How Affiliate Commission Works

Some invitations are louder than the life they describe. This one should not be. If you already share writing, coaching, newsletters, or a reflective practice, a tracked link is only a footnote to work you already do. The footnote, however, must be exact — readable in daylight, finite in time, and unwilling to invent a second story about money.

How affiliate commission works is the published sequence of rates, time windows, holds, and disclosures that decide whether a referred subscription yields a partner share, how long that share lasts, and when a payable balance may be released.

Nothing here sketches a second career. The share is bounded. It is calculated on collected payments, silent when a charge never lands, and reversed when a payment does not stay.

Monthly subscription payments for the first six months

When a referred person pays on a monthly plan, the partner share is 30% of monthly subscription payments for the first 6 months of that referred customer. Each successfully collected monthly payment inside that window is in scope. After those six months, the monthly share stops. Later monthly charges do not continue it.

This is not a percentage of a single opening invoice. It is a six-month corridor, then a close. The corridor is counted from the referred customer’s monthly life, not from the partner’s calendar, and not from the day a link was copied.

If a monthly line never converts — if there is no collected payment — there is no share to record. A click is not a chapter. An account that remains unpaid is not a line in the ledger.

Keep the language ordinary when you explain this to yourself: six months of monthly payments, then none. Naming the ending is part of telling the truth.

The first annual payment

When a referred person pays annually, the share is 20% of the first annual payment only. Later annual charges do not carry a partner share. Annual and monthly are different doors; do not describe one with the vocabulary of the other.

A 14-day annual trial records $0 until the first successful charge. The trial is not a conversion. Curiosity is not collection. The first collected annual payment is the event the percentage can touch.

If you keep notes for your own practice, keep the two plans on separate lines: monthly has a six-month window of collected payments; annual has a single first payment. Mixing them in conversation is how rumors start, and rumors are the opposite of a quiet page.

Collected payments, VAT, and reversals

The percentage is applied excluding VAT, after payment-processing fees, and only on successfully collected payments. A figure that appears at checkout is not the base. The base is what remains after tax treatment and processing, once the payment has actually been collected.

Refunds and chargebacks do not yield a final commission. If a payment is returned, the corresponding share does not remain as a payable fact. The ledger follows the money that stayed, not the money that passed through.

This is the unglamorous part of honesty. It is also the part that keeps a public page from describing as settled what a later reversal would take back. Speak of recorded lines, not of certainties, until collection has held.

The 30-day hold after the first charge

After the first successful charge on a conversion line, there is a 30-day hold. The hold is not a second trial and not a hidden rate. It is a pause before that line can be treated as payable.

Until the hold completes, do not speak of the share as funds already in hand. Speak of it as a recorded line waiting out its quiet month. The hold begins after that first successful charge — not after a click, not after a trial start, not after an account that never pays.

If a reversal arrives inside the spirit of that caution, the earlier rule still governs: a payment that does not stay does not leave a final share. The hold and the reversal rule are cousins. Both ask you to wait for the story to finish a page before you quote it.

The $50 payout threshold

Payouts are issued at month-end when the payable balance reaches $50. Below that threshold, the balance rolls over into the following period. Nothing is discarded for being small; it simply waits.

The threshold is a batching rule, not a judgment of the work. A modest balance is still a balance. It is not sent until it crosses fifty payable dollars, and it is not sent on a random weekday. Month-end is the clock.

Do not treat an unpaid rollover as a missing payment. Treat it as a line that has not yet met the gate. When you describe the program to a colleague, say the gate out loud: fifty payable, month-end, rollover beneath.

The 90-day attribution window

Attribution lasts 90 days, with a first-touch cookie. The first qualifying touch in that window maps the referred person to a partner. Later clicks do not rewrite the story, and a second introduction does not split the page.

One referred person maps to one partner. There is no dividing a single human across two ledgers, and no second claim on the same life. The mapping is simple on purpose, so that the arithmetic does not become a contest.

If someone you introduced arrives after the ninety days have closed, the window has simply ended. The rule is temporal, not personal. It does not comment on the quality of the invitation; it only closes a clock.

#ad disclosure when a link is paid

Where the law requires it, disclose paid links. A clear #ad (or the equivalent your jurisdiction asks for) is part of the work, not an afterthought. Readers who trust your sentences should also trust the small label beside a tracked URL.

Disclosure does not make the invitation louder. It keeps the invitation from pretending to be something else. If you would not stand by the sentence without the link, do not hide the nature of the link.

For writers and newsletter authors, this is ordinary craft: name the relationship. For coaches and hosts of reflective rooms, it is the same courtesy you would want from a colleague — a margin note, not a disguise.

Who this ledger is for

This page is for people who already share a reflective practice — chapters, letters, sessions, quiet rooms — and who want the arithmetic in daylight. It is not a map to a different identity, and it is not a promise that a share will arrive.

If you are weighing whether a partner relationship fits the way you already point people toward a personal mythology, read the fuller frame in the SoulSaga affiliate program guide, then sit with the application at /partners. Apply only if the work you already do would still make sense without a share attached to it.

SoulSaga turns quiet journaling into literary chapters woven from a person’s own words, without inventing facts. A partner link should behave the same way: no invented duration, no invented rate, no invented certainty.

A share that ends after six monthly payments, or after one annual charge, is still a share. Naming the ending, the hold, the threshold, and the disclosure is part of keeping the myth honest — your story, without a second plot written in the margin.