Get paid for the customers you send.

What you earn

You get 30% of every payment made by somebody who signed up through your link, every month, for as long as they keep paying.

In full: you earn 30% of every subscription payment made by a customer who signed up through your link, for as long as that customer keeps paying. There is no cut-off month. If we agreed a different share or a fixed number of months with you, that is in your welcome email and on your dashboard, and that is the one that counts.

It starts at their first paid month, not at the day they signed up. Somebody can make their free videos first and only start paying two weeks later. That first payment, and every one after it, still earns you the same share.

It is every month, not just the first. As long as they keep paying, you keep earning.

Some creators are paid a set amount per thousand views instead, agreed with us directly. If that is you, what the two of us agreed is your deal, your payment is arranged by hand outside the dashboard, and this section is not about you.

What earns you nothing

Four things pay you nothing: somebody who signs up and never pays, one-off credit purchases, your own account, and somebody who was already a customer.

The free plan. A free account is a $0 invoice, so it earns you nothing until that person starts paying. Signups are worth counting, but they are not money yet.

Credit top-ups and other one-off purchases. Only subscription payments earn you a share.

Your own account, or one you control. Signing up through your own link does not count, and doing it on purpose ends the partnership.

Somebody who was already ours. If a person already has a Cutroom account, or clicked another partner's link in the last 90 days, their payments do not count as yours.

How a click becomes yours

The first partner link a person clicks is the one that counts, and we remember that click for 90 days.

Ninety days is the whole point of it. Somebody who reads you for two months and signs up later is still yours.

First click wins. If a person clicks your link and then somebody else's before signing up, the sale stays with the first link they clicked. Once a visitor counts as yours, nothing moves them, and one account can only ever have one partner behind it.

Clicks only count while your partner account is switched on. If it is paused, the link still opens Cutroom but nothing counts as yours, and your dashboard says so.

When you get paid

A person checks each payment before it can be sent, you connect Stripe once, and we transfer your money when at least $10 of it has been checked and cleared.

Your money moves in three steps and never skips one. PENDING is a payment a customer has made that we have not reviewed yet. APPROVED means a person has checked it is real, and that is the only step money can be sent from. PAID means it has left us.

A person does the checking, so there is no fixed day for it. Your dashboard is the honest answer at any moment: it shows what is still being checked and what has cleared.

You connect Stripe yourself, from your own partner dashboard. Stripe collects your bank and tax details directly. We never see or store them, and we cannot do that step for you. Until Stripe says your account can receive payouts, cleared money simply waits.

There is a minimum before we send a transfer, and it is $10. Below that, the balance rolls into the next transfer rather than being sent in pieces.

We pay in US dollars. If your bank works in another currency, Stripe changes it at their rate on the day it lands, and what they charge for that is the only fee between us and your bank.

You get one email when your money is cleared, and another when we send it. Stripe then usually takes a few working days to put it in your bank.

What gets taken back

If a customer gets their money back, you give back your share of that payment.

A refund takes back the share of the payment that was refunded. A partial refund takes back the same fraction. A $10 refund on a $40 month takes a quarter of that month's share, not the whole thing.

A chargeback, which is a customer disputing a payment with their bank, takes back the whole share for that payment whatever the outcome. If we win the dispute you get it back.

If we have already paid you, the amount owed back comes off your next transfer rather than arriving as an invoice. It is shown on your dashboard the whole time, so it is never a surprise deduction.

Every one of these shows up in your own dashboard with the reason attached, the moment it happens.

What you have to do

Say that it is a paid link, describe Cutroom honestly, and keep your login to yourself.

Say that it is a paid link. Every post, video, email or story with your link in it has to make that clear, and the simplest way is to copy one of these: "#ad", or "Paid partnership with Cutroom", or "I earn a commission if you sign up through my link". Put it where people actually see it, near the top of a caption rather than buried under the tags, or said out loud in a video. In the US this is the law, not a preference, and it protects you as much as us.

Describe Cutroom as it actually is. Do not promise anyone a result we do not promise: no income figures, no guaranteed sales, no invented before and after numbers. Show the product doing what it does.

Keep your login to yourself. Your dashboard shows real customer and payment data. Do not share the account.

What you must not do

No paid search on our name, no coupon or cashback sites, no spam, and nothing that pretends to be us.

Do not bid on our brand name in paid search, or run ads that look like they come from Cutroom.

Do not post your link on coupon sites, cashback sites, or anywhere the click is bought rather than earned.

No spam. No unsolicited email or DM blasts, no comment stuffing, no bought traffic, no bots.

Do not pretend to be Cutroom or a member of our team, do not register domains or handles containing our name, and do not claim to be an employee.

Nothing illegal, and nothing that would make a reasonable person uncomfortable seeing our name beside it.

Breaking any of these ends the partnership and cancels unpaid money from the traffic it produced. We will tell you what we found and why.

Ending it

Either of us can stop this at any time, and money you have already earned and had checked is still paid.

Either of us can end this at any time, for any reason, by saying so.

If you leave, or we end it for any reason other than the rules above, money already earned and checked is still paid on the next transfer. Your links stop counting new customers from that day.

If we end it because of the rules above, unpaid money from the traffic in question is cancelled.

Changes, and your data

If we change these terms you get an email before the new version applies, and we use your details only to run your account and pay you.

The version you agreed to is stored against your account, so we can always show you the words you actually said yes to.

Your share is fixed per customer, on the day that customer signs up through your link. It is stored against that customer, so changing your share applies to people who sign up after the change and leaves everyone before it alone. The one exception is a deal we renegotiate together: if we agree a new share should cover customers you have already sent, we can apply it to those too. Either way, money already worked out and written down is never restated.

Your earning window works the same way. Every partner earns for as long as their customers keep paying, and the window is stored against each customer when they arrive, so a shorter window agreed later cannot reach customers you already sent. They keep the deal they arrived under.

We use your email and the accounts you linked to review your application, run your account and pay you. Nothing else. You can ask for your data or ask us to delete it by replying to any of our emails.