Partner program terms
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These terms explain how our partner program works and what we expect from you. By creating a partner account, you accept them.
The program is run by NextBlock™ CMS (“we” or “us”).
Joining the program
Joining is free.
We review every storefront before it goes live.
When you change your page or your profile, we review the changes before they go live. Until then, the approved version stays online.
We may refuse a storefront, ask for changes, or take it offline.
How you earn
You start earning once your first storefront is approved.
An order counts for you when the shopper came through your referral link or your storefront, within your tier's referral window.
Only one partner earns per order. A product added to the cart from a storefront comes first. Otherwise, the last referral link the shopper followed counts.
If the shopper declined marketing cookies, the order earns no commission.
Orders placed with your own account or your own email address never earn a commission.
Your commission is your tier's rate on the order total after discounts, without taxes or shipping.
You earn once per order, when it is first paid. Renewals and later subscription payments don't earn a commission.
Commissions are recorded in the store's currency. An order in another currency is converted at the rate saved with the order.
We decide which tier you are in, and we may move you to another tier.
A rate change applies only to orders paid after the change.
Hold period
Each commission waits for your tier's hold period before it clears. The hold protects the store against refunds.
A commission stays on hold while a payment dispute about its order is open.
Refunds and disputes
If an order is fully refunded or cancelled, its commission is cancelled.
A partial refund lowers the commission by the same share.
If the store loses a payment dispute, the commission is cancelled.
If a refund or a lost dispute comes after we paid you, we may take that amount back: by reversing the Stripe transfer, by asking you to send it back, or by deducting it from a later payout.
Payouts
Depending on the sale, we pay you into a Stripe account in your name (Stripe Connect Express), into your PayPal account with PayPal Payouts, or we send the money to you directly, for example by PayPal or Interac e-Transfer.
For payouts through Stripe, finish the Stripe setup in your partner portal. Your Stripe account must be in a country where we can pay you.
For payouts by PayPal or sent directly, add your payout email in your partner portal and choose PayPal or Interac e-Transfer. We send the money to that address, so keep it up to date.
For payouts by PayPal, use the email of your PayPal account. A payout sent to an address without a confirmed PayPal account waits to be claimed for a limited time; then PayPal returns it, and the amount goes back to your balance.
If you choose Interac e-Transfer, we send your payouts by hand.
Payouts are sent in the store's currency.
We send a payout once your cleared commissions reach the minimum payout.
Payouts follow our schedule. A payout can be late, for example if a payment service is unavailable or our Stripe or PayPal balance is too low.
Your Stripe account is covered by Stripe's own agreement with you.
Your PayPal account is covered by PayPal's own agreement with you.
Taxes
We don't deduct taxes from your payouts. You are responsible for reporting your earnings and paying your own taxes.
How you promote the store
Tell your audience that you earn a commission, everywhere you promote the store. Your storefront already shows this notice.
These are not allowed:
- Buying through your own links or your own storefront.
- Spam, or messages people didn't ask for.
- False or misleading claims about the store, its products or its prices.
- Cookie stuffing: setting a referral cookie for someone who didn't choose to follow your link.
- Pretending to be the store, or to speak for it.
If you break these rules, we may suspend your partner account.
Your storefront content
You keep the rights to what you write and upload.
You allow us to store, show, copy and adapt it, for example to resize your images, so we can run and promote your storefront.
You are responsible for your content, including text the storefront assistant drafts for you. Only use text and images you have the right to use.
Suspension and leaving
We may suspend your partner account, for example while we look into a problem.
While your account is suspended, your storefront is offline, you earn no new commissions and no payouts are sent.
The commissions you already earned stay in your balance, and payouts resume once we reactivate your account.
Your records are kept, and you can still sign in to see them.
To leave the program, contact us. You can't delete your partner account yourself.
We keep the records of your commissions and payouts.
Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. When we do, we change the date at the top of this page.
If you keep taking part after an update, the new terms apply to you.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the place where NextBlock™ CMS is established.
Privacy
Our privacy policy explains how we handle your personal information.
If you set up payouts through Stripe, we share your email address, your country and your storefront address with Stripe.
To send you a payout directly, we give your payout email, the amount and your handle to the payment service we use, such as PayPal.
Contact
Questions about these terms? Write to us at privacy@nextblock.dev.
Program details
These details come from our current settings. They can change at any time.
| Tier | Commission | Referral window | Hold period |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter Partner | 10% | 30 days | 30 days |
| Growth Partner | 20% | 30 days | 30 days |
| Elite Partner | 35% | 30 days | 30 days |
| Founding Ambassador | 50% | 30 days | 30 days |
- Currency
- USD
- Minimum payout
- $1.00
- Payout method
- Sent directly by us, for example by PayPal or Interac e-Transfer
- Payout schedule
- When we send them