Know a local business with a rough website? Earn $200.
Send us a local business owner. If they become a client, we pay you $200. There’s nothing to join, nothing to sell, and nothing to explain: you make the introduction, we do the rest.
What it pays, when it pays, and how we know who sent them.
What it pays
$200 in cash for every genuinely new business you refer that becomes a client. Flat, one time, per client, with no cap on how many you send.
If you’re a client yourself, take two free months of service instead. You earn them one at a time, as the business you sent us actually pays: your first free month is applied after your referral’s first monthly payment clears, your second after their second. Nothing is earned on the day you make the introduction. If you would rather have the cash, just say so and we pay the $200 on the timing below.
Why the two are timed differently: a free month is a credit against your own next invoice, so it can be unwound if a payment reverses. Cash that has left the building cannot, which is why it waits a little longer.
One thing we say up front instead of hiding in the fine print: it’s on the first year only. The $159 a month that carries on after that is not commissioned, because we’d rather keep it low for the client than shave a commission out of it.
When it pays
The cash. After their third monthly payment clears, or sooner, as soon as an early settlement payment clears, if they settle the rest of their first year before then. Then the standing 30-day holding period, unchanged, so the money is settled before your share is passed along.
The free months. One after their first monthly payment clears, the second after their second. Each one is applied as a credit to your own next invoice, so you see it on your own billing rather than waiting on a payout.
Either way, if their payment is later reversed or charged back, the referral is void, and anything already paid or credited to you is owed back. We only pay on money we actually keep.
How we know who sent them
Put your name (or your business name) on the end of this address and share it. When they start their redesign through your link, your name is recorded on the referral automatically, so there’s nothing for either of you to type or remember:
redolocal.com/get-started?ref=Your-Name
No link handy? Send us a message with the business name and how to reach them before they get in touch, and that puts you on record just as well.
A note you can send as-is.
Copy it, make it sound like you, and keep the last part: being clear about the connection is required by the FTC, and it’s how we’d want to be referred anyway.
“Your website could be working a lot harder for you. Take a look at RedoLocal (redolocal.com): they redesign your existing site for a published price, no sales call, you see the finished redesign and approve it before it goes live, and your site, your domain, and your content are yours from day one. Full disclosure: I have a referral arrangement with them, so they pay me if you become a client. Want an introduction?”
The rules, in plain English.
The four that matter most, then the full set below them. Referring someone means you agree to all of it.
- You earn $200 for every genuinely new business you refer that becomes a client. If you are a client yourself, take two free months of service instead.
- The cash is paid after their third monthly payment clears, or as soon as an early settlement payment clears if they settle their first year before then, plus a 30-day hold either way.
- The free months are earned one at a time: the first after your referral’s first monthly payment clears, the second after their second. Nothing is earned at signup.
- Tell people you’re paid (it’s the law). The FTC requires you to disclose the connection clearly, right where you make the recommendation. One honest line does it: “I earn a commission if you sign up with RedoLocal.”
- Genuinely new businesses only. Not yourself, not a business you control, not someone already talking to us or already a client.
Read the full referral terms
- What you earn. A one-time flat $200 per referred client who becomes a client. It is on the first year only and it is not recurring: no commission is paid on the $159 a month that continues once their first year is up, or on any payment after that. An existing client may take two free months of service in place of the cash instead, on the timing in the next bullet. It is worth the same to us either way.
- When you’re paid, in cash. A cash referral is earned once the referred client’s third monthly payment clears, or immediately once a payment for their whole first year clears. It is then paid after a 30-day holding period from that payment. The hold lets the money settle and clear the bank dispute window before your share is passed along.
- When the free months are earned. They are earned one at a time, and each one is gated on a payment that has actually cleared: the first free month after the referred client’s first monthly payment clears, and the second after their second. Nothing is earned when the introduction is made, and nothing is earned before their money clears. Each month is applied as a credit against your own next invoice. There is no 30-day hold on them, because a credit on your own account can be unwound if a payment later reverses, which is not true of cash that has already been sent.
- Voided by a reversal or chargeback. If the referred client’s payment is later reversed, charged back, or otherwise does not clear, the referral is void, and if it was already paid to you, it’s owed back. We only pay on money we actually keep.
- No self-referrals. You can’t refer yourself, your own business, or an account you control, and you can’t refer someone who’s already talking to us or already a client. Referrals are for genuinely new businesses you introduce to us.
- No bidding on our brand. Don’t run paid ads on “RedoLocal” or close variations of our name, and don’t send traffic through paid search on our brand terms. That traffic was coming to us anyway; bidding on it isn’t a referral.
- No coupon, deal, or discount-site posting. Don’t post referral links or offers on coupon sites, deal forums, or discount directories. This is for personal, honest recommendations, not coupon farming.
- You must disclose the connection (this one’s the law). When you recommend us, you have to clearly tell people you’ll be paid if they sign up. The FTC requires anyone with a financial connection to disclose it, clearly and up front, right where you make the recommendation, not hidden in a bio or a separate page. A simple line like “I earn a commission if you sign up with RedoLocal” does it. Be honest; don’t claim to be a customer if you aren’t, and don’t promise results on our behalf that we don’t promise ourselves.
- Taxes and paperwork. Referral payments are income. If you’re a U.S. person and we pay you $2,000 or more in a calendar year, we’ll need a completed Form W-9 from you and we’ll issue you a Form 1099-NEC for the year, as the tax rules require. We can’t pay amounts we’re required to report without the W-9 on file.
- This can change. We may change or end referrals at any time, going forward. Any change applies to referrals made after it; a referral you’ve already properly earned is still yours.
- Honest referrals only. Refer businesses you’d genuinely recommend us to. We reserve the right to decline or void a referral for spam, misrepresentation, or anything that breaks these terms, and, like the rest of what we do, we’ll tell you straight if we do.
Questions? Send us a message and a real person will answer. These referral terms work alongside our Terms of Service.
Send us a business you believe in.
If you know a local owner stuck with a website that’s letting them down, introduce us. They get a real redesign of their own site, with unlimited changes before they approve it, and nothing goes live until they do.
$200 per new client, paid after their third monthly payment clears or on an early settlement payment, plus a 30-day hold · Already a client? Two free months instead, one after their first payment clears and one after their second