How the Affiliate Program Works

1. 1

   Open the affiliate page

   Click your account row at the bottom of the left rail and choose Affiliate program. You can also reach it directly at /app/affiliate.

2. 2

   Fill in the short form

   Tell us where your audience is if you like, and pick a link code if you want a memorable one. Nothing here gates entry — joining is approved on the spot.

3. 3

   Copy your link

   Your tracked link appears immediately, with a Copy button. Put it anywhere you would normally recommend the product: a course, a newsletter, a video description, a client email.

You earn 40% of what your referred customer pays, excluding sales tax and VAT, on every payment they make — not just their first. A $140.00 yearly Pro subscription earns you $56.00 the first year and $56.00 again every year they renew. Pro on any billing cadence, Team seats, and the Lifetime licence all count. AI credit top-ups are the one exclusion, because they are priced close to what they cost us to run.

Your link carries a code that is remembered in the visitor's browser for 90 days, so the click and the signup do not have to happen in the same visit. First touch wins: if someone follows your link and later arrives through another affiliate, they stay yours. Attribution happens when the account is created, so an existing customer who opens your link is not transferred to you, and you cannot refer yourself. The referral appears in your dashboard as a signup straight away, and becomes a paying customer the first time they pay.

Each commission is held for 120 days from the payment before it becomes payable. That is the card-network dispute window: a customer can charge a payment back months after making it, so paying you sooner would mean asking for the money back later. Your dashboard shows held and payable amounts separately, and each commission row shows the date it clears. A fully refunded payment or a lost chargeback reverses its commission; if a chargeback is later resolved in our favour, the commission comes back. A partial refund is adjusted case by case rather than automatically.

Payouts run monthly, once your payable balance is at least $50.00. Below that the balance rolls over to the next month rather than being lost. Add your PayPal address or bank details under Payout details on the affiliate page — without them there is nowhere to send the money. Payments are made by hand today, so allow a few days after the monthly run.

No bidding on ContractorCounter brand terms in paid search, no coupon or deal-site listings, no spam, and no referring your own accounts. Any of those ends the arrangement, and an affiliate account can be suspended — commission already earned is unaffected by a suspension. If you are unsure whether a channel is fine, ask before you run it.

Your dashboard is the record: clicks, signups, paying customers, and every commission with its clearing date. If a referral you expected is missing, the most common reasons are that the person already had an account before clicking, or that they cleared their browser storage between clicking and signing up. Email support@contractorcounter.com with the details and we will check the ledger against Stripe.