Earn credits with referrals, and the affiliate program

LongStories has two programs. The referral program gives credits to you and to a friend you invite. The affiliate program pays a commission in money to people who share LongStories with an audience. They are separate, and each has its own link.

Invite a friend and get credits

1. Select Get free credits in the sidebar. Or open the account page and select Referrals. Both open the Referrals page.
2. Under Your invite link, copy the Invite link and send it to your friend.
3. Your friend opens the link and signs up on that page with Continue with Google.
4. Your friend makes a first video.

What each of you gets:

• Your friend gets 300 credits when the new account is made. These credits come on top of the free credits of each new account.
• You get 300 credits when the first video of your friend is complete. You also get an email.

Under Your rewards, the page shows Friends invited, Made a video, Waiting on first video and Credits earned.

If the credits did not arrive

Check these causes:

• Your friend is in Waiting on first video. Your credits come only when that video is complete. A video needs a paid plan. See What a free account includes.
• Your friend already had an account. The link works only for a new account, and each person can use an invite link one time.
• Your friend signed up in a different way, for example on the usual sign-up page or with an email address. Your friend must sign up on the page that your link opens.
• Your link has no invites left. Each link works for 10 sign-ups. Each sign-up uses one invite, also before the friend makes a video. The line under Invite code shows how many invites are left. When none are left, the link shows This referral link is invalid or expired. You can still sign up normally.
• You used your own link. You cannot invite yourself.

You cannot add an invite to an account after the sign-up.

If none of these is the cause, contact support. See Share a project with support.

The affiliate program

The affiliate program is for creators, educators, agencies and communities. It pays money, not credits, and you must apply.

1. Open the Affiliates page. The account page also links to it: under Earn with LongStories, select Learn more.
2. Select Become an affiliate. This opens the sign-up page of Rewardful, the service that operates the program.
3. Share your affiliate link, for example in a tutorial or with a universe that you share. Your dashboard shows clicks and conversions.

The rules today:

• You earn 30% of subscription payments for up to 12 months per referral.
• A referral is a customer who first pays LongStories after a click on your link. A customer who paid before your click does not count.
• A click on your link counts for 15 days.
• You can run ads, but a click from a paid ad earns no commission.
• On any ad platform, do not bid on the LongStories name, a misspelling of it, or a LongStories coupon. Do not put the name or longstories.ai in an ad.
• After a payout is processed, delivery can take 7 to 10 business days. If your payout is late, email [email protected].

The Affiliates page does not give a minimum payout or an approval time. The full rules are in the affiliate terms.