Programme terms

1. Commission

We pay commission on subscription revenue we actually receive from customers you introduce.

Commission continues for as long as the customer keeps paying. There is no cap and no expiry.

"Net revenue" means what the customer actually paid, after any discount and excluding VAT and other taxes. Commission is paid in the currency the customer was invoiced in and is not converted. Free plans, invite-only plans, add-ons purchased inside the app, and the book generate no commission.

2. Attribution

We use first-touch attribution with a 90-day window. If someone arrives through your link and subscribes within 90 days, the customer is yours, even if they visit through somebody else's link in the meantime.

These accounts cannot be claimed, by anyone:

• anyone who is already a paying SearchScore customer;
• anyone already in a sales conversation with us, including a booked call;
• anyone another affiliate introduced first;
• yourself, your own business, or an account you control.

Once a customer is attributed to you, later plan changes stay with you. If they upgrade, you are paid at the new plan's rate.

3. Payment

• Commission is recorded when an invoice is paid, not when someone signs up.
• It becomes payable 30 days later, once the refund window has passed.
• We pay monthly, once your cleared balance reaches £50. Below that it rolls forward.
• You are responsible for your own tax. Where required we will ask for tax details before paying.

4. Reversals

If a payment is refunded, charged back, disputed or written off, the commission on it is reversed. If it had already been paid to you, the amount is deducted from your next payout.

We may also reverse commission we can show came from a breach of section 5, and we will tell you why.

5. What you must not do

• No brand bidding. Do not bid on "SearchScore" or close variants in paid search, and do not use it in ad copy as though you were us.
• No trademark use in domains. Do not register a domain, subdomain, social handle or app name containing "SearchScore".
• No impersonation. Do not present yourself as SearchScore, or your site as an official one.
• No unsolicited email. Send only to people who agreed to hear from you.
• No invented claims. Only use statistics we have published, and check they are current: our figures are refreshed quarterly with the SAVI report. Do not claim results, rankings or guarantees on our behalf.
• No fake discounts. Do not advertise coupons, discounts or trials that do not exist.
• No self-referral. You may not earn commission on your own purchases or those of a business you control.
• No incentivised or automated traffic. No cookie stuffing, forced clicks, bots, or paying people to click.

6. Ending the arrangement

Either of us can end this at any time, for any reason, by saying so in writing. If we end it because of a breach of section 5, we may withhold commission connected to that breach.

Otherwise, commission that has already cleared is still yours and we will pay it at the next payout run. Commission still inside its 30-day clearing period when the arrangement ends is not paid.

7. The rest

You are an independent contractor. This is not employment, a partnership, or an agency relationship, and it is not exclusive on either side.

We can change these terms, including commission rates, for future referrals. We will email you before a change takes effect. A change never reduces the rate on customers you have already introduced.

Governed by the law of England and Wales. SearchScore is operated by Product Specialists Ltd, London, United Kingdom.

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8. Agency partners

This section applies if we have accepted you as an agency partner. For clients who come to us through your agency link, it takes priority over sections 1 to 3 wherever the two differ.

Your rate

Each Tracker plan has one agency rate. The same rate sets your discount when you pay for a client's plan and your commission when the client pays.

When you pay for a client's plan

If you buy a Tracker plan for a client and pay for it yourself, you get a discount at the agency rate for that plan. The discount applies to every invoice for as long as that subscription runs. You earn no commission on a plan you pay for.

When your client pays

If your client buys a Tracker plan through your agency link and pays for it, we pay you commission at the agency rate on the net revenue we receive, as defined in section 1. It recurs every time the client pays, for as long as they stay a customer, with no cap and no expiry.

Attribution

A client who arrives through your agency link is yours. Your agency link takes priority over any affiliate cookie or earlier referral link, which is the one change to the first-touch rule in section 2. The rest of section 2 still applies: nobody can claim an existing paying customer or an account already in a sales conversation with us.

No self-referral and no stacking

You cannot earn a discount or commission on your own agency's subscription, or on a business you own or control. Each invoice earns one benefit and no more. A plan you pay for gets the discount and no commission. A plan your client pays for earns you commission, and the client gets no agency discount on it.

The agency discount cannot be combined with any other coupon or promotion. Commission is always calculated on the net amount the client actually paid, after any discount, and never combined with another affiliate's commission on the same client.

How you are paid

Unless you ask for cash, we pay agency commission as a credit on your own SearchScore account. The credit comes off your next invoice, and anything left over carries forward to the invoices after it.

If you would rather be paid in cash, choose cash in your partner dashboard. We then pay monthly once your cleared balance reaches £50, $50 or €50, in the currency you are paid in. Below that it rolls forward.

Either way, commission becomes payable only after the 30-day clearing period in section 3, and section 4 on reversals applies to it.

HighLevel

This section does not cover the SearchScore app on the HighLevel Marketplace. Referrals to that app are handled by its own partner programme on its own terms.