Version: 2026-04-30 · Last reviewed: 2026-04-30

Affiliate Program Terms

These terms govern participation in the Abundera Affiliate Program, operated by Abundera, Inc. ("Abundera"). By applying or accepting these terms in your dashboard, you ("Affiliate") agree to be bound by them. The program covers every Abundera property, including but not limited to abundera.ai, qr.abundera.ai, pro.qr.abundera.ai, sign.abundera.ai, and any future Abundera product.

1. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old, hold an Abundera account in good standing, and complete Stripe Connect Express identity verification (KYC) plus a current W-9 (US persons) or W-8BEN (non-US individuals) before any commission becomes payable. The creator track is open self-serve. The sales rep track is invite-only and requires a signed Sales Rep Agreement on Abundera Sign.

2. No purchase, no fee, single-tier

Participation is free. There is no upfront fee, no required product purchase, no required training fee, no inventory, and no buy-in of any kind. The program is single-tier. You earn commission only on customers you directly refer. There is no commission for recruiting other affiliates and no downline structure of any kind. Abundera does not represent that this program is a business opportunity within the meaning of 16 CFR Part 437 or any state business-opportunity statute.

3. Commission and Net Sales Price

Subject to fraud rules and the schedule below, Abundera will pay Affiliate a percentage of the Net Sales Price collected on every paid invoice originating from a user attributed to Affiliate, on every Abundera property that user subscribes to. "Attributed" means the first valid referral visit linked to the user's signup, locked at the time of signup. One affiliate per user. First-touch wins.

"Net Sales Price" means the gross invoice amount Abundera actually receives from the customer, exclusive of sales tax, VAT, GST, and any other transactional taxes, and after applying any discounts, credits, or promotional codes used by the customer. Refunds and chargebacks reduce the Net Sales Price retroactively in accordance with §3c. Payment-processor fees (including Stripe processing fees on the customer's payment) do not reduce the Net Sales Price; they are absorbed by Abundera.

3a. Monthly cohort tiers

Each user is assigned to a "Cohort Month" based on the calendar month of their first paid invoice on any Abundera property. The commission rate for a cohort is determined by the total annualized ARR of all paid signups attributed to Affiliate in that month. Annualized ARR for an invoice equals the net amount times (12 / months covered), summed across the cohort.

Within a Cohort Month, the rate is provisional and may rise as more users join the cohort. On the first day of the following month, the rate finalizes and locks for the lifetime of every user in that cohort. The locked rate does not change with subsequent months' performance. Abundera may update tier ladders prospectively for new cohorts on at least thirty (30) days' written notice; locked rates on existing cohorts are not affected by changes.

3b. Lifetime, paid as Abundera collects

Commission is recurring for the life of the customer's paid relationship with any Abundera property at the cohort's locked rate. Annual prepayments are amortized monthly: Affiliate earns one-twelfth of the commission each month over the prepayment period, not the full year up front.

3c. Pending window, refunds, chargebacks

Commission for each invoice is in a "pending" state for thirty (30) days from the invoice paid date. Refunds inside the pending window void the corresponding commission. Chargebacks always void the commission and create a clawback against future payouts. Two chargebacks within any 90-day window suspend Affiliate's account pending review. A rolling 90-day refund rate above 5% auto-pauses Affiliate's payouts.

4. Payouts and fees

Payouts are made monthly via Stripe Connect Express once Affiliate's payable balance reaches $50. Payouts are held until: (a) Affiliate has completed Stripe Connect KYC, (b) Affiliate has submitted and Abundera has verified a current W-9 or W-8BEN, and (c) any cool-off period from a payout-destination change has elapsed (seven (7) days).

Abundera absorbs all Stripe Connect Express fees, including the per-active-account monthly fee, per-payout fees, cross-border surcharges, and currency-conversion fees. Abundera also absorbs payment-processor fees on the customer's payment; such fees do not reduce the Net Sales Price. Affiliate receives the full commission balance owed at the cohort's locked rate.

Set-off and recoupment. Affiliate expressly authorizes Abundera to set off, recoup, and net any clawback amount against any commission, payout, or other amount otherwise payable to Affiliate, in any order Abundera selects, for up to ninety (90) days from the date of the underlying refund, chargeback, or fraud determination. Where the available offset is insufficient, Affiliate shall repay the unrecovered amount within thirty (30) days of Abundera's written demand. Abundera may pursue any remedy available in equity or at law to recover such amounts, and Affiliate shall be responsible for Abundera's reasonable collection costs and attorneys' fees if litigation is required.

