Affiliate Program · Apply in 5 minutes

Earn 40% recurring on every RetouchFlow referral.

60-day cookie — the longest in the category. Pay your first coffee with us in five minutes, then let it compound month after month as your referrals keep paying.

Get your affiliate link See the math
40%
RECURRING · 12 MONTHS
60-day
COOKIE · 2X THE NORM
$10
FIRST-PHOTO BOUNTY
$50
MIN PAYOUT · MONTHLY

Do the math. It is honestly a little absurd.

Slide the dials to size your upside. Every subscriber you refer pays you for up to twelve months — plus a $10 bounty the moment they upload their first photo, whether they end up subscribing or not. One Pro+ subscriber pays you $240 over a year. Ten pays you $2,400. A hundred — realistic for a 50K-follower creator sending consistent traffic — pays you roughly $24,000 in recurring commission plus $1,000 in activation bounties.

YOU EARN OVER 12 MONTHS
$6,248
$5,998 in recurring commission + $250 in first-photo activation bounties
$49.99 × 40% × 12 months × 25 subs + $10 × 25

Three tiers. Pick your ceiling.

Everyone starts as an Affiliate. Cross 10K followers and you get an Ambassador upgrade. Cross 100K (or show strategic fit) and you are invited to the Insider Council.

Affiliate

Open to all
Anyone with a link. Sign up, grab your creative pack, ship this afternoon.
  • 40% recurring for 12 months on every paid subscription
  • 60-day cookie — longest in the category
  • $10 bounty per first-photo activation, even before they subscribe
  • Branded promo code and personal dashboard
  • Creative pack: banners, social templates, pre-written email copy
  • Monthly payout via Stripe or PayPal, $50 min
Apply now

Insider Council

Invite only · 100K+
For creators who move markets. You shape the product. We share the upside.
  • Everything in Ambassador
  • Revenue share on co-branded aesthetic packs (50/50 split)
  • $1,000 signing bonus on acceptance
  • 30-day early access to every new feature
  • Direct Slack channel with the founder
  • Co-marketing budget $500–$2,000/mo by engagement
Request invite

Why this beats every other creator-tool affiliate program.

We benchmarked the four programs your audience is probably already in. Here is what they actually pay vs what we do. No marketing fluff — real terms from each program's public affiliate page.

  RetouchFlow Picsart Lightricks (FaceTune) Adobe Creative Cloud Canva
Commission rate40%25–40%$25 flat85% first month15% flat
Recurring payouts12 months (flat) (one-shot) (month 1 only) (flat)
Cookie duration60 days30 days28 days30 days30 days
Activation bounty$10 / first photo
Free subscription for affiliateYes (Ambassador+)
Signing bonus top tier$1,000
Minimum payout$50$50$100$50$10

Adobe's 85% sounds bigger than ours until you do the math. Their payout is capped at month one, so a $54.99 Adobe subscription pays you $46.74 once — then nothing. Our $49.99 Pro+ subscription pays you $20 every month for a year: $240 total. Headline rates are a trap designed for affiliate directories and press releases. Lifetime value of the referral is what actually pays your rent, and it is the only number we optimize for. That is also why we added a $10 activation bounty on top — it covers our own product-led-growth CAC, and we would rather hand that budget to the creator who sent us the user than burn it on paid ads.

How it works.

Four steps. Most people finish in under ten minutes. No calls, no contracts to sign, no waiting on account managers to reply. Approve, copy link, share, get paid — that is the whole loop.

1

Sign up

Fill the form below. Approval is usually same-day — instant for the under-10K Affiliate tier.

2

Grab your kit

Your dashboard unlocks with a personal link, a promo code, and the full creative pack — banners, emails, video cutdowns.

3

Share anywhere

IG, TikTok, YouTube, email list, blog, Discord, DM. Track clicks, signups, and conversions live in the dashboard.

4

Get paid

Monthly on the 15th via Stripe Express or PayPal. $50 minimum payout, unpaid balance rolls forward automatically.

Day-one creative, done for you.

You should not have to design banners to cash a commission check. Everything below ships inside the dashboard the moment you are approved.

The creative pack includes…

Everything a creator team with a $2K/mo design retainer would build. We burned the hours so you don't have to. Rewritable in your voice, or ship the defaults as-is — affiliates who use the creative pack as-is convert 2.4x better on average than affiliates who hand-roll their own assets. Every banner is exported in light and dark, every video cutdown is captioned for silent autoplay, and every email is written to sound like a human friend rather than a brand. Drop 02 ships next quarter with holiday creative, and Insider Council members help pick the themes.

