# Affiliate programme

> Share a link. Earn a share of what the people you send us actually pay.

If you write about quantitative trading, run a community, or teach people to
backtest, you can earn a share of every subscription that starts through your
link.

Join from [the console](https://app.quantbase.live) — the **Affiliate** tab.
You get a link like `quantbase.live/r/your-name`.

## The terms, in full

| | |
|---|---|
| Commission | **20% of net revenue** |
| Duration | **12 months** per referred customer |
| Attribution | **Last click**, 60-day window |
| Hold period | **30 days** before a commission is payable |
| Minimum payout | **₹1,000** |

## What "net revenue" means, and why it is not the sticker price

A ₹2,999 Pro subscription does not put ₹2,999 in our account. The payment
gateway keeps roughly 2% plus GST on its own fee — about ₹70.78. Commission is
20% of what actually arrives:

```
gross            ₹2,999.00
gateway fee      −  ₹70.78
─────────────────────────────
net              ₹2,928.22
your 20%         ₹585.64
```

We use the **real fee the gateway reports for that specific payment**, not an
assumption, so a discounted or prorated charge earns exactly 20% of whatever it
truly netted. Where the gateway has not yet reported a fee, an estimate is used
and the commission is marked as estimated rather than quietly presented as
measured.

Paying 20% of the *sticker* price would mean paying 20.48% of the money we
received. We would rather state the smaller number honestly than the larger one
misleadingly.

**Rs 585.64 per month, per Pro customer, for twelve months** is ₹7,027 from one
referral. A Team subscription at ₹24,999 earns ₹4,881.80 a month — ₹58,581 over
the year.

## When you get paid

A commission is **pending** for 30 days. That is the refund window: if the
customer refunds or cancels in that time, the commission is reversed, because
the money was never really ours to share. After 30 days it becomes **approved**,
and approved balances over ₹1,000 are paid out.

Your console shows pending and approved as separate figures on purpose. Showing
one combined "balance" would be friendlier and less honest — pending money can
still go down.

## The rules

- **No self-referral.** Signing up through your own link earns nothing.
- **First claim wins.** A customer is attributed to one affiliate, permanently.
  A later link does not reassign someone who already signed up.
- **Existing customers cannot be claimed.** Attribution only happens for an
  account created through your link.
- **No bidding on our brand** in paid search, no impersonating the product, no
  unsolicited bulk email. Codes that look official are reserved.
- Rates are frozen when a customer is attributed, so a change to the programme
  never reprices referrals you have already earned.

We can pause an account for abuse. We will tell you why.

## Tax

You are responsible for your own tax on what you earn. We are not withholding
anything, and a commission is not a salary.

Questions: [support@quantbase.live](mailto:support@quantbase.live).