Partner program
Partner Terms
Effective November 15, 2026 · version 2026-11-15
The short version: you earn a monthly commission on the businesses you refer for as long as they pay, we pay once a month once your balance reaches $100, and you promote us honestly.
These terms are a first version. Two sections (limits of liability and governing law) are still being finalised. We will ask you to agree again when they are, and no commission is paid until you have.
1. Who can join
The Sunshine Network partner program is open to people and businesses in the United States. You must be at least 18 years old. Joining is free.
There is one level only. You earn on the businesses you refer yourself. You do not earn anything on other partners, or on businesses that other partners refer.
2. How commission works
You earn a commission each month on every business you referred that is paying for a Sunshine Network plan. It continues for as long as that business keeps paying.
The commission is a share of the business’s plan price for the month, before tax. A plan paid yearly counts as one twelfth of the yearly price each month. Extra territories the business adds count. Usage charges and one-off charges do not.
The share depends on the business’s position among your earning businesses, counted by the date each one signed up. Positions 1–10 earn 10%, and the rate rises by level up to 20% for positions 101 and up. Each business earns the rate of the level its own position falls in; reaching a higher level does not change the rate on earlier positions.
If an earlier business stops paying, the businesses after it each move down one position, so a business can move to a lower level.
| Level | Positions | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | 1–10 | 10% |
| Level 2 | 11–30 | 12% |
| Level 3 | 31–60 | 15% |
| Level 4 | 61–100 | 18% |
| Level 5 | 101 and up | 20% |
3. The first 30 days
A business starts earning you commission once it has been a paying customer for 30 days with no refund and no payment dispute. Until then it does not take a position.
4. Refunds and disputes
If a business’s plan payment is refunded or disputed, the commission on that payment is reversed. If we have not paid it yet, it comes off the payout. If we already paid it, it comes off your next payout.
5. Payouts
We work out commission once a month for the month that just ended and pay it through Stripe. You need a Stripe account connected from your partner dashboard to be paid.
We pay once your balance reaches $100. A smaller balance carries forward and is added to the next month.
Payouts are sent no earlier than the 16th of the month after the one they are for.
Before your first payout we review your account once. Nothing is paid until that review is done. We may ask you a few questions.
We may review your account again later, and hold payouts while we do, if we see signs that these terms were broken.
6. How you may promote Sunshine Network
Do not promise or guarantee income, rankings, leads or any other result to a business.
Do not send spam: no bulk email, texts or calls to people who did not ask to hear from you.
Do not bid on “Sunshine Network” or close spellings of it in paid ads.
Do not pretend to be Sunshine Network or one of our staff, and do not use our name or logo in a way that suggests you are us.
Do not use cookie stuffing, forced or hidden clicks, pop-unders, browser extensions, or coupon or deal sites to get credit for a signup, and do not run paid ads on the Sunshine Network name. A click counts only when a person chooses to follow your link.
One partner account per person or company. Do not share your account, and do not collect other people’s referrals under it.
Always tell people that you earn a commission when they sign up through you.
The full list of what you may and may not say is at /partners/rules. It is part of these terms.
7. No self-referral
You do not earn commission on your own business, or on a business you own or run under another name.
8. Who gets credit for a signup
When someone clicks one of your links, we remember it on their device for 90 days. If they sign up in that time, the business is credited to you. If they clicked links from more than one partner, the last link clicked gets the credit. A partner code typed in at signup always wins over a link.
9. You are independent
You are an independent contractor. You are not our employee, agent, franchisee or legal partner, and you cannot make commitments on our behalf.
10. Taxes
You are responsible for the taxes on what you earn. Stripe collects your tax details and provides any tax forms.
11. Changes, pausing and ending
We may change the commission rates for future months. We will email you at least 30 days before a change takes effect. A change never reduces commission already earned.
We may pause or end your partner account if you break these terms. You may leave the program at any time by emailing us.
If your account is paused or ended, commission you earned legitimately before then is still paid.
Commission on a signup that we find was fraudulent, was your own business under another name, or was obtained by breaking these terms is forfeited. If we have already paid it, you must repay it, and we may take it off later payouts.
Questions: hello@sunshine.network.
12. Limitation of liability
To be finalised.
13. Governing law
To be finalised.
Questions? Contact us.