Where the money comes from, and why you wait for it.

The chain, in order

You click a tracked link on this site. That link carries an identifier the firm passes back to us if you buy. You land on the firm's own site and buy the evaluation at their normal price, on their checkout, under their terms — we are not part of that transaction and never see your payment details.

Some time later the firm reports the purchase to us and, later still, actually pays the affiliate commission on it. That gap is where every honest complication in this product lives:

• The firm can decide the purchase was not ours to claim — a coupon code from somewhere else usually does it.
• The purchase can be refunded or charged back, which reverses the commission after the fact.
• The reported amount can be adjusted downwards before it is paid.

Because of those three, we do not issue points you can spend until the commission has actually settled. Anything before that is shown to you as an estimate, in those words.

What we take out before your share

Refunds, chargebacks and any adjustment the firm applies come off the commission first — those reduce what we were paid, so they reduce what there is to share. Ordinary running costs do not. We do not quietly shave the rate to cover support or fulfilment.

The reward rate is stored as a versioned policy rather than written into the product, and the version that applied when you clicked is the version you get, even if we change it afterwards. Your points history names the policy version behind every lot, so the rate you were promised is always checkable after the fact.