4a. Tax withholding

US affiliates. Abundera does not withhold US federal or state income tax from commission payments. Affiliate is responsible for all applicable income tax and self-employment tax. Abundera will file Form 1099-NEC for any tax year in which Affiliate's earnings reach the applicable filing threshold (2026: $2,000 under OBBBA; threshold indexes for inflation in subsequent years).

Non-US affiliates. Affiliate commissions earned for promotional work performed outside the United States generally constitute foreign-source income not subject to US withholding when Affiliate has a current Form W-8BEN on file. Where US-source treatment applies, Abundera will withhold at the treaty rate claimed on Affiliate's W-8BEN (commonly 0% for business profits absent a US permanent establishment) rather than the default statutory 30%. Abundera will file Form 1042-S for each non-US affiliate paid in any tax year, regardless of withholding amount, plus the associated Form 1042 aggregate filing.

Affiliate is solely responsible for income tax obligations in Affiliate's country of tax residence and for keeping the W-9 / W-8BEN current.

5. FTC disclosure (16 CFR Part 255)

Federal Trade Commission rules require Affiliate to disclose the material connection to Abundera anywhere Affiliate recommends Abundera or any Abundera product. Disclosure must be clear and conspicuous as defined in 16 CFR 255.0(f) — meaning difficult to miss, easily understandable, in the same medium as the recommendation, near the recommendation, before any "click to read more" cut, and not buried in a wall of text. #ad by itself is insufficient. Affiliate must disclose in every medium Affiliate uses (for example, both in a video and in the video description; both in an email body and in any associated landing page).

Abundera reserves the right to terminate any Affiliate that does not comply with FTC disclosure requirements. Abundera may, in its sole discretion, monitor Affiliate's promotional activities to verify compliance. Once Affiliate is approved, Abundera will provide copy-paste disclosure templates for blog, video, email, and social media; using those templates does not eliminate Affiliate's independent obligation to comply.

Affiliate shall retain copies of disclosures used (screenshots or archived URLs) for at least twenty-four (24) months and shall make them available to Abundera within ten (10) business days of a written request. This obligation supports Abundera's monitoring duty under the FTC Endorsement Guides as interpreted by FTC enforcement actions.

Required disclosure templates. The following templates are provided for Affiliate's convenience and acknowledged by Affiliate at the time of program acceptance. Use does not eliminate Affiliate's independent obligation to comply with 16 CFR Part 255.

What is NOT sufficient (per FTC Endorsement Guides 2023 revision and recent enforcement): #ad alone; #sponsored alone; a disclosure in a YouTube description but not in the video itself; a disclosure on the linked landing page only; a disclosure that appears only after a "click to read more" cut; or a disclosure in a font or color that requires hovering or scrolling to find.

6. Earnings disclaimer

Actual earnings depend entirely on the customers Affiliate refers who become paying subscribers and remain customers. Many participants earn nothing. Abundera makes no representation of typical or expected earnings. Past program performance does not guarantee future results. Hypothetical math shown on the program landing page is a structural model of the program, not a forecast of Affiliate's earnings.

7. Anti-fraud

Affiliate may not, directly or indirectly: (a) self-refer, including via alternate accounts, family members, employees, or shared payment instruments; (b) operate cookie-stuffing, click-bombing, or any artificial-traffic scheme; (c) sign users up using disposable, throwaway, or generated email addresses; (d) submit fake reviews or incentivized testimonials without disclosure; (e) impersonate Abundera or its employees; or (f) misrepresent Abundera, its products, or program terms. Detected fraud forfeits all related commissions and may result in clawback of up to ninety (90) days of prior payouts.

8. Trademark and branded keyword bidding

Affiliate shall not bid on, purchase, or use Abundera's trademarks, brand names, product names, common misspellings, or domain names. The protected list includes "abundera," "abundera.ai," "qr.abundera," "qr.abundera.ai," "pro qr abundera," "sign.abundera," and any variation, plural, or misspelling. None of these may appear as keywords, ad copy, display URL, or destination URL on any paid search or paid social platform (Google, Bing, Meta, TikTok, X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Reddit, or any other paid placement). Affiliate shall not register or use domain names confusingly similar to Abundera's marks. Violation results in immediate forfeiture of the affected commissions and may trigger termination for cause.

