Partner Program
Earn up to US$499 up to 45% of the monthly for as long as they stay
The deal, in thirty seconds
- You set your installation fee up to US$499 and keep 100% of it — we take nothing
- 30–45% of every business's subscription, every month, for as long as they stay
- No joining fee, no licence, no kit, no territory to buy
- Your monthly share begins at each business's second payment
- Built to run alongside a job — nobody sets your hours or a quota
Before you apply
The income is passive. Earning it isn’t.
The monthly share keeps arriving for years without you touching it. Starting one means walking into a café, setting the program up on the counter and training the staff. If you are willing to do the second part, the first part is genuinely yours.
What arrives on its own
Once a business is running, your share of their subscription arrives every month whether you worked that month or not. There is no link to keep posting, no traffic to keep buying and no cookie that forgets you after ninety days. Each business you add stacks on top of the last, and crossing a tier lifts your rate on all of them at once.
What doesn’t
Nobody earns the first one from a laptop. You visit the business, build their card, put it on their counter and train whoever is standing behind it — a couple of hours of real work, in person, per business. That is the only part of this that is not passive, and it is the reason the residual lasts long enough to be worth having.
So there is one thing that rules people out, and it is not wanting income that keeps arriving — it is not being willing to show up in person. If you would rather never leave the house, this is the wrong program and we would rather say so now. Everything else, including the product itself, we train.
How the money works
Two income streams, and you control the first one entirely.
1. Your installation fee — you keep 100%
You set the price for setting a business up, and we raise the invoice for you on the day you finish. It is your service, your price and your money: Flex Rewards takes no share of it whatsoever, and it is released to you as soon as that invoice is paid.
Around US$250 is where the arithmetic usually lands, and the ceiling depends on your currency. It is separate from the subscription the business pays us, it is optional — a business that signs up on its own never meets one — and it must be put in writing to them before they pay it.
2. A share of the subscription — every month
The business pays Flex Rewards US$36 a month. You earn 30–45% of that, every month, for as long as they stay subscribed. It starts from their second payment and is paid to you monthly.
Prices vary by country — GBP 26, CAD 46, SGD 48, AUD 48, NZD 48. Your percentage is the same wherever you are. A business with more than one location or more than one card type pays more, and your percentage applies to all of it.
An illustration
Arithmetic, not a projection. What you actually earn depends on how many businesses you sign, what you charge to install, and how long they stay.
One business, start to finish
You charge US$250 to set them up and keep all of it. They pay US$36 a month, and at the starting rate of 30% your share is $10.80 a month, beginning with their second payment. A business that stays two years is worth about $248 in monthly share on top of your installation fee.
Where it goes from there
Every business you add lifts your rate on your whole book. The fifth one moves you to 35%, and by ten that is $126 a month arriving whether or not you install anything new; thirty puts you at 45%. None of that requires you to sign anyone again — it only requires the businesses to keep using something they are already using.
Be clear-eyed about the shape of it, though: this is built over months, not weeks. Sign two businesses a month and the 35% tier arrives after about three months and the 40% tier after about eight. It is a side income that compounds while you keep a job, not a salary you can hand your notice in for.
The figures above are worked examples of how the rates apply — not a projection, and not a statement of typical or expected earnings. The program is new, so there are no partner results to average. What you earn depends entirely on your own effort, pricing and market.
Your share grows as your book grows
The more businesses you look after, the larger your share of every one of them — including the ones you signed up years ago.
Active businesses on your books
45% is the maximum, and there is nothing else to work out: no bonuses, no modifiers and no conditions attached to your monthly rate. When your active count crosses a tier the new rate applies to your whole book, not just to the next business you sign. A business that cancels drops out of the count.
Before you leave the house
Most of the work happens at your kitchen table
The card, the rewards and the branding are all built in a browser, in about half an hour, before you go anywhere. By the time you walk into the business, the only thing left to do is stand it up on their counter and show them how it works.
Which is why the visit itself is short. You are not demonstrating software; you are handing over something already running.
What the job actually looks like
Four steps, and the fourth is the one that pays for years.
Build the card before you walk in
You set the whole loyalty program up at home — the card, the rewards, the branding — in a browser. It takes about half an hour. The business you are about to visit does none of this work.
Ask what device they already have
Most counters already have a spare tablet or an old phone in a drawer. That becomes the Code Generator, it costs nobody anything, and it removes the one objection you would otherwise meet at the counter. Hardware is your call, not our rule: if you would rather hand over a device to keep the conversation short, price nearer US$350 than US$250, because US$80 of tablet turns a healthy day-one margin into almost nothing. Whoever ends up owning the device, put it in writing before they pay.
Walk in with it working
You are not pitching software. You put a running loyalty program on their counter, train whoever is behind it in ten minutes, and show the owner their first customer joining. Two hours of real work, once.
Come back and prove it
Two weeks later you return with the numbers — how many customers joined, how many came back. That visit is what turns a business that might cancel into one that renews for years, and years is where your monthly share actually comes from.
The tip worth reading twice
Aim at the business that has three shops
Signing a small chain is the same walk-in, the same afternoon and the same conversation as signing a single café. The subscription is not the same at all, and your percentage applies to the whole of it.
2.4× the monthly share, for the same walk-in
So ask “how many locations do you have?” in the first minute. Two cafés under one owner, a barber with a second shop, a franchisee with a couple of sites — the best walk-ins available to you, and hardly anyone selling to small business bothers to ask.
