styling cream | Open-market leave-in of comparable class | ~$14-28 |
| Lip liner reported at $66 by a reviewer | Prestige-counter lip liner | ~$18-30 |
| VIP minimum qualifying order - $84 | Buying only what you use, when you use it | $0-45 |
| 200 PV monthly activity requirement - ~$1,680/yr | No requirement, no rank, no forfeiture | $0 |
| Total as sold ~$1,840 in year one |
Total, built yourself ~$150-400 of comparable haircare |
Price-to-value
Roughly a two-to-three-times premium on individual products, which is not extreme for salon-positioned haircare - the brand ranking and the 4.3 review average say a real audience genuinely likes these. The gap that decides the exercise is structural, not per-bottle: the $84 minimum on the customer subscription, the $99 kit, the $59.99 renewal and the 200 PV monthly activity requirement together turn a haircare preference into roughly $1,800 of committed first-year spend. And a customer who simply wants the oil can buy it without any of that - which is worth saying to the customer as well as to the recruit.
Three operators, five horizons
Probability of cumulative net profit
Hover any point for median, top decile and bottom quartile.
Product-first partner
joins mainly for the discount, buys what she uses, a few customers
| Horizon | P(profit) | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 3 mo | 16% | −$190 |
| 6 mo | 18% | −$260 |
| 1 yr | 19% | −$390 |
| 3 yr | 19% | −$840 |
| 5 yr | 19% | −$1,250 |
Part-time market partner
10 hrs/wk, VIP customers plus some recruiting, holds 200 PV
| Horizon | P(profit) | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 3 mo | 8% | −$520 |
| 6 mo | 11% | −$960 |
| 1 yr | 14% | −$1,700 |
| 3 yr | 16% | −$4,400 |
| 5 yr | 17% | −$6,800 |
Full-time builder
30+ hrs/wk, product packs, events, driving block bonuses
| Horizon | P(profit) | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 3 mo | 4% | −$1,300 |
| 6 mo | 7% | −$2,500 |
| 1 yr | 11% | −$4,600 |
| 3 yr | 15% | −$11,000 |
| 5 yr | 16% | −$16,000 |
Methodology note. ANCHORED to Monat’s own 2025 US income disclosure: that 91.69% of market partners sit at the bottom rank with an average of $81 and a median of $8; that 44% earned nothing at all, up from 41% two years earlier; and that the field-wide average fell from $888 to $758 to $665 across two years - which is why no cohort here shows a majority in cumulative profit at any horizon, and why the medians are negative where a rank table would look positive. Anchored also to the published cost side: the $99 mandatory Starter Kit, $199-$650 product packs, the $59.99 annual renewal, the $100 reinstatement charge, the 200 PV monthly activity requirement, the 30% retail and 15% VIP margins, the $84 VIP minimum order and the $19.99 VIP enrollment. MODELED by us: the dollar expense side beyond those published items, because Monat lists expense categories - samples, inventory, shipping, transportation, training, travel - without a figure; the share of each cohort in cumulative profit; and the cohort definitions, which the company does not segment. One calibration note that cuts in the company’s favor: the 200 PV requirement can be satisfied by real customer orders rather than self-purchase, and the retail rate of 30% is genuinely workable, so a partner with an established customer base sits materially better than these medians. The medians describe the typical participant, and the typical participant does not have one.
Where you are actually allowed to promote this
Platform policy reads, not verifications. Check every one before you spend a dollar - enforcement changes faster than the written policy does.
Red flags and green flags
Red flags
151The median market partner earned $8 for the year
2The mandatory renewal is $59.99 - roughly seven times the median commission
344% of US market partners earned nothing at all in 2025
4Average income has fallen from $888 to $758 to $665 in two years
5The sponsor bonus scales with how much the person you recruited spent
6Missing a $59.99 renewal by 46 days destroys the downline
7The company may amend the plan and prices at its sole and absolute discretion on 30 days’ notice
8Two senior insiders sued in 2024 alleging unilateral plan changes and pressure to stay silent
9The multidistrict hair-loss litigation is still pending eight years on
10A Florida Attorney General compliance agreement in August 2020
11Self-regulatory earnings-claim cases in consecutive years
12Defamation suits brought against private individuals who criticized the company
13The customer subscription carries a minimum commitment and a break fee
14Marketplace selling is banned by a clause that survives termination
15Upline commissions are clawed back on downstream refunds
Green flags
91The income-claims policy is the best-written on this site
2The before-and-after photo standard is genuinely rigorous
3Bonus buying and inventory loading are prohibited by name
4Paid search advertising is permitted
5A genuine premium product with independent demand
6It publishes an income disclosure with a zero-earner rate and medians
7A real buyback and statutory refund extensions
8No regulatory finding of a pyramid scheme anywhere, ever
9The founders’ prior venture is still trading, not collapsed
We would like to be wrong about this
Upward
- Removing the company’s unilateral right to amend the compensation plan, prices and downline placements at its own discretion - the single largest available upgrade, because it is what makes the rest of the file unpredictable.