9. Email and messaging compliance

Affiliate represents and warrants that all email, SMS, push, or other electronic messaging promoting Abundera will: (a) accurately identify Affiliate as the sender, (b) include a valid physical postal address, (c) include a clear and operative unsubscribe mechanism honored within ten (10) business days, (d) not be sent to purchased, rented, scraped, or harvested recipient lists, and (e) comply with the CAN-SPAM Act (15 USC 7701 et seq.), the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (47 USC §227) and FCC implementing regulations including the requirement to obtain prior express written consent (PEWC) for marketing SMS or autodialed calls, Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL, S.C. 2010, c. 23), the EU ePrivacy Directive, the UK Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, and any other applicable communications law. Affiliate represents and warrants that any SMS, MMS, RCS, or voice message promoting Abundera is preceded by TCPA-compliant prior express written consent of the recipient and contains a compliant opt-out mechanism. Affiliate shall maintain consent records for four (4) years and produce them on request. Affiliate shall indemnify Abundera for any claim, penalty, or settlement arising from Affiliate's messaging practices, including without limitation TCPA class actions and statutory-damages claims.

10. Privacy, cookies, data protection

The affiliate program sets a first-party cookie named ab_ref with a sixty (60) day TTL (renewing on each qualifying visit) on the .abundera.ai domain to record referral attribution. The server also stores a hashed fingerprint (IP, user-agent, language headers) for the same purpose. Server-side fingerprint rows are retained for twenty-four (24) months after the last associated visit and then deleted. The ab_ref cookie expires sixty (60) days after the last qualifying visit. Affiliates and visitors may request earlier deletion under this Section. EU and UK visitors are subject to consent rules under the ePrivacy Directive and UK PECR; the visit-recording endpoint will not fire for EU/UK visitors who have not consented to non-essential cookies. California residents may exercise their CCPA / CPRA "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" rights, in which case ab_ref is suppressed and no fingerprint row is stored. Abundera honors the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal as a valid CCPA / CPRA opt-out across every Abundera property on which the affiliate tracker runs. Full data-handling details are in the Privacy Policy.

Affiliate's own collection or processing of personal data in the course of promoting Abundera must independently comply with applicable law, including GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA / CPRA, and any state or sectoral privacy law. Affiliate shall not transfer personal data to Abundera other than the conversion identifiers necessary for attribution.

11. Termination

Either party may terminate at any time on thirty (30) days' written notice.

Termination without cause preserves all commissions Affiliate has accrued or vested at the time of termination, AND preserves Affiliate's right to receive commission on every future paid invoice from each user attributed to Affiliate at the time of termination, at that user's cohort's locked rate, for the life of that user's paid relationship with any Abundera property, subject to the refund, chargeback, and anti-fraud provisions of these Terms.

"For cause" means: (a) Affiliate's fraud or attempted fraud as defined in Section 7; (b) Affiliate's material breach of these Terms not cured within ten (10) business days of written notice describing the breach with reasonable specificity; (c) Affiliate's violation of applicable law in connection with the program (including, without limitation, FTC 16 CFR Part 255, the TCPA, CAN-SPAM, CASL, or applicable privacy law); or (d) Affiliate's conduct that creates documented legal liability for Abundera. Termination for cause requires written notice stating the basis with reasonable specificity. Termination for cause forfeits all unpaid commissions and activates Abundera's right to clawback up to ninety (90) days of prior payouts. The Parties acknowledge that actual damages from fraud or material breach are difficult to ascertain and that the 90-day clawback represents a reasonable estimate of harm including investigation cost, refund cost, and reputational damage; it is liquidated damages, not a penalty.

Unconscionability savings clause. If a court of competent jurisdiction finds any forfeiture or clawback provision in this Section unconscionable as applied, that provision will be reformed to the minimum extent necessary to be enforceable, and the remainder of this Section will continue in force. Nothing in this Section limits any non-waivable right under California Civil Code §1670.5 or any analogous statute.

Sections 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, and 16 survive termination.

12. Independent contractor

Affiliate participates as an independent contractor. Nothing in these terms creates employment, agency, partnership, or joint-venture status. Affiliate is responsible for Affiliate's own taxes; Stripe Connect Express may issue 1099-NEC (US) or 1042-S (non-US) annually as required.

13. Confidentiality

Affiliate will not disclose non-public Abundera information received in connection with the program, except as required by law. This obligation survives termination for two (2) years; provided that with respect to information that constitutes a trade secret under the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act (18 USC §1836) or applicable state Uniform Trade Secrets Act, the obligation continues for so long as the information remains a trade secret.

