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What is a sub-affiliate commission?

Earn a percentage of what the affiliates you refer earn, paid by the network on top and never deducted from them. How the model works and where it breaks.

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The model

A sub-affiliate commission, also called a referral override, pays you a percentage of the commission the affiliates you introduced go on to earn. You refer another affiliate, they run their own traffic on their own deals, and you receive a share of what they make. It is a share of their commission, not of their players' deposits.

Our ceiling is up to 10%, agreed per partner like every other rate. At that maximum, an affiliate you referred who earns €4,000 in a month earns you €400 from the network, and still receives the full €4,000 themselves.

Why it exists

Good affiliates know other good affiliates. The override pays for a referral that keeps performing rather than for a signup, and it grows as the affiliate you referred grows, with no further work from you.

What it is not

  • Not a pyramid. It pays on real commission from real traffic. Nobody earns for recruiting alone, and there is no fee to join.
  • Not reversal-proof. If the underlying conversion is reversed, the override on it unwinds too.
  • Not a route around your own deal. Referring yourself, or an account you control, is the most common abuse, and it is checked.

If you want to recruit and run a group of affiliates rather than only introduce them, that is a different role: what an affiliate manager does.

Common questions

For as long as the referral relationship stands and they are generating commission. It is not a fixed window.

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