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Help CenterMANAGING A PROGRAMRewards and commissionsConfiguring partner rewards
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This feature is only available on Business plans and above .

On Dub Partners, you can offer different incentives for your partners to incentivize them to create high-quality content to spread the word about your product:

Reward typeDescription
Click-based (pay-per-click)Rewarding partners for driving clicks to your product – similar to how Google Ads’ pay-per-click works.
Lead-based (pay-per-lead)A more effective alternative to pay-per-click, where you reward partners for leads generated (e.g. demo requests, free trial signups, etc.)
Sale-based (pay-per-sale)This is the most common reward type, where you reward partners for driving sales to your product either via a rev-share or fixed-price commission.

During the program onboarding flow, you’ll be asked to create a default group reward that will be automatically applied to all new partners who join your program.

This initial reward will be either a lead or a sale-based reward by default, but you can customize the reward terms accordingly.

Default group rewards

After initial onboarding, you can create additional rewards for clicks, leads, or sales, depending on how you initially set up the group. These rewards will be made available to all partners who join your program.

Default group rewards

Creating a reward

Our reward builder lets you create simple and complex rewards quickly and easily. When the reward builder initially opens, you’ll see the basics required to create a reward. Clicking on the different Blue and Orange input prompts allow you to change the structure of the reward.

Initial create sale reward state

Configuring reward types

Depending on the type of reward you’re creating, you can choose between a flat fee or a percentage-based commission:

Reward TypeModelDescriptionExample
ClickFlatPartners receive a fixed fee for each click generated$2 per click
LeadFlatPartners receive a fixed fee for each qualified lead$50 per lead
SalePercentagePartners receive a percentage of sales (revenue share)30% of sale value
SaleFlatPartners receive a fixed fee for each completed sale$50 per sale

For sale rewards, you can further customize the recurring nature of the commission:

  • One time
  • For a set period (anywhere between 3 months to 3 years)
  • For the customer’s lifetime

Adding reward conditions

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Customizing reward conditions is only available on the Advanced plan and above .

On Dub, you can also set specific requirements for reward completion and can even reward a different type (flat rate or percentage), amount, and duration when they are met. They are available for sale and lead rewards only, and allow you to set conditions like the following:

  • Higher rewards for sales and leads from a specific country
  • Higher rewards for sales of specific products
  • Higher rewards for partners with more than 100 conversions
  • Higher rewards for sales over a specific amount

Click Add condition to set these parameters.

Initial create sale reward state

Each condition can be based on either Customer, Sale, or Partner, allowing you to mix and match reward conditions to suit your program best.

Conditions let you use AND or OR statements to control how they work. Each condition is tied only to its own reward and doesn’t affect others. As shown in the example below, your conditions can be as simple or as complex as you need.

Initial create sale reward state

Custom reward descriptions

By default, Dub automatically generates reward descriptions when rewards are created. In some cases, you may want to customize how those rewards are presented to partners, whether that’s to better match your brand voice or to make a complex reward easier to understand. To edit a reward’s content, click the pencil icon next to the main reward builder. This opens the content editor, where you can update the primary reward description and optionally add more context using the reward tooltip.

Custom reward description

Click Reward description to update the main description. You can enter up to 100 characters to clearly explain the reward at a glance.

Editing the reward description

Click Reward tooltip to edit the tooltip content. Tooltips support basic markdown and allow up to 2,000 characters, making them ideal for adding detailed explanations or terms.

Editing the reward tooltip

You can customize each field independently. For example, you might only update the tooltip for a more complex reward while leaving the main description unchanged. You can also do the opposite, updating the description without touching the tooltip. This flexibility lets you tailor each reward without extra work.

Reward preview tooltip hover

If you want to remove your custom content, click the X icon next to the custom description. The reward will revert to Dub’s default description.

Reward preview

During the creation of your rewards, the reward preview will populate with the settings you’ve provided. This preview allows you to see exactly what your partner will see on your program details and within their dashboard.

Reward preview

Reward examples

Here are a few reward examples with their conditions to give you some starting ideas.

