Affiliate Agreement Builder

Answer a short form and get plain-English terms for your affiliate program: how commission is earned, how a referral is attributed, when affiliates are paid, what happens on refunds, which promotion methods are off limits, and how either side can end the agreement. Made for SaaS founders launching a program who want clear terms on day one.

Your terms

AFFILIATE PROGRAM TERMS


These terms are the agreement between the Company ("we", "us") and you, the affiliate ("you"), for the affiliate program for the Product. By joining the program or promoting the Product with your referral link you accept these terms.

1. Joining the program
You may join once we approve your application. We may decline or remove any applicant at our discretion. You are responsible for keeping your account details accurate.

2. Commission
For each customer you refer, we pay you 25% of the net payment received for the Product from each referred customer, on every payment during the first 12 months after that customer's first paid subscription. "Net payment" means the amount we actually receive after taxes, refunds and chargebacks. Commission is calculated in US dollars unless we tell you otherwise.

3. Attribution and cookie window
A referral counts when a visitor arrives through your unique link and becomes a paying customer within 30 days of that first click. If the visitor clicks another affiliate's link in that window, the most recent click wins. Customers who were already paying us before the click are not eligible.

4. Payouts
Commission becomes payable after a 30 days hold on the underlying payment. We pay once per month for all payable commission, as long as your balance is at least $50. Balances below that amount roll over to the next month. You are responsible for any taxes on what you earn, and we may ask for tax details before paying you.

5. Refunds and chargebacks
If a customer's payment is refunded or charged back, the commission on that payment is cancelled. If we already paid it, we may deduct it from your future commission. This applies for 30 days after the payment is received.

6. Prohibited practices
You must not do any of the following to promote the Product:
- Paid search ads on the company or product name
- Unsolicited email, direct messages or comment spam
- Fake reviews, fake testimonials or false claims about the product
- Incentivized, bot or purchased traffic
- Referring yourself, or a company or account you own or control, to earn commission
Commission earned through a prohibited practice is void and we may withhold it.

7. Honest promotion
Say clearly that you earn commission when you recommend the Product, in a place your audience will see it, and follow the advertising rules that apply where you publish. Describe the Product accurately. Do not make promises about results that we have not made ourselves.

8. Your relationship with us
You are an independent affiliate, not our employee, agent or partner. You cannot sign anything on our behalf or speak for the Company. You own your content; you grant us permission to show your name and link inside the program.

9. Term and termination
These terms start when you join and continue until ended. Either side may end them at any time by giving 14 days written notice. We may end them immediately if you breach section 6 or 7. When the terms end, you stop promoting the Product with your link, and we pay commission earned up to the end date that is otherwise payable under these terms.

10. Changes
We may update these terms. We will tell you by email before a change affects commission you have not yet earned. If you do not agree, you may end the terms under section 9.

11. General
If any part of these terms cannot be enforced, the rest still applies. These terms are the whole agreement about the program.

Create your program

How to use it

Name the company and product. Enter your company and product names so the terms read as your own.
Set the commission. Choose recurring or one-time, then the rate, and the number of months if the commission has a limit.
Set tracking and payout rules. Pick the cookie window, the hold period for refunds, the payout threshold and how often you pay.
Choose prohibited channels. Tick the practices you want to rule out and set the notice period for ending the agreement.
Copy or download. Copy the terms to your clipboard or download them as a text file, then publish them on your program page.

How the terms are built

The document has eleven numbered sections: joining, commission, attribution and cookie window, payouts, refunds and chargebacks, prohibited practices, honest promotion, the independent relationship, term and termination, changes, and general terms. Your answers fill in the numbers and the wording of four of them: the commission sentence in section 2, the window in section 3, the payout and hold rules in sections 4 and 5, and the prohibited list in section 6.

The hold period does two jobs. It delays when commission becomes payable, and it sets how long a refund or chargeback can cancel commission that was already paid. Using one number for both keeps the terms easy to explain and easy to run. Attribution follows the most recent click inside the window, and customers who already paid you before the click are excluded. Edit anything you disagree with after you paste it; the output is plain text on purpose.

Questions, answered

What should an affiliate agreement include?

At minimum: who the parties are, how commission is calculated, how a referral is attributed, when and how you pay, what happens on refunds, which promotion methods are banned, and how either side ends the agreement. The builder includes all of these as numbered sections.

How long should the cookie window be?

There is no standard that fits every product. Match it to how long your buyers take to decide: a self-serve tool bought within days can use a short window, while a product with a long evaluation needs more time. The builder defaults to 30 days and you can set any number.

Why have a hold period before commission is payable?

Refunds and chargebacks arrive after the payment. If you wait for that window to pass before commission becomes payable, you avoid paying affiliates for revenue you then give back. The same number is used as the clawback window in the generated terms.

Do affiliates have to disclose that they earn commission?

The generated terms require affiliates to say clearly that they earn commission and to follow the advertising rules where they publish. Those rules differ by country, so check the ones that apply to your affiliates.

Can I use the output as it is?

Yes. It is written to be used as is: edit any wording you disagree with and have your own counsel review it before you publish, especially for a regulated product or affiliates in many countries.

Is anything saved or uploaded?

No. The document is built in your browser from what you type. Nothing is stored or sent.

Terms are only half of a program

Ambassly applies the cookie window, hold period and clawbacks you wrote down, tracks every referral through Stripe, and keeps an audit trail of each commission decision. Create the program, paste your terms and invite your first affiliates.