What this is
The Sellhelm affiliate programme lets you earn a commission when someone you send to Sellhelm buys Sellhelm. It is free to join and you do not need to buy anything. By joining you agree to these terms, which sit alongside our terms of sale and privacy notice. You are not our employee, agent or partner; you are an independent person promoting a product you choose to promote.
How you earn
When you join you get a personal link and code. If someone opens your link and buys a Sellhelm pack within 28 days, you earn 30% of the amount they paid for that pack (after any discount they used, and not counting any tax we are required to collect). We may agree a different rate with you in writing; your page shows the rate that applies to you. If someone uses more than one affiliate's link, the most recent link they opened before buying earns the commission.
Levels. Commission starts at 30% and rises as your sales clear. A sale clears when it has passed the 14-day money-back guarantee and has not been refunded, and each cleared sale counts towards your next level. The levels are: Starter 30%; Bronze 35% from 100 cleared sales; Silver 40% from 200 cleared sales; Gold 45% from 300 cleared sales; Platinum 50% from 400 cleared sales. A level applies to sales you make after you reach it, and does not go back down. If we agree a personal rate with you in writing, that rate applies instead of the levels.
Commission is earned on the pack itself. It is not earned on research credit top-ups, the Tracking & auto orders add-on, or any other later purchase. It is earned on a new purchase only if the buyer is not you: we do not pay commission on your own purchases, on purchases made with your own email or PayPal address, or on purchases by anyone acting for you.
The link works by a small cookie in the visitor's browser. It is set only if their browser does not send Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, and it records only the code of the link, not who the visitor is. A visitor who clears their cookies, or who buys on another device or browser, cannot be linked back to you, and we cannot pay commission we cannot attribute.
When you are paid
Every sale comes with a 14-day money-back guarantee. So that you are never paid on a sale that is then refunded, your commission is pending for 14 days after the sale. When that time has passed and the order is still paid, it becomes cleared.
You can ask for a payout at any time from your affiliate page, once your cleared balance reaches the minimum (£10.00 in pounds, $10.00 in dollars). There is no set payout date: we pay requests by PayPal, by hand, normally within a few working days. Pounds and dollars are kept separate and paid in the currency they were earned in. You are responsible for giving us a correct PayPal email address; we cannot recover a payout sent to the address you gave us. PayPal may charge you fees or exchange rates of its own.
If an order is refunded in full, or the payment is disputed and lost, before its commission is paid, the commission is cancelled. If it is part-refunded, the commission is reduced to match. If a refund or lost dispute happens after we have paid the commission, the amount is deducted from your next payout.
Rules for promoting
- Be honest. Do not make claims about Sellhelm that are not true, and do not promise income, profit or results. Tell people what it does and let them decide.
- Say you are an affiliate. Where you share your link, make it clear that you earn a commission (for example “affiliate link”). In the UK the ASA and CMA expect this; in the US the FTC does. It is your responsibility to follow the rules where you live and where your audience lives.
- No spam. No unsolicited email or messages, no posting in places that forbid it, no fake reviews, and no pretending to be Sellhelm or to speak for us.
- No paid search on our name. Do not bid on “Sellhelm” or close variations as keywords in paid search, and do not register domains or social accounts that use our name.
- No tricks with cookies. No forcing, stuffing or hiding of the link, no incentivised clicks, and no sharing your link in a way that sets the cookie without a person choosing to visit.
- Keep it legal. You are responsible for the content you publish, for your own taxes on what you earn, and for anything you do that breaks the law or another site's rules.
Free accounts
Sometimes we give a person a free Sellhelm account and licence so that they can look around and start selling, for example someone who will review it. A free account is not a free copy of the program: it is there to help you get selling. The licence is yours to keep if you make at least 5 sales through your affiliate link within a month of getting it. A month runs from the day your account was made to the same day of the next month. A sale counts if it was made in that month and has not been refunded.
If you are below the target 10 days before a month ends we will email you a reminder. The first month you reach the target, the licence is yours to keep for good, and we will not check again. If a month ends below the target, the free licence ends: it is cancelled and the program stops working on your computer the next time it checks in. Your account and your affiliate link stay open, you keep earning commission and can still be paid, and if you want to keep using the program you buy a licence like any other customer. We may agree a different target with you in writing. We may also close a free account at any time if it is misused, for example by sharing the licence or by sales that are not genuine. Commission already earned on genuine sales is still yours.
Ending or pausing your account
You can stop at any time; ask us and we will close your affiliate account, and pay any cleared balance above the minimum. We can pause or end an account, and refuse or reverse commission, if these terms are broken or we reasonably believe the sales are not genuine (for example self-referral, fraud, or refunds that follow a pattern). We will tell you why. Commission already paid on genuine sales that have passed the guarantee is yours.
Changes
We may change the commission rate, the cookie length, the clearing time or these terms. A change applies to sales made after it; the commission on a sale already made is worked out under the rules that applied on the day of the sale. If we change anything in a way that is worse for you, we will tell you by email first. We may also close the programme, and will pay everything already cleared.
Your details
To run the programme we keep your name, email address, PayPal email address, your link's code and click totals, the sales it brought in (the pack and date, never the buyer's name or address) and your payouts. We keep payout and sales records for as long as the law requires for our accounts. You can ask us to see, correct or delete your details at support@sellhelm.co.uk; deleting your account closes it and we keep only what the law requires us to keep. See the privacy notice.
Contact
Questions about the programme: support@sellhelm.co.uk, or open a request from your account.