Updated: Nov 6, 2024

How to join the Partner Program and get your partner link

Anyone on an active beehiiv plan (free trials included) can take advantage of our beneficial Partner Program by accessing it via the dashboard in your account.

This article will cover how to join the Partner Program (PP) from your dashboard and get access to and start using your partner link, then how to monitor your referrals. You’ll only need to do the first 4 steps of the process outlined below once. Then after you’re all set up in your account, refer to our Getting Started guide for next steps and to access an arsenal of tools and tips so you can make the most of your beehiiv partner link.

From the top navigation menu, click on Share & Earn to access the Partner Program in your account.
If it’s your first time visiting this area in your account, you’ll be greeted by a popup form asking you to join the PP.

Select an option under the What best describes you? prompt.
Review our Terms of Service by clicking on the TOS link. Then, when ready, click on the Accept & Join Partner Program button.
After you’ve joined the PP, you’ll be brought to your private Partner Program dashboard where you’ll have access to your custom partner link.

To access your link, navigate to the Your Partner Link section and either highlight your link and copy it or click on Share & Earn to copy the link to your clipboard.

Below your partner link, you’ll find that the tabs of dashboard are opened on the Start Here tab offering you these options.

Overview: Watch a quick video tutorial on the Partner Program Playbook.
Success Kit: Learn the many ways to share your PP link in this blog article.
Submit PayPal Email: This is where you’ll enter your PayPal email to sync payments. Once submitted, the block will update from ‘Receive your commissions’ to ‘Submit your PayPal email,’ allowing you to make changes to your PayPal email as needed.

Reminder: We use PayPal as our payment processing partner for the PP, so you will need to sign up for a PayPal account if you do not already have one in order to get paid commissions from the Partner Program. If your PayPal email differs from your beehiiv account email, please update it by submitting your PayPal email in Step 3 of your PP dashboard to ensure accurate payouts.

Start using your partner link

By default, your partner link will look similar to this example: https://www.beehiiv.com?via=tyler.

You can use your partner link with any pages found on beehiiv marketing sites including:

Should you want to send your referrals to a particular page on a beehiiv site, you can simply add your partner extension to the end of the page URL (that’s the ? and beyond, ?via=tyler).

Here are a few examples:

https://www.beehiiv.com/features?via=tyler
https://blog.beehiiv.com/p/2024-state-of-newsletters?via=tyler
https://product.beehiiv.com/p/new-website-builder?via=tyler

Create more partner links

If you’d like to edit your custom partner link or create additional partner links, click on the Links tab.

To edit your link, click on Edit Link, make your changes, and then click on the Update button.

Note: If you change your current partner link, the old link will no longer work. Be sure to update any instances of the old link (in blog posts, articles, etc) with the new one.

To create additional partner links, click on the New Link button and a new link will be automatically generated and listed on the page for you to Edit or Copy.

Monitor your referral action

Your PP dashboard is where you can check in on the action from your referrals. Keep in mind that there is a 30-day trial period and then a 30-day provisioning window, so you’ll need to be patient.

Pro Tip: If you have any questions about the process or would like beehiiv assets to promote your partner link, just scroll down in your PP dashboard and click on the Resources or FAQ tab.

When your partner link referrals start rolling in, you’ll be able to see all of your stats at a glance from the top of your dashboard.

Visitors are the unique traffic you create, as in when someone clicks a valid PP link and lands on our site.
Leads represent the amount of visitors/traffic that actually sign up for a beehiiv account.
Conversions show the amount of those leads that end up paying for any beehiiv plan after their 30-day trial.
Commissions show your total commissions to date, as well as what is pending, due, and paid.

You can also see how your progress compares to others by clicking on the Leaderboard tab in your PP dashboard.

Don’t forget to include a partner disclosure

As a member of the beehiiv Partner Program, the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) legally requires that you tell your audience that you are using partner links.

This can be done in 2 ways:

You can add a partner disclosure message to the pages that you use your partner link on.
You can provide a link to a page where your audience can read a full partner disclosure message.

If you would like more information on the legality of using partner links, please visit the FTC website.

Resources

For next steps and tons of tips: Getting started with the beehiiv Partner Program
Read and bookmark this helpful blog: 15 Ways to Promote beehiiv as a Partner
Get answers to your questions by referring to the Partner Program FAQ article
Review all KB articles on the Partner Program

Article Contents

First, sign up and get your link
Start using your partner link
Create more partner links
Monitor your referral action
Don’t forget to include a partner disclosure
Resources