What we give you
The businesses are yours
Recorded to you from the day you create their account — not tied to a tracking cookie that forgets who you are after 90 days.
Two connections, set up once
Your installation fees are charged on your own payment account, so they come to you directly. Your monthly share is paid separately, to bank details you give us — the portal walks you through both.
Training and certification
Product training before your account goes live, so you never walk into a business unsure how something works.
Reports to hand over
Each business's own figures — customers joined, repeat visits — are in its Control Panel from day one, so you always have something to show an owner. A partner view that collects them into one monthly summary per business is being built.
Somewhere to escalate
A direct route into Flex Rewards support when something needs fixing, so you can give an owner a straight answer instead of a guess.
A partner portal, in build
Every business you look after, what each one is earning you, and which ones need attention. It is being built now; until it lands, your book and your monthly share are confirmed to you directly, and what you are owed is visible in your own Stripe account either way.
Who this suits
A good fit
You have a job or a business of your own and you want something that keeps paying after the work is done. You are comfortable walking into a small shop and talking to the owner. You would rather set up ten businesses properly than a hundred badly, because the ones you set up properly are the ones still paying you in three years.
Probably not a fit
You are not willing to visit in person — that is the one thing we cannot work around. You need to be paid before you have signed anyone. You are looking for a link to post for a cut. Nothing wrong with any of that; it just is not this.
For businesses already using Flex Rewards
Already running Flex Rewards in your own business? You’re the ideal partner.
You already know what a stamp card does to repeat visits, and you have a working one on your own counter to show people. An owner telling the barber two doors down is the highest-trust introduction there is, and it is a two-minute conversation you are better placed to have than anyone we could recruit.
The terms are exactly the same: no joining fee, your own installation fee to keep, and 30–45% of every subscription for as long as it runs. Apply and mention your existing account.
Questions
What does it cost to join?
Nothing, ever. There is no joining fee, no license, no training fee, no kit and no territory to buy. If anyone ever asks you to pay Flex Rewards to become a partner, it is not us.
Can I do this alongside a job or another business?
That is who the program is built for. The install is a couple of hours in person and the follow-up visit is shorter; both can happen on your own schedule. Nobody sets your hours, your route or a quota, and you are free to sell other products.
How much do I charge for installation?
You decide, up to a ceiling that depends on your currency: US$499, C$699, A$749, NZ$849, S$679 or £399. Around US$250 is the figure that works out when the business supplies its own tablet, or nearer US$350 if you include the hardware. It is your service and your invoice, so it is your call — we only cap it, and ask that you put it in writing to the business before they pay.
Do I have to supply a tablet?
No. It is your decision, not a rule. The lowest-friction answer is almost always a device the business already owns — a spare tablet or an old phone works, and it costs neither of you anything. Supplying one yourself is a legitimate way to remove an objection at the counter; just price for it, and state in writing who owns the device.
When do I get paid?
Your installation fee is invoiced by you and paid to you by the business directly. Your share of the monthly subscription starts from that business’s second payment, and is paid monthly once your businesses are billing — we will confirm the schedule with you before your first payment.
Why does my share start at the second payment, not the first?
Because it keeps the program honest. Nobody should earn a recurring share on a business that signs up and disappears — and since the business has already paid you for the installation, you are not waiting on that first month to be paid for your work.
What happens if a business cancels?
Your monthly share for that business stops, and it no longer counts toward your tier. Your installation fee is yours and is never clawed back. If a payment is refunded, disputed or reversed, only the share relating to that payment reverses.
Do I keep earning if I stop signing up new businesses?
Yes. Your share continues for as long as each business stays subscribed and you remain in good standing — which means answering escalations for your own businesses and doing a short annual re-check. The full terms, including what happens to your book if you leave, are in the partner agreement; read that section closely before you sign.
What do I tell the business I am?
Your own business, certified by Flex Rewards to set up and support their loyalty program. Their subscription is with Flex Rewards and billed separately by us; your installation and training is billed by you, at your price. That wording belongs on your invoice, and it is the plainest description of the arrangement anyway — you are an independent contractor, not part of Flex Rewards, and you cannot commit us to anything.
Do I need to be a loyalty or hospitality expert?
No. You need to be comfortable walking into a small business and talking to the owner. We train you on the product, and there is a short certification step before your account goes live.
What about Digital Passport — the town-wide programs?
Fully supported and fully paid: a Digital Passport campaign earns you a flat 25%, whatever tier you are on, and unlike the monthly share it counts from the first payment rather than the second. It builds up as each campaign invoice is collected and is paid in the monthly run. We do not recruit on it, because selling a district or a business association is a long, slow cycle and it would be dishonest to dangle it at someone starting out. If you land one, you get paid for it.
Which countries can apply?
Two different lists, and it is worth knowing both. The businesses you sign have to be in Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada or the United Kingdom — that is a limit on opening the business account itself, not on you. Separately, we can pay partners in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia. So living in Ireland and setting up businesses in the UK works; setting up Irish ones does not, yet. Apply from anywhere and we will tell you plainly which half applies to you before you do any work.
Will you sell to my businesses behind my back?
No. The businesses you introduce are recorded as yours from the day you set up their account, and your share is attached to them, not to a tracking link that expires.
Get started
Apply to become a partner
Tell us where you are, what you do now, and how much time a week you can give it. There is nothing to pay at any point, and no minimum you have to commit to.
No joining fee, ever. Where you can be paid, and where you can set businesses up, are two separate lists — both are in the questions above. See what businesses pay.