Most affiliate programs make you spend trust to make money. This one builds trust. PSA paused grading under $80 — every blind submission is now a $79.99 bet. CardGrader's instant Live Grade tells your audience which cards are worth slabbing before they pay the fee, and you get paid every month they stay subscribed.
Most affiliate programs only align you and the affiliate. CardGrader aligns you, the affiliate, and the affiliate's audience — so promoting us actually builds their trust instead of spending it.
Card collectors who use CardGrader stop paying $79.99 professional grading fees — PSA, BGS, SGC, whichever — on cards where the math doesn't work. They know before they slab. Real money saved, week one.
They share something their audience genuinely benefits from. They gain credibility instead of burning it. And they get paid every month their referrals stay subscribed.
We grow the way we want to grow — through people whose audiences trust them, not through ad spend that turns off the moment we stop paying.
Build it so the recommendation makes the affiliate look smarter to their audience. That's when affiliate marketing stops feeling like spam and starts feeling like a referral from a friend.
One tier. One commission rate. One bonus unlock — and the bar is low.
No marketing skills required. No follower minimum. If you know people who collect cards and you'd recommend us anyway, you qualify.
Three steps. Under a minute from start to your first share.
Two fields — name and email. Hit submit. Your unique referral link is live the moment the form clears.
Get your unique link and ready-made post templates. Drop them in a video, story, or pinned tweet.
You get 20% of the subscription price they pay, excluding taxes — no app-store or processing fees deducted. Every month, for as long as they stay. Paid monthly by PayPal.
Drag the slider to see what a given number of active referred subscribers pays you each month, using the real average commission across the plans people actually buy.
How this is calculated: active referred subscribers × $2.32, which is 20% of the average price of the plans our subscribers actually buy. The 20% is calculated on the plan price excluding taxes, with no app-store or payment-processing fees deducted — so a $9.99 Collector referral pays you $2.00 whether they subscribed on the web, the App Store, or Google Play. A referral on Pro ($19.99/mo) earns you ~$4.00/mo, Dealer ($29.99/mo) ~$6.00/mo.
This is an illustration, not a projection or a promise of earnings. It shows one month at a number of subscribers you choose — it does not forecast a year, because you only earn on a referral for as long as that person stays subscribed, and some cancel. Your actual earnings depend on how many people you refer, which plans they pick, and how long they stay. We deliberately don't multiply a month by twelve here: that would assume nobody ever cancels. Most affiliates earn nothing at all.
Affiliate programs are rare in digital card grading — we're not aware of another one. You're not fighting a hundred other creators promoting the same thing.
Most programs pay once and forget you. We pay every single month they stay subscribed. Build real passive income.
Plenty of SaaS affiliate programs pay 10-20%. We pay 20%, on the plan price excluding taxes with no app-store or processing fees deducted, and we pay it every month they stay subscribed — not a one-time bounty.
PSA paused grading under $80 — collectors now pay $79.99 per card and lose money on every card that comes back as a 7. CardGrader's instant Live Grade pre-screens their submissions so they only ship winners. Skipping one bad submission covers ten months of the subscription — easy pitch.
US residents 18 and older for now — payouts require US tax info (a W-9) and a PayPal account. International affiliates are planned for a future version of the program.
No. No follower minimum, no marketing skills required. The whole program is built for the long-tail of people who'd recommend us anyway, not just creators with massive audiences. If you know people who collect cards, you qualify.
The opposite. Most affiliate programs make you spend trust to make money. CardGrader saves your audience real money on PSA submissions the first week they use it — which means recommending us actually builds your credibility. You're not pitching. You're telling them about something that helps them.
30 seconds to sign up. The form is two fields — name and email. Your link is live the moment you hit submit. Drop it in your next story or pinned post and you're earning.
You earn 20% of the subscription price your referral pays, excluding taxes, so the per-subscriber commission scales with whichever plan they're on — $2.00/mo for a Collector referral ($9.99), $4.00/mo for Pro ($19.99), and $6.00/mo for Dealer ($29.99). Annual plans run $59.99 to $199.99 per year. Across the mix of plans people actually buy, the average works out to about $2.32 per active subscriber per month.
Before. We calculate your 20% on the subscription price your referral pays, excluding taxes — and we do not deduct app-store or payment-processing fees from your commission. Apple and Google take 15-30% of every mobile subscription; we absorb that rather than passing it on to you. A $9.99 referral pays you $2.00 whether they subscribed on the web, the App Store, or Google Play. Check it against your referral's own receipt: 20% of the plan price on the line above the tax.
For as long as your referral stays subscribed. If they stay 12 months, you get paid 12 times. If they stay 5 years, you get paid 60 times. No cap.
PayPal, monthly. We process payouts on the 1st of each month for any balance over $25 — below $25 rolls over until you hit it. You give us the PayPal address to pay when you apply, or add it from your dashboard later. Commissions clear a 30-day hold after each subscriber payment (that's what covers refunds), and we'll collect a W-9 from you before your first payout.
30 days. If someone clicks your link and signs up within 30 days, you get credit — even if they took their time deciding.
Yes. YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X/Twitter, blogs, email lists, Discord servers — all good. We give you ready-made post templates after approval.
The toolkit gives you several angles to pick from. Live Grade is the flashiest — point the AR camera at a card and get an instant grade, unlimited on the Collector plan ($9.99/mo) and above; it demos brilliantly on camera. Pre-screening for grading submissions is the strongest hook for serious submitters now that PSA's cheapest grade is $79.99 — works whether they use PSA, BGS, SGC, or CGC. Deep Research (full ID + market value report + ready-to-post eBay listing) resonates with collectors who have boxes of cards where the math doesn't justify grading. Torch Scan (a guided light-sweep for glare-free captures of holos and foils) is catnip for Pokémon audiences. And the free tools (Pokémon value checker, set checklists, live scanner — all in-browser, no signup) plus the free tier's 3 Live Grades a day are great low-friction first touches.
If they cancel, your commission for them stops. Each commission clears a 30-day hold after the subscriber's payment; if that payment is refunded or charged back within the hold, the commission is reversed. Once a commission clears the hold, it's yours.
No, but it helps. People ask "do you actually use it?" — and "yes, here's my collection" is the strongest pitch.
Yes. No bidding on our brand keywords, no spam, no fake reviews, no incentivized clicks. We approve creators who would recommend us anyway.
30 seconds to sign up. Your link is live the moment you hit submit. No fees, no minimums, no exclusivity — just card collectors helping card collectors.
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