Earn When the Stores
You Refer Perform
Introduce a store to RetailerBoost and earn a one-time bounty once it becomes profitable. We fund and run their Google Shopping ads with our own capital. The bigger the store performs, the bigger your bounty, and it can grow as the store grows.
How Referral Bounties Work
You make the introduction. We fund the ads, run the campaigns, and pay you a bounty when the store proves it performs.
Share Your Referral Link
Every RetailerBoost account has a referral link and code. Share it with retailers you think would be a good fit.
They Join and Go Live
When a store signs up through your link and launches campaigns, it is tied to you as the referrer automatically.
We Fund and Run Their Ads
RetailerBoost invests its own capital into Google Shopping for your referred stores. They pay commission only on the sales we generate.
We Measure Sustained Profit
After an initial learning period, we look at the profit a store produces (commission minus ad spend) over a couple of months to see where it lands.
You Earn a Bounty
Once a store is sustainably profitable, you earn a one-time bounty based on the tier it reaches. If the store grows, your bounty can grow with it.
Bounty Tiers
The tier is set by the store's sustained monthly profit. Bigger, more profitable stores earn you a bigger bounty.
The Economics Behind the Tiers
We run a deliberately tight margin. We aim for around a 110% return on our ad spend, so for every $1 we invest in Google Ads we earn roughly $1.10 in commission, leaving about $0.10 of profit. We target that balance to keep merchants happy with the order volume we drive at the commission rate they agreed, while earning a little margin for the performance we deliver. It is a target, not a guarantee, and it moves up and down with the ad auction, which is why we judge each store over time. Here is what each tier looks like end to end, at our default 12% commission and an average order value around $80.
| Tier | Store sales / mo | Orders / mo | Commission (12%) | Ad spend we fund | Our profit | Your bounty |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bronze | ~$9,200 | ~115 | ~$1,100 | ~$1,000 | ~$100 | $100 |
| Silver | ~$22,900 | ~290 | ~$2,750 | ~$2,500 | ~$250 | $250 |
| Gold | ~$45,800 | ~575 | ~$5,500 | ~$5,000 | ~$500 | $500 |
| Platinum | ~$91,700 | ~1,150 | ~$11,000 | ~$10,000 | ~$1,000 | $1,000 |
Your bounty is roughly a full month of the profit a store makes us, and it tops up as the store grows. These figures are illustrative: real spend, sales, and profit move with campaign performance, search demand, seasonality, catalog size, and pricing, so we measure each store on its own merits over time.
What Makes a Strong Referral
Beyond the basic eligibility criteria, the stores that earn you the most tend to share a few traits. Many of them, like competitive pricing and shipping, ultimately show up as one thing: a strong conversion rate, the share of the visitors we send who actually buy.
A larger catalog
More products mean more search queries to match and a deeper long tail for us to work, which compounds over time.
Competitive prices
Price is one of the strongest signals in Google Shopping. Stores priced competitively in their category win more of the auction and convert better.
Real search demand
People need to be actively searching for what the store sells. Genuine category demand is what turns ad spend into orders.
Healthy margins
Margin is what lets us bid aggressively and still come out ahead. Healthier-margin stores can also support a higher commission rate, which means more profit and a bigger bounty for you.
Free or fast shipping
Shipping that is free or competitively priced, with quick delivery, lifts conversion and helps win the Shopping click. Slow or expensive shipping quietly loses sales.
Stock depth
When a store starts to scale, it needs inventory to keep up. Stockouts stall momentum right when it is building.
One more thing: stores open to full-catalog campaigns tend to outperform targeted ones, because a full catalog gives us more room to find the winning products that work on our commission-per-sale model.
Why It Works This Way
This is about merchant quality, not merchant volume. The structure is designed to align your incentives with ours.
Because RetailerBoost funds the ad spend itself, and runs a tight margin, we cannot keep investing in stores that lose money. Paying a bounty only when a store becomes genuinely profitable means we are both working toward the same outcome: referred stores that perform.
Our incentives are aligned with yours. We earn more when your referred stores sell more, so we are motivated to drive every bit of profitable volume we can, not to hold any back. Quietly under-driving a store would cost us our own margin and risk an unhappy merchant, which is the opposite of what we want.
It also rewards the right behavior. There is real upside in introducing high quality stores that sell consistently, and no reward for sending stores with no sales history. So the program favors a few great introductions over a high volume of weak ones. If you are not sure whether a store is a good fit, the eligibility criteria are the place to start.
And because a strong store can keep growing, your bounty can graduate with it. You are rewarded not just for finding a profitable store, but for finding one that scales.
Unlock Revenue Share
Refer stores that consistently perform and you will be invited into a revenue-share partnership, where you earn an ongoing percentage of the profit your referred stores generate, month after month. It is reserved for proven referrers and unlocked by quality, not volume.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I earn a bounty?
How big does a store need to be for me to earn a bounty?
When is a store assessed?
What if the store grows after I am paid?
What counts as profit?
Is the 110% margin fixed?
Do you hold back volume to avoid paying bounties?
What if a referred store never becomes profitable?
Can I unlock the revenue-share partnership?
Do I need to do anything technical?
Bounty tiers and amounts are illustrative and subject to change. Bounties accrue in your dashboard and are not a guarantee of a specific payout. Automated payouts are planned for a future phase.
Start Earning From Your Referrals
Grab your referral link and share it with retailers who would benefit from funded, performance-based Google Shopping.
