Commission terms
This page is how the soda partner programme actually works today — not a summary of it. Every number here is generated from our system settings, so if the setting changes, this page changes with it.
Sections (13)
- The rules
- 15% commission
- Calculated on settled revenue, not on top-up amounts
- Your terms freeze the moment attribution locks
- Attribution: 90 days, last click, locked at sign-up
- Two tiers, and it stops at two
- Monthly, pays out from $20
- Refunds reverse out
- Rounding: always down
- Paid by bank transfer, invoices available
- How these terms change
- What we do not have
- When not to become a soda partner
The rules
15% commission
- The default rate for an approved partner is 15%. Individual partners can agree a different rate at approval; the system caps it at 22%.
Calculated on settled revenue, not on top-up amounts
- The basis is what an attributed account actually settles once the trip is over, not the face value they topped up. Topping up just moves money into a wallet; whatever is not used is not revenue, so it is not your commission either. This makes your numbers smaller than a top-up-based programme would — but it is the only basis that reconciles, and it does not turn against you when someone gets a refund.
Your terms freeze the moment attribution locks
- When an account is attributed to you, your rate is snapshotted onto that attribution. If we change rates later, the change only touches new attributions — accounts already attributed to you keep the rate that was frozen at the time, permanently.
Attribution: 90 days, last click, locked at sign-up
- When someone follows your link, your code is stored in their browser for 90 days. The moment they sign up, attribution is written down once and never moves again. An account carries exactly one attribution — it cannot drift to someone else, and it cannot drift back.
Two tiers, and it stops at two
- Revenue from partners you bring in pays you a second share. That rate is agreed individually at approval and is frozen at attribution the same way. There is no third tier.
Monthly, pays out from $20
- Each month: accrued commission minus what has been paid equals what is payable. Anything under $20 is not paid out — it stays exactly where it is and rolls into the next period. Nothing resets, and you never start accumulating again from scratch.
Refunds reverse out
- If a refund happens after settlement, the matching commission reverses and shows as a negative line in your report. Because the basis is settled revenue rather than top-up value, this comes up far less than it would on a top-up-based programme.
Rounding: always down
- Everything is computed in whole millionths of a US dollar, and the fraction left over is rounded down. That direction is against you, by less than a millionth of a dollar per line. We would rather write it down than pretend rounding does not happen.
Paid by bank transfer, invoices available
- Payouts are made by hand as bank transfers today, not automated disbursement. Commission is paid through formal billing and invoices are available; specifics come with approval.
How these terms change
- We may adjust rates or thresholds. Any adjustment applies only to attributions made afterwards (see the freeze rule above), and it changes the same system setting this page reads — so this page and the partner page move together. There is never a second version in circulation.
What we do not have
Things other programmes offer and soda does not, today. Better you know now than after approval.
- No click statistics. You can see attributed accounts and commission; you cannot see how many people clicked — the redirect deliberately never touches the database.
- No automated disbursement. Every payout is a manual bank transfer.
- No custom discount amounts. Your code is an attribution code, not a coupon; you cannot set a discount rate on it.
- No instant payout, and no “pay a fee to get it early” option either — you wait for the monthly cycle.
- No guaranteed minimum, no signing fee, no flat sponsorship fee. Your income comes entirely from revenue that actually settles.
When not to become a soda partner
In these four situations you will earn more somewhere else. Better said now than discovered after approval.
- Your audience does not travel to Japan, Korea, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Switzerland, China, Indonesia, Philippines, USA, Macau. Those are the only markets soda can sell in, so people you send over cannot buy anything.
- You want a one-off sponsorship fee. We pay recurring commission and no signing fee, so early on you get nothing.
- You need predictable monthly income. Commission on settled revenue means that if your audience does not actually travel and use data, you earn nothing at all.
- Your traffic comes from short-form social video rather than search. What converts for eSIMs is high-intent search traffic; a large following with no ranking articles converts very poorly.