Partner programme terms

"We", "us" and "Shopimize" mean «RAISON SOCIALE», «FORME JURIDIQUE» with a share capital of «CAPITAL SOCIAL», registered office «ADRESSE DU SIÈGE SOCIAL», registered «RCS ET NUMÉRO», intracommunity VAT number «NUMÉRO DE TVA INTRACOMMUNAUTAIRE».

"You" and "Partner" mean the person or organisation whose application we accepted. "Programme" means the affiliate arrangement described here.

This is an agreement between two independent businesses. It creates no employment, agency, partnership or joint venture, and neither of us may bind the other. You decide how and when you promote us, and you carry your own costs.

The Programme is for organisations whose business is recommending tools to an audience of e-commerce merchants, or to the affiliates who promote tools to them: review and comparison sites, newsletters, podcasts and channels for store owners, affiliate programme directories, and communities whose members already run stores.

We read every application and may accept or refuse any of them without giving reasons. We do not accept software vendors promoting their own product, agencies and consultancies (we have a separate arrangement for those — ask us), independent freelancers, or audiences of would-be entrepreneurs rather than working merchants.

You may be a partner and a customer at the same time. You may not earn commission on your own subscription, or on an account you control (section 11).

On acceptance we issue you a personal tracked link. It is the only way a referral is credited: a mention with no link earns nothing, because nothing connects it to a signup.

The link stays yours while this agreement is in force. We may replace it, or revoke it, if it is used in a way section 11 forbids — and revoking a link stops new commission without touching commission already earned.

Clicking your link stores a cookie on the visitor's browser for 90 days. If they create an account within that window, the account is credited to you.

Last click wins: where a visitor clicked two partners' links, the most recent one inside the 90 days is credited. We also credit a signup we can tie to your link by the account's own email or store domain where the cookie was lost.

A visitor who blocks or clears cookies, or who signs up on a different device without clicking again, cannot be credited. This is a limit of how the web works rather than a choice, and it is the reason the window is long.

25% of every payment a referred customer makes, net of VAT, for 12 months from their first paid invoice.

It applies to subscription payments and to usage charges above a plan's included volume alike, so the rule is simply a quarter of what they pay us. It does not apply to VAT, which we collect for a tax authority and is not our revenue.

The 12 months run from the customer's first payment, not from their signup, so a free trial does not eat your window. If they upgrade, your commission rises with what they pay; if they downgrade or leave, it falls or stops.

A referred customer who cancels and later returns does not restart the clock.

Each commission is held for 30 days from the payment it arises from, and becomes payable at the end of that period.

The hold exists so that a refund or chargeback happens before money moves rather than after, which means we never have to ask you to send money back. Your dashboard shows held and payable amounts separately, and the date each release is due.

We settle once a month, on or shortly after the 1st, by bank transfer, for the balance released from hold at that point.

There is a minimum payout of 25 in the currency concerned. Below it, the balance carries to the following month and is paid as soon as it passes the minimum. Nothing is lost by being under it.

Commission is calculated and paid in the currency the customer paid in, and balances in different currencies are settled separately. Bank charges on our side are ours; charges your own bank applies to an incoming transfer are yours.

You receive a statement every month in which anything moved, was held, or carried. You are responsible for keeping your payment details with us correct and current.

By default you invoice us for the payable balance and we settle it.

You may instead give us a self-billing mandate, by ticking the box on the application form or by telling us in writing at any time. With a mandate in place we raise the invoice in your name and on your behalf, attach it to the payment, and you never have to send us one.

Self-billing mandate →

You are responsible for your own tax and social contributions on what you earn, and for charging VAT where your own status requires it. We do not withhold anything.

If you are VAT-registered, tell us your number and tell us if it changes. If you are not, say so: a mandate-raised invoice has to state the right regime, and a wrong one is your exposure as much as ours.

If a payment behind a commission is refunded or successfully disputed before the holding period ends, the commission is cancelled. That is what the hold is for.

After the holding period we do not claw back a paid commission, with one exception: commission arising from fraud, self-referral or any breach of section 11 is cancelled whenever we find it, and if it has been paid we may set it off against later balances or ask for it back.

• Bid on our brand name or our domain in paid search, or run advertising that could be taken for ours.
• Refer yourself, or an account you own or control, or arrange for someone to do it for you.
• Offer coupons, cashback or rebates on your own account without our written agreement.
• Send unsolicited bulk email, post your link where it is off-topic, or promote us anywhere you do not have the right to.
• Present yourself as Shopimize, as our employee, or as anything more than an independent partner — including in a domain name, an app listing or a social handle.
• Say things about the product that are not true, quote figures we have not published, or promise a result on our behalf.
• Interfere with how attribution works: forced clicks, hidden iframes, typosquatting, browser extensions that inject links, or cookie stuffing of any kind.
• Hide the commercial relationship where the law where your audience is requires it to be disclosed — in France the DGCCRF, in the US the FTC, and similar rules elsewhere.

Any of these lets us suspend your link immediately and cancel the commission it produced.

We grant you a non-exclusive, revocable right to use the Shopimize name, logo and product screenshots for the purpose of promoting us under this agreement, and for nothing else.

Use the assets as published in the partner kit: do not redraw the logo, change its colours, or combine it with your own mark in a way that suggests a joint product. The right ends when this agreement does.

Your own content is yours. We may quote or link to a review you publish about us, and we will say where it came from.

Each of us is an independent controller of the personal data we hold. We hold your contact details and what you tell us on the application form in order to run the Programme and pay you, and we keep them for as long as the law requires us to keep the accounting records behind a payment.

We never give you a referred customer's identity or their store data. Your dashboard shows counts and amounts, never names. How we handle personal data generally is set out in our privacy policy.

This agreement runs until either of us ends it, which either of us may do at any time, in writing, without reason.

On termination your link stops working and no new commission arises. Commission already earned is paid on the normal monthly cycle, including the balance of the 12-month window for referrals made before the end, provided the termination was not for a breach of section 11.

We may suspend your link without notice where we reasonably suspect fraud or a breach of section 11, and we will tell you why.

We may change these terms. We will tell you at least 30 days before a change that reduces what you earn or lengthens when you are paid, and the version in force when a commission arises is the one that applies to it.

Continuing to use your link after a change takes effect is acceptance of it. If you would rather not accept, end the agreement under section 14 and you will still be paid what you have earned.

Neither of us is liable to the other for indirect or consequential loss, or for lost profits or lost audience. Nothing here limits liability for fraud, for wilful misconduct, or for anything the law does not allow to be limited.

Our total liability under this agreement is limited to the commission payable to you over the twelve months before the claim.

The Programme is provided as it is. We do not guarantee that your link will produce any referral, or any particular level of earnings.

This agreement is governed by French law. We will both try to settle a disagreement between ourselves first; failing that, the courts having jurisdiction over our registered office will decide, unless a mandatory rule of your own country gives you the right to your local courts.

Write to hello@shopimize.com for anything about the Programme, including to give or withdraw a self-billing mandate, to correct your payment details, or to end this agreement.