How many codes can I have?

As many as you need. Each one carries its own campaign name, and the dashboard reports clicks, signups and qualified referrals per code, so you can tell a newsletter from a video description.

Do I need to be a customer?

Anyone can join. Affiliate accounts are separate from customer accounts, so you can sign up today and start sharing your link straight away.

When exactly does the clock start?

At the click. Your link stays credited to you for 30 days on Starter and 60 days on Partner, and if they sign up inside that time the referral is yours.

What if they upgrade later?

The commission is set by the product class they bought and it is paid once, so it is fixed on the day the referral qualifies and stays yours whatever they do with their plan afterwards.

Connect a payout account in the affiliate dashboard and the monthly run sends every balance at or above NZ$50 straight to it. Connect one whenever it suits you and every commission you have earned is waiting there.

How quickly can I start?

Signing up activates your account on the spot and mints your first code, so you can have a link out within a minute. Your account is live from that moment and every click it earns counts from then on.

What does my referral link look like?

It is https://kapsulehost.com/go/ with your own code on the end, and your dashboard shows you the whole link with a button that copies it. Reach Partner and you can replace the code with a name you choose, which is the one people actually remember and type.

When is a commission mine for good?

Once the customer you sent is past the qualifying period and past the window in which their purchase could be refunded, the commission is confirmed and it is yours to keep. Your dashboard shows that date for every referral, so you always know which ones have settled. A refund inside that window returns the commission to us.

Can I refer my clients?

Client work is exactly what this rewards. Build, host or manage a site for a client, have the client hold their own KapsuleHost account, and it earns the full commission for what they bought. The commission is for an introduction, so it follows the accounts you bring us rather than the ones you hold yourself.

Where can I promote you?

Every channel you built yourself: newsletters, videos, posts, courses, reviews, comparisons, community answers and client work. Everything on our public pages is yours to quote, which keeps what you say and what we honour identical. Paid search is yours for your own brand and your own content, with our own name kept for our own campaigns, and paid traffic lands on your content first, where your reader decides.

Affiliate programme

Send someone here. Get paid when they stay.

You earn NZ$30 to NZ$150 for every customer you send who stays a month, set by what they buy, and they get 10% off their first 3 months.

NZ$30 to NZ$150per customer, set by what they buy
10%off, for their first 3 months
30days a click stays yours
30days before it qualifies

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Joining is free and open to anyone, you sign yourself up, and your first link is live within a minute.

Referral, from click to payoutWorked example: one Cloud referral

Day 0Click
Someone follows your link. The click is yours for the next 30 days, and it is counted against the code they used.
Day 3Signed up
They sign up and pay, their first 3 months are 10% off, and the referral is now yours.
Day 33Earned+NZ$75
They are still a customer 30 days later. The referral qualifies and NZ$75 is added to your balance.
Month endPaid
The monthly payout runs and NZ$75 goes to your account, because the balance is at or above the NZ$50 minimum.

BalanceNZ$75

Payout at NZ$50

A worked example, drawn from the rules below. Every figure in it comes from the programme's own terms.

What you can recommend

Recommend anything we sell.

The commission is set by what they buy, so one link can send us a hosting plan today and a dedicated server next month. Whoever you send gets 10% off their first 3 months, and the price they start on is the price they keep.

Web and WordPress hosting
A site goes up in minutes and stays fast, and every plan carries daily backups, free migration and an SSL certificate.
Cloud servers
They get a machine of their own with full root access, and they choose from sixteen sizes with the price and the configuration in front of them before they buy.
Domain names
One search covers every extension we sell, WHOIS privacy is free, and they see next year's renewal price before they pay for this one.
Business email
They get mailboxes on their own domain on the first day, and the mail they send arrives where they sent it.
The CDN
Their pages are held at more than a hundred edge locations, so a reader in any country opens them quickly.

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What you earn

What a referral pays is set by what they buy.

The rate is fixed on the day the referral qualifies and it does not change afterwards, so a referral is worth knowing in advance. It lands on your balance that day, and your hundredth referral pays exactly what your first one did for the same product.

NZ$30Hosting, WordPress, Bench and OrbitPer qualified referral
NZ$75VPS, cloud and managed serversPer qualified referral
NZ$150Dedicated, GPU and storage serversPer qualified referral

Domains, SSL certificates and add-ons earn inside a qualifying plan rather than on their own, so a customer who takes a domain along with a plan is a full referral.

NZ$50Minimum payoutPayouts run monthly and every balance at or above the minimum goes.
1xPaid once, per customerYou are paid the same amount however long they stay.
10%What they getIt comes off their first 3 months automatically.

