Royalty Program Terms

1Who can join#

Anyone 18 or older with an AOS Sites login can refer businesses, whether or not you’re a paying customer. Your link is in your dashboard under Royalty and looks like site.agency-os.ai/r/yourcode. To receive payouts you must be in the United States and complete payout setup (see section 5). These terms add to our Terms of Service.

2How a referral counts#

• When someone opens your link, we remember it in their browser for 60 days.
• If they create their AOS Sites account within those 60 days, the referral is yours. If they followed more than one person’s link, the most recent one counts.
• Until their first successful payment, a newer valid link can still replace yours. Their first payment locks the referral to you, and it doesn’t change after that.
• You can see the businesses you’ve referred in your dashboard. Their names are partly hidden until they buy.

3What you earn#

You earn a royalty of 10% of every payment a business you referred makes to AOS Sites, for any plan or product, monthly or yearly, for as long as that business keeps paying without a break, including after it changes plans. There’s no cap.

Royalties are calculated on what we actually collect, excluding sales tax, after any discounts or credits. Royalties keep going if you cancel your own plan; the program isn’t tied to it.

4The 30-day hold, refunds and chargebacks#

Each royalty is held for 30 days after the payment it comes from, then becomes available. If we refund a payment, or lose a chargeback on it, we subtract the royalty it earned. If that royalty was already paid out, it comes off your future royalties, so your balance can briefly go below zero.

5Payouts#

• We pay through Stripe. To be paid, you set up a Stripe payout account, which includes Stripe’s identity check and your tax details, such as a W-9.
• Once payouts are open, we pay your available balance once a month, on or around the 5th, when it’s at least $50. Smaller balances roll over to the next month.
• Payout setup is opening soon. Until then, every royalty you earn is recorded in your dashboard and held for you.
• You’re responsible for taxes on your royalties. We or Stripe may issue tax forms, such as a 1099, as the law requires.

6Self-referrals don’t count#

You can’t earn royalties on yourself or your own business. We don’t count a referral when the person or business referred:

• is you, or uses your email address;
• shares your company email domain (free email providers like Gmail don’t count as a shared domain);
• shares your phone number, payment card or business listing; or
• signs up from the same network or device as you within 24 hours of your link being opened.

We may review any referral that looks suspicious and decide whether it counts.

7Tell people you earn a royalty#

Whenever you recommend AOS Sites with your link, say clearly that you earn a royalty if they buy. US law (the FTC’s Endorsement Guides) requires it. Put it where people will see it before they click, in plain words, for example:

• “I earn a commission if you sign up through my link.”
• On social media, in the post itself (not only in your profile): “I get paid if you buy through this link.”

Only say things about AOS Sites that are true and that you believe from your own experience.

8What isn’t allowed#

• Bidding on “AOS Sites”, “Agency OS” or similar terms in search ads, or using them in ad copy or domain names.
• Spam, cold texts, or messages to people who didn’t agree to hear from you.
• Promising results we don’t promise, such as rankings, leads or “ADA compliance”, or offering discounts we haven’t authorized.
• Pretending to be us, or suggesting you work for us.
• Paying or rewarding people to sign up, or anything that breaks the Acceptable Use Policy.

9If the rules are broken#

If you break these terms, we may suspend your participation and you forfeit royalties not yet paid out. For serious or repeated breaches, we may close your referral account. We tell you why, and you can reply to ask for a review.

10Changes to the program#

We may change or end the Royalty program by giving you at least 90 days’ notice by email. A change applies only to royalties earned after it takes effect; royalties you earned before are paid under the terms in force when you earned them.

11Our relationship#

You take part as an independent referrer, not as our employee, agent or partner, and you can’t make promises on our behalf. Questions: support@site.agency-os.ai.