Partner Program Terms

These terms are the agreement between you, a partner in the ShopStable partner program, and ShopStable. They sit alongside the Terms of Service, which still apply to your own account and businesses. You accept these terms when you apply; we record the version you accepted and when. Each revision carries the date shown above.

1. Joining

You apply with a ShopStable business of your own, which becomes your main business. We review every application and hold a short interview before accepting or declining. We may pause, or end, a partnership as described in section 7. The program is open to partners based in the United States with a bank account there.

2. Partnering with a business

A business becomes your client when it agrees to let you work on its website: by saying yes when it signs up through your link, by accepting your invitation from inside its account, by requesting you from the partner directory and your accepting, or by accepting a site you built and handed over. A business has one partner at a time. If it chooses another partner, your partnership with it ends.

You may build a site for a client under your own login and hand it over when it is ready. It does not earn commission until the client owns it.

Businesses you or your team own, and sign-ups by members of your team, never earn commission.

3. Commission

You earn commission for each month you work with a paying client, starting one month after the partnership begins. On monthly plans you earn 10% of each monthly payment. On yearly plans you earn 15% of the yearly price, paid to you in twelve monthly installments. Commission is calculated on what the client actually pays, after discounts and before tax. Free plans, unpaid months, and cancelled months earn nothing.

When a brand-new paying client partners with you (a new sign-up, or a free business moving to a paid plan, with no paid invoice in the 90 days before), your first month's commission is the client's whole first month's payment (a twelfth of the yearly price on yearly plans).

Commission ends when your access to the client's website ends, whatever the cause. The month in which it ends is paid in full; nothing is earned after it. A client refunded within their first 30 days earns nothing. A chargeback the client wins reverses the commission on that payment.

4. Payouts

Earnings are sent to your Stripe account once a month and cover the previous calendar month. We aim to send them early in the month; weekends, bank holidays, and processing checks can move the date. Stripe then pays your bank on its own schedule, usually within two business days. Balances under $20 roll into the next payout until they reach $20. You must connect a US bank account through Stripe before you can be paid; earnings accumulate until you do. Amounts owed back to ShopStable, such as reversed commission, are deducted from future payouts and never collected from your bank.

You are responsible for your own taxes. US partners paid above the IRS threshold in a year receive a 1099 through Stripe.

5. Your own site

Your main business's ShopStable plan gets cheaper as you work with more paying clients, counted once a month as the clients that earned you commission in the previous month: 1 client, full price; 3 clients, 50% off; 6 or more clients, free. A new level applies from your next renewal. If your count falls, you get a month's notice before the price changes.

6. Working with clients

You may only use the access a client has granted you, and only for that client's benefit. Every change you or your team make is logged with your partner name and the person who made it. When you recommend ShopStable to a customer, tell them you are a paid ShopStable partner. You may not pay or offer part of your commission to a client as an inducement to sign up.

7. Pausing and ending

We may pause your participation while we look into a question or wait for information from you. While paused, your link and code stop crediting new businesses, you cannot start new client sites, your existing clients keep earning, and payouts are held until the pause is lifted.

We may terminate your participation if you break these terms or the Terms of Service, and you may cancel at any time from your portal. Either way, every partnership ends that day, your access to client websites ends, and the month in which it ends is paid in full. Your remaining balance is paid at the next payout regardless of the minimum, and you keep read-only access to your payout history.

8. Changes

We may change these terms and the program's rates. We will tell you in your portal at least 30 days before a change to commission or payouts takes effect, and the new version will carry a new date.