Great courses deserve to be found
Some of the best courses on ACADA are taught by people who have never had an audience. Search and rankings reward whatever already has attention, so a course that could change how someone works can sit unseen for months. What gets someone to enrol is a person they trust saying it’s worth their time. That’s what an affiliate does: you find the courses worth taking and bring them to the people who need them, so good teaching reaches further than any creator could take it alone.
What you get
Joining is free for anyone 18 or older with an ACADA account, with no application and no follower minimum. Press Become an Affiliate in Settings, under Account, and you have a working code straight away, which you can swap for one that sounds like you. Each course that runs a programme sets its own commission, up to 50% of the sale, paid by its creator out of their 70%, and ACADA takes the same 30% on every sale either way. A referral is kept for 90 days, you earn on every payment that enrolment makes, renewals and lifetime upgrades included, and your dashboard shows each commission line by line without ever naming a buyer.
What you could earn
Your rate is locked in when the student buys. On a $29.99 monthly course paying 20%, one student earns you $6.00 a month for as long as they stay, or less if they pay a lower regional price. A commission is held for 14 days after the charge and cancelled if the sale is refunded in that time. Payouts start from a $20.00 minimum, on a schedule or whenever you ask, and there’s no cap on what you can earn. Every figure is in Affiliate Commission & Payouts. Try your own numbers below.
See what your referrals pay you
Add each course you promote, what it charges and the commission it pays, then how many of your referrals pay in a month. Every figure is worked out exactly as it is on a real sale.
From $4.17.
From $34.97.
Each course sets its own, up to 50%. It comes out of the creator’s share.
You get $4.00 for each month one pays.
You get $15.80 per buyer, once.
With 10 subscribers and 2 lifetime buyers paying in a month, you would earn $71.60 that month, and $859.20 over a year of months like it.
$71.60
Per month
$859.20
Per year
12
Paying referrals
- Course 110 × $4.00 + 2 × $15.80$71.60
Arithmetic, not a forecast. It counts the paying students you enter at the full list price, and the yearly figure is that month twelve times. A lower regional price or a buyer discount lowers a commission, and a refund within 14 days cancels it. Commission comes out of the creator’s 70%; ACADA’s 30% never changes. Free courses and bundles pay no commission.
Become an affiliate
Every course you help someone find is one more person learning from someone who knows the work. Read the Affiliate Agreement and the Affiliate Marketing Guidelines, which start with telling people you earn a commission, then press Become an affiliate below.