Why does the Partner Program have a requirement at all when the affiliate one does not?

Because they bring different customers. An affiliate talks to an audience and needs a link. A partner delivers software to a client, and the level is the automatic proof that the delivery is real — which is what justifies negotiable terms and priority support.

My client already has a Fabapp account. Does it count as my referral?

No. The referral is created at the moment the account is CREATED. For an existing account there is nothing to attribute.

What if I create the account for my client?

If the account is the client's and they are the one who will subscribe, use your link when creating it — the referral is yours. What does not count is the account being yours with you as your own customer.

Do I get paid for apps I publish in my own account for a client?

In that arrangement you are the subscriber, so there is no referral to commission. The path that pays is the client having their own account — and that is also what makes the badge on their app work for you.

Can I negotiate a different rate?

Yes. The published rate is the floor; individual terms are registered per partner and the panel always shows which one is in force. A change to the terms applies to future referrals — it never reprices what is already in your book.

Can I be a partner and an affiliate at the same time?

Yes. Each program issues its own code and the panel adds both up, including the balance from the program you started in.

If I stop delivering, do I lose what I already referred?

No. As long as the client keeps paying and your channel is active, the commission keeps coming.

How does the badge work?

Apps published on a free plan carry the "Made with Fabapp" mark. On your account's apps that mark carries your code, so whoever clicks it and later subscribes comes in as your referral. It disappears when the app moves to a paid plan, and it never appears on a draft.

Partner Program

You already deliver software. Now the delivery pays twice.

For agencies, studios, freelancers and consultancies that build on Fabapp for their clients: your client subscribes on their own account, and a share of every invoice comes back to you — every month, for as long as they stay.

Become a partner How to reach Operator

Opens at the Operator level · human review · terms negotiable case by case

25%

of each invoice, first 12 months

10%

residual, while the client stays

Operator

the level that opens the door

Badge

works on every app you have live

Who it is for

If you ship software for other people, this is your program

Agencies and studios

You already deliver digital projects and want the recurring layer that the delivery itself creates.

Freelancers

You ship one project at a time and want each delivery to keep paying after it is handed over.

Consultancies

You are the one who chooses the stack for your client — and this one pays back for that choice every month.

Internal teams that grew outward

You started building for yourself and got asked to build for others. The program turns that into a second line of revenue.

Worth reading before the first delivery

The arrangement that actually pays If YOU subscribe and publish the app inside your own account, there is no referral to commission — you are the customer. The path that pays is the client having their own account, subscribed through your link. It is also what makes the badge on their app work for you.

The requirement

The Partner Program opens at the Operator level

It does not measure how long you have been here or how many projects you have. It measures whether what you built LEFT YOUR COMPUTER.

Explorer

You created your account.

Builder

You generated your first project.

Publisher

You published a project, with an address of its own.

Operatoropens the Partner Program

You have real people using a project of yours — or you already made your first sale inside it.

Reference

You have recurring revenue in the projects you deliver.

Two ways in, and either one is enough

Real people

Someone outside your own team signs in to a published project of yours. Testing your own app does not count, and neither does your account's team — the milestone exists to prove an audience.

First sale

You turned on a payment method inside a project and charged for what it delivers. Selling proves delivery just as well as an audience does.

You can see your level, and exactly what is missing, in Profile → Referrals inside the panel.

Why it is a separate program

Fewer accounts, bigger and longer-lived

Whoever delivers software to third parties brings a different kind of customer than whoever talks to an audience — and treating both the same would shortchange both.

Terms you can negotiate

The published rate is the floor. A partner with volume can have individual terms registered, and the panel always shows which one is in force on each referral.

The badge works while you sleep

Every app you publish on a free plan carries the "Made with Fabapp" mark with your code inside. Whoever clicks it and later subscribes comes in as your referral — on every app you have live, with nothing to post.

Priority on support

Partner applications come with a phone number, and that is the channel: approval, terms and payout questions do not go into an inbox nobody answers.

The rule that holds both programs together

Commission only exists on an invoice that was actually paid. A signup does not pay, a trial does not pay, a click does not pay.

The numbers

What you earn, and for how long

One published rate for everyone. Whoever negotiated an individual agreement has theirs applied instead, and the panel always shows which one is in force.

What the customer pays	Commission	For how long
Subscription, first 12 months	25%	Every invoice paid, month after month
Subscription, from month 13 on	10%	For as long as the customer keeps paying
One-off credit pack	10%	On every purchase

One invoice, line by line

Invoice paid by the customerMonthly subscription, 4th month — still inside the first yearR$ 249.00

Taxes on the invoiceThe rate follows the tax regime in force; 10% here to illustrate− R$ 24.90

Commission baseR$ 224.10

Your commission · 25%R$ 56.03

The base is net of taxes

Commission is calculated on the invoice after taxes, never on the full amount. Paying on the gross would pay you with money that never came in — and a program built that way does not survive its first year, which is bad for both sides.

Your terms are frozen the day the referral arrives

Whatever is published on the day someone signs up through your link is frozen for that account. A change to the rate applies to future referrals — it never reprices, up or down, what is already in your book.

