Fiatside

Partners

Affiliate programme

You are paid on our real margin, never on the volume exchanged. The difference is not cosmetic: it decides whether you have an interest in sending your audience to the corridor that is cheapest for them, or the most expensive for you.

Programme status

The programme runs by application today, over email. The self-service affiliate area — dashboard, live statistics, link generation — is not built yet, and we would rather write that than show a “Join” button that opens nothing. The terms below are already firm and binding on us.

01

The principle

A commission computed on volume mechanically pushes a partner to steer their audience towards the largest operation, not the most suitable one. We take the other route.

The base is our margin, and nothing else

The commission applies to the “margin” line of the fee breakdown — exactly the line the customer sees before confirming. Blockchain network cost and payment institution fees are not in the base: they are costs, not revenue, and paying you on them would mean paying you out of someone else’s money.

Nobody gains from degrading the customer’s choice

Since our margin is lower on a stablecoin than on a volatile asset and falls with volume, your commission follows exactly the same curve as our revenue. You gain nothing by pushing a corridor that costs your audience more: your interest and theirs point the same way.

02

Scale

The tier is recomputed each calendar month on the number of orders you referred that actually settled. It never drops back mid-month.

Scale
TierFromShare of marginOn the example below
Tier 11 orders / month15 %€2.70
Tier 225 orders / month20 %€3.60
Tier 3100 orders / month25 %€4.50

Where the example column comes from

It is computed by the site’s fee engine, not typed in. On €2,000.00 converted from a stablecoin to a SEPA Instant transfer, the applied spread is 0.90%, that is a margin of €18.00. The column applies each tier’s share to that margin.

Change the asset, the rail or the amount and the margin changes: that is why we publish no “average earnings per click”. Such a number depends on your audience, not on our scale.

  • The commission runs for 12 months on the referred customer’s subsequent orders, not only the first.
  • A customer already known to us is not attributed. We do not pay twice for the same person, and we say so in your statistics instead of letting a counter inflate.
  • An order refunded, cancelled or returned by the bank cancels the matching commission. That is why there is a holdback before payout.
03

Tracking, step by step

Five steps, only one of which depends on the browser. That is deliberate: attribution resting on a cookie alone disappears at the first clean-up.

  1. 1. The link

    You add the ?ref=your-id parameter to any URL on the site, including a specific corridor page. The parameter is stripped from the URL after being read so it does not pollute shares or analytics.

  2. 2. Attribution

    The id is stored in a first-party cookie for 60 days, on a last non-direct click basis. No personal data is written to it: the partner id and nothing else.

  3. 3. The order

    At order creation the attribution is frozen server-side with the order. Clearing the cookie afterwards no longer loses the commission: the source of truth is the order, not the browser.

  4. 4. Calculation

    The commission applies to the “margin” line of that order’s fee breakdown — the same line shown to the customer. Neither network cost nor rail fee enters the base: those are costs, not revenue.

  5. 5. Payout

    The commission becomes payable 30 days after the order settles, a window that covers bank returns and disputes. Monthly payout once 100 EUR is reached, on the same rails the site uses.

The cookie fi_ref is a first-party cookie, strictly necessary for referral tracking, lasting 60 days. It holds only the partner id: no advertising identifier, no personal data, and it is shared with no third party.

04

Payout

The terms are deliberately simple, and identical across tiers.

Payout threshold
€100.00
Frequency
Monthly, on the 10th of the following month
Holdback before payout
30 days
Attribution window
60 days

Commissions leave on the same rails as customer payouts: if we can pay you by SEPA Instant, PIX or M-Pesa, we do. The holdback covers bank returns and disputes, whose timing is not ours to set. Below the threshold, the balance carries over to the next month rather than being lost.

05

What is allowed, and what is not

The prohibitions are not boilerplate: each matches a practice that would cost us more than it brings, in search visibility or in our relationship with the institutions that execute our payments.

Compare honestly

Publish comparisons that put us behind a competitor when that is the truth. A comparison we always win convinces nobody and does not last.

Reuse our data

Reuse the delays, limits and fees published on the site, citing the date you read them. They change: a frozen figure is wrong within a quarter.

Disclose the relationship

State clearly, before the link, that you are compensated. It is a legal obligation in most jurisdictions, and a condition of staying in the programme.

Bid on the brand

Buying “Fiatside” or its variants in paid search, or registering a domain containing the brand. You would be paid for traffic already on its way to us.

The “no verification” angle

Promoting the service on “no KYC”, “anonymous” or “bypass” queries. That traffic does not convert — identity verification is mandatory — and it damages our relationship with the institutions that execute payments.

Mass-generated content

Publishing serially produced pages without review. They get deindexed by whole URL pattern, which takes the links to us down with them.

Self-referral and undisclosed cashback

Attributing your own orders, or promising a rebate funded by the commission without announcing it. Both void the commission and close the account.

Presenting yourself as us

Using the logo in a context that suggests an official site, or sending emails that appear to come from us. Phishing targets financial services first.

06

What we do not promise you

A credible affiliate programme is judged as much on what it does not promise as on its commission rate.

  • No typical earnings, no average revenue per click, no announced conversion rate. We have no track record to cite, and fabricating one would be exactly the kind of number that turns against whoever published it.
  • No territorial exclusivity, and no guarantee on how long the scale lasts. A change applies from the next calendar month and is announced in the changelog; it never applies retroactively to commissions already earned.
  • No real-time dashboard today. Statements are monthly and itemised order by order, with the margin the commission is computed on.
  • No payment for traffic we would have had anyway. Brand traffic is not attributed, which is also why bidding on our name is prohibited.
07

Applying

Applications are reviewed, not automatic. We do decline regularly, and a refusal is not personal: it is about the fit between your audience and a service that requires identity verification.

  • The address of your site, channel or newsletter, and its approximate audience.
  • Your audience’s countries: our coverage is uneven, and it is better to know beforehand.
  • How you plan to present the service, in a sentence or two.
  • How you will disclose the affiliate relationship to your audience.

Response targeted within 72 hours.