Our affiliate program is open to everyone who registers on CourseCareers. To understand how the affiliate program works continue reading.
We have different levels of affiliates.
- Enrolled students who have purchased a course will earn 45% of each payment received for an order referred by their affiliate link. Their affiliate link will trigger a $50 discount. Enrolled students are automatically set up as this type of affiliate when they purchase a course.
- Registered users who have not purchased will earn 45% of each payment received for an order referred by their affiliate link. Their affiliate link will NOT trigger a $50 discount. Registered users who have not purchased a course are automatically set up as an affiliate when they register.
For payment plan purchases, the full referral fee is not paid upfront. Instead, commissions are paid incrementally as we receive each payment from the purchaser. Your first commission payment will be issued on the first Friday after the 14-day refund period. Subsequent payments will be made on the first Friday after we receive each additional installment. If the purchaser fails to make further payments, no additional commission will be issued.
Affiliate payouts are processed every Friday. Commissions are based on payments received up to 15 days before the payout date to account for the 14-day refund period. This ensures that commissions are not paid on refunded courses. For example, if the payout date is Friday, March 29, commissions will be issued for purchases made through March 14. As previously mentioned, this 15-day waiting period does not apply to 2nd, 3rd, and 4th installment payment commissions.
We pay our affiliates via PayPal. The Refer Friends > Settings page has a field to enter your PayPal email address. if you use a PayPal business account email, PayPal will take out a small fee, otherwise, we will send the money using Friends and Family and no fee will be charged.
If we do not have your PayPal email address on file, and you have earned a referral that needs to be paid, you will be sent an email requesting you to sign in and enter your PayPal email address. Referrals earned will be carried forward to the following Friday to be paid.
Note: Affiliates who are currently using ACH will be grandfathered in to keep using ACH. If you are an international affiliate and cannot accept PayPal in your country please read this FAQ.
We do not support coupon codes. Enrolled student affiliate links automatically trigger a $50 discount when the referee purchases the course. The user will be notified of the discount when they register for a free course and the discount will be seen on the checkout page for any course they decide to purchase. The discount will be applied only to the first course purchased. .
All affiliates can customize their affiliate link by going to their Refer Friends > Settings page. The original affiliate link will still work. If you modify your Affiliate Code multiple times, all revisions will still work. Use only alphanumeric characters. Do not use special characters or spaces in the modified portion of your link.
For an order to qualify as a referral, it must meet these qualifications.
- The user must not have previously purchased a course before clicking the affiliate link.
- The user must not have previously registered on CourseCareers more than 90 days before clicking the affiliate link.
- We use first-click attribution. This means:
The first affiliate click is active for 90 days. Additional affiliate clicks within those 90 days will NOT count as a referral. Only the first click will count. You can read more about first-click attribution in this FAQ.
When a user registers on CourseCareers within 90 days of clicking an affiliate's link, the affiliate ID is moved from the browser cookie and tracked through the user's email address. Deleting cookies or using an incognito window will not override the affiliate ID once the user registers. The first-click affiliate will be attributed the commission only if the user purchases a course within 90 days of clicking the affiliate link.
After 90 days, the next affiliate link click will become the referring affiliate for the first purchase and all subsequent purchases within the new 90-day period.
No affiliate will earn a referral if all clicks exceed the 90-day mark before the user purchases a course.
The only way around this first-click attribution is for the user to use an incognito browser window or clear their browser cookies before clicking an affiliate link, and then on the same device and browser window, use an unregistered email address to register with and purchase the course. If using an incognito window, you must register before closing your browser window or the affiliate ID will not be saved.
- The user must register for a free course using the same device/browser in which they clicked on the affiliate link since the affiliate ID is initially set in a cookie until the user registers. This is because tracking unregistered users is very difficult and could have privacy implications and we respect our visitors' privacy.
- The user must purchase the course using the same email address in which they registered.
- If the user purchases multiple courses within 90 days of clicking the affiliate's link, the affiliate will receive a referral for each course purchased.
- If the user purchases additional courses after 90 days of clicking the first affiliate's link, no commission will be paid for those additional courses.
- The purchase payment must not have been refunded, therefore, we wait until the 14-day refund period is over before the referral is included in the affiliate payment.
- The purchase payment must not have been disputed by the cardholder.
- Referring yourself is not permitted and has repercussions such as, but not limited to, losing course and/or affiliate access.
- Commission will not be paid out to anyone running paid ads.
- Commission will not be paid out to anyone with campaigns containing false information such as promising a bigger discount or a lower price than what it actually is.
The government requires all affiliates who make at least $600 to pay taxes on that money. Because of this legality, we will be requiring everyone who earns commissions for a calendar year exceeding $599 to fill out a digital W9 or W8 form that we will keep on a secure server. Once you have filled out the digital form once, you do not need to fill it out again unless any of your personal information such as email and address has changed.
Form W-9 (if you are a U.S. citizen or other U.S. person, including a resident alien individual)
Form W-8BEN (if you are a foreign individual)
Form W-8BEN-E (if you are a foreign entity such as a business or organization)
Your goal as an affiliate is to motivate someone to click your affiliate link to go to coursecareers.com and register for a free course. Make sure you tell them something like, "No strings attached. No credit card is required. What do you have to lose?" If you are in a tier that triggers a $50 discount be sure to let them know.
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