# Refer and earn

Every kosa8 Cloud organization has a referral link. When a team signs up with it and makes its first payment of $25 or more, you both get **$30 of kosa8 Cloud credit**. Writers and creators can join the affiliate program instead and earn **20% of payments for 12 months**.

## Find your link

- **Dashboard:** [app.kosa8.com](https://app.kosa8.com/app#refer), **Refer and earn** under Account.

- **Desktop app:** the **Refer and earn** card on the Account page, once the app is linked to kosa8 Cloud.

- **Terminal:** `kosa8 cloud refer` prints the link, what you earned this year and everyone you invited; `--json` for scripts.

The link looks like `https://app.kosa8.com/signup?ref=yourcode`. Someone who opens it sees the $30 on the sign-up form. kosa8.com links with `?ref=yourcode` work too: the site remembers the code for 30 days in a first-party cookie and passes it to sign-up and to the licence checkout.

## The referral rules

- You and the team you invite each get $30 of kosa8 Cloud credit.

- It is earned at the invited team's first payment of at least $25 (a credit pack, a plan or a usage charge). Adding a card only reserves it (**pending**).

- The credit becomes spendable 30 days after that payment (**earned**, then **paid**). A refund within those 30 days cancels it; a later refund takes back what is unspent.

- A kosa8 licence bought on kosa8.com through your link counts. The buyer's $30 is added when they sign up for kosa8 Cloud, or link the licence, with the same email.

- You can earn up to $500 of credit per calendar year; invited teams still get theirs after that.

- Each person, payment account and card can be invited once. Invitations from your own email, network, company email domain, billing account or card are **held** and listed with the reason. Public mail domains such as gmail.com are not a company domain.

- Referral credit is prepaid kosa8 Cloud credit: it is used after the plan's monthly credit and the signup credit, lasts 12 months from when it becomes spendable, pays for Cloud usage (not licence invoices) and is not cash.

## Affiliate program

In **Refer and earn**, open **Affiliate program** and apply with your payout email and where you will promote kosa8 (an owner of the organization applies). kosa8 reviews applications by hand. Once approved, the tab shows your link and its clicks, sign-ups, paying teams, and commission earned, still in the hold, payable and paid out. Add your payout details there too: PayPal or Wise, the account's email, your country and your legal name.

- 20% of every payment (before tax) for a kosa8 licence, a kosa8 Cloud plan or Cloud usage from the teams you bring, for 12 months from their sign-up or first licence purchase. Refunds are taken off.

- kosa8 Cloud credit packs are prepaid usage and earn no commission.

- Commission becomes payable 60 days after the payment, the window in which it can still be refunded.

- kosa8 pays monthly, by hand, by PayPal or Wise in US dollars, once at least $50 is payable; less rolls over.

- Before the first payout, email kosa8 the tax form the tab names (W-9 in the US, W-8BEN elsewhere). kosa8 never asks for a tax id in the dashboard. Taxes on commission are yours.

- A refund after commission was paid is taken off your next payouts.

- An affiliate link wins over a referral link. The team still gets its $30; the affiliate earns commission instead of referral credit.

- Disclose it wherever you share the link (#ad, or "I earn a commission"), and do not bid on kosa8 brand keywords (kosa8, kosa8 Cloud, or misspellings) in paid search ads.

The full terms are at [kosa8.com/terms](https://kosa8.com/terms/#referrals), [kosa8.com/refer](https://kosa8.com/refer/) and [kosa8.com/affiliates](https://kosa8.com/affiliates/).

## For scripts and agents

`GET /v1/referral` returns the link, the rules, this year's earnings and the invitation list; `GET /v1/affiliate` the affiliate status and figures; `POST /v1/affiliate/apply` with `{"payout_email": "...", "promote": "..."}` applies; `POST /v1/affiliate/payout` with `{"payout_method": "paypal", "payout_email": "...", "country": "US", "legal_name": "..."}` sets the payout details. All take the organization's API key.

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Source: https://docs.kosa8.com/guides/refer/