Our affiliate programme
Help us set businesses free from the pains of getting paid
At GoCardless, we have always been committed to making the payment process simpler and more efficient for businesses and their clients.
We are thrilled to announce an exciting new opportunity that we believe will greatly benefit both you and your clients - the GoCardless Affiliate Programme!
Hi, we're GoCardless
We set people and businesses free from the frustrations and cost of outdated payment methods, like manual bank transfers and cards. And we’ve been doing it for over 10 years, by building simple and secure bank payment solutions.
75,000+ businesses of all sizes, around the world, trust GoCardless to power their payments. Including DocuSign, HM Government, The Guardian, Epson, Aon, and Tripadvisor.
We’re solving some really frustrating payments pains for businesses
Late payments
Too many payments are made late. So we make it super easy for payments to be made on time. Both with instant payments and automated payments.
Chasing up customers
Late payments mean awkward or annoying calls to customers to chase them up. By saving businesses from late payments, we save them here too.
Annoying admin
A lot of businesses get stuck with more manual payments admin than they need. We make data easy to find, and help automate tasks away.
Expensive fees
GoCardless collects direct bank payments. Meaning no card fees. And with all that wasted admin time cut away, the savings really stack up.
Why businesses choose us
GoCardless lets businesses easily collect both instant one-off payments and automated recurring payments. Direct from their customer’s bank account to theirs. Getting them paid on time, saving them time and money, helping them win and retain more customers, and stress less.
They can use GoCardless on its own, with our easy-to-use online dashboard. Or connect it up to one of 350+ other systems – including Xero, Sage, QuickBooks, Zuora, and Salesforce – to conveniently manage everything there instead.
International payments made simple
GoCardless lets businesses collect payments from 30+ countries. Either into a local bank account, or their existing UK account. With FX at the real market rate, powered by Wise.
Intelligently retry failed payments
With GoCardless, failed payments are rare. But with automatic retries, our payments data determines the best day to try again. Recovering 70% of failed payments, on average.
Better liked by customers, too
Research shows businesses and consumers often prefer bank payments over cards and digital wallets, for making many kinds of payments. With automation and peace of mind, it’s not hard to see why.
The programme
If you have an engaged audience that's made up of businesses, you could be the perfect fit to be a GoCardless affiliate. What that looks like is flexible to you. It could be as simple as putting our referral links in front of your audience. Or sending GoCardless content their way.
Plant a tree for each new sign-up
Our goal with our affiliate programme is to gain new, active users of GoCardless. Every time a new merchant completes our short sign-up form after being referred by you, we’ll plant a tree as part of our partnership with Carma.
Earn Commission when they activate
Every time a merchant you refer goes on to complete 6 payment actions in GoCardless, making them an “active” user, we’ll pay you on our incentive structure. This typically takes 14-90 days but can take longer. View our incentive structure here.
Plant a tree for each new sign-up
Our goal with our affiliate programme is to gain new, active users of GoCardless. Every time a new merchant completes our short sign-up form after being referred by you, we’ll plant a tree as part of our partnership with Carma.
Earn Commission when they activate
Every time a merchant you refer goes on to complete 6 payment actions in GoCardless, making them an “active” user, we’ll pay you on our incentive structure. This typically takes 14-90 days but can take longer. View our incentive structure here.
What are payment actions?
There are two things that count: getting a customer to set up a bank debit mandate (which allows that merchant to automate payment collection from that customer), and collecting a payment.
What’s an “active” user?
Any merchant that signs up and then completes any combination of payment actions – as long as they total six – is what we classify as an “active” user of GoCardless.
How are commissions paid out?
For every commission you earn there’s a 30-day validation period, after which you’ll be paid out in the next payment run. So any commission you earn should be paid out within 60 days of the sign up or activation occurring.
How we support you
Ready to join our affiliate programme?
We look forward to speaking with you! Before you apply, please take a moment to read the terms of our affiliate programme. If you have any questions, we’ll be happy to answer them in our introductory call.