Squarespace Circle referral payments

Receive commission payments for eligible Squarespace subscriptions.

As a Circle member, you can earn money for bringing your clients to Squarespace with the Circle referral payments benefit. This guide is a summary for this benefit and explains eligibility, how to sign up, and how to qualify for referral payments. For full details, visit Circle Referral Payments Benefit Terms.

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Eligibility

To participate in the Circle referral payment benefit, you need to meet these eligibility requirements:

• Be a Circle member.
• Be at least 18 years of age.
• Be a resident of, or have your principal place of business, in an eligible country or eligible US state, jurisdiction, or territory.
  • Eligible countries include Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and member countries of the European Union. 
  • Everywhere in the United States is eligible, except the following states, jurisdictions, or territories:
    • Alaska
    • Arkansas
    • Idaho
    • Louisiana
    • Mississippi
    • Montana
    • Nebraska
    • New Hampshire
    • North Dakota
    • Oklahoma
    • Puerto Rico
    • Vermont
    • West Virginia
    • Wyoming 
• Not be an employee, family member of an employee, or an entity directly or indirectly owned or controlled by an employee or family member of an employee, of Squarespace or its affiliates or subsidiaries.

Note: If you are a Squarespace Volume customer, you’re not eligible to receive referral payments. For full details, read the Circle Referral Payments Benefit Terms.

Earn and receive Circle referral payments

Step 1 - Register with Impact

Note: You need to use your Squarespace Circle account email address to register your Impact account. This should be the email where you receive Circle newsletters and weekly updates. If you're not sure what email you used, visit Recovering your account email address. If you have an existing Impact account using a different email address, you need to sign up for a new account using your Squarespace Circle email address.

You need an Impact account to join this benefit and receive commission payments. Register using the correct registration page for your location, as defined in the Squarespace Terms of Service:

To learn more about your qualifying subscriptions and payments, visit Reviewing your qualifying subscriptions in Impact.

Step 2 - Generate qualifying subscriptions

To generate qualifying subscriptions for website and Acuity Scheduling subscriptions:

1. Start a website or Acuity Scheduling trial using your Circle email account.
2. Upgrade to an annual subscription.
3. The subscription will count as a qualifying subscription and automatically appear in Impact after it is active for 15 days.

To generate qualifying subscriptions for the Digital Product plan or Email Campaigns subscriptions:

1. Start a website trial using your Circle email account, then upgrade to a paid site .
2. Purchase an annual Digital Product plan or Email Campaigns subscription for that site.
3. The subscription will count as a qualifying subscription and automatically appear in Impact after it's active for 15 days.

Step 3 - Meet the unlock threshold

To earn commission, you first need to refer the required number of qualifying subscriptions to meet the unlock threshold in the qualifying period. After you have met the applicable unlock threshold, you'll start receiving commission on each additional qualifying subscription you refer during such qualifying period.

Below is the unlock threshold for the 2023 qualifying period.

Qualifying period	Unlock threshold
2023 (from January 1, 2023 at 12:00 AM through December 31, 2023 at 11:59 PM ET)	4 qualifying subscriptions

For example, in the 2023 qualifying period, you'll start to earn commissions starting with your fifth qualifying subscription through the end of the 2023 qualifying period.

Step 4 - Receive your commissions

Any more qualifying subscriptions referred after you meet the unlock threshold are commission subscriptions. You’ll receive payment for commission subscriptions about 40 days after the end of the month when they become commission subscriptions. For example, if you had a commission subscription in January 2023, you’d receive payment for it in March 2023.

Access your Impact account to find details about qualifying subscriptions you received credit for, commissions you earned, and payment timing. Subscriptions won't appear until they've been active for 15 days.

To learn more, visit Qualifying subscriptions and commission amounts.

Tip: The Squarespace Affiliate Program has its own requirements and eligible Circle members are welcome to apply and participate in both.

Qualifying subscriptions and commission amounts

For a subscription to qualify, it needs to be:

• Upgraded after joining Impact
• On an annual plan at time of first subscription payment
• Active 15 days after the first subscription payment, and remain on an annual plan in those first 15 days

To learn how to access information about your qualifying subscriptions, visit Reviewing your qualifying subscriptions in Impact. 

The commission amount depends on the subscription plan and who started the trial, and is only paid after you meet the unlock threshold. We don't use referral codes or links for this benefit.

Here's a table of how commission credits are applied. 

