A referral system for your GPT site, built in.
The referral system for your get-paid-to (GPT) site comes with every RewardsLabel licence. Each member gets a code and a link on your domain. When someone they referred earns from an offer, the referrer receives a commission on those earnings, at a percentage you set for each member.
- Referral link
- yourdomain.com/refer/CODE
- Commission
- A share of referred offer earnings
- Starting rate
- 5%, changeable per member
How a referral turns into commission.
In this referral system, commission is tied to offer earnings that partner postbacks report, not to sign-ups.
- 01
A member shares their link
Every member has a referral code and a link in the form yourdomain.com/refer/CODE on their referrals page.
- 02
A friend signs up
The link remembers the code in the visitor’s browser and takes them to registration. The new account is linked to the referrer.
- 03
The friend completes an offer
A partner postback credits the friend as usual, at the currency rate you set in that partner’s dashboard.
- 04
The referrer earns commission
From the same postback, the site credits the referrer a percentage of that amount and logs it as a referral commission.
You set the referral commission for each member.
New members start at a 5% commission rate. You can change the rate for any member from their profile in the console.
- A standard rate for most members
- Leave most members at the starting rate so your cost per referral stays predictable as the site grows.
- A higher rate for partners
- Raise the rate for a creator or community owner who brings you members, and agree the terms with them directly. See rewards sites for communities.
- Codes members can recognise
- Members can change their code to something memorable, and you can edit any member’s code from the console. Each code must be unique, and a changed code stops every link already shared under the old one.
- What commission is based on
- Commission is calculated on the amount a referred member earns from offer postbacks. Partner bonuses and amounts you add by hand do not generate commission.
- A rate members can see
- Each member sees their own commission rate on the referrals page. State the starting rate in your terms as well, and update both places if you change it.
What referral commission costs you.
Commission is credited on top of what the referred member earns, so it comes out of your margin.
Example figures. If a referred member earns 10.00 from offers, worth $10.00 in rewards, and their referrer’s rate is 5%, the referrer receives 0.50. You carry those 0.50 on top of the 10.00, so the program pays for itself when your margin on what referred members do is larger than the commission you pay on it. Decide your starting rate before launch, because lowering a rate members already know is harder than raising one.
Large GPT sites give a sense of what members expect. Third-party write-ups report Swagbucks paying 10% of a referred friend’s earnings and Freecash using tiers from 5% up to 30%. These are reported figures that change, so treat them as context, not targets.
How get-paid-to sites make money puts referral cost next to the other costs of running a site.
See who brings members in.
Every part of the referral system is recorded on both sides, so you can answer questions and spot abuse.
Affiliates view
The console lists referrers with the members they referred, what each referral has earned them and when it started.
Member activity
Each commission appears in the referrer’s activity log as a referral commission, with the amount, the rate and the referred member’s ID.
The member side
Members see their code, their link, their rate, how many friends have joined and what referrals have earned them on the referrals page of your site.
Keep self-referrals in check.
Any referral system for a GPT site is the first place people try to earn from themselves.
The platform does not detect multiple accounts automatically. Use the IP history on each member’s profile to compare a referrer with the members they brought in, and suspend accounts that share IP addresses with their referrer before you approve their withdrawals in the redemption queue.
Review referrers whose referred members collect chargebacks or never cash out, and lower their rate or change their account status if the pattern continues.
Questions about referral commissions.
How links, rates and commission work on your site.
- How does the referral link work?
- Each member’s link has the form yourdomain.com/refer/CODE. Opening it stores the code in the visitor’s browser and sends them to registration, so the account they create is linked to the member who shared it. A visitor who signs up without the link has no referrer attached.
- What referral commission should I pay?
- It depends on your margin. Members start at 5% of their referrals’ offer earnings, and you can change any member’s rate. Third-party reports put Swagbucks at 10% and Freecash’s tiers between 5% and 30%, as linked above, so test what your margin can carry before raising rates.
- Do referrers earn from sign-ups alone?
- No. Commission is paid only when a referred member earns from an offer postback, as a percentage of that amount. A sign-up that never completes an offer costs you no commission. Commission is credited automatically, so there is nothing to approve for each referral.
- Does commission stop after a while?
- No. Commission continues for as long as the referred member earns from offers. There is no expiry date or cap in the current version, so lower a member’s rate if a referral relationship stops making sense for you. Every commission shows in the referrer’s activity log, so you can see what each relationship costs.
- Can members change their referral code?
- Yes. Members can pick a memorable code on their referrals page, and you can edit any member’s code from the console. Codes must be unique. A changed code stops links already shared under the old one, so tell members to update the links they have posted.
- Can I run multi-level referrals?
- No. Commission is paid one level up, to the member who shared the link. A referrer earns nothing from the members their referrals bring in, which keeps your referral cost easy to predict. You can still agree separate terms with a partner outside the platform.
Keep reading
- Payouts and redemptionsList the rewards members can redeem and approve, reject or refund every request from one queue.
- Offerwall integrationAdd offerwall partners in the console, set a bonus, record each share, and credit members through one postback address.
- Community rewards sitesA branded rewards site for creators, publishers and Discord or gaming communities, with referrals and chat built in.
- How GPT sites make moneyThe operator’s side of the get-paid-to business model: offer margin, member share, payout fees, reversals, cash flow and a sample monthly P&L.
- Get-paid-to (GPT) sitesHosted get-paid-to site software with offerwalls, surveys, payouts and referrals on your own domain.
Your members can bring you new members.
Every licence includes referral codes, links and commission tracking. Rates can be changed per member from the console.