Update: FreshBooks Referral Program
December 19, 2006 – 6:23 pm
I’ve finally had a chance to sit down and go thru FreshBooks Referral Program that they offer prospective affiliates of their software. As you can tell from my previous posting I was greatly considering them until I read the terms of payment for their service, especially the highlighted one below…
The Terms Are Easy to Use and Easy to Understand
- You must be an active Freshbooks service user in good standing to be an Affiliate.
- You must adhere strictly to our Terms of Service (TOS) Agreement and Anti-Spamming Policies.
- Payouts made twice a year (Jan 31 and July 31) providing your own Freshbooks system is active and in good standing.
- Referrals must have cookies enabled. Your Affiliate ID cookies expire after 15 days. What this means is that anyone who clicks your referral link must subscribe within 15 days. They DO NOT need to upgrade to paid service within 15 days for you to a receive payment.
- Affiliates cannot earn credit for signing up themselves and if they do all their referrals will be void. Freshbooks uses several means to track this so be sure to comply.
- If you are interested in becoming an Affiliate, please login to Freshbooks and click “Get Started” on your home page. If you do not already subscribe to Freshbooks, it is free to sign up. Click here to Subscribe now.
Source: FreshBooks
… Personally I don’t know if a twice-a-year payout makes much sense to the average affiliate but if you are getting sales every month wouldn’t it stand to make sense that you’d want to be paid monthly for the sales you bring in to the company? What does “In good standing” mean specifically? That is NOT very easy to understand as the section header states.
Luc
3 Responses to “Update: FreshBooks Referral Program”
Hey Luc,
Thanks for considering FreshBooks in your affiliate selection process.
With respect to:
“Payouts made twice a year (Jan 31 and July 31) providing your own FreshBooks system is active and in good standing.”
1) The idea behind this clause is to ensure a certain payout amount is reached (in our case we write and post referral cheques when you earn more than $100 in referral fees…until you reach that sum, we don’t post a cheque). Basically this keeps the program manageable for what is currently a small team.
2) by “good standing” we mean, “if you are a paying account, you don’t have an overdue balance and you have not spammed anyone or otherwise broken any of the rules of the affiliate program”.
I hope you find all that reasonable.
Drop us a note if you want your payments more regularly or at a lesser amount and I’m sure we can work something out for you.
Warm regards,
- Mike
By Mike McDerment on Dec 20, 2006
Hi Mike,
Thanks for getting back to me about this. Thanks also for the clarification of “in good standing” because i have to tell you that had me a little confused.
Personally i like the idea of payments done on a monthly basis moreso then every half year. Your software is pretty good stuff from all that i’ve heard and seen. Talk soon Mike,
Luc
By lucas on Dec 21, 2006