Referrals

Share your link. When someone signs up with it:

• They get every credit they add in their first 30 days matched, up to $1,000 in total, as everyone does with the welcome match.
• You get the same: as much as they are matched, payment by payment, up to $1,000 for each person you bring.
• Then, for 12 months, you earn 10% of what they spend from credit they paid for, as credit.
• Each person you bring earns its own share, with no limit on how many.

Someone who then spends $500 a month from credit they paid for earns you $50.00 a month for 12 months.

The details:

• Your link is https://withruntime.com/r/<code>. https://withruntime.com/?ref=<code> works too. Owners, admins and billing members find it on Home and under Refer & earn on Usage & billing. The Refer & earn item in the account menu also opens it. You can also get it with the API, an SDK, the CLI or MCP (below). The code belongs to your organization and never changes.
• Showing someone what you built? A preview link is a good way. The response to creating one says so. Runtime adds nothing to the pages a preview serves: no badge, no banner.
• The link has to be followed before they sign up. It is remembered for 30 days in a cookie that holds only the code. It carries through Google and email sign-in.
• Each payment they make in their first 30 days is matched on both sides, until each side has $1,000 from that person. The first one of $10 or more gives each side at least $25. Payments after day 30 are not matched. Free usage never counts. Each match is paid when Stripe confirms the card or Link account behind the payment, usually within seconds of it. The payment's own credit never waits. When that payment, or one of yours, went through a wallet that tells us neither, the match is paid once someone at Runtime has checked it.
• Your share is worked out from what they spend from credit they paid for. It is never worked out from matched, referral, startup or any other granted credit, or the month's free usage. It is added as credit on the 1st of each month (UTC) for the month before, for 12 months from their first matched payment. While they have a payment in dispute, no share is added for them. Once the dispute is won, the share catches up. Once it is lost, the next month's share is not added (that use was paid with the disputed money), and the months after it are. While none of their matched payments stands (all refunded or disputed), no share is added for them.
• The page your link opens says "You're invited", with the offer and the way to sign up. It never names who invited them: your company's name is not on it.
• A referral and the welcome match never both pay. Someone who signed up with your link gets the referral's match. It is the same $1,000 over the same 30 days, and never smaller.
• You can earn up to $50,000 of referral credit per calendar year (UTC), matches and shares together. Past that, the person you referred still gets their credit. Yours is recorded as over the cap.
• Referring yourself does not count. That includes your own organization, another address of yours, and an address on the same company email domain. A shared provider such as gmail.com is not one company. It also includes an organization that shares a member with yours, now or before, directly or through a third organization. It includes someone who has paid with a card or Link account your organization has paid with, or the other way round. This is checked again at every payment and every month's share, so it holds whatever changes after sign-up. A code that does not count never stops anyone signing up.
• If a matched payment is partly refunded, its match is worked out again on what stands, and both sides give back the difference. If it is disputed, or less than $10 of the first one stands, both sides' match of that payment is taken back. Their other payments keep theirs. Either way, only what is still unspent is taken, so a refund is smaller by any referral credit already spent on either side. Credit you already spent stays counted against your $1,000 from that person and your yearly cap. A payment refunded and made again is not matched for you twice. While such a refund is being paid out, the credit it will take back is held on both sides and cannot be spent.
• A lost dispute also takes back the share paid since that payment, at most 10% of the disputed amount. A refund takes back no share, because the share was paid on credit they had already spent.
• Referral credit is spent like any other credit. It cannot be exchanged for cash or refunded.