Affiliate Inventory | beehiiv

Reader offer: 14-day trial, then 20% off for three months

Separate from the partner program below: anyone starting beehiiv through our link gets a 14-day free trial on a paid plan, then 20% off for their first three months. It applies at checkout with no code to type.

That offer is for people who want to use beehiiv. Everything under “The deal” is about getting paid to recommend it — the two are independent, and you can take both.

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What it is

beehiiv is a newsletter platform — publishing, growth tools, an ad network and subscription billing — built by people who scaled Morning Brew. It targets operators who treat a newsletter as a business rather than a side channel.

The deal

Commission runs on a four-step ladder — Launch, Bronze, Silver, Gold — climbing by lifetime conversions. Bronze pays 50%, Silver 55%, Gold 60%. The rates at the top of this category are hard to beat, but they’re rates you grow into, not ones you start on.

Each referral pays recurring monthly for a full year, then stops. That twelve-month wall is the single most important term to weigh against a lifetime program: beehiiv pays roughly twice as much per month, for a fixed window.

The cookie is 60 days, and attribution is generous in a way worth knowing — a click that becomes a lead inside the window earns commission whenever that lead eventually converts.

Getting paid

PayPal only, on the 15th of each month, covering the prior month’s earnings. No minimum threshold is published.

The rules

Two restrictions to read before you plan a campaign. Search ads on Google or Bing are prohibited, especially on branded terms and domain names — social ads on Meta, LinkedIn and elsewhere are fine. And signing up through your own link is not allowed.

Not sure it’s the right platform?

We put it head to head with the other obvious choice for creators in beehiiv vs MailerLite — the affiliate terms side by side — and wrote up which one to actually use in beehiiv vs MailerLite: which one should you build your newsletter on?.

Who it converts for

Audiences of people who already publish, or are about to — writers moving off Substack, media operators, agencies running newsletters for clients. Conversion quality matters more than volume here, since the ladder rewards lifetime conversions and a year of recurring revenue per referral is the actual prize.