Recommending Mirra, and being paid for it

The short version

You recommend Mirra. When somebody you introduced becomes a paying customer, you take a share of what they actually pay us — not of what they might pay, and not of a plan they are merely sitting on — for a fixed number of their payments, after which we keep the whole subscription.

Two things follow from that and are worth knowing before anything else. Commission is calculated from money Stripe has genuinely collected, so a refund or a chargeback removes it again. And a payment only earns once the next one has cleared, which means somebody who signs up and disappears after a month is worth nothing — deliberately.

How a referral is credited, and where it is not

Mirra sets one cookie in total, to keep you signed in, and shows no consent banner. An advertising or attribution cookie would need consent, a banner and a withdrawal mechanism, and we would rather keep the sentence about not having any. So there is no tracking of any kind here.

Instead your code travels in the link and is submitted as an ordinary, visible field on the sign-up form. Anybody signing up can see it, change it, or clear it. That is a better arrangement than a cookie, and it has one honest cost, described below.

1. Somebody opens your link

   It sends them to the Mirra home page with your code on the address, and the page says who recommended them. Nothing is stored on their device.

2. They reach the sign-up form

   The code is already in the Referral code box, with your name under it. The line beside it says, plainly, that it does not change their price — Mirra has no discount codes at all.

3. They create the account

   The referral is recorded in the same moment the account is, so it cannot go missing between the two.

• A code typed by hand counts exactly the same as one that arrived on a link. Saying it out loud, printing it on an invoice, or putting it on a sticker inside a screen bezel all work.
• A household can be referred once and never again. There is no first-click-versus-last-click question because there is only ever one moment where a code is read.
• An unrecognised code never blocks anybody. The account is created and the code is simply not recorded — a typo in somebody else's marketing must not cost a customer their sign-up.

THE HONEST COST. Somebody who opens your link on a phone on Tuesday and signs up on a laptop on Friday is not credited to you, unless they type your code. Without a cookie there is no way to connect those two visits, and we would rather say so than quietly under-report. It is the reason the code is short and speakable.

What is paid, and for how long

The share and the window are settings rather than promises carved into the product, and the current values are shown on your own Partners page. At the time of writing the share is a fifth of every payment excluding VAT, for a customer's first twenty-four payments — two years of monthly billing — after which commission stops.

The basis is what the customer actually paid, less any tax. Not the list price of their plan, and not a projection.

• A proration — the few pence from a mid-month plan change — is not a payment for this purpose. Only a genuine monthly charge counts.
• A refund or a chargeback reverses the commission on that payment. If it had already been paid out to you, it comes off what is owed next time rather than being chased.
• Suspending an account stops future commission and never touches what has already been earned. Those are two different decisions and we keep them apart.

When you can actually be paid

Commission does not become available the moment it is earned. It waits twice, and both waits exist for the same reason: money that might come back should not be paid out first.

1. The next payment has to clear

   A customer's payment earns commission only once a later payment from them has gone through. Somebody who pays once and leaves is worth nothing.

2. A clearing period

   Then it sits for a short while — the window in which a refund or a chargeback can still arrive — before it can be withdrawn. Your page shows what is clearing separately from what is available, so a smaller-than-expected figure is never a mystery.

3. You ask to be paid

   Once you are above the minimum, you press the button. The amount is frozen at that moment, along with the exact commission behind it, so what you asked for is what arrives.

4. A person makes the transfer

   Transfers go out on the fifteenth of the month. Nothing is ever sent automatically.

Roughly two months from a customer's first payment to your first available commission, and then the next transfer date. That is stated in those words rather than described as fast.

Applying

Partners is reviewed rather than open. A person reads every application, which is slower than a form that approves itself and is the reason the programme is not full of coupon sites.

You need a Mirra account, which is free, and you need a UK bank account. Your code exists as soon as you apply, but nothing is credited until you are approved — so it is worth waiting before sharing it.

• The code is made from your display name and cannot be chosen. Somebody choosing their own would choose something that reads like a discount code, which is the exact thing the sign-up form promises does not exist.
• If a code ever needs replacing, a new one can be issued. The old one stops working immediately, so every link and card carrying it stops crediting you — referrals already credited are unaffected.
• Bank details are encrypted, are never shown back to anybody including you beyond the last four digits, and changing them pauses payouts for seven days. That pause is the only protection against somebody else changing them, so it cannot be lifted.

What this does not do yet

Stated here rather than discovered later.

• Mirra sends no email at all. You will not be told when your application is approved, when a payment is made, or when anything changes — you will see it on your Partners page. This is the largest gap and it is being worked on.
• We can only pay UK bank accounts. An application from elsewhere is refused at the form rather than accepted and left unpayable, which excludes people we would rather have.
• Sign-ups through single sign-on cannot be credited. SSO only ever adds a person to a household that already exists, so there is no new account to attribute.
• Somebody joining an existing household is not a new customer and is never a referral.
• VAT is not yet handled. If you are VAT-registered, talk to us before applying.