Promote a newsroom your audience can put their name on

In the partner portal, with a Mastheads account. Accepting the programme terms is what makes you a partner - nobody has to say yes to you first, there is no queue, and there is nothing to wait for. Joining is open to anyone with an audience.

No. The partner programme is open to anyone with an audience worth promoting to. If you are a customer you are eligible for this as well as the referral programme - the two are separate and being in one does not exclude you from the other.

20% of what a customer you referred actually paid, on every payment they make, for up to 12 months. It is a share of the real payment rather than of the list price, and it is computed after tax, because Paddle is the merchant of record and the tax was never ours to take a share of. Subscription payments only: a credit pack does not count. An annual payment is spread across 12 monthly instalments rather than paid as one lump.

Earnings from one month are held and released on the run 2 months later, and accumulate until they reach a minimum of $50, rolling over month to month until they do. It is a USD minimum: plans are priced and charged in USD in every country, so there is one balance rather than one per currency, and any payout is made in USD.

Two separate questions, and only one of them is open. Where the money would go is asked before your first payout, not at the door: we will ask for the legal name a payment would be made to, your country, your entity type and the address to pay it to, and we cannot pay you until we have all four. How it gets there is the part we have not settled. We have not chosen a payout provider, so we are not going to name a payment method or a date, and we would rather leave that open than name one now and change it on you later. The rail is deliberately loose: a payout run creates the obligation, a person sends the money and records the reference, and that reference is free text on purpose, so the provider can change without anything you gave us having to change. You will have the method and the schedule in writing before your first payout is due.

The commission on that payment is reversed. If it had not been paid out yet it is simply never paid. If it had already been paid out it comes off the next payout you actually receive, once and only once. If your reversals come to more than you are owed, the difference carries forward and keeps reducing later payouts until it is absorbed. We never create a negative payout, and we never deduct the same reversal twice.

Same link, different reward. The referral programme pays article credits, which are useful if you publish; the partner programme pays money, which is the point if you are promoting us to an audience. You choose which one you are on and you can switch: join here and the customers you send earn you cash instead of credits, leave and they go back to credits. A customer you referred pays you one way in a given month, never both.

A count, and nothing else. No IP address, no user agent, no referer. That is true of every link we hand out, and it is not going to change for this programme.

Yes, wherever your jurisdiction or your platform requires it. We will never ask you to hide the relationship, and we would rather you labelled it clearly than risk your own standing with your audience.

Say what you actually think, including the parts that are not finished - we publish our own limits on this site. What you cannot do is describe capabilities we do not have. If you are unsure whether something is true, the documentation is public and we will answer directly.