Referral programme
Earn 10% of everything they pay. Not just the first invoice.
Most businesses still put up with the phone system they inherited. If you know one of them — a client, a supplier, the office upstairs — introduce us. You earn 10% of every payment they make, for as long as they stay a customer, and there is no cap and no target to hit.
Free to join. No exclusivity, no minimum, and nothing to install.
10%
of every payment, for the life of the account.
- Paid every month, by PayPal, bank transfer or UPI
- Counts renewals, not only the first invoice
- Counts appliance and server purchases too
- Attribution window of 90 days from first contact
- No cap, no tiers, no quarterly target
How it works
Three steps, none of which require you to install anything, run a website, or know the first thing about telephony.
Ask for a referral code
Email us and we send you a short code of your own — usually your name or your company's — along with a link that carries it. There is no form to fill in and no account to create.
Introduce the business
Send them your link, or simply tell them to name your code at checkout. If you would rather introduce them personally, copy us into an email and we will take it from there — that one counts exactly the same.
Get paid, monthly
We confirm each referral by email when their first payment clears, and send a statement at the start of every month. Anything over the payout threshold is transferred the same week.
What that comes to
Filantis is priced per system rather than per user, so a referral is worth the same whether the customer has eight staff or eighty. These are the published plan prices — worked examples, not a forecast or a promise of income.
| They choose | They pay | You earn, each | 10 customers | Over a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/month | Nothing, until they upgrade | — | — |
| Basic | $25/month | $2.50/month | $25/month | $300 |
| Standard | $38/month | $3.80/month | $38/month | $456 |
| Premium | $45/month | $4.50/month | $90/month* | $1,080* |
| Appliance or office server | One-off purchase | 10% of the invoice | — | — |
* The Premium row assumes twenty customers rather than ten, because a partner who reaches that plan is usually reselling into larger offices. Every figure is the published list price; a customer on a discounted or annual plan earns 10% of what they actually pay.
The free plan is deliberately in the table. It earns you nothing on the day they sign up — and it is still the easiest introduction you will ever make, because there is no trial countdown and nothing for them to cancel. A meaningful share of free workspaces outgrow four simultaneous calls, and the referral is still yours when they do.
Who this works for
You do not need an audience. Most of what we pay out goes to people who introduced one business properly rather than a thousand badly.
IT support and MSPs
You already look after their network and their laptops. The phone system is the one box in the cupboard nobody will touch — and on the appliance and office-server editions you can look after it yourself.
Web studios and agencies
Every client you build a site for has a phone number on the contact page and a handset somebody hates. It is a natural second conversation, and it recurs.
Accountants and consultants
You see the phone bill. When a client is paying per user for a system half of them never sign into, telling them so is a favour that happens to pay.
Telecoms and cabling firms
You install the handsets and pull the cable already. Referring the system that runs behind them adds a recurring line to a job that was one-off.
Existing Filantis customers
The most credible introduction there is. Your own subscription carries on unchanged — referral earnings are paid out, not taken off your bill, unless you ask us to credit them instead.
Anybody who knows one office
No website, no newsletter and no audience required. One introduction that turns into a customer pays for as long as that customer stays.
The terms, in full
Short, because there is not much to say. These sit alongside our Terms of Service, which govern everything else.
What counts as a referral
- A business that reaches us through your referral link or names your code at checkout, and had no existing Filantis account.
- A business you introduce to us by email, where we confirm the introduction in writing before they buy.
- Attribution lasts 90 days from the first click or the first introduction. If two partners have a claim, the earlier introduction wins.
What does not count
- Your own accounts, your employer's, or any business you control — commission is for introductions, not for buying.
- A customer who is already talking to us, already has an account, or has been quoted by us in the previous 90 days.
- Orders that are refunded, charged back, or cancelled inside the refund window (see the Refund Policy). Commission already paid on a refunded order is deducted from the next statement.
- Anything obtained by bidding on the Filantis name in search advertising, sending unsolicited email or SMS, or implying that you are Filantis. That is grounds for closing the account and withholding the balance.
Getting paid
- Commission is earned when the customer's payment clears and passes its refund window, not when they order.
- Statements go out in the first week of each month, covering the month before.
- The payout threshold is US$50, or ₹4,000 if you are paid in rupees. Below it the balance rolls forward; it never expires.
- Paid by PayPal, bank transfer or UPI, in US dollars or Indian rupees. Transfer fees, and any tax withholding your country requires, come out of the payment.
- Tax is yours. These are commission payments to an independent party, not wages, and we do not deduct income tax. Give us a GSTIN or tax number if your country needs one on the invoice.
The rest of it
- Free to join, and you can stop at any time. So can we, with 30 days' notice — commission already earned is still paid.
- You may describe Filantis accurately and use our name and logo to link to us. You may not register domains containing it, run ads bidding on it, or present yourself as an office, agent or reseller of ours.
- Referring is not reselling. You do not contract with the customer, take their payment, or carry any obligation for their service — and equally, you have no authority to make commitments on our behalf, on price, on delivery dates or on features.
- We may change the commission rate or these terms with 30 days' notice by email. A change never applies backwards to commission already earned.
Questions
Do I need a website to take part?
No. A referral link is convenient but optional — most partners simply tell the customer to name their code at checkout, or introduce us by email. Both are tracked the same way and paid the same way.
How long does the 10% last?
For as long as the customer keeps paying. It is not a first-invoice bounty: a customer who stays five years pays you for five years. If they change plan the commission follows the new price, up or down.
What happens if they cancel?
The commission stops with their subscription. If they cancel inside the refund window and get their money back, the commission on that payment is reversed and deducted from your next statement — it is a share of revenue, and a refunded payment is not revenue.
Can I offer my own discount to close the deal?
You can give away part of your commission — several partners pass the first month back to the customer. What you cannot do is announce a discount on our published prices, because we would then have to honour it. Tell us what you have in mind and we will usually say yes.
Is there a dashboard I can log into?
Not today, and we would rather say so than show you a login that does not exist. Referrals are confirmed by email as they happen and reconciled in a monthly statement; ask at any time and we will tell you where a particular order stands.
I want to resell Filantis properly, not just refer.
That is a different conversation and a better one — reseller terms cover your own pricing, your branding on the interface, and support you deliver yourself. Write to hello@filantis.com and say so.
Join
Email refer@filantis.com with your name, how you expect to refer, and how you would like to be paid. We reply within one working day with your code and your link.