Apiway Affiliate is an optional app for agencies, consultants and partners who want to introduce clients to Apiway. Read the public programme overview at /affiliate or open Apiway Affiliate to share your personal link or create a partner code for a business or another partner.
Customer offer
A new Studio customer who joins through your link or enters your partner code receives 10% off their first 6 months of Studio. A code is the fallback when tracking is lost: it attributes a new customer at payment, but it cannot replace another partner's existing attribution or be used for self-referral.
Commission rates
- 30% of contribution margin goes to the direct referrer.
- 10% of the same margin goes to one upline referrer, when the direct referrer was also invited through Apiway.
- The combined maximum is 40% of contribution margin. There are no deeper levels.
How margin is calculated
Contribution margin is the standard pre-tax price minus direct third-party delivery cost for the same customer event. Examples include an AI-model provider, email provider, SMS provider, or a paid connector API. The partner's customer discount is funded by Apiway and does not reduce the commission basis. Stripe processing fees are Apiway's own operating cost and are not deducted from the commission base.
A free credit, bonus, goodwill credit, failed job, or activity with zero or negative margin earns no commission. Each calculation is stored against its invoice or completed usage event so it can be reconciled and reversed once only.
Timing and payout
- Your first confirmed independent paid customer is qualification only. Commission starts from the second confirmed customer and is not backfilled for the first.
- A monthly subscription requires successful payments for two distinct billing periods and the first payment's 30-day window.
- An annual subscription can qualify from one annual payment after its 30-day window. Revenue and costs are still allocated across its service months.
- A one-time product requires two separate purchases at least 30 days apart.
- Meaningful product activity and anti-fraud checks are required for every payment type.
- Every monthly commission then receives its own 30-day hold. A later refund or chargeback reduces held or available earnings; a correction after payout becomes a negative balance against future earnings.
- The payout threshold is $25 USD. Payout access, schedule and method are shown only when enabled for the account.
Referral rules
Attribution is first-touch for 30 days and only one referrer can own a new account. A partner code can safely provide attribution at payment when tracking is lost, but it cannot overwrite another partner's existing attribution. Self-referrals, referral cycles, Apiway-owned profiles and clear linked payment/payer identities are rejected; uncertain cases can be reviewed manually. The paying billing workspace is the customer and partner identity, so adding members does not create additional referral claims.
Keeping commissions active
Bring one new confirmed independent customer every 180 days to keep your portfolio active. If you miss the deadline, existing customers continue to accrue for one final 180-day wind-down. New qualifying customers during that period restart the cycle; after wind-down ends, no earnings are backfilled. An upline must independently satisfy the same qualification and activity window. The upline for a customer is snapshotted when that customer is confirmed and cannot be swapped later.