Affiliate Terms
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Summary
- You earn 30% of what a customer you referred pays, for their first 12 months as a paying customer. After that, nothing.
- A referral counts only when someone signs up in the same visit as their click on your link. No cookie is used, so a sign-up on a later visit doesn't count.
- Each commission waits 30 days. A refund or chargeback in that time cancels it.
- We pay by PayPal, in US dollars, once a month, by hand, once everything you're owed reaches US$25. Commissions in other currencies count at their US-dollar value on the payout date.
- No commission on your own account or on accounts that share a workspace with you. We can cancel commissions that come from fraud or a mistake.
- We give you 30 days' notice before these terms change, and commissions you've earned keep the terms they were earned under.
- You handle your own taxes. No spam, no bidding on QRdx's name in search ads, no misleading claims.
The agreement
These terms are an agreement between you and Ritesh Bucha, an individual based in India ("QRdx", "we", "us"), the operator of QRdx, about the QRdx affiliate program. You accept them when you apply, and we record which version of them you accepted. The Terms of Service and the Acceptable Use Policy still apply to your QRdx account, and the Privacy Policy explains how we handle the data the program uses.
You take part as an independent business or individual. Nothing in these terms makes you our employee, agent or partner, and you can't make promises or sign anything on QRdx's behalf.
Joining
- You apply from the affiliate program page while signed in to your QRdx account. One affiliate account per QRdx account.
- We review each application by hand and can accept or reject any application.
- Once you're approved, you get a referral link, and you can see your link visits, sign-ups, paying customers, commissions and payouts in Settings → Affiliate program.
Your referral link
- Your link ends in a random code. It's never made from your name or your email address.
- You can change it once, in Settings → Affiliate program, to a code you choose: 3 to 32 lower-case letters, digits and hyphens. It can't be a word we reserve for QRdx, a code someone else has, or the start of your email address. After that one change, your code is fixed.
- Links with your first code keep working after the change, and visits and sign-ups through them still count for you.
Referrals
- A referral is a new QRdx account created through your link, in the same visit: the person opens your link and signs up without reloading the page or opening QRdx in a new tab. Your code goes along with that sign-up.
- That's the only way a referral counts. We don't use a cookie or store anything else on the person's device to remember your link, so an account created on a later visit isn't your referral.
- An account that already exists can't become a referral, and an account keeps the first referral it gets. It's never moved to another affiliate.
- We don't tell you who your referrals are. You see counts and amounts only.
Commissions
- You earn 30% of each payment a referred customer makes for QRdx in their first 12 months as a paying customer, counted from their first payment, up to the day before its anniversary. Renewals, upgrades and yearly plans paid in that time all count. A renewal on or after the anniversary, and every later payment, earns nothing.
- The commission is worked out on the amount the customer paid, after discounts and before tax, as recorded by Polar, our payment provider and merchant of record. Account credit used to pay an order isn't a payment, so the part of an order paid with credit earns nothing. An order that cost nothing, such as one with a 100% discount, earns nothing.
- Each commission is recorded in the currency the customer paid in. It's converted to US dollars only when we pay you (see Payouts).
Your own account doesn't count
There's no commission on payments from:
- your own account;
- an account using your email address under another spelling, such as an added
+tag, or for Gmail, dots; - anyone who is a member of a workspace you're a member of.
We check this when a referral is recorded and again on every payment.
Waiting period, refunds and chargebacks
- Each commission waits 30 days from the customer's payment.
- If the payment is refunded, in full or in part, or charged back within those 30 days, the commission is cancelled, also when we hear about the refund before the payment itself. A refund of tax alone doesn't cancel it.
- After 30 days, the commission is payable.
Fraud and errors
- We can cancel a commission, before it's paid, that came from fraud, from breaking these terms, or from a mistake, such as a payment recorded twice, an order that shouldn't have counted, or a referral that wasn't real. Examples of fraud include fake or self-made accounts, payments with stolen cards, and paying people to sign up and buy.
- If we find out after paying you that a payout included such a commission, we can ask you to pay that amount back.
- If you think we cancelled a commission wrongly, email us within 30 days and we'll look at it again.
Payouts
- We pay by PayPal, once a month, to the PayPal email address you add in Settings → Affiliate program. We send each payout by hand. We don't pay by any other method.
- Payouts are in US dollars. Commissions recorded in another currency, such as Indian rupees, are converted on the payout date at the latest euro reference rates published by the European Central Bank, worked out to US dollars. If there's no rate for a currency that day, we don't convert it by a guess: the payout waits until a rate is published. Each payout records the rates used and their date.
- The minimum payout is US$25, for everything payable together after conversion. A balance below the minimum carries over to the next month.
- We pay only what's payable: commissions past their 30-day wait that haven't been cancelled or paid.
- We can only pay you once you've added a PayPal email. Make sure it's right: we send the money to the address you give us. We email your QRdx account's address whenever the PayPal email changes.
- Your payout history, with each PayPal transaction ID, is in Settings → Affiliate program.
Taxes
You're responsible for reporting and paying any taxes on what you earn from the program.
Promoting QRdx
- No spam: don't send unsolicited messages to promote QRdx, by email or anywhere else.
- Don't bid on "QRdx" or any spelling of it in search ads.
- Don't make misleading claims about QRdx, its features, its prices or the program, and don't present yourself as QRdx.
- Follow the Acceptable Use Policy wherever you share your link.
Suspension, leaving and the end of the program
- We can suspend or close an affiliate account, for example if it breaks these terms. While an affiliate account is suspended, new payments from your referrals earn no commission and we send no payouts.
- You can leave the program at any time by emailing support@qrdx.dev. We can end the program for everyone with 30 days' notice.
- When you leave, when we close your affiliate account or when the program ends, commissions already recorded still finish their 30-day wait, and we then pay what's payable if it reaches the minimum of US$25. A balance below the minimum isn't paid. Commissions cancelled under Fraud and errors aren't paid.
- Deleting your QRdx account deletes your affiliate account with it at once, including its referrals and any commissions that haven't been paid. If you want a payable balance paid, leave the program first and delete your account after the payout. We keep a record of the payouts already sent (amount, currency, exchange rates, date and PayPal transaction ID) for our accounts, without your account or PayPal email address.
Limitation of liability
To the extent the law allows:
- neither party is liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data or business opportunities;
- our total liability for all claims about the program is limited to the commissions paid or payable to you in the 12 months before the claim arose.
These limits don't apply to liability that can't be limited by law, such as for fraud. You agree to defend and compensate QRdx against third-party claims, and the losses and costs that come from them, arising from how you promote QRdx or from breaking these terms.
Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of India, and disputes about them are settled the way the Terms of Service describe: first by talking to us, then by arbitration seated in Bengaluru, India, with the courts of Bengaluru for what can't go to arbitration.
Changes
- We tell you about a change to these terms at least 30 days before it applies, by email to your QRdx account's address and on this page, with the new date at the top.
- Commissions earned before a change keep the terms they were earned under, including the rate and the 12 months.
- If you don't agree with a change, you can leave the program before it applies.
Contact
Ritesh Bucha, India. Email: support@qrdx.dev.
Changes: 10 November 2026. First version.