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Customizing reward conditions is only available on the Advanced plan and above .

Geo-specific

Tailor your reward amount by customer country. In this example, we’re rewarding partners with a higher percentage for conversions from Canada and the United States:

Global Boost condition example

ConditionRewardDescription
If Customer Country is one of Canada, United StatesThen pay a Percentage of 40% per saleHigher reward for US and Canadian customers
If Customer Country is not United StatesThen pay a Percentage of 10% per saleLower reward for non-US customers

Product spotlight

Tailor your reward amount by product. In this example, we’re rewarding more when the sale is for the Gold Plan:

Product Spotlight condition example

ConditionRewardDescription
IfSale Product ID is prod_xxxThen pay a Percentage of 40% per saleHigher reward for prod_xxx sales
If Sale Product ID is not prod_xxxThen pay a Percentage of 10% per saleLower reward for non-prod_xxx sales
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You can also set what the partner sees as the product name by adding a Shown as field to the reward.

For example, if you want to show the product as “Gold Plan” instead of the actual product ID, you can set the Shown as to Gold Plan.

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Where Your product ID is listed, you’ll enter your product ID (the screenshot uses an example product ID)

If you’re using our Stripe integration, the product ID will be the Stripe product ID that the subscription is for (starts with prod_xxx).

If you’re manually tracking a sale event via our /track/sale endpoint, you can pass along the product ID via the metadata prop (e.g. metadata.productId = "prod_xxx").

Partner performance tiers

Tailor your reward amount by partner performance. In this example, we offer a 50% base reward and increase it to 60% based on how many conversions the partner has:

The Climb condition example

ConditionRewardDescription
If Partner Total conversions is greater than or equal to 200Then pay a Percentage of 60% per saleHigher reward for partners with more than 200 conversions
If Partner Total revenue is greater than or equal to $10,000Then pay a Percentage of 60% per saleHigher reward for partners with more than $10K in referral revenue
If Partner Total commissions is greater than or equal to $1,000Then pay a Percentage of 60% per saleHigher reward for partners who have earned more than $1K in commissions
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Want to move partners to a different partner group based on their performance instead? Learn more about group move rules.

Staggered reward durations

Tailor your reward amount by the customer’s subscription duration, subscription start date, or signup date.

In this example, we’re offering a 25% reward for the first 12 months and a 10% reward for all other sales:

Staggered rewards example

There are 3 different conditions for staggered reward durations:

Condition typeDescriptionExample
Customer’s subscription durationHow long the customer has been subscribed for25% for the first 12 months, 10% for the rest of the customer’s lifetime
Customer’s subscription start dateThe date the customer started their subscription25% if subscribed before Jan 1, 2026, else 10%
Customer’s signup dateThe date the customer signed up for your product25% if signed up before Jan 1, 2026, else 10%

Sale amount modifiers

For creating tiered rewards based on the sale amount. In this example, we’re giving our partners a higher reward if the sale amount is over a specific dollar amount:

The Climb condition example

ConditionRewardDescription
If Sale Amount is greater than or equal to $100Then pay a Percentage of 60% per saleHigher reward for sales over $100
If Sale Amount is less than or equal to $100Then pay a Percentage of 60% per saleLower reward for sales under $100

Updating a partner group’s reward configuration

You can update a partner group’s reward configuration at any time. When this happens, historical commissions won’t be updated.

However, the reward configuration for a partner-customer pair will be updated. E.g., if a partner used to be on a one-time reward and was switched to recurring rewards, all subsequent subscription renewals from their previous referrals will be eligible for commission again.

To avoid this, instead of editing a given partner group’s reward configuration directly, create separate partner groups for one-time vs recurring rewards. This way, when you move partners from one group to the other, the reward configuration for the partner’s previous referrals will be preserved.

Group reward update logs

For transparency and auditability, we also keep a history of all reward updates for a given group:

Partner profile page group history.

This helps you track changes over time and understand the impact of your reward configurations on the generated partner commissions.