14. Indemnification

Affiliate shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Abundera, its officers, directors, employees, agents, affiliates, successors, and permitted assigns from any third-party claim, loss, judgment, settlement, fee, or cost (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from Affiliate's negligence, willful misconduct, breach of these terms, or violation of applicable law.

Abundera IP indemnity. Abundera will indemnify Affiliate against any third-party claim alleging that Affiliate's use of marketing materials supplied by Abundera in their unmodified form infringes any third-party intellectual property right, provided Affiliate promptly tenders defense and does not settle without Abundera's written consent.

15. Limitation of liability

ABUNDERA WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO AFFILIATE FOR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, EXEMPLARY, SPECIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES. ABUNDERA'S DIRECT-DAMAGE LIABILITY IS CAPPED AT THE TOTAL COMMISSIONS PAID TO AFFILIATE IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRECEDING THE CLAIM.

Nothing in this Section limits liability for fraud, willful misconduct, gross negligence, the indemnification obligations under Section 14, or any liability that cannot be limited or excluded by applicable law (including, without limitation, California Civil Code §1668 and any analogous provision in the affiliate's home jurisdiction).

16. Governing law and arbitration

These Terms are governed by Delaware law, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles.

Binding individual arbitration. Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms, the program, or the relationship between Affiliate and Abundera (a "Dispute") will be resolved by final and binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Commercial Arbitration Rules (and, where applicable, its Consumer Arbitration Rules), before a single arbitrator. The seat and place of arbitration is Las Vegas, Nevada. The Federal Arbitration Act (9 USC §§1 et seq.) governs the interpretation and enforcement of this Section. The arbitrator may award any relief a court could award on an individual basis. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Class-action waiver. Each party waives any right to participate in a class, collective, consolidated, or representative action. The arbitrator has no authority to consolidate claims or to preside over any form of representative or class proceeding.

Public-injunctive-relief carve-out (McGill). Notwithstanding the foregoing, claims for public injunctive relief under California Civil Code §3422 or any analogous statute may be brought in a court of competent jurisdiction; this carve-out is intended to comply with McGill v. Citibank, N.A., 2 Cal. 5th 945 (2017).

Cost shifting. Where the AAA Consumer Arbitration Rules apply, AAA's consumer-cost provisions govern filing and arbitrator fees. In any other case, the parties bear AAA fees as the AAA Commercial Rules direct, subject to any reallocation the arbitrator orders.

Small claims. Either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court of competent jurisdiction in lieu of arbitration, provided the claim remains in that court on an individual basis.

30-day opt-out. Affiliate may opt out of this arbitration agreement by sending written notice to Abundera, Inc., Attn: Legal, 200 W Sahara Ave, Unit 3301, Las Vegas, NV 89102, or by email to legal@abundera.ai with the subject line "Arbitration Opt-Out," within thirty (30) days of first accepting these Terms. The notice must include Affiliate's name, account email, and a statement of intent to opt out. Opting out does not affect any other provision of these Terms.

Severability. If the class-action waiver is found unenforceable as to any claim, that claim alone will be severed from arbitration and brought in court; the remainder of this Section continues to apply to all other claims. If any provision of this Section is held unconscionable or otherwise unenforceable, the unenforceable provision will be reformed to the minimum extent necessary, and the balance of this Section remains in force.

Nothing in this Section limits Affiliate's rights under non-waivable consumer-protection laws of Affiliate's state of residence (including, where applicable, California Civil Code §1670.5 and §1668, New York General Business Law §349, Massachusetts Chapter 93A, the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act, and the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act).

17. Changes

Abundera may update these Terms with at least thirty (30) days' notice posted in Affiliate's dashboard for material changes. Continued participation after the effective date constitutes acceptance. No update may reduce a cohort rate that has already locked, alter commission already accrued or vested, or apply to a cohort whose Cohort Month has already begun. Updates apply only prospectively to cohorts whose Cohort Month begins on or after the update's effective date.

18. Acquisition

If Abundera or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, Abundera will use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the acquirer's written assumption of these Terms. If no assumption is secured, Abundera will (a) pay all earned-and-vested commissions through the closing date, and (b) where commercially feasible, pay one (1) additional month of cohort-rate commission on then-active referrals as a wind-down payment. No further commission is payable thereafter unless the acquirer voluntarily continues the program.

Contact

partners@abundera.ai for program questions. legal@abundera.ai for legal notices. Abundera, Inc. — 200 W Sahara Ave, Unit 3301, Las Vegas, NV 89102.