Earn by sharing projects you believe in

How does sharing a campaign pay you?

Share a campaign you believe in, and its creator may reward you for the backers you bring. When creators publish a campaign, they choose its share reward rate, from nothing up to 18.5% of each pledge. Every pledge that comes through your link pays you that rate. It doesn't pass through us: the contract pays it into your wallet in the same transaction as the pledge, with no hold, no return window and no one to approve it.

18.5% is the ceiling the contract enforces. A campaign's rate can't change after it's created, so it can't drop after you've shared it.

Where to find your link

Open any campaign in the app and copy its link. If the creator pays a share reward, its rate shows on the campaign's card and page, beside a button that copies your link. The link carries your account, so anyone who backs through it counts as yours. On your own blog or site, the same link can sit inside a badge, a card or a button: how to embed a campaign.

You don't need an audience. One friend's pledge on a campaign paying 10% puts a tenth of it in your wallet.

The creator sets the rate, so check it

Each campaign sets its own, starting at nothing. A creator paying 0% chose to keep every pledge, which is their right, and sharing it pays you nothing. A creator paying the ceiling would rather reach ten times the people and give up part of each pledge to do it.

It stacks with an invitation

Inviting someone pays you half of our fee on everything they ever back. Sharing a campaign pays you the creator's rate on that campaign. The two add up: a friend you invited who backs a campaign you shared pays you both.

Sharing your own campaign pays you nothing. The contract refuses a share reward to a campaign's creator, who would otherwise be paid part of every pledge before the goal is met: exactly what the escrow exists to prevent. It refuses one to the backer making the pledge, too.

How does inviting a friend pay you?

Every account has an invite code. When someone creates an account with it and backs a project, the platform fee on that pledge is split in half, and half goes to you, for as long as they keep backing. There's no expiry and no cap on how many people you invite.

On the free plan the fee is 1.5% of a pledge, so your half is 0.75%, paid on chain into your own wallet in the same transaction as the pledge. Only the percentage is split, not the flat fee. It's small per pledge, and adds up only if the people you bring in actually back things.

Your code and link are on the Invite friends screen, under Friends or Earn money in the app's menu. Friends lists everyone who joined through your link.

How to earn the onboarding reward

It's the one route here with a fixed amount, not a rate: $50, paid once, after a person on our team checks everything. It takes all 7 steps below.

1. Add at least $20 to your account.
2. Back a campaign with at least $10.
3. Create a campaign of your own and publish it.
4. Open the app, signed in, every day for 7 days in a row. The day is marked for you.
5. Publish a short video about CoFunders on Instagram and on TikTok, both public, and paste the two links on the Earn 50 screen.
6. Invite 10 people who each publish a campaign and back one with $10. Creating an account isn't enough.
7. Finish the education course, every section and the questions at the end of each.

The 10 people also pay you, from the day each one joins, for as long as they keep using CoFunders:

• 0.75% of every pledge they make, which is half of our 1.5% fee
• 10% of all the fee revenue they generate
• $20 every time one of them generates another $50 of revenue

That's per friend, from the first one, on top of the reward. The half of our fee arrives with each pledge. The other two are worked out for you and reviewed by a person before they're paid.

Every step has a shortcut on the Earn 50 screen in the app, and its claim button turns on only when all 7 are done. A person reviews the claim within a few days. We can refuse it for any reason, including a video that doesn't meet our standards. Nothing is owed until it's approved.

Referral milestones

As the people you invited generate fees, you cross four milestones, each paying a bonus once, on top of your half. Each pays a larger share of the revenue it takes to reach than the one before, from a fifth at the first to two fifths at the last. Claims are reviewed and paid within a few days.

Tell us what went wrong

We're early, and parts of the app may not behave. A person reads each report about something that didn't work, and we pay $10 for each of the most useful. We pay 50 reports at most and decide which qualify, so nothing is owed for a report until we accept it.

Raise money for your own project

The most direct way to get paid here is to be the creator. Publish a campaign with a goal and a deadline. If it reaches the goal, you claim the funds and keep the overwhelming majority of every pledge. If it doesn't, every backer takes back what the escrow holds for them, and nothing is owed to anyone.

Each pledge carries the published fee, 1.5% plus a flat $0.99, and opening a campaign costs $5. The percentage fee on a pledge follows the plan of the account making it. It's taken when the pledge is made, so it isn't returned if the campaign misses its goal. Paid plans aren't on sale today, so the published fee is the free plan's fee. The pricing page has every number. The goal planner works out the goal to set, and the comparison puts our fees beside other platforms'.

Is this income you can plan on?

No, it's not income you can plan on. Apart from the onboarding reward, every figure above is a rate on money other people choose to pledge, and no one, us included, can tell you what that will add up to. The rates come from the code that pays them (the contract for the fee split and a campaign's share reward, the app for the rest). The figure for sharing is the most a creator may offer, not an average.

It doesn't ask you to spend, either. Inviting, sharing and the milestones ask you to back nothing, add no money and buy nothing, and looking around is free. The onboarding reward is the exception: 2 of its 7 steps are adding money and backing a campaign.

Questions about getting paid

Can you earn money by sharing links?

Yes, when the campaign's creator pays a share reward. Each pledge your link brings in pays you their rate, up to 18.5%, straight into your wallet with the pledge. It adds up only if people choose to back what you share, so share what you believe in.

Can a creator lower the share rate after you've shared the campaign?

No. The rate is set when the campaign is created, and nothing in the contract changes it later.

Do you earn on your own campaign's backers?

No. The contract refuses a share reward to a campaign's creator and to the backer making the pledge.

Is the onboarding reward certain?

No. It's paid once, only when all 7 steps and all 10 people are complete, after a person reviews the claim. We can refuse a claim for any reason.

Every way at once, as a chart

The earnings simulator adds these up month by month for a year, from a small balance. It opens at ordinary figures. A switch shows the most the rules allow. Each line switches off on its own, because each is paid for something someone has to choose to do.