Partner programme
Tell people where you get your pouches. Keep 30%.
We pay 30% commission on every order that comes to us through you. You get a link that tracks for 90 days, a code worth 10% off to your audience if you'd like it, plus a dashboard where every payment can be traced back to its order.
A person here reads each application before it goes live. It is quick, and it is the only gate.
Free to join · any audience size · promote other shops too · decision in one business day
The deal, plainly
30% from order one
There is no ramp and no probation rate. Your first referred order pays 30% and so does your five-hundredth. The percentage is applied to your commission base, which we take after discounts and before tax or shipping, and every order on your dashboard shows that base beside the rate.
Links for posts, codes for talking
A tracked link remembers the click for 90 days. A code is for everywhere a link dies: a podcast, a video, a screenshot, a conversation at work. It knocks 10% off for the buyer. Same pay either way.
Nothing hidden in the dashboard
Each referred order gets its own row: the products, the base, the rate, what you earned and when it clears. We print the inputs as well as the answer so you can check us with a calculator.
Your window grows
Cleared sales earn you a longer attribution window, up to 365 days. A review that keeps getting found keeps getting credited.
Three ways to get paid
e-Transfer, PayPal or crypto. Commission sits for 30 days in case of a refund, then it goes out. After that it is your money. We never ask for a sent payout back.
A real answer in one business day
We look at where you would talk about us. Follower count does not decide it. No joining fee, no exclusivity, no minimum reach.
A link for the screen, a code for the room
You can have one or both. They earn the same 30% and report to the same dashboard.
The tracked link
Send people to the page your post is about. A VELO flavour, a brand, the whole shelf. The dashboard writes the link for you, so you never have to fiddle with a URL by hand.
Credit lasts 90 days from the click to start, and grows as your sales clear. If a buyer clicks two partners’ links, the most recent click gets the order.
The code
Short, easy to say, and typed at checkout. Your buyer saves 10% on full-price cans and you earn the usual 30% on the order.
Ask for one on the application and we set it up when your account goes live. Nobody copies a link out of a podcast.
Try your own numbers
Our starting guess is 10 orders a week with a CA$85 cart, which comes out near CA$773 a month. Your audience is not our guess, so slide both until it looks like you.
10
$85
We start the slider at $85, close to what our orders come to, because shipping turns free at $100 and people fill up to it. Move it to suit your audience; it is a starting guess.
Each order
$17.85
Monthly
$773
Yearly
$9,282
Referred orders, monthly
43
We leave tax and shipping out of the base, since neither is money we keep. Treat this as arithmetic rather than a prediction: we run your two inputs through the sum we use to pay out, and the dashboard shows the same sum against each real order.
From application to payout
- 1
Fill in the form
Tell us where you post, or that you don’t, and add a link we can look at.
- 2
We review it
Someone on our team reads it within one business day and emails you the outcome.
- 3
Start sharing
Your dashboard opens with your link ready to copy, plus your code if you asked for one.
- 4
Collect
30% per order, released after 30 days by the payout method on your account.
Climbing tiers buys you time, not a new rate
We kept the rate flat at 30% on purpose, so the number at the top of this page is the number you get. What changes as your sales clear is the tracking window, the gap allowed between someone seeing your post and placing an order.
| Tier | Commission | Window | How you get there |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | 30% | 90 days | Your starting tier. |
| Silver | 30% | 120 days | Reach 10 cleared orders and CA$250 in cleared commission. |
| Gold | 30% | 180 days | Reach 40 cleared orders and CA$1,200 in cleared commission. |
| Publisher | 30% | 365 days | Reach 120 cleared orders and CA$4,000 in cleared commission. |
An order counts as cleared when it has been paid out to you, or has passed the 30-day hold without a refund. Placed orders alone do not count. Once you reach a tier you keep it, even if a later refund pulls your totals below the line.
People who do well here
- Pouch and snus reviewers on YouTube, TikTok or a blog of their own
- VELO regulars whose friends keep asking which can they're using
- People who help run pouch subreddits, Discords and forums
- Coupon, deal and price-comparison sites with Canadian readers
- Somebody at the jobsite, the rink or the warehouse who gets asked where they order
- Customers who already send people to us and would like to be paid for it
The fine print, briefly
The terms page has all of it. This is the part people ask about first.
- Self-referrals earn nothing, and refunded orders reverse.
What partners ask us
What is my commission base, exactly?+
It is a fixed share of the products in the order, measured after any discount. Tax and shipping sit outside it entirely, because neither one is money the shop keeps. You never have to guess at the figure: your dashboard shows the products, the commission base, the rate and your earnings for each order, and the notification email for each sale lists the same four numbers.
Why is there a review step?+
Because when you post about nicotine with our link attached, readers hear it as us talking. We want to see the places you plan to post before anything goes live. That takes us one business day, you get a yes or a no either way, and audience size is not the test.
Someone clicked my link weeks ago and bought today. Do I get it?+
If it falls inside your window, yes. Everyone starts at 90 days, and cleared sales stretch that out to as much as 365. A longer window also applies to clicks that happened before you earned it.
What if a buyer uses my link and someone else's code?+
The link wins. The click happened first and tells us more about where the buyer came from, so the order goes to the partner who owns the link. Plenty of partners use both on the same post for exactly this reason.
What happens to commission on a refunded order?+
It is reversed while it is still inside the 30-day hold. That hold is the whole reason payouts wait. Once money has been sent to you, a later refund does not touch it.
I don't have followers. Can I still join?+
Yes. The audience question on the form has an option for people who recommend face to face, and it is a perfectly good answer. Word of mouth sells a lot of pouches.
What am I not allowed to say?+
Two things, and we hold every partner to both. Never tell your audience a pouch is safe, safer, healthy, harmless, or a way to quit smoking or vaping. And never aim it at anyone under 21, which rules out any platform where you cannot be sure who is watching. We read every application with those two in mind.
When does money actually arrive?+
An order is logged against you as soon as it is paid. It waits 30 days, turns payable, and goes out with the next payout run by the method you chose. The dashboard keeps held, payable and paid in separate boxes so you always know which is which.
Can I use my code on another shop you own?+
It will not count there. The stock and the warehouse are shared with storefronts run by the same owners, but each one keeps its own partner records. Everything about your partnership here, from the code and cookies to the balance and the payouts, lives at Velo Canada, and a sale on a different storefront earns nothing on this account. Promoting more than one means a separate application and a separate dashboard for each.
Sounds like you?
The form takes a couple of minutes and you will have our answer in one business day. Want to ask something first? Write to team@apollobrands.net.
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