12 banner sizes IG story templates TikTok B-roll pack 3-email sequence Single-send blast copy YouTube cutdowns Before/after demos Newsletter embed Podcast read scripts
Creative Pack · Drop 01
Banners. Email copy. Social templates. Everything to ship day one.
IG TT YT Mail

What our beta ambassadors are earning.

We opened the program to a small cohort in month one. Honest, modest numbers — we have only been paying commissions for a few weeks, and we would rather under-promise now than be one of those programs that publishes cherry-picked five-figure screenshots you will never see yourself.

"I dropped the link once in my bride email welcome sequence and it just works in the background. I literally forgot about it and then got a $240 Stripe payout."
SK
Sarah K.
Wedding photographer · Austin, TX
Beta ambassador
Month one earnings: $240 (8 Pro+ referrals + $60 in activation bounties)
"Every photo-editing affiliate program I have joined pays once and ghosts you. RetouchFlow just keeps depositing every 30 days. That's the whole pitch."
MJ
Marcus J.
Photo YouTuber · 142K subs
Beta ambassador
Month one earnings: $1,840 (41 Pro subs, trailing on month 2+ recurring)
"The creative pack saved me six hours. I grabbed the story template, stamped my handle, posted to my Highlights. 11 paid signups in a week."
PR
Priya R.
Beauty creator · 68K IG
Beta ambassador
Month one earnings: $420 (11 Pro+ referrals)

Affiliate FAQ.

Everything a professional affiliate wants to know before the form.

How long is the cookie?
Our attribution cookie is 60 days — the longest in the creator-tool category. Picsart, Adobe, and Canva all use a 30-day window and Lightricks/FaceTune is 28 days. If someone clicks your link and subscribes any time in the next two months, you get paid.
What counts as a "paid referral"?
Any new user who signs up through your link and pays for Pro ($24.99/mo), Pro+ ($49.99/mo), or Agency ($199/mo). You earn 40% of every monthly payment they make for up to 12 months. You also earn a $10 first-photo activation bounty the moment they upload their first photo — even before they subscribe. The bounty covers our own PLG acquisition cost, so we can afford to share it with the person who sent them.
When do I get paid?
Monthly, on the 15th of each month, covering the prior month's earned commissions. The only delay is a 30-day hold to cover any refunds — Stripe requires this because most subscription chargebacks happen in the first week or two. Payouts arrive via Stripe Express or PayPal, your choice in the dashboard.
What is the minimum payout?
$50. Unpaid balances roll forward automatically — you never lose earned commission, it just waits until you cross the threshold. With a single Pro+ referral at $49.99/mo and a $10 activation bounty, you clear $30 in commission in month one and easily cross $50 by month two.
Can I run ads on your brand name?
No. Bidding on "RetouchFlow", retouchflow.com, or any close variant on Google, Meta, or TikTok Ads is grounds for removal from the program — it cannibalizes our own paid spend and wastes your budget. We provide a full creative pack (banners, video cutdowns, email copy, social captions) so you can ship day one without needing to run ads on our brand.
Do affiliates stack with existing deals?
No. If a user is already inside an active promo (student discount, lifetime deal, holiday sale, launch special), the commission does not apply. We do this to keep unit economics sane — otherwise a single sale could pay out more than it earns us. In practice, 95%+ of our sales are full-price, so this almost never comes up.
Can I promote to my email list?
Yes, and we actively encourage it. Email converts better than any other channel we track. The creative pack ships with three pre-written sequences — a 3-day warm-up, a single-send blast, and an objection-handling follow-up — all rewritable in your own voice. Swipe, edit, hit send.
What happens if my referral cancels?
Commissions stop the month they cancel. You keep everything you have already earned from their prior months — no clawback unless they charge back through their bank or file for a fraud refund within 60 days of the initial purchase. In that case the commission for that specific transaction is reversed but nothing else is affected.

Get your affiliate link.

Fill this out in under two minutes. Approval is same-day for anyone under 10K, usually inside 24 hours for Ambassador and Insider Council applications.

We review every application by hand. No spam, ever.

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40% recurring. 60-day cookie. $10 bounty per activation. Monthly payouts. The program creators wish every creator tool had.

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