- A rank-by-rank income table including the 44% who earned nothing, with headcounts and a median expense figure, plus a published current buyback percentage and window replacing the 2019 text.
- Resolution of the multidistrict litigation without liability, dropping the anti-disparagement obligation and the practice of suing individual critics, and two consecutive years with no new self-regulatory earnings-claim case.
Downward
- Any FTC action, consent order or state attorney general enforcement action rather than a voluntary compliance agreement, or a liability finding in the multidistrict litigation.
- A further compensation-plan amendment that cuts earnings for existing partners, or a disclosure showing the bottom-rank median falling below the current $8 or the zero-earner share rising above 44%.
- Continued revenue decline below the roughly $600 million level alongside further falls in average participant income, or a third consecutive self-regulatory case on the same claim categories.
Grade is D+. A real premium brand and the strictest claims policy on this site, attached to a median annual commission of $8 against a $59.99 renewal.
Two things about this company are genuinely better than its reputation. The product is real: a major research firm ranked it the leading direct seller of premium haircare in 2023, there are 5,723 public reviews averaging 4.3, and the research function is led by someone with 117 patents from a global cosmetics group. And the written rules are, in one respect, the best on this site. The income-claims policy bans specific words outright - "financial freedom," "time freedom," "residual income," "free car," "free trip" - and names what may be said instead. The before-and-after photo standard requires the subject be identified, the products named, the duration stated, and no touch-ups or stock imagery used. Bonus buying and inventory loading are prohibited by name. Paid search is actually permitted, which almost nobody in this industry allows. Those are the marks of an operator that read its own regulatory file and rewrote the rulebook.
The disclosure is where it collapses, and the company publishes it itself. Some 91.69% of US market partners sit at the bottom rank, with an average annual commission of $81 and a median of $8. Forty-four percent earned nothing at all, up from 41% two years earlier, while the field-wide average fell from $888 to $758 to $665. The renewal fee is $59.99 and it is mandatory. That means the typical participant - the median one, not the unlucky one - pays about seven times more in fees than they collect in commission, before the $99 kit, before the 200 PV a month required to stay commission-active, and before shipping, samples and events, all of which the disclosure lists as costs it has not deducted. Revenue has fallen from roughly $804 million in 2019 to roughly $600 million in 2025: a shrinking pool paying a field less each year.
The third element is the one a reader should sit with longest, and it has to be stated carefully because nothing has been proven. The contract permits the company to amend the compensation plan and prices at its sole and absolute discretion on 30 days’ notice, and reserves a discretionary power to transfer, restructure or modify downline placements. In 2024, two senior insiders - the former President and a founding distributor - separately alleged unilateral plan changes and pressure to stay quiet; both suits settled confidentially in January 2025 with all claims dismissed and no findings of any kind. Separately, the company has brought defamation suits against private individuals who criticized it, participants are contractually barred from speaking to the press, and the hair-loss multidistrict litigation is still pending eight years on with no liability finding and no approved settlement. None of that establishes wrongdoing. All of it describes an environment in which the terms can change, the downline can be moved, and the person best placed to warn you has agreed not to.
Be a VIP customer, not a market partner
If you like the products - and many people genuinely do - the customer program gives you 15% off for $19.99. Read the commitment first: three qualifying orders at an $84 minimum, with a $25 break fee after the first and $19 after the second. That is the honest version of this relationship, and it does not cost you $99, $59.99 a year, 200 PV a month, or your ability to talk about your own experience.
Do the $8-against-$59.99 sum before you enrol
Both numbers are published by the company. If the median annual commission at the rank where nine in ten people sit is less than a seventh of the mandatory renewal, the question is not whether someone can win - it is what specific reason you have to believe you are not the median. Write that reason down, and be honest about whether it is a plan or a hope.
