Affiliate Programme
Get paid to send businesses to ESR.
If you refer a business and they subscribe, you earn a recurring share of what they pay, for as long as they stay a customer. This page tells you the rate, the conditions, and exactly when the money becomes yours. Read it before you join.
The two conditions people miss. Read these first.
60 days
Every commission is held.
A commission is not payable the day it is earned. It waits 60 days first. If the customer refunds or cancels in that window, the commission is reversed.
$50
Minimum before a payout.
Your payable balance has to reach $50 before money is sent. Below that it stays in your balance and carries forward. It is not lost.
What it pays
A recurring share, tiered by how much you refer.
The rate below is the percentage of the subscription you receive, every month, for as long as that customer keeps paying. Everyone starts at 20%. Two of these tiers are invite only and cannot be applied for.
| Who | Rate | How you get it |
|---|---|---|
| Standard affiliate | 20% | Where everyone starts after the agreement is accepted. |
| Senior affiliate | 25% | Earned by sustained active referrals, not by application. |
| Managing affiliate | 30% | Earned at 25 active referrals. |
| Founding member | 30% | Automatic for founding members who join the programme. |
| Reviewer | 40% | Invite only. Frank invites reviewers personally. |
| Elite partner | 50% | Invite only. Not open to applications. |
We do not publish earnings examples or income projections, because what you earn depends entirely on who you refer and whether they stay. Anyone showing you a number is guessing.
How it works
Five steps, in order.
Read and accept the agreement
Nothing starts before this. Until you accept, no referral is attributed to you and no commission accrues. This is enforced in the code, not by policy.
Share your link
You get a referral link. Anyone who signs up through it is attributed to you automatically, once.
They subscribe
A commission is recorded when your referral becomes a paying subscriber. Free signups and trials do not create a commission.
The commission holds for 60 days
Every commission sits in a holding period before it becomes payable. If the customer refunds or cancels inside that window, the commission is reversed with a clawback entry. Nothing is ever silently deleted.
It becomes payable
After the hold clears, the commission is payable, and it is paid out once your payable balance reaches the minimum.
Where this programme actually stands
What is running today, and what is not.
We would rather tell you this up front than have you find out after you have sent us customers.
Tracking and commissions are live. The agreement gate, referral attribution, the commission ledger, the 60-day hold, and refund clawbacks all run in code today. Your referrals and what you are owed are recorded accurately from the moment you accept.
Automatic payouts are not built yet. There is no automated transfer system connected to this programme right now. Payouts are arranged directly with us. Your balance is tracked correctly and you will be paid what the ledger says you are owed, but do not expect money to land in an account by itself. When the automated rail ships, this paragraph changes.
The programme is new and the affiliate ledger is starting from empty. You would be early.
The agreement
What you are agreeing to.
These are the terms of the affiliate agreement, version 2026-07-30-v1. You will see them again, in full, before you accept. Nothing is attributed to you until you do.
- You earn a recurring cash commission on the subscription revenue of customers you refer, for as long as they stay subscribed.
- Commission accrues only from the moment you accept these terms. Referrals that arrive before acceptance are not attributed and are not paid.
- Commission is PENDING while a referred customer is within their first 60 days, and becomes PAYABLE once they pass 60 days retained.
- Self-referrals, incentivised signups, paid search on ESR brand terms, and unsolicited bulk email are grounds for termination and forfeiture.
- ESR may change the rate for FUTURE referrals with 30 days' notice. Referrals already attributed keep the rate they were attributed at.
- Either party may end this arrangement at any time. Commission already payable is still paid.
How to join
Join the programme.
You need an ESR account, then you accept the affiliate agreement. That is the whole process. Accepting the agreement is the step that switches tracking on for you.
If you are not signed in, the first button sends you to sign in and brings you straight back to the agreement.
Already an ESR customer?
Customers referring other customers earn Power instead of cash through the referral programme in your account, and this affiliate programme is the separate cash option, which requires the agreement above.