How You Get Paid

Everything about earning with Pocket Cologne and Pocket Perfume, in plain language. You earn real commission on real sales, you can build a team and earn on theirs, and you only ever get paid when a genuine order goes through. No fees to join, no catch.

1. Your commission rate

Every affiliate earns 25%. There are no tiers to climb and no sales target to hit first: your first sale pays the same rate as your five hundredth.

Your rate is not affected by recruiting, and recruiting somebody never reduces what they earn. See section 3.

2. Direct commissions (your own sales)

When someone buys through your link, you earn 25% of that order's commission base. The base is what the customer paid, less shipping and less the card processing fee, so it is the part of the order we actually receive. $100 of product with $5.99 shipping has a base of $96.63, and you earn $24.15 of it.

It keeps paying after the first order. If they take a Pocket+ subscription you earn on its first six monthly invoices, and if they come back and order again you earn on that too, for as long as they are still attributed to you (see section 5).

3. Team commissions

You can invite other people to become affiliates. When someone you brought in makes a sale, you earn 10% of the same base on top of their commission. It goes one level: the people they recruit are theirs, not yours.

That 10% is paid by us. It is never taken out of the seller's cut, so somebody who joins through you earns exactly the same 25% as somebody who joined on their own. Nobody is worth less for having been recruited.

4. Custom overrides

A single recruiter to recruit relationship can be set to a percentage other than the standard 10%, where a specific arrangement has been agreed. A custom override replaces the 10% on that one link rather than stacking on top of it, so the total on an order still cannot exceed the cap. It never changes what the seller earns.

5. When your money clears

Every commission moves through three stages:

• Pending. The sale happened and the commission is logged, waiting out the return window.
• Approved. The order is final, the commission is locked in and counts toward your next payout.
• Paid. The money has been sent to you.

Two fairness rules sit on top:

• Real orders only. Team overrides pay only when the order actually clears its costs. Your own direct commission always pays on a real sale.
• The cap. Team commissions on an order are capped so a sale can never pay out more than it can support. On a normal order you will never notice it. On a rare thin margin order the 10% override may be trimmed so the order still makes sense. Your own direct commission on a real sale is not affected.

If a customer refunds, the commission on that order is reversed from whoever earned it, at every level. You are never paid on a sale that did not stick.

6. Getting paid

We review and approve commissions after the return window, then pay out on a monthly cycle. Your live balance, every commission, and your full payout history are always visible in your affiliate dashboard.

7. The rules that keep it fair

This program is built to be honest and to last:

• Free to join. There is never a fee, and you never have to buy anything to earn.
• You are paid on product sales to real customers, not for signing people up. There is no bounty just for recruiting.
• You cannot refer yourself, and loops (A recruits B recruits A) are blocked.
• Keep any claims about the product truthful. If in doubt, leave it out.

Commissions, tiers, and payout timing may be adjusted over time. Any change applies going forward, never to money you have already earned. Questions? hello@pocketcologne.com.