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Referral programme rules
These are the only promotion reward rules for Review Helper. To take part and collect rewards you accept them in the Promotion tab of the merchant centre. Version v43
1. How it is calculated
Anyone who signs up with your referral code or referral link becomes one of your referred merchants. Every single location they activate for real from then on becomes one of your referred locations - a location whose referrer is you is your referred location. For each paid review at a referred location you receive a commission, for life. One level only; reviews inside the free allowance do not count. Your rate is never below 30% and currently never above 40%; section 4 explains how it is set. “For life” means that a location being your referred location never expires with time: for as long as that location keeps generating paid reviews on this service, the reward keeps coming to you. Only three things end it - that location stops using this service, your account is closed, or this service shuts down. Commission is worked out at the rate published at the time the reward is earned; see “These rules may change” if the rules change, and rewards already added to your withdrawable balance are not affected.
2. Referred locations are tied to the Google location
A referred location is tied to the Google Business location, not to an account. Whose referred location it is, is fixed the moment a location is activated for real and does not change afterwards - whose account it later sits in, or whether the merchant switches accounts, makes no difference. An existing account cannot be attached to an upline after the fact.
3. First top-up bonus
Every account additionally gets credits worth 20% of its first top-up (put in 100 dollars, get 200 credits, worth US$20), once per account, whether or not anyone referred them. If the account signed up through your link, you receive the same 20% into your reward balance - that one takes 30 days before it becomes available to withdraw; clause 6 explains why. Refunds are calculated at the price you actually paid per credit; bonus credits have no cash value.
4. How the commission rate is set
Your rate is never below 30% and currently never above 40%. It is worked out each week from your contribution score: rate = 30% + contribution score × 0.1 percentage points. The score is out of 100, which currently puts the ceiling at 40%. 30% is a floor: whatever your score, and however these rules change later, your rate never falls below 30% for as long as this programme runs.
Two terms used below:
Active location - a genuine, Google-verified location that spent at least US$10 in real credits last week.
Active promoter - a registered member who has accepted these rules and whose referred locations together spent at least US$30 in real credits last week. A promoter does not have to be a merchant and does not need any location of their own.
The score is worked out from last week’s figures and is the sum of three parts:
(a) Of your referred locations, those that were active last week: 2 points each, up to 30.
(b) Total real spending last week across all your referred locations: 1 point per US$20, up to 40. Credits given as a first top-up bonus count when they are spent; reviews inside the free allowance do not count.
(c) Of all your referred merchants, how many were active promoters last week: 5 points each, up to 30.
The rate is updated every Monday at 00:00 server time, and that week’s commission is worked out at the updated rate. Rewards already counted towards your withdrawable balance are not affected by the latest commission rate.
Your current rate and the three parts of your score are shown in the Promotion tab of the merchant centre.
5. Payouts
Rewards count towards your available balance as soon as they are earned. Once you reach the minimum balance you may request a payout, and we send the money within 3 business days of receiving the request. Payouts convert at US$0.10 per credit, so 1,000 credits = US$100. Transfer fees are borne by the payee: Zelle within the US is free, PayPal is deducted from that payout at cost.
6. When you get the money
Credits you earn from paid reviews at your referred locations can be withdrawn straight away, and we pay within 3 business days.
Credits from the sign-up bonus wait 30 days. The reason: if that top-up was paid with a stolen card, the cardholder usually only notices after the next statement, and once the money has gone out we cannot get it back. So what we are waiting for is the card statement cycle, not you.
7. Chargebacks and refunds
If a referred merchant charges back or is refunded, the matching reward is deducted from your balance. The balance may go negative and is offset against your future rewards. If the account is closed while the balance is still negative, we reserve the right to recover it.
8. Tax
US tax law requires us to collect your tax details (Form W-9) before paying you, and the payout account has to match the name on that W-9. Please do not enter a Social Security or tax ID number on this website - we will arrange that separately.
9. You are an independent promoter, not our employee
You take part in this programme as an independent individual. You are not an employee, agent or partner of this service. You have no authority to collect any payment on our behalf, and no authority to make promises on our behalf. Merchants top up by themselves, on this website, through Square - never take cash or a bank transfer on our behalf, under any circumstances.
How much anyone earns depends entirely on how much their referred merchants actually spend on this service, and we guarantee no income at all. You must also not make any income promise or earnings claim to anyone. Do not tell anyone that they are sure to earn a given amount or to make their money back within a given time, do not use your own earnings to recruit, and never use false claims.
If you break this section we will cancel the rewards involved and close your account, and any loss this causes the merchant is yours to bear.
10. What does not count
In any of the following cases we may withdraw your promoter status, zero out every reward you still hold and close the account; we are also entitled to recover anything already paid out and reserve the right to pursue legal remedies. Any loss caused to a merchant along the way is yours to bear:
1. Fabricated businesses, activating live locations with listings that are not yours, bulk account creation, and anything else plainly aimed at extracting rewards.
2. Posting reviews from a test location. A test location is there to show a merchant what the product does. A review posted from one has to come from a customer; if it comes from you it is a fake review, the terms of service forbid it, and the consequences land on the merchant’s own Google Business Profile.
3. Ticking either of the two options on the customer page for a merchant (accept the trial / please remove us). That is the merchant’s own decision to make; only the owner or manager may tick it, and you have no authority to do it for them.
11. These rules may change
We may change or end this programme, and the commission ceiling and the contribution score formula - the points, the caps and the thresholds - may change too, but your rate will never fall below the 30% floor in section 4. Any change will be announced on this page 30 days in advance and applies only to rewards earned after it takes effect; rewards already counted towards your available balance will still be paid. If the rules change we will ask you to confirm again on this page.
12. Who may take part and receive rewards
By taking part in the programme, or by requesting a payout, you declare that you have reached the age at which, under the laws of the country or region where you live, you can enter into a contract on your own, and that those laws allow you to receive this reward. Laws differ from place to place; the ones that apply are your own. If we find, or have reasonable grounds to believe, that you do not meet them, we may stop paying out rewards not yet settled and close the account.