Your commission is generated **for every invoice that customer actually pays** — never simply because they're still signed up or in a trial period. The system recognizes **two paths**, with the same result: - **Normal payment by Stripe**: the customer pays their subscription through the usual gateway; as soon as Stripe confirms the charge, the commission is generated. - **Manual payment registered by staff**: if that customer pays outside Stripe (bank transfer, a sales-led sign-up…) and the Platform's staff registers it on their record — the same case you might wonder about: *"if one of my referrals pays another way, how do I get paid?"*. The answer: **exactly the same way** — a manual payment generates commission with the same rules as one by Stripe, with no extra step you need to ask for. > **Important — There's never commission during the trial period** > > While the customer is in their free trial there's no invoice charged yet, so there can't be a commission — the first possible commission always coincides with their first real payment, whichever way it happens. ## The commission is denominated in the CUSTOMER's currency, not yours The amount of each commission is a percentage of what that customer paid, in **their own contract currency** — almost always euros, because self-service sign-up (the path a referral arrives through) always starts in euros (Manual 37, section 4: not every referral commission is guaranteed to use your same currency). If staff ever re-contracts that specific customer in dollars, their future commissions would start being generated in dollars — regardless of whether your own partner contract stays in euros. Nothing is ever converted from one currency to another: each commission stays fixed in the real currency of the invoice that generated it, and that's how it's paid out afterward (section 6).