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How to Earn Recurring Commission with the SubsiMail Affiliate Program

2026-09-16

If you write about sales tools, run a newsletter for founders, or just talk to people who send a lot of outbound email, there's a straightforward way to turn that into recurring income: refer them to SubsiMail.

The math, plainly

Most SaaS affiliate programs pay a one-time bounty and stop. SubsiMail's doesn't:

  • First 12 months: 40% of every payment your referral makes, on any plan.
  • After 12 months: 20%, for as long as they stay a paying customer -- no end date.
  • Upgrades: the same rate automatically applies to the new, higher plan amount.
  • If they cancel: commission just stops going forward. Nothing you've already been paid is clawed back.

Plans run $49-$199/mo (plus a custom Enterprise tier), so a single referral on the Pro plan ($99/mo) is worth roughly $475 in your first year alone, then keeps paying $20/mo indefinitely after that as long as they stick around.

Getting paid

There's no minimum for your first 5 confirmed referrals -- each one pays out as soon as the commission confirms (their first payment clears our 14-day refund window). From the 6th referral on, payouts run twice a month once your unpaid confirmed commission reaches $50.

How it actually works

  1. Sign up -- no approval process, you get a referral link and code instantly.
  2. Share it. Anyone who signs up through your link, or types your code in at signup, is permanently linked to you.
  3. Once their first payment clears the refund window, your commission is confirmed. Every renewal after that confirms immediately.
  4. Get paid.

Self-referrals don't count, and a refunded first payment voids that particular commission -- otherwise there's no cap on how many people you refer.

Who actually fits this

SubsiMail is a self-hosted cold email outreach tool: multi-step sequences, open/click tracking, reply detection, and a full REST API, running entirely on the customer's own server with their own connected inbox (Gmail, Outlook, or SMTP) -- no shared sending infrastructure. That's a real differentiator against Instantly/Smartlead/lemlist-style tools, and it resonates strongly with two audiences in particular:

  • B2B sales teams and agencies who are tired of shared-IP reputation risk and per-seat pricing.
  • The self-hosted/privacy-conscious crowd -- people who already run their own infrastructure and want their outreach data to live there too.

If your audience overlaps with either of those, this is a genuinely easy recommendation to make -- not a stretch pitch for an unrelated product.

Become an affiliate and start earning on every referral that sticks around.

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