Affiliates and reselling

Two different things that often get confused: earning a commission for sending someone here, and having the right to sell the scripts yourself.

The affiliate programme

Send someone here, they buy, you get a cut. Tracking and payouts will run on software rather than on trust — every click and every sale recorded, with the same numbers visible to you and to us, so there is never a question of whether your sale was counted.

Not open yet. We are changing payment provider, and the affiliate programme has to sit on top of whatever that turns out to be. When it opens, the signup link and the commission rate will be on this page. Put your address in the box on the left if you want to know when that happens.

If you write about marketing tools, run a hosting business whose customers keep asking for this kind of thing, or teach people to build sites, this is probably worth your time. If you were planning to spray links across forums, it is not — we would rather have five sales from people who knew what they were buying than fifty refunds.

Reselling: what the licence actually allows

Buying a script gets you a lot of freedom and one clear limit.

You can

  • Install it on as many servers and sites as you personally own or run.
  • Install and configure it for a client, as part of work you are doing for them, on a licence you bought.
  • Use it to run a service you charge for — running campaigns for clients through your Redirect Manager is fine.

You cannot

  • Sell, give away or redistribute the script itself, modified or not.
  • Bundle it into a product, theme or package you distribute.
  • Publish it anywhere public, including a public repository.

The short version: the licence covers your use of the code, however commercial, but the code itself is not yours to hand on. Full wording on the licence page.

Something wider?

If you want to resell properly — under your own name, or bundled into something you sell, or inside a hosting product — that is a conversation rather than a checkbox, and one we are open to. Write to us and say what you have in mind.