Get the amendment and downline-restructure clauses explained in writing
The company can change prices and the compensation plan at its sole and absolute discretion on 30 days’ notice, and an internal board can restructure downline placements for broadly worded reasons. Ask your sponsor what happened the last time the plan changed and who it affected. If the answer is vague, that is the answer.
Sell into premium haircare without the plan
The category is large, the demand is real, and the search intent around scalp health, hair thinning and ingredient comparison is enormous. Honest, sourced comparison content - including on adverse reactions, which is a subject this field is contractually restricted from discussing - is a merchant business with genuine demand. It requires no kit, no renewal, no monthly volume and no permission to speak.
Nine dimensions, weighted
Dimension profile
Further from center is better. Hover any point.
Hard caps that bind here
The lowest binding cap wins, regardless of the weighted arithmetic.
What we read
Every source below links to the document itself. Tier 1 is a primary record - the company’s own plan, policy or disclosure, a court filing, a regulator’s decision or an SEC filing. Tier 2 is a self-regulatory or secondary regulator record, tier 3 reporting or academic work, tier 4 an open-market price comparison. Where a document can be moved or withdrawn, an archived copy is linked beside it. If a link is dead when you try it, that is a correction we want.
- MONAT USA 2025 Income Disclosure Statement
Monat 2025 US Income Disclosure Statement - 91.69% of market partners at the bottom rank with an average of $81 and a median of $8; 44% earning nothing, up from 41%; field-wide average falling $888 to $758 to $665; expenses stated as not deducted
- MONAT Compensation Plan page, carrying the 2023 disclosure note "the average Market Partner earned $888"
- MONAT Global United States Policies and Procedures, effective 1 April 2026
Monat Global US Policies and Procedures, effective 1 April 2026 - §2.1(d) mandatory Starter Kit, §2.4 renewal, suspension, $100 reinstatement and downline forfeiture, §3.2 advertising and website prohibitions, §3.2.3.F marketplace ban surviving termination, §3.2.3.J paid-search permission, §3.3 bonus-buying prohibition, §3.5 downline restructure discretion, §3.6.2 product claims, §3.6.3 income claims and prohibited words
- MONAT USA Compensation Plan and Compensation Plan Definitions (PDF, US_Compensation-Plan_112524_v23)
Monat US Compensation Plan and Product Packs documentation - 200 PV monthly activity requirement, 30% retail and 15% VIP margins, $150 Block Bonus, $50-$250 sponsor bonus scaling with the recruit’s entry pack, $199/$249/$400/$650 pack pricing
- MONAT USA Compensation Plan, earlier edition showing the $150 Block Bonus and $500 MONATborhood Bonus (PDF, 2021)
- MONAT VIP Customer Program FAQs, United States (PDF, US-ENG_Customer_Program_FAQs_102121) - $19.99 enrollment, three Flexship orders, $84 minimum, $25 and $19 cancellation fees
Monat VIP Customer Program FAQs - $19.99 enrollment, 15% discount, three-order commitment, $84 minimum qualifying order, $25 and $19 early-cancellation fees
- MONAT VIP Customer Agreement, VIP Program U.S. v2 (PDF) - WITHDRAWN BY THE COMPANY, no copy exists anywhere
DEAD LINK, confirmed 10 September 2026: 404 at the company, no Wayback capture, and no replacement located at any obvious path on monatglobal.com. Downgraded from tier 1 verified to tier 4 listed because nothing about it can now be checked by a reader. It is retained rather than deleted so the record shows the document existed and what it was; it is NOT load-bearing for anything in this report, because the current VIP terms are evidenced by the March 2026 VIP Perks FAQ cited below, which is held in this archive and supersedes the 2019 agreement on the point that matters - the $10 sign-up fee replacing the $19.99 enrollment.
