Affiliate programme

Earn a share of what every customer you send us pays

If you write about analytics, build sites for other people, or run somewhere the right audience already reads: send us a customer and you are paid on what they pay us. How much, and across how many of their invoices, is settled with you rather than posted here.

Get in touch

Arranged with you directly, so the terms fit what you actually do.

How it works

Three steps, and then it runs itself

You get a link

Something like skomi.com/?a=ANNA. Put it wherever your audience already is: a post, a newsletter, a talk, the footer of a site you built.

Someone signs up through it

We remember who sent them for two months, so they can read a review on Tuesday and come back on Sunday and it still counts. Once they have an account they are yours for good. Nobody can be re-attributed later.

You earn on what they pay

Every time they are billed, your share is worked out and recorded. You do not have to claim it, chase it, or check that it happened.

The terms

The standard, and what we can move

Both halves are yours to agree: what share you take, and how many of a customer's invoices it comes off. Neither is posted here, because neither is the same for everybody, and our billing can express most of what you might want. So these are the parts worth talking about.

How much, and for how long

A share of what the customer pays, monthly or annual. A code can earn on their first payment only, across a fixed number of billing periods, or without a limit, whichever fits what you actually do.

More on annual, if you sell it

An annual sale pays twelve months up front and is worth more per signature, so the rate on annual does not have to match the rate on monthly.

As many codes as you need

One per campaign, per channel or per piece, each on its own terms, all paying you. You can see which is actually working.

What you see

Your own page, with the real numbers on it

Not a monthly email. A page inside Skomi that shows every code, every customer it brought in, and every payment you have earned on. Filter it by code, by period, by whether it has been paid.

Every earning, itemised

The rate that applied, the amount it was taken from, and which payment of that customer's it was.

What you are owed, and what has been sent

A running balance per currency, and a list of the payments already made to you with their references.

Where to pay you

Your own payout details, yours to set and change: bank transfer or Wise, with a floor below which you would rather we waited.

The details

The parts worth reading before you ask

Commission is on the amount before tax

Sales tax and VAT are collected on our customers' behalf and handed straight to the tax authority. It was never our money, so it is not anybody's commission.

A refund takes its share back

If a customer is refunded, the commission on that payment comes back in proportion: half a refund, half the commission. It is automatic, and you can see it happen on your own page rather than finding out from a smaller payment.

Paid in the currency it was earned in

Skomi never converts between currencies. If you refer customers who pay in euros and customers who pay in dollars, that is two balances and two payments, neither quietly shrunk by a rate you did not agree to.

You cannot refer yourself

The first thing everybody tries. Commission on your own subscription is a discount with extra steps, so it is refused outright.

How it actually works

The mechanical answer: what counts as a referral, how the number is worked out, what a refund does to it, and when the money moves.

What counts as a referral

You get a link with your code in it:

https://skomi.com/?a=ANNA

Anyone who arrives through it is remembered for 60 days. They can read a review on Tuesday, close the tab, and sign up the following week. It still counts. The code survives the walk from the marketing site to the sign-up page, which are different addresses.

A referral is created when an account is created, and only then. After that it is permanent: nobody can be re-attributed to a different affiliate later, and arriving through somebody else's link afterwards changes nothing. That is deliberate. Re-attribution after the fact is how two affiliates end up billing for the same customer.

Two things do not create a referral:

Your own account. You cannot refer yourself.
Signing in. Only a new account counts, however the person arrived.

How commission is worked out

Every time a referred customer is charged, your share is recorded against that payment.

It is taken from the amount before tax. Sales tax and VAT are collected on the customer's behalf and handed straight to the tax authority. That money is never Skomi's, so it is nobody's commission. Any discount the customer used comes off first too, because commission follows what was actually paid.

What that means in practice, on a $62.00 charge that includes $12.00 of tax:


Charged to the customer	$62.00
Tax within it	−$12.00
Your rate is applied to	$50.00

The number that matters is the $50.00. Whatever rate you are on is applied to the charge after tax and after any discount, never to the $62.00 the customer saw. That is the part people get wrong when they estimate what a referral is worth.

Monthly and annual charges can be agreed at different rates, because an annual sale pays twelve months up front and is worth more per signature. Which one applies is read from the period the charge actually covered, not from what the customer is nominally on.

How long it lasts

That depends on the code you were given. A code can earn on the first payment only, across a fixed number of billing periods, or without a limit. Your own codes and their terms are listed on your affiliate page.

The count is per customer, not per code. "The first five payments" means five from each person you send, not five in total.

Retiring a code stops it taking new referrals. Customers it already brought in keep earning on the terms they were referred under.

What a refund does

If a referred customer is refunded, the commission on that payment comes back in proportion. Half a refund takes half the commission; a full refund takes all of it and the payment stops counting towards the code's limit, so their next payment earns in its place.

This happens automatically, and you can see it on your own page rather than finding out from a smaller payment. Each earning shows what it was and what came off it.

A chargeback works the same way. If one is later contested and won, the money comes back and so does the commission.

If a payment was refunded after we had already paid you for it, that amount is deducted from your next payout rather than requested back.

Getting paid

Earnings accrue as they happen. They are not paid automatically and they do not come off your own Skomi bill. They are sent to you separately.

In the currency they were earned in. Skomi never converts between currencies, so referrals paying in euros and referrals paying in dollars are two balances and two payments.
To wherever you tell us. Bank transfer or Wise, set on your affiliate page along with a floor below which you would rather we waited.
By hand, and recorded. Every payment to you is listed with its reference, so both sides can reconcile.

Keeping your payout details filled in is the single most useful thing you can do to be paid promptly. A balance with nowhere to send it is the commonest reason a payment run stalls.

Where to see all of it

Sign in and open Affiliate. It lists every code you hold with the link to share, every customer they brought in, and every payment you have earned on, filterable by code, by period, and by whether it has been paid yet. Your billing page carries a summary of the same figures.

Referred customers' email addresses are shown only partially. You are owed the figures; the rest is somebody else's account.

Getting a code

The programme is arranged directly rather than applied for. Send us a note through the contact form, telling us where your audience is and what you would put a link in front of.

Tell us what you would do with it

There is no form and no automatic approval. Write to us about where your audience is and what you would put a link in front of, and we will set you up, or come back with better terms if what you bring warrants them.

Write to us