FirstReader Affiliate Program Terms
Last updated: November 9, 2026
Welcome to the FirstReader affiliate program, run through Affonso. By joining, you agree to the terms below.
What you earn
You earn 20% of every qualifying paid sale you refer. A sale qualifies when a customer you referred buys a paid analysis. The free first chapter earns nothing, since no money changes hands there. Your 20% applies to every qualifying purchase that customer makes within 12 months of their first purchase through your link, not only that first purchase. Where our tracking does not match a later purchase to your original referral on its own, we reconcile it by hand so the credit still reaches you.
How referrals are tracked
When someone clicks your affiliate link and accepts optional tracking on firstreader.app, we set a referral cookie that lasts 90 days. Attribution is last-touch, so if a customer clicks more than one affiliate's link, credit goes to the most recent link before they buy. Tracking runs through Affonso against Stripe-processed purchases.
Because FirstReader asks visitors to opt in to tracking, a customer who declines carries no referral cookie, and that sale cannot be credited automatically. For those cases, a buyer can enter your name or partner code at checkout. We review that claim by hand against the payment and credit you when it holds up. We can only credit a verified, paying referral, so we do not promise credit on every sale. Some buyers decline tracking and never name a partner.
When and how you get paid
Each commission is held for 30 days before it becomes payable. That hold covers the refund window, so nobody ends up paying out on money that later came back. Once your cleared commissions reach $50, payouts go out monthly by PayPal. Other payout methods can be arranged, for example Wise for partners outside the US. For international payouts, we may deduct the payment-processing and currency-conversion fees; domestic PayPal fees are on us. Affonso tracks what you are owed and organizes the payout; the payment itself comes from FirstReader, so keep a valid payout address on your partner account.
A sale that is refunded, charged back, or reversed during the hold is cancelled and not paid. If a sale is refunded after you were already paid, that amount is deducted from your next commissions.
Staying in good standing
Your account can be declined or removed, and unpaid commissions forfeited, for any of these:
- Referring your own purchases, or buying through your own link for the discount or the commission.
- Bidding on "FirstReader" or close variants as keywords in paid search, or running ads that pose as FirstReader.
- Spam of any kind, including unsolicited email, forum or comment spam, and posting where self-promotion is not allowed.
- Misleading claims about what FirstReader does, what it costs, or what results it produces.
- Cookie stuffing, forced clicks, or any attempt to set the tracking cookie without a genuine click.
- Listing coupons or deals that invent discounts FirstReader has not offered.
Disclosure
Wherever you recommend FirstReader, clearly tell your audience that you may earn a commission if they buy through your link. Place the disclosure close to the recommendation and link. If you recommend FirstReader in a video, disclose the relationship in the video as well as near any link in its description. For example: "I earn a commission if you buy through this link."
The rest
We may change these terms or the commission structure. Material changes get posted here, and continuing in the program means you accept them. Either side can end the arrangement at any time; commissions already earned and past the hold are still paid, unless they were earned in breach of these terms. Approval is currently automatic, but we may review, decline, or remove any affiliate at our discretion.
Governing law: South Carolina, USA.
Questions: affiliate@firstreader.app.