Every figure on this page is in New Zealand dollars, because that is the currency the programme pays out in, and it reaches your account unconverted wherever you live.

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The dashboard

You can see exactly which placement earned.

Label every code with a campaign and your dashboard counts clicks, signups and qualified referrals against each one on its own, so you know which newsletter, which video and which client brought you the customer who paid.

Affiliate dashboardTier 1

NZ$495Earned, year to date
2Referrals pending
8Referrals qualified
NZ$390Paid out

Code	Campaign	Clicks	Signups	Qualified
AVA-NEWS	Monthly newsletter, hosting	412	6	4
AVA-VIDEO	Video descriptions, cloud	268	4	3
AVA-CLIENTS	Client projects, dedicated	96	3	1

Add a code

A drawn example of the dashboard, with every amount in it worked out at the rate this programme pays for the product class each code sold. One code is created for you when you join and you can add more whenever you like.

Tiers

Reach Partner and a click stays yours for 60 days instead of 30.

Promotion is automatic and runs on qualified referrals alone, so the tier you reach is entirely in your hands. Partner also lets you mint a link with your own name in it, which is the one people actually remember and type.

Tier	How you get there	A click stays yours for	Commission	Link with your name
Starter	Sign up	30 days	Set by product class	At Partner
Partner	Qualified referrals	60 days	Set by product class	Yes
Custom	Talk to us	Negotiated	Negotiated	Yes

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The terms

Everything that earns you a commission.

The full terms are here on the page rather than on page four of a document, so you can read them once and know exactly what you are paid for.

Referrals from your own audience
Every signup that reaches us through your own link, from somebody you introduced, earns you the commission.
Referrals we can verify
Signups that arrive the way signups normally arrive go straight through. An unusual burst from one connection is looked at by a person first, and your payout follows as soon as they have looked.
Customers who stay 30 days
A referral turns into money once the customer has been with us 30 days, and your dashboard shows you the day each one is due to qualify so you always know what is coming.
Channels you built yourself
Newsletters, videos, posts, courses and client work are exactly what this programme rewards, and they are what earns the commission on a KapsuleHost referral.
Placements that introduce us
The commission is for bringing somebody new to us, so the placements it rewards are the ones a reader sees while they are still deciding.
Claims a reader can check
Everything on this site is checkable, so anything you can point a reader at on our own pages is yours to promote.

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Questions

The parts people ask about.

How many codes can I have?: As many as you need. Each one carries its own campaign name, and the dashboard reports clicks, signups and qualified referrals per code, so you can tell a newsletter from a video description.
Do I need to be a customer?: Anyone can join. Affiliate accounts are separate from customer accounts, so you can sign up today and start sharing your link straight away.
When exactly does the clock start?: At the click. Your link stays credited to you for 30 days on Starter and 60 days on Partner, and if they sign up inside that time the referral is yours.
What if they upgrade later?: The commission is set by the product class they bought and it is paid once, so it is fixed on the day the referral qualifies and stays yours whatever they do with their plan afterwards.
How do I get paid?: Connect a payout account in the affiliate dashboard and the monthly run sends every balance at or above NZ$50 straight to it. Connect one whenever it suits you and every commission you have earned is waiting there.
How quickly can I start?: Signing up activates your account on the spot and mints your first code, so you can have a link out within a minute. Your account is live from that moment and every click it earns counts from then on.
What does my referral link look like?: It is https://kapsulehost.com/go/ with your own code on the end, and your dashboard shows you the whole link with a button that copies it. Reach Partner and you can replace the code with a name you choose, which is the one people actually remember and type.
When is a commission mine for good?: Once the customer you sent is past the qualifying period and past the window in which their purchase could be refunded, the commission is confirmed and it is yours to keep. Your dashboard shows that date for every referral, so you always know which ones have settled. A refund inside that window returns the commission to us.
Can I refer my clients?: Client work is exactly what this rewards. Build, host or manage a site for a client, have the client hold their own KapsuleHost account, and it earns the full commission for what they bought. The commission is for an introduction, so it follows the accounts you bring us rather than the ones you hold yourself.
Where can I promote you?: Every channel you built yourself: newsletters, videos, posts, courses, reviews, comparisons, community answers and client work. Everything on our public pages is yours to quote, which keeps what you say and what we honour identical. Paid search is yours for your own brand and your own content, with our own name kept for our own campaigns, and paid traffic lands on your content first, where your reader decides.

Get your link and start earning.

Signing up takes a minute, activates immediately, and gives you a code you can put somewhere today.

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