Earn 15% to 30% commission on every project you refer. Share our services with your audience, friends, or network and earn a commission when your referral becomes a paying client. The commission rate depends on the project and referral.
How it works
You introduce potential clients who need an app developer. We handle the consultation, proposal, development, and client support. If the project moves forward, you earn a commission from the work you referred.
Fill out the short affiliate application with a few details about you, your audience, and how you plan to refer clients looking for an app developer. We review your application and, if approved, send your unique affiliate referral link directly to your email.
Share your affiliate link with people who need an app developer to build a mobile app, web app, or custom software. You can recommend it through your website, social media, email, client conversations, communities, or your professional network.
When someone uses your referral link, they can contact us directly. We handle the consultation, project requirements, pricing, development, and ongoing communication. You don't need to manage the project or become the client's developer.
When a referred client starts a project, you earn a commission based on the project value. The more qualified clients you refer, the more you can earn. Your affiliate link makes it easy to track the projects that come through your referrals.
Commission tiers
Start earning 15% on every project you refer. As your referrals grow, your commission rate increases to 20% and then 30%. Once you reach the highest tier, there is no limit on how many projects you can refer and you continue earning 30% on every project.
15%
From your first project
Start with a 15% commission on every project you refer through your affiliate link. Keep earning at this rate until you reach 10 completed projects and $3,000 in total referred project value.
20%
10+ projects & $3,000 referred
Once you reach 10 completed projects and $3,000 in total referred project value, your commission increases to 20%. From there, you continue earning 20% while working toward the highest commission tier.
30%
30+ projects & $10,000 referred
Reach 30 completed projects and $10,000 in total referred project value and your commission increases to 30%. Once you reach this level, you're in the top tier with no limit on future referrals. Keep promoting your affiliate link and earn 30% on every project you refer.
Who this suits
This is not an influencer programme and there is no follower requirement anywhere in it. It rewards the handful of conversations a year where somebody asks you who can build their idea, which means the people it works best for are usually the ones who never thought of themselves as affiliates at all.
You win a project needing mobile development you do not staff for. Refer it out instead of turning it down, and keep a share of the value.
You hand over a beautiful Figma file and the client asks who can build it. That one question is worth real money to you.
Recommend our app developer service to your audience when they are looking to build an app, and earn a commission on every project.
You run a newsletter, a Slack group or a founders community where "who can build this" comes up every single week.
You are booked for three months and hate saying no. Pass the work along rather than losing the relationship entirely.
You already see which of your clients are about to invest in software. A warm introduction beats a cold search every time.
What qualifies as a referral
A referral qualifies when a new client comes through your affiliate link, starts a paid app development project, and completes the required steps. We keep the rules simple so you know exactly when you can earn your commission.
All five of these have to be true, and in practice they nearly always are. None of them depend on how large the project is, how well known you are, or how many people you introduced before this one.
Somebody who has not spoken to me in the last twelve months. If they are new to me, they are yours, and that is checked by looking at the inbox rather than by argument.
Either through your link, or by naming you on the first call. Both count equally, because plenty of good introductions happen in a conversation where nobody clicks anything.
Measured from their first visit through your link. That window is long enough to survive a slow decision and a holiday, which is most of what delays a signature.
Commission is earned the moment that invoice clears, normally inside the first fortnight of a project, not months later when the whole build is finished.
A signed project or a retainer. A free consultation that never turns into anything is still worth having, but there is no project value to take a percentage of.
None of these are here to catch you out on a technicality. They exist because each one has been tried at least once, and because a programme without them quietly stops paying anybody who is playing it straight.
Projects for a company you own or work for. Referring your own budget back to yourself is not an introduction, and it is the first thing anyone tries.
Contacts who were already talking to me when you introduced them. Nothing is lost by asking first, and it takes one message to check before you spend any effort.
Clients who found me independently through a marketplace and happen to know you. The platform already took its cut of that work, so there is nothing left to share.
Paid ads bidding on my name, brand or domain. You would be charging me to reach people who were already looking for me, and it ends a partnership immediately.
Scraped lists, unsolicited bulk messages or fake reviews pointing at your link. It damages the reputation the referral depends on, which costs both of us more than it pays.
Getting paid
There is one payout method and it is PayPal. Not a choice of six, not a wallet you have to top up, not a threshold that keeps moving. Give me the email address on your PayPal account when you apply, and everything below happens on its own from there.
One payout method keeps this simple for both of us. Give me the email address on your PayPal account and that is the whole setup.
Every commission earned in a month is sent in the first week of the next one, with a statement showing which project it came from.
You receive a statement you can hand to an accountant. If your country needs an invoice from you, a template is provided.
You are told the project value used to calculate your share. There is no mysterious adjusted figure only I can see.
Two ways to join
Both go to the same place and both get an answer within two working days. The form is faster because it already asks the questions I would otherwise have to send back to you.
Prefer email
Tell me who you work with, how software usually comes up in those conversations and roughly how many introductions a year you expect to make. That is genuinely all that is needed to issue a code.
contact@expertappdeveloper.comQuick question first
Not sure whether your audience counts, or how a particular referral would be treated? Ask on WhatsApp and you get a straight answer rather than a pitch.
Message on WhatsAppFields marked with an asterisk are required. Nothing here is used to score you automatically, and nobody is rejected for having a small audience.
Common questions
The things people ask before sending the form, answered here so you can decide whether it is worth the two minutes. If yours is not on the list, put it in the message field and it gets a proper answer.
Two ways, and only two. Send the application form on this page, or write an email with the same information if you prefer a blank page. Both land in the same inbox and both get an answer within two working days. There is no dashboard to sign up for and no account to create.
It is a percentage of the total project value your referral signs, excluding third party costs passed straight through such as hosting, store fees or paid APIs. If they sign a $6,000 build at the 20% rate, your commission is $1,200.
Commission is earned once the first milestone invoice is paid, normally within the first fortnight of a project. It is then included in the next monthly payout run, provided your balance has reached the $100 minimum.
If the project is canceled before it starts, no commission is paid. If the project is canceled after one or more milestones have been completed and paid, you will still receive the commission for those completed milestones.
The referral link remains active for 60 days from the moment the client first clicks your link. If the client starts their project within those 60 days, the referral will be credited to you and you will earn your commission.
You can advertise, but not on my name, brand or domain, and not in a way that intercepts people already looking for me. Bidding on branded terms is the one thing that ends a partnership immediately.
No. Quotes are built the same way regardless of where a client came from. The commission comes out of my margin rather than off the top of their invoice, which is exactly why the rate is a percentage and not a bonus added on top.
None. There is no fee, no minimum activity requirement and no penalty for a quiet quarter. If you never refer anyone, nothing happens and nobody chases you about it.