When you sign up as a Referral-mode partner, your **slug** also becomes your referral link: `https://…/register?ref=slug` — the same self-service sign-up screen any agency uses (Manual 22), with the `ref` parameter added. Share that URL with anyone you want to recommend the Platform to. When someone signs up with that link and **verifies their email with a code** (the same verification step as any self-service sign-up), a single **referral** row is written for that tenant, with two rules that have no exception: - **Permanent first-touch**: the first partner link that email registered with is the one that sticks forever. If the same person signs up again later with ANOTHER partner's link, it isn't reassigned — a tenant can only have one referrer in its whole lifetime. - **A referral never becomes your customer**: they stay 100% direct with the Platform. You don't see them in your Customers section (Manual 38), you can't impersonate them, and they don't use up any of your seats — the only thing you earn is the commission this manual is about. > **Note — No sign-up without verification** > > If someone starts signing up with your link but never confirms their email code, no referral row is created — there's no possible commission on an account that never finished being born.