How referrals become payouts
What happens from the moment a founder clicks your link to the moment you are paid, and the rules that apply at each step.
Click
Founder opens your link
Sign-up
Within 90 days
Payment
Commission recorded
Hold
15 or 7 days
Payout
From $50
01
Referral tracking
Your links carry a signed referral code, so a referral cannot be forged or reassigned.
- A founder who creates a VenturStaq account within 90 days of clicking your link is credited to you.
- The first partner whose link was used keeps the referral; later clicks on other links do not take it over.
- Each campaign link reports its own clicks and sign-ups in your portal.
- A customer who signs up with your own partner email address is not credited.
02
How commissions are recorded
When a referred founder pays VenturStaq, the payment is reported to Partners as a signed event and your commission is written to a double-entry ledger.
- Each payment is recorded exactly once, even if it is reported more than once.
- The commission uses what the customer actually paid, excluding taxes and government fees, rounded down to the cent.
- Every balance you see is calculated from ledger entries that cannot be edited afterwards.
03
Holds and balances
A new commission starts as Pending and becomes Available after its hold.
- Your first three commissions wait 15 days each; every later one waits 7 days.
- Pending means earned and on hold; Available means ready to pay out; Reserved means included in a payout being processed; Paid means the provider confirmed it.
- A refund, dispute or compliance review can extend an individual hold. Release dates already shown are never shortened.
04
Payouts and tax
Money is paid only to a verified account in your name, through a licensed payment provider.
- Payouts start at $50 available, on request or on a weekly or monthly schedule.
- Payouts open country by country as licensed providers approve VenturStaq. Until your country is open, commissions keep adding up.
- Before a payout you see the provider fee, any exchange rate, any tax withheld and the exact amount you receive.
- Tax is withheld only under an approved rule for your tax form and situation; otherwise the payout is held, not taxed at a guessed rate.
- Changing your payout details needs two-step sign-in and starts a 72-hour security hold.
05
Refunds and disputes
Commissions follow what happens to the customer’s payment.
- If a payment is refunded or disputed, its commission is reversed.
- If the commission had already been paid, the amount is recovered from future commissions.
- Refunded payments still count toward the three-payment limit on monthly plans.
See the rates and a worked example.
Or read the partner agreement.