How the affiliate program works

Share your link, earn 15% of every paid order your referrals make. This is the whole lifecycle — from getting your code to getting paid — with the honest fine print.

Getting started

1. Open the Affiliate area of your dashboard (/dashboard/affiliate) and join the program. Your referral code is auto-generated from your email; codes are 3–40 characters of letters, digits, dashes, or underscores.
2. On the Payouts page, pick how you want to be paid: PayPal, USDT (TRC-20), wire transfer, or manual transfer.
3. Upload your tax form — W-9 (US) or W-8BEN (non-US) — from the Tax form page. We cannot pay out before one is on file.
4. Share your link anywhere: https://vicifast.com/?ref=YOUR_CODE, or the short form https://vicifast.com/a/YOUR_CODE. The Links page also supports sub-IDs so you can tell which post or campaign a signup came from.

How attribution works

Anyone who lands on VICIfast through your link gets a 90-day cookie. If they sign up within that window, they are attributed to you permanently. Two rules follow:

• First touch wins. The cookie is only set when the visitor does not already carry one, and once a user is attributed at signup they can never be reassigned — even if they click another affiliate’s link later.
• No self-referrals. The system refuses to attribute you to yourself; it checks identity and normalized email, so a +alias variant of your own address does not work either.

Commission

The default rate is 15% (1500 basis points) of the customer’s paid order total. The rate is snapshotted onto each referral, and an admin can adjust it per affiliate. Commission is earned the moment the customer’s order is paid — it appears on your dashboard immediately in the EARNED state.

The 90-day hold

Every commission spends 90 days in EARNED before a daily job flips it to APPROVED and payable. The hold exists to cover refund and chargeback windows: if the upstream order is refunded, the commission is clawed back automatically and your totals decrease. Honest fine print: card chargebacks can land late, so even an APPROVED commission can still be clawed back — and an already-PAID one is recovered as a negative adjustment against your next payout.

Getting paid

Once commissions are APPROVED and your payable balance reaches the $50 minimum, payouts go out in batches:

• PayPal — sent through PayPal’s own payout system; the commissions flip to PAID automatically when PayPal confirms the batch.
• USDT (TRC-20), wire, or manual transfer — an admin marks the batch paid after sending; either way you get an email with the transfer reference and amount, and the commissions flip to PAID on your dashboard.

A tax form must be on file before your first payout. Upload it yourself from the Tax form page — the flag flips automatically on upload; an admin can also mark it on file if you sent it another way.

What disqualifies commission

• Self-referral — refused automatically.
• Already-attributed users — if someone signed up under another affiliate first, your later link earns nothing from them.
• A suspended code stops accruing new commission. Commission you already earned stays valid and is still paid out.

Good to know

• The dashboard breaks down visits, orders, customers, and every commission’s state — EARNED means still inside the 90-day hold, APPROVED means payable in the next batch.
• The 90-day hold is deliberately conservative: it covers the bulk of card chargeback windows.
• Rates can be adjusted per affiliate after approval — if you expect serious volume, ask support about your rate.