- MONAT VIP Perks™ FAQ, current United States edition (PDF, March 2026) - $10 sign-up fee replaces the $19.99 enrollment
- Assurance of Voluntary Compliance, In the Matter of Monat Global Corp., AG Case No. L18-3-1232, executed 17 August 2020 (PDF, with addendum, claim form and OAG notice)
Florida Office of the Attorney General, Assurance of Voluntary Compliance, 13 August 2020 - $250,000 costs, $82,781 consumer refunds, five-year inspection right, no admission of liability
- Florida Attorney General news release, "Monat Global Claims Deadline Approaching", 8 February 2021
- Florida Attorney General Monat refund claim form, Agency Case No. L18-3-1232 (PDF)
- JPML MDL Statistics Report - Distribution of Pending MDL Dockets by District, report date 1 June 2026 (PDF)
Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation pending-actions report, 1 June 2026 - MDL 2841 before Judge Darrin P. Gayles, Southern District of Florida, thirteen actions pending, no liability finding, no approved settlement; lead case Whitmire v. Monat Global Corp, 1:18-cv-20636
- In re: Monat Hair Care Products Marketing, Sales Practices and Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2841, 1:18-md-02841 (S.D. Fla., Judge Darrin P. Gayles) - docket
- JPML Transfer Order centralising MDL 2841 in the Southern District of Florida, listing Whitmire et al. v. Monat Global Corp., C.A. No. 1:18-cv-20636 (PDF)
- Order on Defendants' Motion to Dismiss the First Amended Master Consolidated Class Action Complaint, In re Monat, 18-MD-02841-GAYLES, 23 October 2019 (PDF, ECF No. 149)
- Whitmire and Yanes de Flores v. Monat Global Corp., Case No. 1:18-cv-20636 - class action complaint (PDF)
- Stuart A. MacMillan v. Monat Global Corp. et al., Miami-Dade County, Florida, filed 24 April 2024 - case record
MacMillan v. Monat Global Corp et al., Miami-Dade Circuit Court 2024-007432-CA-01, filed April 2024, all claims and counterclaims dismissed with prejudice by joint stipulation 27 January 2025; Vanschoyck v. Monat Global Corp et al., 1:24-cv-22173 (S.D. Fla.), filed 6 June 2024, settled through confidential mediation reported 31 January 2025
- Vanschoyck v. Monat Global Corp. et al., 1:24-cv-22173 (S.D. Fla.) - docket, filed 6 June 2024, terminated 15 January 2025
- BehindMLM, "Stuart MacMillan & Monat settle 'mafia family' lawsuit" - joint stipulation of dismissal with prejudice filed 27 January 2025
- BehindMLM, "Monat settles 'slashed earnings' lawsuit" - Vanschoyck confidential mediation settlement and 31 January 2025 dismissal
- MONAT REJUVENIQE® Oil Intensive official product page, 30 mL
Monat product pages and retail pricing, 2026 - REJUVENIQE Oil Intensive at $108 for 30 mL; Trustpilot company page (5,723 reviews, 4.3 average, paid Trustpilot subscription, many visible reviews tagged "Invited")
- MONAT REJUVENIQE® Oil Intensive on a MyMONAT replicated store - retail $108.00, VIP $92.00 (SKU 10111000)
- Trustpilot company page for monatglobal.com
- DSSRC Case #171-2024: Monitoring Inquiry - MONAT Global Corp (25 earnings claims)
BBB National Programs DSSRC proceedings in consecutive years covering twenty-five and eighteen earnings claims; Euromonitor ranking of the leading direct seller of premium haircare, October 2023; Alcora corporate profile and brand portfolio
- DSSRC Case #212-2025: Administrative Closure - MONAT Global Corp (18 earnings claims, 15 removed)
- Direct Selling News, "Euromonitor Names MONAT #1 Direct Seller of Premium Haircare", 5 October 2023
- Alcora Corporation corporate site - MONAT brand page and portfolio (L'EUDINE Global, MONAT, Project Beauty, B&R Products, Inc.)
- Global Cosmetics News, Alcora Corp. company profile (brands, divisions and estimated beauty sales)
What we could not get
- The Trustpilot star distribution - every mirror and filtered view returned an access error, so the widely repeated claim that the reviews are strongly bimodal could not be checked; only the total count and the 4.3 average are confirmed
- The current compensation plan PDF (the linked file returns a 404), the market-partner-side minimum on the recurring order, and 2026 Product Pack pricing
- Whether the market partner agreement contains a mandatory arbitration clause or class-action waiver - neither could be located in the retrievable sections
- The current buyback percentage and window - the 90% within twelve months figure comes from the 2019 policy text; the 2026 policy confirms a Starter Kit repurchase obligation without stating the terms
- The FDA inspection history in detail - no Form 483, inspection date, warning letter or follow-up inspection could be retrieved, so nothing about the outcome of any inspection is asserted here
- The outcomes of the defamation suits the company brought against individual critics, and the settlement terms of both 2024 insider suits, which are not public
- Conflicting 2022 revenue reports, and the company’s current placement on any global direct-selling ranking
- The proportion of product volume purchased by VIP customers rather than by market partners - the decisive Koscot number, and it is not published
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