Straight answer first, because you'll make decisions with it: no, TeachClub has no affiliate program feature. No referral links, no commission dashboard, no automated partner payouts — and no way to bolt on FirstPromoter or Rewardful, because there's no purchase webhook for them to listen to. Now the useful part: the job you're actually trying to do — reward people for sending you students, and know who sent whom — is doable today with tools that exist. Here's the working playbook.
The coupon-per-partner playbook
- Create one coupon per partner — coupons work on every paid plan. Name it after them: JANE20, GYMCREW15. Percent or dollar off, your call.
- The code IS the tracking. A student who redeems JANE20 came from Jane — no pixels, no attribution windows, no arguments. Your redemption counts are the ledger.
- Agree terms in writing, one page: what the partner earns (flat $ per redemption is simplest; a % of first payment if you prefer), when you pay (monthly is standard), and how long the arrangement runs. Not legal advice — just don't run money on a handshake.
- Pay them directly — PayPal, whatever works. You'll know exactly what's owed: redemptions × rate.
- Reconcile monthly, five minutes: check each code's count, send each partner their total and their money. At partner-count ≤10, this is genuinely all the infrastructure the job needs.
Making the codes actually get used
- Give the partner's audience a real discount. The code has to be worth mentioning — 15–20% moves; 5% is noise. You're splitting your margin two ways (audience discount + partner cut), so price with that in mind.
- Make the partner's pitch effortless: write them two ready-to-post sentences and hand them your share link plus their code. Partners promote what's easy.
- Pick partners whose people match your student — a fellow teacher one niche over, a group admin, a complementary service. One right partner with 500 matching followers beats a random influencer with 50,000.
What doesn't work (read before you spend an afternoon)
- External affiliate platforms — FirstPromoter, Rewardful, PartnerStack: all need purchase webhooks/APIs that aren't exposed. The integration you're imagining will dead-end; this section exists so it dead-ends here instead of at hour three.
- Link-based attribution — there are no per-partner referral URLs with automatic tracking. Codes, not links.
- Recurring commission automation — if you promise a partner a cut of renewals, you're computing it by hand. Most keep it simple: flat bounty on the first payment.
Is partner marketing even your next move?
One honest reframe before you recruit anyone: affiliates multiply a machine that already converts — they can't build one. If your school hasn't yet turned warm strangers into students on its own, partners will just send traffic into the same silence, and burn goodwill doing it. Get the first ten students directly; then hand partners a proven page and a code. The playbook above works dramatically better with proof behind it.
The bottom line
No affiliate feature, no API pretense, no "coming soon" theater — just the honest state: a coupon-per-partner system that fully solves partner rewards at small scale, a clear list of what to not waste time trying, and a straight line to us if your ambitions outgrow it. That's the whole answer, which — as with the checkout question — is more than most platforms will put in writing.