Plan	Credit goes to…	Commission amount per subscription
Website Personal or Business	The Circle member who started the trial	Personal: $50 Business: $100
Basic or Advanced Commerce	The Circle member who started the trial	$200
Acuity Scheduling	The Circle member who was logged in and completed the checkout process for the Acuity Scheduling subscription. If a non-Circle member has completed the checkout process for the Acuity Scheduling subscription, credit goes to the Circle member (if any) who started the website trial to which the subscription is attached.	Emerging: $50 Growing: $100 Powerhouse: $100
Email Campaigns subscription	The Circle member who was logged in and completed the checkout process for the Email Campaigns subscription. If a non-Circle member has completed the checkout process for the Email Campaigns subscription, credit goes to the Circle member (if any) who started the website trial to which the subscription is attached.	Starter: $25  Core: $50  Pro: $100  Max: $200
Digital Product	The Circle member who was logged in and completed the checkout process for the Digital Product plan.   If a non-Circle member has completed the checkout process for the Digital Product plan, credit goes to the Circle member (if any) who started the website trial to which the plan is attached.	Starter: $50  Core: $200 Pro: $300

Receiving credit FAQs

Here are common scenarios related to receiving referral credits.

Can I receive credit for…	Answers
Subscriptions that someone else pays for?	Please review the crediting rules above to determine if the person who pays for the subscription affects which Circle member gets credit.
Website subscriptions that result from trial sites started by someone else?	To receive credit for a website subscription, you need to start the trial with your Squarespace account connected to your Circle email address.
Acuity Scheduling, Digital Product, and Email Campaigns subscriptions attached to an existing website that you didn’t start the website trial for?	You can receive credit for a new Acuity Scheduling, Email Campaigns, or Digital Product subscription that’s attached to an existing Squarespace website, even if you didn’t start the website trial. To learn more, visit Qualifying subscriptions and commission amounts.
Multiple subscriptions on a single Squarespace project?	Yes. You can receive credit for multiple qualifying subscriptions associated with a single Squarespace project. For example, if you’ve already reached the unlock threshold and refer a qualifying Commerce commission subscription and a qualifying Acuity Scheduling commission subscription, then you’ll receive $300 in referral payments ($200 for the Commerce website subscription and $100 for the Acuity Scheduling subscription).
A site that started on a monthly subscription, then upgraded to an annual subscription?	No. The subscription needs to start as an annual subscription.
Unfold Pro subscriptions?	Currently, only website, Acuity Scheduling, Email Campaigns, and Digital Product plans are eligible for referral payments.
Website, Acuity Scheduling, Digital Product, or Email Campaigns subscriptions started before I registered for an Impact account?	No. You’ll only receive credit for qualifying subscriptions after you register with Impact.
Website or Acuity Scheduling subscriptions started prior to when the payment benefit began in October 2021?	No.
Email Campaigns and Digital Product plans started prior to October 12, 2022?	No.
A trial that I started for a client who first landed on squarespace.com via an affiliate partner’s affiliate link?	Yes. If a Circle member starts a trial for a client who first visited squarespace.com via an affiliate link, the Circle member, not the affiliate partner, receives credit for a subsequent qualifying subscription. The Squarespace Affiliate Program and Circle referral payments are separate programs with their own eligibility requirements and commission structures. Participating in one doesn't automatically make you a participant in the other, though eligible Circle members are welcome to apply and participate in both. To learn more about the programs, visit Squarespace Affiliate Program vs. Squarespace Circle referral payment benefit.
Business or Commerce website plan that gives me access to sell digital products, even if I don't purchase the Digital Product plan separately?	No. For a Digital Product plan to count as a qualifying subscription, it must be purchased separately from other Squarespace plans that give you access to digital products.

Promotions

Squarespace may occasionally run promotions related to the referral payment benefit. For full details, visit the Circle Referral Payments Benefit Terms.

Unlock referral payments in 2024

We’re unlocking the 2024 threshold for Circle members who generate 20 or more qualifying subscriptions in 2023.

In other words, if you refer 20 or more qualifying subscriptions on or before 11:59 PM on December 31, 2023 ET, you’ll earn a commission starting with your first qualifying subscription in 2024 without having to separately meet the unlock threshold for the 2024 qualifying period.

Who to contact for support

• If you have questions about Circle referral payments, contact us.
• For help with your Impact account, contact Impact.