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# How the Affiliate Program Works

The ALIVE Affiliate Program is straightforward — sign up, share your link, and earn commissions when your referrals subscribe. Here's exactly how the process works from start to finish.

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## Step-by-Step Overview

### 1. Sign Up for the Program

Head to your ALIVE dashboard and navigate to the **Affiliate** section. Click **Join the Affiliate Program** and you're in. No approval process, no waiting period, no fees.


### 2. Get Your Unique Referral Link

Once you're signed up, you'll receive a unique referral link. This link is tied to your account and is how ALIVE tracks the users you refer.

Your referral link looks like this:

```
https://www.alive-pic.com/?invite=YOUR_CODE
```

You can find your link at the top of the affiliate dashboard. Copy it with one click.


### 3. Share Your Link

Share your referral link anywhere — social media, blog posts, emails, YouTube videos, text messages, in-person conversations. Anywhere someone might click it.

When someone clicks your link and visits ALIVE, a tracking parameter is attached to their session. This is how ALIVE knows that user came from you.

### 4. Your Referral Signs Up and Subscribes

When someone clicks your referral link and creates an ALIVE account, they're linked to you as a referral. You can see them appear in your **Referrals** tab.

However, you only start earning commissions when that referral **subscribes to a plan** (Basic or Pro). Unsubscribed users don't generate commissions.

### 5. Earn Commissions — Every Month

Here's where it gets good. You earn a commission on **every subscription payment** your referral makes. Not just the first one — **every single month** they stay subscribed.

That's what "lifetime recurring commissions" means. As long as your referral keeps paying for ALIVE, you keep earning.

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## How Referral Tracking Works

When someone clicks your referral link, the URL contains an `invite` parameter:

```
https://www.alive-pic.com/?invite=YOUR_CODE
```

This parameter tells ALIVE's system to associate that visitor with your affiliate account. The tracking works like this:

1. **Click** — A user clicks your referral link
2. **Attribution** — ALIVE records that the visitor came from your link
3. **Account creation** — When the visitor creates an account, they're permanently linked to you
4. **Subscription** — When they subscribe to a paid plan, commissions start rolling in
5. **Ongoing payments** — Every monthly payment they make generates a commission for you

|| Once a referral is attributed to your account, they stay linked to you permanently. Even if they cancel and resubscribe later, the attribution remains.

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## When Do You Earn Commissions?

Commissions are earned when your referrals make **subscription payments**. Here's what does and doesn't count:

| Earns Commission | Doesn't Earn Commission |
| --- | --- |
| Monthly subscription payment | Account sign-up without a subscription |
| Annual subscription payment | AI credit purchases |
| Plan upgrades (new payment) | — |

Your commission is calculated as a percentage of the subscription payment, based on your current [commission tier](/en/article/commission-structure-and-tiers-rxctf3).

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## Lifetime Recurring — What Does That Mean?

Let's break it down with an example:

* You refer **Sarah**, who subscribes to the Pro monthly plan at **$72/month**
* Your commission rate is **10%**
* You earn **$7.20 every month** Sarah stays subscribed
* If Sarah stays for 2 years, you earn **$172.80** from that single referral — all from one shared link

Now multiply that by dozens of referrals. The math gets exciting pretty quickly.

| The key word is "lifetime." You don't earn a one-time bounty. You earn recurring income for as long as your referrals remain active subscribers. This is the kind of passive income that compounds over time.

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## What Happens If a Referral Cancels?

If a referral cancels their subscription, commissions for that user stop. But if they resubscribe later, your commissions resume — because the referral attribution is permanent.

You can track the status of all your referrals (active or inactive) in your affiliate dashboard.

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## Quick Summary

1. **Sign up** — Free, instant, no approval needed
2. **Get your link** — Unique URL with your tracking code
3. **Share it** — Anywhere and everywhere
4. **Referrals subscribe** — You earn commissions on their payments
5. **Keep earning** — Every month, for as long as they stay subscribed

Ready to see how much you can earn? Check out [Commission Structure and Tiers](/en/article/commission-structure-and-tiers-rxctf3) for the full breakdown.