Do You Have an Affiliate/Referral Program?

Yes! All Gleam users have an opportunity to earn money by referring new users to our platform. When you make a successful referral, you earn recurring cash that gets credited into your subscription or cashed out via PayPal.

You earn 20% of every payment your referral makes, for the lifetime of their subscription. It isn't a one-off: as long as they keep paying for Gleam, you keep earning.

For example, if your friend subscribes to the monthly Pro Competitions plan ($59), you earn $59 x 0.2 = $11.80 every month they stay subscribed. Over their first year that's $141.60.

If they subscribe yearly instead, you earn 20% of each annual payment. On the yearly Pro Competitions plan that's $93.60 per year.

To get your referral details, click on your profile name on the sidebar and go to Referrals.

You should see your unique referral link in this section.

To better convert your referrals, you can optionally customise your referral URL to direct referrals to a specific landing page on our site.

For example, if you intend to earn referrals for the Competitions app, you could send users to Competition's Pro Plan landing page.

Credit is added to your balance as pending as soon as a referred payment is made. It becomes available to spend or withdraw after a short cooldown that covers the refund window:

• 7 days following a monthly purchase
• 3 months following a yearly purchase

Pending credit is visible in your Referrals tab, but it can't be applied to a bill or cashed out until it clears.

If a referred payment is refunded, charged back or reversed, the credit you earned from it is automatically deducted from your balance. If you've already applied that credit to your own subscription, the deduction is applied to your next bill.

If a referred customer cancels, you simply stop earning from their future payments. Any credit that has already cleared stays yours.

Gleam credits will take priority over other payment sources when paying for your Gleam subscription. So if you have $20 credit, that will go towards your next bill and reduce your Credit Card payment.

Only available (non-pending) credit is applied to your bill.

The 'Powered by Gleam' branding on your campaign widget contains a link with your referral ID. Anyone can click through that link, subscribe to a Gleam plan and earn you money.

This means that as soon as you run your first Competitions or Rewards campaign, you have a chance to earn credit and let your referral credits pay for your subscription.

On the Business plan and above, you have the option to remove the 'Powered by Gleam' branding.

• Minimum payout for cash referrals is $100, payments only made via PayPal or Gleam credit.
• Referral credit accrues on every payment made by a referred customer for the lifetime of their subscription. Credit stops accruing when the referred subscription is cancelled or otherwise ends.
• Credit is held as pending for 7 days following a monthly purchase and 3 months following a yearly purchase before becoming available.
• Credit earned from any payment that is subsequently refunded, charged back or reversed will be deducted from your balance.
• We reserve the right to invalidate referrals if we feel you are "gaming the system". This program is designed to reward people that send us meaningful signups (this means posting in forums or specifically telling people to create a campaign is against our TOS).
• Under no circumstances shall you send any messages that violate the CAN-SPAM act of 2003 in respect to Gleam.
• We will not honour referrals from SEM advertising that uses either the Gleam.io domain or any keywords relating to Gleam.
• You will not purchase any domains that contain Gleam in the URL (i.e. GleamCompetitions.com).
• Self referrals will not be credited, abuse of this may result in removal from the program.
• You cannot use the Gleam widget to incentivise referrals, this means running a Competition asking users to sign up using your referral link.
• We reserve the right to vary or end the referral program at any time. Any change applies to credit earned after the change, and does not affect credit already cleared.