Bench affiliates
Send contractors to Bench. Get paid.
Share your affiliate page, make an introduction, or stay involved while a contractor decides. When a referral earns, you get paid under the affiliate terms.
How the program works
You send contractors. Bench runs the account.
We sign, price, invoice, and support the contractor. You introduce them. We pay you on Software and Agents they actually pay, at the first-year full rate, then a smaller ongoing share for as long as they stay and you remain an active affiliate.
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Send them your way. Share a page, make an intro, or stay in the conversation. All three can pay. You still earn if a salesperson closes a deal you sent, or if you help on a lead marketing already had.
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Paid on Software and Agents. That is the workspace and the agents they add. Agents are usually the bigger number. The rest of the invoice is not in your pay.
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Paid when we are paid. You get the first-year full rate, then a smaller ongoing share for as long as they stay and you remain an active affiliate. If they cancel, you keep months already collected.
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Stay active, keep earning. You remain active while your participation in the program has not been terminated. Your ongoing share continues while the customer keeps paying eligible fees.
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One affiliate per deal. Payouts start after QuickBooks setup and arrive at the beginning of the next month. The rates are under How referral pay works.
Ways to get paid
Refer contractors your way.
Share your page
Send a contractor to your Bench affiliate page so they can explore and buy on their own.
Make the introduction
Bring Bench and the contractor together. Bench can take the conversation from there.
Stay involved
Help the contractor understand the fit and move through the decision with someone they already know.
We pay you on Software and Agents at the first-year full rate, then a smaller ongoing share for as long as they stay and you remain an active affiliate. The affiliate terms say which referrals qualify and when they earn.
How referral pay works
You earn a share of what a customer you referred pays us for their Bench workspace and Bench agents.
Three kinds of referral
Which one applies depends on how the customer came to us.
Self-Serve — 20% for the first 12 months, then 2.5%.
The customer was new to us, came through your link, signed up and bought without help from our sales team.
Attributed — 15%, then 2.5%.
The customer was new to us and came from you, and our sales team helped them buy.
Contributed — 10%, then 2.5%.
We were already talking with the customer before you tagged them, and you show us your help is what closed the sale. We review it first; nothing is paid until we approve it.
“New to us” means our records did not have them as a lead or a deal before your link or your logged referral. A referral you only log by hand, with no visit through your link, can be Attributed or Contributed, not Self-Serve.
The first 12 months, then for as long as they stay
The first rate covers the customer’s first 12 months of eligible fees, whatever those fees grow to. After that you earn 2.5% for as long as they keep paying and you stay in the program, including when they add more.
What counts
- Counts: monthly or annual Bench workspace and agent subscription fees we actually collect, after refunds, credits and chargebacks, not counting tax. Card processing fees are not taken out.
- Doesn’t count: measurement credits, token plans, setup and implementation, deployment, hardware, coaching, or anything else.
- Not you: your own subscription, a business you control, or someone who was already a Bench customer when you tagged them.
Getting credit
- The customer must visit through your link, or you must log them as a referral, before they buy.
- Credit lasts six months from that first visit or logged referral; a later visit does not extend it.
- One partner is paid per customer; if two partners claim the same customer, our records decide.
When and how you’re paid
- Monthly, at the start of the month after we collect the payment, by bank transfer to a US bank account through QuickBooks.
- Before your first payment you add your bank details and an IRS Form W-9 through a secure invitation from our payment service; earnings wait until that’s done.
- No minimum balance. Each payment comes with a statement listing each customer, the fees, the kind of referral and the rate.
- If a payment you were paid on is later refunded or charged back, that commission comes off a later payment.
An example
A customer pays $1,000 a month for their workspace and agents, came through your link and bought on their own (Self-Serve): months 1–12, 20% = $200 a month ($2,400 over the first year); after that, 2.5% = $25 a month for as long as they stay.
With our sales team helping (Attributed) it would be $150 a month for the first year, then $25.
The full terms and schedule are what count — download them from your agreement page. Affiliate Program Terms 1.1 · Affiliate Commission Schedule 1.1
Before you start
Two things make your affiliate account ready.
Sign the affiliate terms
You will sign the affiliate terms when you join.
Set up payments
After you sign, Bench emails a secure QuickBooks invite for your W-9 and bank details. Pay starts once that setup is done.
Glossary
Words on this page.
- Software
- The Bench workspace subscription the contractor pays each month.
- Agents
- The AI employees they add, billed per agent.
- QuickBooks setup
- After you sign, Bench emails a secure QuickBooks invite for your W-9 and bank details. Pay starts once that setup is done.