How the referral program works#

The APITube referral program gives you $25 in account credit for every person you invite who becomes a paying customer, and gives the person you invited a $10 welcome credit. You share a personal referral link, your friend signs up through it, and the reward lands the first time they pay — not at sign-up.

Both rewards are added straight to the account balance as credit you can spend on API usage. The reward fires once per invited customer, on their first payment, so it is a clean way to turn the people you onboard into ongoing API credit.

How do you get and share your referral link?#

Open the Referral page in your APITube dashboard. It shows your personal referral code, the ready-to-share link, and your stats. The link points at the main site with your code attached as a query parameter:

https://apitube.io/?ref=YOUR_CODE

Anyone who opens that link gets a first-touch cookie (apitube_ref) that remembers your code for 30 days. “First-touch” means the first referral link a visitor opens wins — if they later arrive through someone else’s link, the original code is kept, not overwritten. The cookie is read at the moment they register, which is when the link between you and the new user is created.

When do you (and your friend) get the reward?#

The reward is not paid when your friend signs up. At registration, APITube only records the connection between you and the new user with a pending status. The credit is granted later, the first time your invitee makes a payment — that conversion is what releases both rewards at once.

So the sequence is: your friend opens your ?ref= link → registers (status becomes pending) → makes their first payment → both rewards are credited and the referral is marked rewarded. Until that first payment happens, the referral stays pending and no credit moves.

How much do you earn per referral?#

• You (the referrer): $25 added to your account balance.
• Your friend (the invited user): a $10 welcome credit added to their balance.

Both amounts are credited as account balance, so they spend exactly like topped-up Pay As You Go credit. Once your balance updates, you can confirm it from the dashboard or programmatically — see how to check your balance via the API — and put it to work with any API key.

How to track your referrals and rewards#

The Referral page summarizes your program with three numbers: invited (everyone who registered through your link), converted (those who paid and triggered a reward), and earned (the total credit you have been granted). Below the summary, each invited user is listed with their status and reward, and their email is partially masked for privacy — you see enough to recognize who you invited without exposing a full address.

Common Questions#

• Can I refer myself?
• What do the referral statuses mean?
• Can the same friend reward me twice?
• How long does my referral link stay valid?

Can I refer myself?#

No. Self-referral is blocked: if the referrer and the new account share the same user or the same email address, no referral link is created and no reward is granted. The program is designed to reward bringing in genuinely new customers.

What do the referral statuses mean?#

Each referral carries one of three statuses. Pending means the person registered through your link but has not paid yet. Rewarded means they made their first payment and both credits were granted. Rejected is a safety state used when the referrer account can no longer be found at reward time. Your pending count is your pipeline; your converted (rewarded) count is what actually earned you credit.

Can the same friend reward me twice?#

No. The reward fires once per invited customer, on their first payment, and the system guards against double-granting even if payment events arrive at the same time. After a referral is marked rewarded, later payments by that same person do not generate additional referral credit.

How long does my referral link stay valid?#

Your referral code itself does not expire — you can keep sharing the same link. What is time-limited is the attribution window on each visit: when someone clicks your link, their apitube_ref cookie remembers your code for 30 days. If they register within that window, the referral is attributed to you.