You Can Now Earn Real Money with Kubeez (20% on Every Referred Purchase, 2 Months)

Most "creator referral programs" are points-based vanity games — tokens you can only redeem inside the same product, leaderboards, or vouchers that expire before you remember to use them. Kubeez referrals are different. You earn 20% of every credit purchase your referred users make in their first 2 months. Real money, paid straight to your card. EUR-denominated. No leaderboards.

This post explains exactly what the program is, who it's for, and how to start earning today. There's a dedicated landing page at kubeez.com/earn with the math and FAQ — this article covers the why and the playbooks that actually move the needle.

The headline: 20% / 2 months / paid to your card

The whole program in one sentence:

When someone signs up through your referral link and buys credits, you earn 20% of every credit purchase they make for the next 2 months. Earnings unlock after a 30-day chargeback hold and are paid straight to your card on request.

A few important things baked into that sentence:

• 20% of revenue, not 20% of "credits." You earn against actual money paid to Kubeez, not against synthetic in-app counters.
• 2 months from their first purchase, not 2 months from their signup. The clock starts when they actually become a paying customer.
• 30-day hold = real revenue only. Stripe lets cardholders dispute charges for up to 30 days. We hold each commission for that window so chargebacks and refunds don't hit your balance.
• Paid straight to your card. Once you have an unlocked balance, message us and we send the money to the card on your account. We're keeping payouts manual in v1 so we can talk to every partner — that goes away as the program scales.

That's the full deal. There's no application form, no follower-count gate, no waitlist. The link is on your account dashboard the moment you sign up.

Why we built it this way

Most referral programs collapse for one of three reasons:

1. The reward decays. A "20% recurring forever" promise is sustainable until it isn't, and then it gets quietly nerfed in v2 — which destroys trust with the partners who built audiences around it.
2. The reward is unspendable. "Earn 1,000 KubeezPoints™" is a polite way of saying "we kept your audience attribution and gave you Disney Dollars in return."
3. The clawbacks are silent. A user gets a refund 60 days later and the partner sees the commission disappear without explanation.

The 20% / 2-month / 30-day-hold / paid-to-your-card structure is the simplest answer to all three:

• A finite window (2 months) means we're rewarding acquisition, not annuitizing it. You bring a customer; we share the early revenue with you. After that, retention is on us.
• Real money means real money. EUR-denominated, paid to the card on your account. No tokens, no points, no in-app credits.
• The 30-day hold is the only honest way to share revenue with partners — and we tell you about it up front so a clawback later isn't a surprise.

Who should be running Kubeez referrals

Four groups will earn the most, in roughly this order:

1. Creators and educators

YouTubers explaining AI workflows, TikTokers showing prompt-to-video transformations, newsletter writers covering AI tooling. If your audience already cares about AI media, your link converts. The strongest format is attaching the link to the tutorial: don't ask people to refer their friends — ask them to try the tool you just showed.

2. Marketing and content agencies

If you're running ad creative, social content, or brand video for clients, you're already buying or about to buy AI media. Make Kubeez the layer underneath, attribute the workspace to your agency, and the client's spend funds your revshare. This is the highest-EV use of the program because client spend is a 5–50× multiplier on individual creator spend.

3. Developers and tinkerers

You ship templates, MCP integrations, npm packages, or wrappers around the Kubeez API. Every dev who picks up your project, signs up through your README link, and buys credits earns you a cut. The dev audience is small but converts at >10× the rate of consumer traffic because they sign up to build, which means they need credits.

4. Communities and operators

Discord servers running a content cohort, indie hacker groups, restaurant networks running social-media-as-a-service. If your group buys content tools as a habit, your link is the procurement channel they didn't know they had.

What 20% actually looks like

Most people don't have an intuition for revshare math, so here's a concrete table. These are illustrative — actual earnings depend on what each referred user buys during their 2-month window.

The pattern that makes this serious money is referring agencies and teams, not individual creators. A single referred agency buying €300/mo of credits is worth ~€120 to you over 2 months. Three of them clears a side income.

Where to put the link (the channels that actually convert)

The single highest-converting placement is wherever you've already taught someone something useful with Kubeez. Concrete examples:

• YouTube tutorial description + pinned comment. Walk through generating a hero image with GPT Image 2 or animating it with Seedance 2, then drop your link.
• Newsletter footer. Static placement, compounds over months. Add one line: "I generate the images for this newsletter with Kubeez — referral link if you want a credit on first purchase."
• TikTok pinned comment. Show the result, link the tool. The hook is the asset; the link is the fulfillment.
• Agency proposal decks. "We use Kubeez for AI media production — here's our partner link to get started." This is the agency-tier multiplier in action.
• GitHub README. If you're shipping an MCP integration or a template repo, the README is your highest-converting referral surface.
• Discord pin / Slack channel. For communities running content together. One pinned message, evergreen.
• Course or workshop slides. "Tools used in this lesson" with the link inline. People who paid for a course buy tools.

What doesn't work: tweeting the raw link cold, mass-DMing strangers, generic "Kubeez is great, sign up here" posts. Treat the link as a CTA on top of a piece of demonstrated value, not as the value itself.

How to start (literally three minutes)

1. Sign up or log in at kubeez.com. Your referral code is generated automatically.
2. Open your dashboard and find your Refer & earn entry — it has your code, your share link, copy-buttons, and a native share sheet on mobile.
3. Drop the link in one of the channels above. That's it.

There's nothing to install, no contract to sign, no minimum payout threshold to hit before you can see your earnings. As soon as a referred user makes a paid credit purchase, the commission shows up in your earnings table with a "pending → available → paid" lifecycle.

The fine print, plainly

A few things that come up in practice:

• Self-referrals are detected and voided. The whole program assumes one human invites another. Second-account referrals don't earn.
• Subscriptions and credit packs both count. The 20% applies to whatever the referred user pays Kubeez during their 2-month window — monthly subs, annual subs, à la carte credit packs.
• Free credits and internal grants don't earn. Only revenue events earn commission, because that's the only thing we share.
• Refunds, fraud, and chargebacks claw back the matching commission. That's why the 30-day hold exists — it absorbs almost all of these before they reach your balance.
• Kubeez doesn't issue customer-side refunds outside fraud or duplicate-charge cases. So in practice, clawbacks are rare.
• EUR-denominated. Kubeez bills in EUR. Your earnings are in EUR and we convert to your preferred display currency on the page.

What's coming next

This is v1 of the referral program. The intentional limitations:

• Card payouts are issued manually (we want to talk to every partner before automating)
• 2-month earning window (we'll evaluate extending it once we see real data)
• No multi-tier or "team referral" structure yet (single-attribution model — you're either the referrer or you aren't)

Things we'd consider in v2 based on partner feedback: automated card payouts via Stripe Connect, agency dashboards with multi-seat attribution, an extended window for high-LTV segments, and a public partner directory if there's demand.

If you want any of those today, message us. The whole point of v1 being manual is that we hear from partners directly.

TL;DR

• 20% of every credit purchase your referred user makes during their first 2 months
• Paid straight to your card, EUR-denominated, manually on request
• 30-day hold before each commission unlocks (Stripe chargeback window)
• Every Kubeez account is in the program by default — no application
• Get your link at kubeez.com/earn and your dashboard at kubeez.com/referrals

If you have an audience, a client list, a community, or a dev project around AI media — the math is in your favor. Drop your link where you've already taught someone something, and let the program run in the background.

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