01How it works
Create your account
Takes a minute, and there is no password. You get a link with your own code on it immediately. Use it anywhere: a review, a roundup, a newsletter, a video description.
A family clicks it
When a family clicks your link and creates a Level Up account within 30 days, you get credit for the referral. You earn commission on their payments even if they don’t subscribe until later.
They subscribe, you earn
30% of every payment, for as long as they stay. Add a second child and the bill goes up, so your commission goes up with it.
02Where the money is
We pay slowly, and we would rather you knew now.
Nothing you earn comes from a signup. It comes from a family who paid, and whose payment has cleared the 35-day window in which they could still ask for their money back. That is the whole reason for the wait.
In plain terms: a family who finds you in August is usually money in your account in late October. Slower than most programs. It also means we never pay you for traffic that did not turn into a real, paying family, which is why we can afford 30% for life instead of a one-off bounty.
- Day 0Someone reads you and clicks
The family needs to sign up within 30 days of clicking your link for you to get credit. They can pay later.
- No deadlineThe family starts a free trial
Seven days, or longer on your link. The assessment and the report happen inside it. Could be that evening, could be six months later.
- Day 14The trial converts, or it does not
Nothing is owed to you until it converts, because nothing has been paid to us until then.
- First paymentThey subscribe
Your commission is earned here, and again on every payment after it.
- + 35 daysTheir refund window closes
We hold each commission until that money is genuinely ours to share.
- 15th to 20thWe pay you
Monthly, by PayPal, once your cleared balance is over $100.
03Questions
- What does the 30-day window mean?
- Someone who clicks your partner link has 30 days to create a Level Up account for you to get credit. A reader who clicks today and signs up next week counts as your referral, even if they don’t subscribe for months. If they sign up after those 30 days have passed, that earlier click won’t earn you commission or give the family any extra trial days. They only need to create an account within that time. The assessment and payment can happen later.
- When does a referral actually turn into money?
- Once the family has paid and that payment has cleared the 35-day money-back window. We do not pay on signups or on free trials, only on trials that convert. That is deliberate: paying for accounts that never become families would flood us with junk and wreck the numbers we use to decide our advertising.
- How long do I keep earning from one family?
- For as long as they are subscribed. There is no cap and no cut-off month. If a family stays three years, you earn for three years.
- When do you pay, and how much do I need to have earned?
- Monthly, between the 15th and the 20th, for the month before. You need at least $100 cleared; anything under that rolls forward. We pay by PayPal.
- Can I give my audience something?
- Yes, and it works better than a discount. Once you are set up, ask and we can configure your link to give your readers a longer free trial than the standard one. It gives you something concrete to write about, which is usually what gets the replies.
- Can I choose my own code?
- Your code is generated when you sign up, so nobody can claim a name that is not theirs. If you want a specific one for a campaign or a video, email us and we will usually set it up.
- What if a family cancels or asks for a refund?
- You keep everything they already paid for. We only reverse the specific payment that was refunded, never the months before it.
- Do I have to disclose that the link is paid?
- Yes, and the link needs rel="sponsored" or rel="nofollow" on it. That is the FTC and Google rule rather than ours, and an unmarked paid link can get your own site penalised. We would rather tell you than have you find out from a traffic drop.
- Is there an application to get through?
- No form and no approval queue. Create an account and your link works immediately. We review before the first payout rather than before the first click, so you can start writing today.
- Is there anything I am not allowed to do?
- Two things mainly. Do not bid on "Level Up" or close variants in paid search, because that buys traffic we already pay for. And do not post your link to coupon or deal sites. The full list is in the partner terms.