The Leap Referral Code

This page is short on promises because the promises could not be checked. What it can give you is the set of questions that turns "up to 40% recurring" into a number.

The evidence for this offer is thin. The advertised rate — up to 40% recurring commission when referrals subscribe to paid plans — is essentially all that is published: no terms, no duration, no plan prices, no eligibility, no payout process. That rate could not be independently verified, nor could the duration or the company behind it.

So the figure is presented as an unverified claim, not an established term. What follows are the questions that decide whether a claim of this shape is worth anything — questions that apply to any "up to X% recurring" offer, which covers most of the software category on this site.

The first and most important question is: for how long? "Recurring" without a duration is not a term, it is a fragment of one. Referral-software companies commonly use the same word to cover very different arrangements — one paying 20% capped at six months, another a tiered rate for one year, another a flat rate with no stated end, another a small percentage lasting as long as the customer keeps earning. Comparing "20%" against "40%" without knowing the durations behind them is not a real comparison.

The fix is to convert every recurring offer into a total: what would this pay, in full, over its stated life, on a realistic plan? Forty per cent for three months is worth less than fifteen per cent for two years. That single step makes the category comparable.

Second: forty per cent of what? A percentage of an unpublished price cannot be sized. Some companies in this category publish no pricing at all — a call is required to find out — which means an affiliate is agreeing to a share of a figure they are not permitted to see. Get the plan prices in writing before treating a percentage as income.

Third: what does "up to" conceal? "Up to" states a ceiling, never a rate. It usually means a tier — the top figure is reached at some volume, and the ordinary figure is lower. Ask what the entry rate is, since that is the one actually paid, and what volume the top rate requires.

Fourth: what triggers payment, and when? Software programmes in this category commonly require the referred customer to complete a free trial and take a paid plan, and frequently impose a minimum payout threshold — money below which stays with the platform indefinitely. The cookie duration matters too: a 30-day window is short for a product a business will evaluate over two months.

Fifth: which programme is this? Companies selling creator or marketing software usually have two things that can be called a referral programme — the product itself, which their customers use to run referral schemes of their own, and the company's own affiliate programme, which is what it pays for bringing it a customer. The two are easily mixed up, and the figures attached to each are unrelated. Establish which one an offer describes before reading any figure in it.

And the honest assessment of who this suits: a high percentage on a software subscription is a B2B commission. It is earned by introducing someone who will pay a monthly fee — realistically a creator with an existing audience, or a business. Without contacts like that, a 40% rate is worth nothing, and the size of the headline is not evidence that it is reachable; rates in this category are large precisely because the number of people able to act on them is small.

For anyone considering the platform itself rather than the referral, the relevant questions are the same ones worth asking of any creator platform: what is the take rate on each sale, are payment fees and taxes inside or on top of it, when are you paid and what is the minimum, and — the one that matters most — can the audience be exported, in bulk, today? For a creator, the audience list is the business, and elsewhere in this catalogue one platform's abrupt shutdown left roughly 35,000 customers unable to retrieve their own records — a reminder of why that question matters before it is needed, not after.