The same customer, in month 13, starts paying you R$ 22.41 per invoice — and keeps paying for as long as they stay. That is why one referral who STAYS is worth far more than three who pass through.

Do the math

What a referral is worth to you

Move the two sliders. The math is the published one: 25% in the first twelve months, 10% from the thirteenth on, over a base net of taxes.

Paying customers you referred10Average monthly invoiceR$150

An estimate, not a promise. It assumes every referred customer keeps paying the whole period and uses 10% as an illustrative tax rate — your actual commission comes from the invoices that are actually paid.

Per month, first year

R$338

In the first 12 months

R$4,050

Per month, from month 13

R$135

This one does not stop: it keeps coming for as long as those customers stay.

How it works

From the level to the first payout

Reach Operator

Publish a project and get a real user into it — or make your first sale inside it. The panel shows how far along you are.

Apply

In Profile → Referrals, with your phone number and where you deliver. A person reviews it.

Your code is issued

Approval issues your channel, sends the welcome email and re-stamps the badge on the apps already live in your account.

Deliver as usual

The client creates their own account through your link — or through the badge on the app you delivered — and subscribes.

Get paid every month

Holding period, closing and Pix, with a receipt. The panel separates what is available from what is still held.

Become a partner

Attribution

How a referral is credited to you

Two rules, and between them they settle almost every "did that one count for me?".

The badge on published apps

Every app published on a free plan carries the "Made with Fabapp" mark. On apps published from the account of somebody in the program, that mark carries the code with it: whoever clicks and later subscribes comes in as your referral. For anyone who delivers projects to clients it is the quietest and most durable tool there is — it works on every app you have live, without posting anything.

The first visit is the one that counts

Whoever arrives through your link is recorded in their browser for 60 days. Whether they create the account today, tomorrow or two months from now, the referral is yours. And if they pass through somebody else's link in the meantime, the credit stays with whoever got there first.

Referring yourself does not count

Creating a second account and using your own code does not create a referral — the system simply does not make the link. There is no automatic penalty, but there is no commission either.

A click is not a commission

The click is a directional measure: browser prefetch, bots and WhatsApp link previews inflate it. Use it to compare WHERE you promote, never to predict what you will be paid.

The money

From the customer's invoice to your Pix

Four stages. The second is the one that raises the most questions, so it is explained right below.

Day 0

The customer pays

The commission is calculated and enters as pending release.

30 days

Holding period

The window closes with no refund and the amount becomes available.

Closing

The month closes

Everything available goes into a payout, still open.

Pix

The transfer goes out

The payout is confirmed, with a receipt on the statement.

Why the 30-day holding period exists

Refunds and card chargebacks happen almost entirely in the first weeks. Without that window the money would leave before the risk closed — and we would then have to claw it back from someone who had already been paid, which is the conversation that ruins the relationship even when the contract allows it.

R$ 100 minimum

Payouts go out from R$ 100 up. Below that nothing disappears: the amount accumulates and joins the next closing.

Two columns, never one total

The panel shows pending and available separately, not a single sum. One number would have you counting on money that can still be voided.

If a refund does happen inside the window, that invoice's commission is voided — and it stays on your statement, marked as voided, with the reason. A balance that shrinks without explanation is indistinguishable from a mistake on our side.

Two doors

Affiliate or partner?

The difference is not size. It is the kind of relationship you have with whoever is going to subscribe.

	Affiliate	Partner
Who it is for	People who talk to an audience: a channel, a profile, a newsletter, a community, a course.	People who deliver software to clients: an agency, a studio, a freelancer, a consultancy.
How you get in	By applying, with a human review.	Through the Operator level, then a human review.
Do you have to have built something?	No.	Yes — that is what the level proves.
Tools	Referral link.	Referral link and the badge on published apps.
Commercial terms	The program's published rate.	The published rate — or terms negotiated case by case.

See the Affiliate Program

You can be in both

Anyone with a channel who also delivers to clients can apply to both. Each program issues its own code, and the panel adds them up.

The fine print, in plain words

The rules

They exist to protect the people who actually promote.

Commission only on a paid invoice. Signups, trials and clicks generate nothing.
No referring yourself, and no accounts you run for your own use.
No paid ads on the Fabapp brand, and no content that passes itself off as official platform communication.
No spam. Promoting through purchased lists or unsolicited bulk messaging is grounds for suspension.
No coupon, cashback or toolbar sites.
Changes to the terms apply going forward. What is already in your book is not repriced.
A suspended channel stops crediting immediately, but everything already accrued stays on the statement and is auditable.
No exclusivity, no minimum target, no monthly fee.

Frequently asked questions

Questions before you apply

It is the fourth rung of the builder ladder, and it opens the Partner Program. You reach it in one of two ways: somebody outside your team using a project you published, or a first sale made inside one. The panel shows which one you are closest to.

Already at the Operator level?

Then the door is open. Apply in Profile → Referrals and your code is issued as soon as it is approved.

Become a partner See the Affiliate Program