Affiliate Program Terms & Payout

Last updated: 2026-05-01 · Effective for partners onboarded 2026-05-01 or later.

TL;DR. 40% lifetime recurring commission on every paid invoice from a customer you referred. 90-day cookie. Net-45 hold per invoice (extra buffer protects you from late-cancel write-backs). Manual payout monthly via PayPal, Wise, or SEPA when your balance is ≥ €50. No platform fee.

1. How it works

You receive a personal link youtubebookmarkpro.com/?ref=<your-slug> and a coupon code. When someone clicks your link, we set a first-party cookie that survives 90 days. If they later subscribe to a paid YBP plan — even from a different page or after a free trial — Stripe attaches your slug to the subscription as client_reference_id, and we record the referral.

Every paid invoice from that customer earns you 40% of the net amount (after Stripe fees and EU VAT, before refunds). This applies for the lifetime of the subscription, including renewals and plan upgrades.

2. Commission lifecycle

State	What it means	Visible on dashboard as
Pending	Customer just paid. Commission is held for 45 days. This covers the 14-day EU statutory refund window (§312g BGB), the 60-day Stripe chargeback window, and a buffer for subscription cancel-on-renewal — so once your commission flips to Available, it almost never gets clawed back.	"Pending (Net-45 hold)"
Available	45-day window expired without a refund or chargeback. Commission is yours; will be paid out on the next monthly batch.	"Available (ready for payout)"
Paid	We sent the money to your PayPal / Wise / SEPA. Reflected on dashboard with the payout reference.	"Already paid"
Reversed	Customer was refunded or chargebacked before the 45-day hold closed. Only that specific invoice's commission is removed — your prior-month commissions on the same customer stay intact.	"Reversed (refund/chargeback)"

3. Payout schedule and methods

Frequency: Once per month, on or before the 15th. We process payouts for all Available commissions at that point.
Minimum: €50 balance. Below that, we roll over to the next month. (Lowered from €100 in 2026-05 so smaller channels reach their first payout in months 2-3 instead of months 5-6.)
Methods: PayPal (instant, no fee on our side), Wise (1–2 business days, sender-paid fee), or SEPA (EU bank, 1–2 business days). You choose at activation; you can change later.
Currency: Default EUR. We can pay in USD via PayPal/Wise on request — exchange rate at time of payout.
No platform fee: We absorb Stripe's processing cost; the 40% is calculated after Stripe fees but before any deduction on our side.

4. Tax obligations (please read if you're outside Germany)

Germany / EU: Payouts are treated as commission income. We can issue a Gutschrift on request (for VAT-registered partners). For Kleinunternehmer status, no VAT applies.

USA: If your annual commission from us exceeds $600, US tax law requires us to issue a Form 1099-MISC. We will collect a W-9 from you before crossing that threshold and ask you to confirm your name, address, and TIN. If you exceed $600 and we cannot reach you for a W-9, payouts will be withheld until we can.

Other countries: Commission income is generally taxable in your country of residence. We do not withhold tax automatically; you are responsible for declaring it locally.

5. Disclosure obligations (FTC / EU)

If you're in the United States, the FTC Endorsement Guides require you to disclose your affiliate relationship in any content where you mention or recommend YBP. A simple "I'm an affiliate of YouTube Bookmark Pro" in the video description, tweet, or article is enough. Sample copy:

"Disclosure: I'm an affiliate of YouTube Bookmark Pro and earn a commission on referrals — but you also get 40% off your first year with code <YOUR_CODE>."

EU partners under the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive must include similar disclosure. We recommend the same wording.

6. Cookie attribution rules

First-touch wins. If a visitor clicks two different partners' links, the first cookie sticks. The second link does not overwrite it.
90-day window. Cookie expires 90 days after the click; commission attribution requires the paid signup within that window.
Cross-device limitation. If a viewer clicks on mobile but signs up on desktop, the cookie does not transfer between browsers. We provide a manual creator-code field at signup as a backup attribution path.
No fingerprinting. We do not track users across devices via IP or fingerprint. Attribution is strictly first-party cookie + manual code.

7. Program duration and changes

The 40% lifetime commission is locked in for active partners as of the day you joined. We reserve the right to change the rate for new partners going forward, but we won't drop it for existing partners without:

At least 90 days written notice by email
Honoring the original rate on all subscriptions you have already referred (your existing customers stay at 40% lifetime)

If we ever sunset the program entirely, you keep all earned commissions and have at least 90 days to redeem outstanding balances.

8. Paid-search and trademark guidelines

We'd rather have you reach an audience that doesn't already know us, so we keep the rules tight on brand-keyword bidding. Here's what's OK and what isn't:

OK: Generic and feature keywords (youtube research tool, save youtube videos, video bookmark extension). Brand+modifier combos that send traffic to your own content ("ali abdaal recommends youtube bookmark pro" on your channel landing). Comparison pages on your own site.
Not OK: Bidding on the bare brand name (youtube bookmark pro, ybp, common misspellings) on Google Ads, Bing Ads, YouTube Search Ads, or any paid-search surface — these compete with our own SEO/SEM and we treat them as trademark abuse.
Not OK: Cloaked domains, lookalike domains (ytbookmarkpro.com, youtube-bookmark.pro), or any redirect that masks the destination.
Not OK: Native ads, Reddit ads, or paid placements that read as editorial without explicit "Sponsored" / "Affiliate" disclosure.

If a paid-channel idea isn't on this list and you're unsure, just email us first — we usually say yes within 24h.

9. Termination

We may pause or terminate a partner account for:

Spamming, fake-account stuffing, or self-referral fraud
Misrepresenting YBP features in marketing
Violating §8 (paid-search and trademark guidelines)
Inactivity — if no activity for 12+ months and a non-zero unpaid balance, we'll email you twice before closing

You may pause your account at any time by emailing us. We'll process your final payout within 45 days of confirmation (matches the standard hold window).

10. Refund and chargeback handling

If a referred customer is refunded or initiates a chargeback before the 45-day hold ends on a specific invoice, only that invoice's commission is marked as reversed on your dashboard. Your prior-month commissions on the same customer stay intact — we don't claw back commissions that already cleared the hold.

If a refund happens after a commission has already been paid out (rare, since the 45-day hold is designed to absorb the typical refund tail), we deduct the affected amount from your next payout. We never ask for money back.

11. Dashboard security

Your live dashboard URL contains a one-time activation key. On first visit your browser silently exchanges it for a 15-minute session token (stored in sessionStorage, not in your browser history), and the URL bar is cleaned of the secret. Subsequent management actions use the session token, not the original URL. If you ever want to rotate the key (lost device, shared link), the dashboard has a Rotate dashboard key button — old links die instantly. Bookmarks share the cleaned URL.

12. Contact

Questions, dispute, payout issue, or anything off here?

Email: info@youtubebookmarkpro.com
Founder: Onder Mutluer (Munich-based, replies in 24–48h)

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